Obama is a dam good president. Why do Dems hide it?

[applegrove]

Obama is a dam good president. Why do Dems hide it?

by Madrigal Maniac at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/15/1336922/-Obama-is-a-Damn-Good-President-Why-do-Dems-Hide-It

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Lastly, here are some other accomplishments of the Obama administration.

Passed Wall Street Reform, and Dodd-Frank for Consumer and Bank Financial Protection
Ended the Iraqi War
Killed Osama bin Laden
Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Reversed Bush Era Torture Policies
Forced banks out of the Federal Student Loan Program
Boosted Automobile Fuel Efficiency
Achieved New START Treaty
Of course, Obama has made mistakes. But unlike congress he was a leader on initiatives which have improved the lives of Americans.

My suggestion to the Democrats is to stop letting the Republicans control the story. Democrats provide little defense for Obama when he is attacked from the right and candidates are avoiding Obama during the mid-term elections. This only gives credence to the Republican argument that Obama is an inconsequential president who can’t lead when nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the Democrats are the ones acting spineless. To me these Democrats are hurting the party and the country by selfishly trying to save their seats in congress.

Democrats should stand tall and shout from the top of their lungs, “Obama is a damn good president and I’m proud he is my Commander-in-Chief. So here’s a message for you Republicans … F^*k you.” It’s the truth. In a Democratic vacuum the only voices the public hears are those of Republicans.




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[ffr]

1. Because Democrats think it's controversial to talk about accomplishments.

...somehow managed to take a hemorraging stock market from about 6,000 points to over 17,000 before October's correction
...somehow managed to reduce the enormous out of control Bush era budget deficits that were approaching $1.7T/yr down to less than $385B at their current level AND falling.

Democrats get things done. Republicans are immoral thieves that destroy things.

2.5 weeks to see if we can convince enough swing voters that Democrats have their best interests at heart.

[RoverSuswade]

2. I'm not sure swing voters even vote in midterms.

I do know republicans WILL. I know that the churches are fired up for the Gop to win the senate. I hear it from the pulpit and it pisses me off but I'm in the minority. "A republican senate will end abortion.....will repeal gay rights.....will impeach Obama"..ad nauseum. What can we do to get dem voters off their asses & go vote????

[7962]

12. How many GOP senates have there been? And how close have they EVER been to ending abortion?

Answer: Several senates and not very close at all

[RoverSuswade]

21. Not close.

Newt & that guy from Tennessee or Texas (hell, I've forgotten his name already) tried but no cigar. But the fundies are still trying ("Next year in Jerusalem" style). They never give up.

[7962]

23. I know. Seems like the voters would get the hint.

[liberal_at_heart]

24. good point. I will no longer vote solely on social issues. My vote is all encompassing this time.

A living wage, unions, pensions, single payer health care system, education, women's rights, gay rights. These are no longer separate for me. To win my vote a candidate must fight for all these things. I will no longer be bullied into voting for someone who only supports social equality and not economic equality.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

3. Beats me?

[nomorenomore08]

4. I wouldn't go so far as to say "damn good" but he's certainly smart and competent enough

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for the job. Which is a lot more than I can say for his "illustrious" ( ) predecessor.

[Kalidurga]

5. I don't know that Democrats hide it...

what we see as an accomplishment sends Righties into apocalyptic fits. Like DADT being repealed, I was very very happy about that. I don't know any Righties that are happy about it, most see it as a step backwards. So, it's not us, it's them.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Because Dems don't want to be seen as the party of black people....

As such, you can expect Hillary to have Al Sharpton arrested for trying to start a race war.

<---- Is this really necessary?

[Stallion]

7. Jobless Claims at 14 Year Low

I posted an article today on that and I didn't get a response. Got ebola-ed

[alp227]

8. It's election season, not exactly the time to tell voters they're wrong. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I didn't want to jinx him,

but I seriously believe that he is the most competent U.S. president in my lifetime.

[Catch2.2]

10. Because...

Dems are horrible ampaigners/marketers. If the Republicans did all this (Ha! I know they never would), it would be all you hear about!

[demosincebirth]

17. They ought to take lessons from FDR and take the fight to them and take no prisoners.

That's why I like reading and hearing FDR's speeches.

[pansypoo53219]

11. THE GNEWZ MEDIA says he is a tar baby. look look, his poll #s are BAD. RUN AWAY!!!!

[ConservativeDemocrat]

13. Because Republicans are racist

Especially in the south. And when you have whole reams of "independent" swing voters who would be a Republican over race issues, but also know they're being screwed by the Republican leadership, you want to focus on the leadership, not the President.

This really isn't that hard to figure out.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[bigwillq]

14. Because none of the things on your list

directly affects the average American?

Sure, those are all great things, but how are those things putting food on anyone's table, or paying their bills or getting them a job? They're not. And, yes, I do believe the economy is improving but, again, for the average American, I think times are still very, very tough.

I do agree that the Obama administration/Democrats need to tout this administration's accomplishments more than it does. Democrats have never been very good at controlling the story, imo.

[liberal_at_heart]

22. 48 million Americans living in poverty. 400 richest Americans now own over $2 trillion.

You're damn right the things on that list don't affect the average American.

[Cha]

15. REally! I hate when Dems let the repubCons control the narrative and the US corporatemedia.. but,

I repeat myself.

thank you, apple!

[colsohlibgal]

16. Another List

Shilling for the awful TPP and trying to slip it past us with the fast track trick.

Not throwing one corrupt criminal big shot Wall Street criminal in jail for obvious textbook financial fraud.

Running as a progressive then bringing in Wall Street insiders, the Rubin crowd,the same crowd who crashed the economy in 2008, as his financial team.

Going after whistleblowers with the same zeal as Dubya.

To be sure he's done some good things and is better than any republican but that's a really low bar now. For the most part it's been the same neo liberal Wall Street third way boogie -as proved by what's in the TPP, more free trade but so much more that is abhorrent.

Why can't democratic presidents be real democrats anymore?;it's been rightward ho since Clinton and blowing up Glass-Steagall and welfare reform.

Some think it's just dandy but the truth is the whole political baseline has moved hard right - other than real progressives like Elizabeth Warren and a few others.

[J_J_]

18. ended the war? New War 22 Billion yr while cutting food stamps

New War 22 Billion yr, meanwhile $8.7 B Cut in Food Stamps causes Families to Lose $90 per month
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025598708

Record number of homeless children enter school this year...
http://www.adn.com/article/20140923/record-number-homeless-children-enrolled-us-public-schools

and today's news...

More Than 48 Million Americans Live In Poverty, Census Bureau Reports
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014920745


There are millions of Americans who don't give a shit that the stock market is doing better.

Some asshole bankers used fraudulent foreclosures to steal their homes and the banks got even more money from the Government.

Rampant oil speculation is driving everyone into poverty now that gas is 3 times what we should be paying, and food is through the roof because of transportation

But we are going to use our money to 'help' Iraqis, and we help Israel bomb Palestine....because we are just so nice and caring about humanity.

[FSogol]

19. You keep promoting this supposed outrage, but the "cuts" aren't connected to the war in any way and

aren't really cuts. To steal some writing from DUer, okaawhatever:

"The bill the Senate passed closes a loophole in the way some states calculate the heat and eat program. From what I understand, a person who qualifies for the heat and eat program qualifies for more food stamps. What some states did was give families $1 in heat and eat money so they would qualify for more food stamps. The cost to the individual state was $1 but the federal food stamp program ended up paying more than it would if the people resided in another state. I think many people found this unfair and that is why some Democrats signed off on the "cut".

I also saw an article that said if people can prove the cost of their heating bills the cut may not affect them anyway. That is why many of the articles said "it could affect up to 850k families" instead of "it would..." "

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4427722

Here's what the NCSL said about the Heat and Eat Program and a diagram of what States were affected:
http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/-heat-and-eat-and-snap-changes-in-the-2014-farm-bill.aspx

[woo me with science]

20. +1000000 Amen. And as he just finished signing *another* round of food stamp cuts

and a farm bill based on "pension smoothing,* let's not forget our president's plan for a TRILLION DOLLARS in new nukes (the weapon kind).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025570413

I also think people are growing very, very sick of the lies and doublespeak. Things like writing into the budget and publicizing health cost savings through promises to limit monopoly periods, while working in secret to specifically gut those exact promises with the TPP:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5674991

Yeah, and here's Gaza. We found the money to pay for that:

[madokie]

25. We still have a racial problem here in America

As this clearly shows.

[arcane1]

27. What are these failed policies? Most of his ideas never made it through congress.

It's congress that is the true failure!

[kentuck]

28. They don't hide it as much as they don't communicate it...

..and Obama is not entirely blameless. Sometimes you have to toot your own horn if no one else does.