-1

[Flabbergasted]

I'm not impressed with Obama's first 180 days.

I'm not going to pretend he has done a damn thing for the middle class anymore.

His economic policy is horrible. I couple this with his bad foreign policy.

out.

[babylonsister]

1. -1 for you, too. Who would have done better? No one can ever answer

that.

[Flabbergasted]

3. The country will collapse without a huge heap of DEMAND...

Nearly nothing Obama has done has adjusted the US foreign or economic policy in any significant way. I'm not going to pretend that it has anymore.

He can make effective policy choices but he is choosing not to.

[babylonsister]

7. Damn, what a slug. Please, in 6 months, he hasn't done enough?

Try this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8538282

What your President has accomplished just 6 months into his first term

# Signed executive orders to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year, ban torture and end the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and define treatment of Detainees.
# Reversed restrictions on stem cell research.
# Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Reducing discrimination based on gender, age, religion, or race.
# Signed an executive order reversing the ban that prohibits funding to international family planning groups that provide abortions. Gag rule revoked (Mexico City policy).
# Creates the White House Council on Women and Girls "to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls and to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families."
# Signed a Presidental Memorandum extending federal benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers and announced support for the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009.
# Reverses U.S. position on LGBT Issues at the UN: At the "Durban Review Conference," U.S. supports language condemning “all forms of discrimination and all other human rights violations based on sexual orientation.”
# Signed executive order requiring federal contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change.
# Reversed a Bush order requiring federal contractors to post notice that workers can limit financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.
# Signed executive order preventing federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses meant to influence workers deciding whether to form a union and engage in collective bargaining.
# Created a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners.
# Expanded eligibility for the refinancing portion of the Making Home Affordable plan to help Americans struggling with distressed mortgages refinance at lower interest rates, even if they owe up to 25 percent more than their homes are now worth.
# Established a credit card "bill of rights".
# Expanded loan programs for small businesses.
# Extended and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch.
# Expanded eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP).
# Expanded funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners.
# Created a new White House task force on the problems of middle-class Americans, and installed Vice President Joe Biden as its chairman.
# Appoints Vice President Joe Biden to Oversee Stimulus Plan Payouts.
# Granted a reprieve to Liberian immigrants facing imminent expulsion.
# Directed military leaders to end war in Iraq.
# Allowing Caskets to be photographed when the return from Iraq with family approval.
# Released nine previously secret internal Justice Department memos and opinions defining the legal limits of government power in combating terrorism.
# On Arab TV Network, Obama Urges Dialogue.
# Gave a speech in Cairo engaging the Muslim and Arab world.
# Bars independent contractors from conducting interrogations of terror suspects.
# Granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba.
# Ordered the release of nearly a quarter of a million pages of records from the Reagan White House that were kept from the public during a lengthy review by President George W. Bush.
# Restored funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program.
# Released presidential records.
# Required new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
# Pushed for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors.
# Invites gay families to the Easter Egg Roll as part of the Obama administration's outreach to diverse communities.
# Created a White House Office on Urban Policy.
# Increased funding for the NEA.
# Appointed an assistant to the president for science and technology policy.
# Funded a major expansion of AmeriCorps.
# Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees.
# Investment in all types of alternative energy.
# Enacted tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars.
# Support for high-speed rail.
# Provided grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes.
# Extended unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits.
# Created the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers to help auto industry workers transition to new manufacturing opportunities, including jobs in alternative energy.
# Stopped raids on medical marijuana dispensers.
# Nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to ever serve on the Supreme Court.
# Appointed more than 60 openly LGBT persons to positions in the executive branch.
# Issues Presidential Proclamation for Pride, proclaiming June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
# Signed a mercury reduction pact with 140 other nations.
# Signed the Weapons System Acquisition Reform Act to curb wasteful spending by the Pentagon. Intended to price contracts and budgets lower; may potentially save billions of dollars in defense.
# Signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009, which serves to protect two million acres of land and creates a new system of land conservation for the Bureau of Land Management.
# Phase out government payments to crop producers making more than $500,000 a year and eliminates subsidies for cotton storage to help trim the U.S. budget deficit.
# Cut funding for a proposed U.S. nuclear storage facility at Yucca Mountain.
# Restored Endangered Species Act Provision requiring U.S. agencies consult with independent federal experts to determine if their actions might harm threatened and endangered species.
# Orders The Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration "to protect and restore the health, heritage, natural resources, and social and economic value of the Nation's largest estuarine ecosystem and the natural sustainability of its watershed."
# Signed the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act designating two million additional acres of public wilderness areas the highest level of government protection from logging and other forms of commercial use and development.
# Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act which will expedite the search for cures and treatments for millions of Americans living with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury, stroke, MS, Parkinson's and many other diseases and disorders.
# Established The Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record, a new system for updating medical records of servicemen and women both during and after their military careers.
# Established the White House Office of Health Reform
# Created new and stronger safety standards to safeguard the country's food supply.

and

# Got his daughters a new puppy!

[Cant trust em]

13. Created a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners.

The quietest $84B that I've ever seen.

[Flabbergasted]

15. Foreclosures are expected to peak late next year.....That's if you trust the experts.

[Flabbergasted]

14. That is the post that inspired this thread...

A load of superficial reforms. Just stuff to keep the masses happy while nothing really changes.

I hope he gets a public option passed. It will change my attitude.

[babylonsister]

18. I don't get the attitude at all. What don't you like? Would you prefer

this one, for the first 100 days, with links to prove it? But I don't understand your unhappiness, at all.

http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2009/04/pr20090429/index.html

[Flabbergasted]

30. Given babylonsister....

I'm not naive enough to believe that many people could really change the laws to benefit the country as a whole here in the US.

Obama is an improvement. I'm glad shithead is gone, but when the treasury is looted under Obama's watch, while our war's continue, and the middle class suffers, then I refuse to say "great job." Bullshit.

Obama tows the corporate line. He learned from Clinton, not to force too much, but he is little different.

I'm not going to accept things just because he is a "democrat." Just to keep his ratings up.

[babylonsister]

31. Health care is the big deal now, after the stimulus for Americans.

I just bet you don't need either of them. But many people do.


I can't convince you of anything, but I'm so much more encouraged now.

And a Democrat is the only kind of person who could have done this.

[Peacetrain]

39. Oh that was it.. a positive Obama thread set this off... sheesh

[Name removed]

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[MadMaddie]

56. To many they will never be satisfied that's the bottom line.

Obama could do the very things they are complaining about and they still wouldn't be satisfied.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Thanks for sharing.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Either you haven't been paying attention, or you're playing dumb.

I can't imagine why you'd expect us to be doing the same.

[BlooInBloo]

6. He's not *playing* anything.

[Flabbergasted]

8. Gosh I was thinking the same thing about you. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. Oooo, oh no.

Some doofus who makes up shit about Obama and tries to pass it off as the truth has a low opinion of me.


Oh goodness gracious! How will I ever recover! Oh, what a blow to my self-esteem! Oh, what a world! What a world!

[Flabbergasted]

17. What has obama done for the middle class? nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. Why, you're right, he's done nothing at all.

I guess that uppity president isn't anything good for chucking and jiving.

What a lazy person.

[Flabbergasted]

21. There may by a few things...?

[Name removed]

23. Deleted message

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[Flabbergasted]

25. No really. I'm willing to accept being wrong...

What exactly has Obama done to help the middle class?

[babylonsister]

29. Good question. Make it an OP. Tomorrow.

Or now. Or look up some stuff like 'stimulus' on google or DU. Despite what you might have heard, it's happening.

Try these sources. Ask. It's up to you what you want to believe.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Out?

Who the fuck do you think you are, Ryan Seacrest?



:rofl:

[Jennicut]

9. LOL. It was a little pitchy dog.

Hence this is why we now have the ability to unrec a post.
This post does little for me without any details.

[Cant trust em]

10. That's honestly my only problem with it.

Honest, substantive criticism is welcomed.

[Flabbergasted]

19. I only wish I knew how many people hated my post . "Less than 0" doesn't cut it...

:)

[SpartanDem]

11. Thanks for those specific rational arguments

[Flabbergasted]

16. .....

Nothing Obama has done will really effect the middle class to increase demand. We need a few million well paying jobs to get there.

Another route is to cut the defense budget and put the difference into infrastructure and social service. Not hearing a whole lot of discussion about that.

Health care reform is not going to get us back to a growing economy. It will be nice however but not a solution.

[babylonsister]

22. And ZING! it is done. That'd be nice, but

it won't happen and you're full of poop.

What happened to you? When did you lose your smarts? Health care reform is THE issue, and don't you forget it, and don't try to encourage anyone else to forget it either.

[Mrs. Overall]

24. +1

Great response.

[Flabbergasted]

27. Obama had a choice after the election....

he could see the profits of America go to it's people or the profiteers at Goldman Sachs.

I resent his decision and it was the wrong one.

[babylonsister]

28. Yea, I know and can read all about your horror, Flab.

I still have this inkling about 8 years before him, and I have to cut some slack. That's the way I roll, and btw, Obama is more than 100% better than the previous admin. I don't know why you think he isn't. Or do I?

[No Passaran]

26. no one cares

[babylonsister]

32. Bull hockey. Can you read? nt

[CTLawGuy]

33. I agree!!!!111

King Obama hasn't fixed all our problems in 6 months!

Wait, what's that, Obama is not ACTUALLY a king and can't create laws by fiat?!

who knew :shrug:

[JTFrog]

34. mainly because half the people I was with believed it until I explained the situation to them

[dionysus]

35. isn't that special.

[Hutzpa]

36. Looks like you're blaming Obama for your ignorance

if you could only use some of you brain cells you could have come across
this;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8538282&mesg_id=8538282




:banghead:

[LWolf]

37. For you:

[Peacetrain]

38. There is no tinkerbell, and we can not just clap and it all come back

in an instant. EDIT to ADD.. http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peacetrain/48

[Arkana]

41. You're in Bizarro World again.

[kjackson227]

42. That's one ugly dog.

[Ikonoklast]

43. I applaud the courage you mustered in order to post this.

I would never be able to display my ignorance like that in such a public forum.


Here's to you, good sir!

Huzzah!

[HughMoran]

44. -2?

I wish.

[Blecht]

45. Short and to the point

And right on.

Remember about a year ago when I told you I didn't expect much more than stem cell research and more condoms? Well, I'm sorry to say that I was right.

A lot of people don't want to face the fact that we have two choices when it comes to presidential candidates -- batshit crazy far-right lunatics or smooth-talking right wingers pretending to be progressives. I'll choose the pretender over the crazy fucker every time, but I'm not fooling myself into believing we will ever get a true progressive.

[Name removed]

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[cocoche75]

47. ....

:nopity:

[moondust]

48. Strike Three!

Out.

[JuniperLea]

50. Is it PLOINK time? eom

[JuniperLea]

49. Jesus Fucking Christ...

Click your heels and go to Kansas already! Your fantasy has no basis in reality.

[Phx_Dem]

51. Good, then there's no reason for you to stick around. See ya.

[cherokeeprogressive]

52. I have to admire the guts it took to post that.

And I'm thinking there is much metaphysical bad thought being sent your way at this moment. If I read about a person who spontaneously combusted in front of their computer tonight, I'll know why.

[jimmybama]

53. This must be Glenn Beck

Oh we are all doomed!! Obama didn't fix everything overnight
like he promised. Oh wait a minute. He never said it would be
quick and that it would be easy. Wake up! Clean the gunk out
of your ears and hope it isn't brain matter. Sheesh. Waa Waa
Waa. Out.

[cherokeeprogressive]

55. Man, oh, man. That went over your head just like an Air Force tanker spewing chemtrails.

Some of that bad thought sent his way came from the very chair I'm sitting in right now. That doesn't mean I can't admire the guts it took to expose himself to such ridicule.

Get it? If not, I'll type it again, but this time I'll type it a little slower...

[Forkboy]

59. Sounds like Jimmy is mocking the OP, not you.

[kwassa]

54. You can't be -1 on this thread, as Unrecommend doesn't go below 0.

I tried to help by unrecommending more, but that is the way it is set up.

I'm sure in reality you are at least up to -35 by now.

Feel better?

[RoadRage]

57. He hasn't done a "Damn Thing".. well, except for ALL OF THIS:

* Starting to close down GITMO
* Allowing Caskets to be photographed when the return from Iraq with family approval
* Working on getting us the heck out of IRAQ by next year
* Not having us embroiled in a new war with Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bombing Iran or N. Korea
* Filling the SCOTUS seat with Sotomayor instead of a 6th Right Wing Justice
* Having the guts to attempt to fix the financial welfare of our country without giving more tax cuts to the wealthy & corporations
* Not drilling in ANWAR as a knee jerk reaction
* Pushing like heck to actually get a new Healthcare plan for this country
* Getting Partner Benefits for GLBT Government Employees
* Getting Netanyahu to accepted a two state solution
* Inspiring the youth of Iran to revolutionize their own Government (still pending),
* Hezbollah lost in Lebanon,
* Getting France to rejoin NATO,
* Getting Russia to agree to cut nuclear weapons
* Lifting the ban on Stem Cell Research
* Banning Torture / Waterboarding
* Protecting Wilderness Areas
* Actually "talking" with dictators he doesn't like (Chavez) to negotiate
* High Speed Rail Plan
* Lily-Ledbetter Act,
* Supporting clean and alternative energy sources,
* Assisting the Auto companies, and keeping thousands of Union employees employed
* Increased funding for sciences and education
* Struck fear into Pirates Everywhere
* Created a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners
* Established a credit card "bill of rights"
* Opened the White House as "The People's House" with Jazz Nights, Poetry Readings, etc.
* Expanded loan programs for small businesses
* Extended and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch
* Expanded eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
* Expanded funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners
* Gave a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration
* Granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
* Restored funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program
* Released presidential records
* Required new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions
* Pushed for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
* Created a White House Office on Urban Policy.
* Increased funding for the NEA
* Appointed an assistant to the president for science and technology policy
* Funded a major expansion of AmeriCorps
* Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees
* Investment in all types of alternative energy
* Enacted tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars
* Provided grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes
* Extended unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits
* Appointed more than 60 openly LGBT persons to positions in the executive branch


But other then that in the last 180 days, he's pretty much just been laying around, sleeping in.. playing golf and you know.. just chillaxin'. :eyes:

[Yavin4]

58. For The Last Time, Neither Dennis Kucinich nor Ralph Nader Will Ever Be Elected President

America is a center-progressive nation, with a right wing and a media that's well funded by corporations. In the end, policy matters are titled toward the moneyed interests.

Obama is not Chavez. He shares power with congress, and he cannot govern by fiat.

He is doing all that he can to move his agenda forward, keep conservative Dems happy, and avoid a complete collapse of our financial system.

So far, he's doing a great job given the situation that he's in.

[salguine]

60. For what it's worth, Flabbergasted, I agree completely. Today's tidbit about

the White House refusing to disclose who was at the closed-door meeting on health care, coupled with the latest appointment of another fucking Goldman Sachs vampire to an important post this week, was the last straw for me. Fuck Obama. I hope there's a Democratic primary in 2012.