Secondly, you attribute things to Obama that are simply untrue. You lie to try to prove your talking points because the facts get in the way of your archaic ideas. You run around yammering on and on about how tax-increases are killing jobs never once owning up to the fact that Obama has done nothing but lower taxes. By your own goalpost, the economy should be booming, but it isn't. It isn't booming because tax-cuts directly cause a net loss of jobs. But, the spending measures that you abhor have created job growth for 24 consecutive months. Even with spending measures you lie. It is a fact that George Bush had larger discretionary spending than Obama, but you call Obama the "tax and spend liberal."
You live in a damned bubble where you have created a Muslim, foreign-born, radical Marxist who does not really exist. You blasted Obama for raising the debt-ceiling when Bush raised it seven times, and Reagan raised it seventeen times. Never mind that raising the debt ceiling was the right thing to do. Now, Obama had voted against raising the debt-ceiling when he was a Senator, and he was wrong. He said, "I was young and wrong." You see, admitting when you are wrong instead of insanely and hypocritically justifying it, is a good thing.
Another example of your lunacy is that you actually believe Obama is weak on foreign policy and terrorism. He keeps having one success militarily after another. The guy you voted for had one military failure after another. The guy you voted for in the last election supported all of those failures. I have legitimate concerns about the President's illegal use of drone attacks, illegal wiretapping of American citizens, and illegal detention of suspects without due process. Not only are you not concerned, your argument is that he is weak for not doubling down. Then you call yourself a "Constitutionalist." If "Constitutionalist" is a euphemism for idiot, then I agree with you.
Let's take a look at a few facts from the Bush Administration's record and what the Obama Administration did about it.
Fiscal Responsibility:
First, George Bush started two wars and didn't place them on the federal budget. The wars became unfunded mandates that threw the country into massive debts coupled with idiotic, idealistic tax-cuts and deregulation measures which resulted in a net loss of jobs and a housing and banking crisis akin to the Great Depression. Obama placed the wars on the budget causing the deficit to skyrocket in 2009, but this was money already spent. Putting them on the budget ensured that we would start to pay for them, and now this spending must be voted on by Congress along with several other spending measures. The wars are no longer unfunded mandates. As a result, you blamed Obama for the out-of-control budget that wasn't his. When Obama put forth $4 trillion in budget cuts, the Republican congress refused to vote for it because it included tax increases on the very wealthy. You vote for idiots that take a pledge to Grover Norquist rather than statesmen who took a pledge to uphold the Constitution.
Also, George Bush initiated the financial bailouts, and did not require anything of the financial institutions receiving the bailouts. Remember, Henry Paulson was running around screaming about how we need to give them this money right away! As a result $350 billion was spent without any knowledge of where it went, what it was spent on, or even if it helped. When Obama took office he immediately appointed Elizabeth Warren to watch and allot the remainder of the bailout money. Along with TARP, the government was able to recover much of the money given to the banks. He then signed Dodd-Frank into law which doesn't go nearly far enough, but it is a step in the right direction. As a result of this, you blame Obama for the financial bailouts.
When Bush was elected, a recount was in place that may have proven Al Gore to be the winner of the presidency. The recount was unfairly and illegally stopped by the partisan hacks on the Supreme Court. As a result you Republicans flew into action screaming and yelling about the democratic process being compromised. Except, you waited eight years to do it, and it was maniacal ranting regarding where President Obama was born.
When Obama took office, the economy was hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs per month. The economy had dropped by 9% of GDP. Obama's Investment and Recovery Act saved three million jobs, and according to the CBO was "the primary source of economic growth in 2009." As a result you blame Obama for not reducing unemployment below 8% because that was what the Obama Administration predicted. Except it wasn't what the Administration predicted, it was what the campaign predicted, and it was based on figures that had the economy dropping by 4% of GDP. The only problem with the Investment and Recovery Act is that it was too small and it included needless tax-cuts that your Congressmen demanded. But, you conveniently take those facts, and skew them to support your position that government spending is bad.
Iraq:
George Bush had one foreign policy disaster after another with regards to the Iraq War. Administration officials purposefully lied about WMD's in Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld said, "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." The truth is Rumsfeld had no clue if Iraq even had WMD's. He flat out lied to take us to war, and he wasn't the only one.
Also, let's discuss the "fiscal responsibility" of your beloved "conservative" President. Nearly $9 billion was "lost" in Iraq. The money was supposed to be used for reconstruction. Again, Barack Obama is much more fiscally responsible than George Bush. Don't let those facts stop you from running head-first into a wall with right-wing talking points though.
We now know that the Bush Administration used illegal torture to drum up most of the information that led to their "findings" about Saddam Hussein and WMD's. They sold the lie to the American public and you idiots ate it up. I took a ton of criticism and shit from you moronic right-wingers with your "Christian values" when I said that I didn't believe this crap for one second (I mention Christian values because I cannot find the values that place a rubber stamp on war and torture). This buffoon that I used to work with guaranteed me that we would find the weapons. We didn't. I was right, and he was wrong. But, that didn't stop him from labeling me as "unpatriotic." And, it isn't stopping any of you from claiming that Obama is "weak on terror."
Valerie Plame:
Karl Rove under the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney outed a covert CIA agent to Robert Novak of the Chicago Tribune, and then encouraged Lewis Libby to commit perjury, which he did. Libby was convicted, and Bush conveniently commuted his sentence. What was the reason? The CIA agent's husband was asked to investigate claims that yellow-cake uranium was being sold by Niger to Iraq. He wrote them a memo telling them there was no truth to the claims. What did you Republicans do? Scream for investigations. Not of this incident, but of Obama for being born in Kenya (which you made up).
Osama Bin Laden:
George Bush said, "I truly am not that concerned about him," while he proceeded to prove it by shifting focus to Iraq. Obama killed the son-of-a-bitch. Your reaction, blame Obama for not giving George Bush credit and then subsequently giving credit to the failed Bush torture policies. Even Bush administration officials called "bullshit" on you.
"It is true that some information that came from normal interrogation approaches at Guantánamo did lead to information that was beneficial in this instance. But it was not harsh treatment and it was not waterboarding."
The Bush Admin official that said this...Donald Rumsfeld.
The Tea Party:
The Tea Party was formed to buck the Wall Street bailouts. They soon were taken over by the Dick Armey, Koch Brothers money machine (Dick Armey being a good slogan for the entire Republican Party). They duped stupid people into fighting for their corporate war against the country, and it almost worked. Their first attack, Social Security.
The Koch Brothers paid "think-tanks" like the Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation to falsify findings that Social Security is going "bankrupt." Then they used right-wing politicians and Fox News to repeat the lie over and over again. You idiot Republicans believed it, and now most of you are in favor of privatizing Social Security, the most successful government program in history. Social Security is currently running at a $3 trillion surplus and it will pay one hundred percent of benefits for the next thirty years.
Don't believe me, check it out for yourself. Bernie Sanders exposes the Koch Brothers: http://front.moveon.org/bernie-sanders-exposes-the-koch-brothers-three-biggest-lies-about-social-security/
Now, I am pissed at Barack Obama for not drawing a line in the sand when it comes to Social Security. I have a legitimate gripe. You call him a socialist.
The second Tea Party attack, "Obamacare!" Actual things said about Barack Obama's health care plan included:
- Job killing legislation.
- Massive governmental bureaucracy.
- Death panels will be created to kill Grandma.
- Destroyer of Medicare
- It will bankrupt the country
When President Bush created a massive federal expansion of health care known as Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage, both of which removed large sums of funding from Medicare and gave it to private corporations who run the insurance and drug markets, there was no Tea Party, no protests, nothing from the right-wing. You Republicons were inexcusably silent.
The CBO says that Obama's health care bill added twelve years of solvency to Medicare while taking tax payer money away from Medicare Advantage, which is for-profit private health insurance. The CBO says that repealing Obama's health care law will add $200 billion to the deficit. The health care law is filled with middle class tax-cuts to help people afford private insurance, yet you call it a "government takeover" of health care. The thing that you hate the most about the law, the individual mandate, is a Republican idea. It is a law demanding that people who get free medical care from a hospital help pay for that very care. It is as conservative as can be. But again, don't let the facts stop your psychotic ranting and raving.
The third Tea Party attack is the most insanely hilarious one of all. The notion that Barack Obama is taxing everyone back to the stone age. You know as well as I do that your taxes and mine are lower now than they were under George Bush. In fact, taxes are as low as they have been since the 1950's. I have problems with these massive tax-cuts because they cause major budget shortages. You insist they don't exist. Again, you are not dealing with reality. And, you continue to support the party that insists on further tax-cuts when the Bush era tax-cuts are chiefly responsible for massive deficits in the first place.
The Financial Bailouts and Auto Bailouts:
Both of these bailouts began under President Bush. President Obama simply made them work. He added to the auto bailouts and created TARP which is a successful unpopular program. The auto bailouts were wildly successful garnering a four to one return on our investment. Not only do you hate the auto industry bailouts, you wrongfully attribute the bank bailouts to President Obama. Wrong again idiots. My problem is that we had no bailouts for poor people losing their homes. Again, I have a right to complain and you don't.
Who tried to stop the bank bailouts? Not the Tea-baggers, not the Republicans, not the Democrats. Michael Moore and a group of liberals stood before Congress and demanded that the bailouts be stopped. Again, I have a right as a liberal to be pissed. You as a conservative have no right to do so. You should have voted correctly.
Your new front runner for the GOP nomination said that going to college indoctrinates children and causes them to lose faith. While I wholeheartedly agree that learning things causes you to think critically and therefore you tend to question the existence of Santa Claus, er' I mean god, the GOP frontrunner has an MBA from a public university. He also attended Penn State which is a Catholic public university. Not an admitted Catholic university, but they follow the same guidelines.
But, you morons who vote Republican eat this crap up. Oh, you know Obama, the black elitist Harvard Law graduate. Yes Mr. Sanatorium, learning does make you reject faith. That is another great reason for obtaining an education. Never mind that the President of the United States also graduated college and still has faith. Again, I have a problem with my President believing in fairy tales. You just make up lies about him being an "avowed Muslim" as one Sanatorium supporter claimed. The very definition of "avowed" means that you are vocal about it.
There are so many other things you Republicans are so willfully wrong about it staggers the imagination. I am sick and tired of your righteous attitude about everything when you are so wrong about everything. You are mad because you say Obama "apologized for America." Once again, you are making things up. Obama never apologized for America, but I think he should have. And, the only reason he should have is because of stupid right-wingers in the Bush Administration. In fact most of the dark black marks on American history were not only supported, but perpetrated by conservative right-wingers. Whether it was slavery, segregation, pollution, crony capitalism, workplace safety violations, and a host of military crimes (although I will admit military crimes do not fall on the shoulders of right-wingers alone), there was a liberal standing in your way who you demonized.
When you whine and complain that your religion or your freedoms are being attacked by a liberal, I say "tough shit!" It is justified payback for your racism, homophobia, fear-mongering, and chauvinism. Your latest attack was on women's reproductive rights. Again, the President offers a sensible solution to the issue trying as best as he can to respect religious points of view, and you take a shit right in his face, yammering on about how he will destroy the Catholic Church. You know, the same church that says its clergy has a right to rape little boys as long as they don't use a condom. I only wish he was the socialist you claim him to be.
In conclusion, if you have made it this far, the criticisms that I have for the President are true, and they align with my values as a liberal. The things you criticize him for are either things other Republican presidents did, that you were completely silent about, or they are things that do not exist. Please do not vote this year. Instead get help. Seek it immediately. Find out what in your past makes you hate everyone who isn't like you. But, most of all, stop your complaining! Leave that department to me.
