Larry Lease:
In 2008, Senator Barack Obama launched a presidential campaign with a promise of “hope and change.” What President Obama delivered is a country divided, angry and pessimistic. “Hope” and “change” don’t mean what he thinks they mean.
Obama failed the economy, America and the world. He promised to unite America. When he was elected President of the United States, African Americans and much of the white community saw him closing the book on racial injustice and inequality. He would lift black America into the economic and social mainstream.
He failed. He failed Freddy Gray, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown. He failed their communities.
Racism in America has festered and worsened under Obama’s watch. In 2014, he attempted to relieve tensions following a Missouri grand jury’s refusal to indict a white police officer who’d shot an unarmed black teenager. Obama met with law enforcement officials and black leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, to discuss how to “strengthen neighborhoods.” He was faulted for not using terms like “police brutality” and “institutional racism” when he talked about Ferguson.
Obama said he would fight for poor families and put an end to Wall Street corruption. But he refused to hold anyone on Wall Street accountable for the greatest financial disaster to hit America since the Great Depression. There has been no legal or financial reckoning for any firm or individual. There have been no meaningful reforms that might prevent a repeat catastrophe.
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Time may heal most wounds, but not these. Employment remains stagnant, a painful reminder of the havoc inflicted on the bust’s innocent victims. As the ghost of Hamlet’s father might say, America will be stalked by its foul and unresolved crimes until they “are burnt and purged away.”
President Obama has made a mockery of the United States across the globe. He said he wanted to stop Syria’s Bashar al-Assad; then he drew his “red line” in sand, on the sand. He said he wanted to stop ISIS brutality; ISIS is bigger and more entrenched than ever. He said he wanted to eliminate the threat of a nuclear Iran and secure Israel’s future; Iran celebrated the lifting of sanctions against it in January with ballistic missile tests in March. Incredibly, the Middle East is even a bigger mess now than it was when Obama took office.
In 2012, Obama said al Qaeda was “on the path to defeat” and “decimated.” He said this repeatedly, by one count 32 times, even after an al Qaeda-linked attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
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In a press conference immediately after the November 13, ISIS-cell terrorist attacks in Paris, Obama sounded detached and disinterested on the possibility of terrorists entering the U.S. with refugees. He mocked Republicans for that concern. At a press conference in the Philippines the following week, he revised and extended those remarks.
A theme of Obama’s presidency has been that al-Qaeda is on the run; ISIS is the JV team; both organizations are contained, and we need only stay the course to fight them. This is wrong, and obviously so to much of the world.
Obama has claimed that we’re out of Afghanistan and Iraq. We’re not. In October, he announced that the U.S. would keep 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, contrary to his campaign promise to pull all the troops out. Meanwhile, more than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command “have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials,” according to the Daily Beast.
When Obama leaves the White House, he leaves the country in shambles. Russian fighters buzz our navy ships and warplanes; North Korea and Iran are pursuing ballistic missile technology and nukes to put on them in complete defiance of treaties, agreements and U.N. resolutions; America is a paper tiger.
Curt the economy ? For people like you getting paid by the government how has the bad economy hurt you ?most Americans give Obama positive approval in polls
Jobs ? I thought only socialists say the government should be interesting with the free market, isn’t that the responsibility of the 1% who are the job creators??
What has the GOP Congress done? Has it provided any money to get the economy going ?
The GOP has its lowest approval polls in history, and all you have gotta say is BLAME OBAMA
@John:
Congress isn’t supposed to provide money to get the economy going. That’s not how it works, but government can sure kill job creation. Look at HRC in WV and see how that’s going over.
We had an Obama stimulus when he came into office. The promise of shovel ready jobs which he later admitted weren’t so shovel ready. It failed. Plus not all of us want to run a shovel either.
Part of a President’s job is to work with congress, Obama doesn’t work well with others. He prefers using his pen and phone and executive action.
@John: It’s funny how Congress is suddenly in charge of the country when a Democrat is office, yet crippled when a Republican is the President.
And to answer one of your questions, Congress has hobbled Obama for at least six years, as I’d want to see. Mission Accomplished.
Polls? If the polls told you to jump of a cliff,…?
I’ll stick with free thinking, thank you. Polls are used to tell people what to think, rather than finding what they think. They are broken and not to be trusted. I’m sure you thoroughly reject any poll that doesn’t support what you believe?
Polls are used as a bully tactic, and they’ve work for the libs for quite sometime.
Obama’s Hope and Change ‘ended in epic failure’. Well, semantics. The epic failure started at the beginning, so I don’t know if it ‘ended’ that way or just has continued that way all along.
As compared with the stunning success we witnessed in 2007 and 2008?
I think maybe the publicly proclaimed republican mission to assure the Obama administration’s failure has been a flop. Instead, they’ve burned down their own party.
The lesson, in my humble opinion, is that you can’t build anything worthwhile on a foundation of negativism. (Are you listening, Donald?) You’ve got to promote positive alternative goals that genuinely matter to the average person, with a plan to achieve them that makes sense to the average person.
@John:
Were tou drunk, high, or both when you spewed this nonsense?
It is not the government’s job to “give” people money. Obama has accomplished NOTHING of any benefit to the US. He has weakened our economy. He has weakened our national defense, and facilitated the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. 94 million Americans of working age are out of the workforce. His average GDP is 1.22 percent over the course of his disasterous administration. By the time he thankfully will be out of office, he will have DOUBLED the national debt. Obamacare has resulted in the epic faulure that was predicted by those of us with a grasp on reality. By any onjective analysis Obama has made things worse with his anti-American, pro-jihadist ideology. His obnoxious media propagandist, Ben Rhodes, has revealed that Obama egregiously lied to push the thorougjly evil Iranian nuclear deal wgich does nothing to safeguard the US, but gives the Iranian musum thugocracy the green light to develop nukes, AND gives them over $100 billion to further finance muslim terrorism.
There is no question that the worthless community organizer has been the worst president in the history of our country….
But it is very likely that Hillary will find a way in her default-setting absolute corruptive style to be even worse.
Pete Pete you are such a joker !!
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/10/21/what-we-know-about-the-92-million-americans-who-arent-in-the-labor-force/
read this article in Wall Street Journal and see who those 92 million are
Notice how few (the red lines) want a job but are not in the labor force
41 million or 1/2 are retired (is that you)
15 million are in school
there are about 20 million who dont want to work, usually they are taking care of their families
What has the GOP Congress done to try and reduce unemployment ? Pretty much nothing which is why the GOP majority Congress has
only a 14% approval rating while Obama’s is 3 times as high
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-
903.html
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
As for ISIS and Iraq let’s see, you want someone else (Obama) to send other people (the US military) to go over and do something that you yourself are unwilling to do
Good luck with THAT !