You are apparently a fool that globs on to some superficial narrative, like Bin Laden. Was taking down Bin Laden a feel good moment? Yes, but that's where they superficial moment ends. You ignore how Obama used it for a victory lap, spilling the beans on the methods used in doing it. The intel used was tenuous to start with. It took away the ability for the US or anyone to use those methods again. Obama also used Bin Laden as a poster child for his deluded view that he had terrorism on the run. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
This is just ONE way you let yourself be fooled into thinking he's a "great" president. He was unqualified for the job. He had no public nor private sector senior managerial experience, never mind chief executive experience, no military experience, no economic experience, only two years as a junior Senator before considering himself qualified to run for president and zero accomplishments in the Illinois legislature.
His economic experience has been lobbying the government for money. He doesn't care where it came from. Money was thrown at projects without consideration of their merit or effectiveness. This is how he runs his Administration. He had two full years to run wild with how he THINKS the economy works. All that was done was money was thrown at problems with nothing to show for it.
As part of how he thinks the world works, are "prosperity flows from government", "government leads and the private sector should follow" and "the private sector cannot be trusted with the general welfare of the people" attitudes. This all dove tails with his idea that the country needs "fundamental change". This has always been incompatible with the needs of business, recovery and the economy in general. For example, the Great Depression actually ended in 1933, but a sharp recovery didn't occur until 1940. The application of the same attitudes above was the reason for the delay, as today. American recoveries are supposed to start, sharply, soon after a recession is over. The recession was over a full 5 years ago now.
As part of Obama's attitude, he has put a big, fat, regulatory jockey on the back of the economic racehorse (namely business, big and small) and is dumbfounded on why it's not winning races again. Compare this to when economic interests were put first (with less government), as in after the recession of 1981, as normally happens, a sharp recovery did occur and the further economic reforms, including getting government off the backs of business, allowed for a 17 year booming economy.
He has just a naive view of foreign policy. He has had the attitude that the world would be better off without US involvement. Benghazi onward has been a rebuke of that attitude. It has allowed despots to push him around. Terrorism has festered with American withdrawal from a world stage, understating the threats at every turn. He thinks that just because it's the 21st century, it will stop behaving like it's the 19th or 20th. This does not mean that war is the only answer, there is smart foreign policy and even limited military involvement that can change things. He tends to think foreign police is all or nothing, so he leans toward the latter. He is dragged, kicking and screaming from minimalist positions. When he does need to go big with military action, he dangerously undercuts it.
He is getting the reputation as one of the most disengaged presidents. He does not take leadership on issues. He even defends his lack of action by acknowledging how many issues he first heard about via the media. Even if this were the case, I would be embarrassed to admit that, never mind defend my actions with it!
His whole upbringing and principles he has embraced has made him incompatible for the job.
Obama would be a super great President and leader. If he can get the imigration laws changed in America. So he is not deported to his homeland on leaving office. He could then brag and go down in history as the Prsident who pulled the greatest scam in American history and got away with it.
Not a great President but he tried his best. The Republicans were very effective in blocking his efforts. To them goes the blame for getting little done in the last 6 years.
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You are apparently a fool that globs on to some superficial narrative, like Bin Laden. Was taking down Bin Laden a feel good moment? Yes, but that's where they superficial moment ends. You ignore how Obama used it for a victory lap, spilling the beans on the methods used in doing it. The intel used was tenuous to start with. It took away the ability for the US or anyone to use those methods again. Obama also used Bin Laden as a poster child for his deluded view that he had terrorism on the run. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
This is just ONE way you let yourself be fooled into thinking he's a "great" president. He was unqualified for the job. He had no public nor private sector senior managerial experience, never mind chief executive experience, no military experience, no economic experience, only two years as a junior Senator before considering himself qualified to run for president and zero accomplishments in the Illinois legislature.
His economic experience has been lobbying the government for money. He doesn't care where it came from. Money was thrown at projects without consideration of their merit or effectiveness. This is how he runs his Administration. He had two full years to run wild with how he THINKS the economy works. All that was done was money was thrown at problems with nothing to show for it.
As part of how he thinks the world works, are "prosperity flows from government", "government leads and the private sector should follow" and "the private sector cannot be trusted with the general welfare of the people" attitudes. This all dove tails with his idea that the country needs "fundamental change". This has always been incompatible with the needs of business, recovery and the economy in general. For example, the Great Depression actually ended in 1933, but a sharp recovery didn't occur until 1940. The application of the same attitudes above was the reason for the delay, as today. American recoveries are supposed to start, sharply, soon after a recession is over. The recession was over a full 5 years ago now.
As part of Obama's attitude, he has put a big, fat, regulatory jockey on the back of the economic racehorse (namely business, big and small) and is dumbfounded on why it's not winning races again. Compare this to when economic interests were put first (with less government), as in after the recession of 1981, as normally happens, a sharp recovery did occur and the further economic reforms, including getting government off the backs of business, allowed for a 17 year booming economy.
He has just a naive view of foreign policy. He has had the attitude that the world would be better off without US involvement. Benghazi onward has been a rebuke of that attitude. It has allowed despots to push him around. Terrorism has festered with American withdrawal from a world stage, understating the threats at every turn. He thinks that just because it's the 21st century, it will stop behaving like it's the 19th or 20th. This does not mean that war is the only answer, there is smart foreign policy and even limited military involvement that can change things. He tends to think foreign police is all or nothing, so he leans toward the latter. He is dragged, kicking and screaming from minimalist positions. When he does need to go big with military action, he dangerously undercuts it.
He is getting the reputation as one of the most disengaged presidents. He does not take leadership on issues. He even defends his lack of action by acknowledging how many issues he first heard about via the media. Even if this were the case, I would be embarrassed to admit that, never mind defend my actions with it!
His whole upbringing and principles he has embraced has made him incompatible for the job.
Obama would be a super great President and leader. If he can get the imigration laws changed in America. So he is not deported to his homeland on leaving office. He could then brag and go down in history as the Prsident who pulled the greatest scam in American history and got away with it.
Not a great President but he tried his best. The Republicans were very effective in blocking his efforts. To them goes the blame for getting little done in the last 6 years.
Neither more like a mediocre to really bad President.
At a time when this country needs a good President and a strong leader we unfortunately have neither.
You can not be a great president when you don't have the power of the house behind you , And he does not have :(
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Obama is not that great a president. But he is FAR better than the president that he succeeded.
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Obama is over the top , he's phenomenally extra ordinarily special.
There has never been a more competent and beloved president and there never will be again!
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