Paul Krugman: In defence of Obama .. Rolling Stone article

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Krugman nails it.. Obama is far from perfect, but considering the absolute opposition from the right to everything he's accomplished and considering who could have been in office instead Obama has accomplished a lot of seriously consequential stuff..

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-defense-of-obama-20141008.

[Solitary]

http://www.bing.com/search?q=what+good+has+obama+done+since+in+office&form=U147DF&pc=U147

We have heard all the insane right wing propaganda about Obama being the Anti-Christ and helping the terrorist etc. So what good has he actually done?

    Ten: President Obama has slowed down the recession. Nobody is talking depression anymore, and some are talking recovery. Trying to catch this economy from crashing was like trying to catch a 100 ton boulder dropped off a 70-story building. The inertia alone is going to push you backwards until you can slow the force. Most wouldn’t even step in front of a boulder coming at them like this. Obama stepped in the gap and stuck to a measured recovery plan of stimulus dollars and labor force transition.

    Nine: President Obama saved Wall Street. And Wall Street tried to punk him by paying itself first. He exposed the absence of regulatory oversight on Wall Street, and economic and financial investment reform is being discussed like never before.

    Eight: President Obama saved the collapse of the American automotive industry. By making GM restructure before bailing them out, and putting incentive money to help the industry, he saved the industry. People want to make jokes about “cash for clunkers” but the automakers aren’t laughing. They’re thanking him.

    Seven: President Obama shifted the focus of the war from Iraq to Afghanistan, and putting the emphasis on reducing terrorism where it should have been all along-but now they want to say he’s making war, not peace. Well, at least he didn’t destabilize a whole region on a false premise. It’s better than what we had.

    Six: President Obama relaxed Anti-American tensions throughout the world. This was more serious than the previous administration was willing to let on. The President made good on his promise to make a major address on American-Muslim relations and he did it in a Muslim country, showing a good faith that America hadn’t shown in a while.

    Five: President Obama closed the prisoner “torture camp” at Guantanamo Bay. Holding prisoners for eight years without charging them was acceptable under the previous administration.  It is not acceptable under this administration. Obama’s  next challenge is what to do with the detainees.

    Four: President Obama has made the environment a national priority, and a primary source for job creation. The era of polluting industrialists is over, and with a President that understands the benefits of green conversion, America can become a leader in the industry of the future.

    Three: President Obama has made education a national priority by putting emphasis and money behind new ideas like charter schools, but speaking directly to school children in telling them they have to do their part. It’s what any President should be encouraging but Obama’s so popular, he was accused of trying to “socialize” or “proselytize” the children. It’s a sad day when the President of the United States can’t speak to school children because their parent’s views conflict.

    Two: President Obama is on the verge of passing universal health care, with a public option, to insure everybody in America has care when they are sick. He’s doing it, despite vilification of ideologues and while in the midst of an H1N1 epidemic where millions could get sick this winter. The people feel him on this.

    One: President Obama has restored credibility to the American Presidency where the world is looking to him to lead America out of unilateralism and back into multilateral global cooperation. The Nobel Peace Prize was an acknowledgment that Obama had led and is leading a non-violent cultural revolution in America. Everybody, except for a few in America, can see the change. Still, the world understands what happened one year ago, and they thought they’d never see such a shift occur. The election of Obama helped the world see the light that America wasn’t ready to self-destruct.

Not bad, for less than a year in office. People need to stop complaining that he hasn’t done enough. Obama was elected President. He wasn’t elected Jesus. Like Al Sharpton said on Meet The Press, “we now realize that Obama doesn’t walk on water, but he’s still the fastest swimmer in America.”

How many young men and women have we lost in the war started by Bushes  lies have we lost by Obama since elected compared to the Bush? He can't win, he uses unmanned drones to save our soldiers lives, and he is criticized for the money spent and not sending troops to fight the new breed of terrorists that are using our weapons left behind from Bush's war.  Why are all the Christian nut cases picking on Obama? I think when they call him the anti-Christ answers that. They are superstitious twits who think he should perform miracles like they think their hero Christ did, or was that there hero Reagan and his Reaganomics that made the rich richer and the poor poorer as well as the middle class? Solitary   

[Hydra009]

I'm going to need a citation for #5.  AFAIK, Gitmo is still up and running.

[Solitary]

I thought the same when I read that. Maybe they mean the torturing of prisoners?

[Solitary]

Well at least he is trying to close it, and I believe there is no real torture there now.

http://youtu.be/itCbyxXSy1k

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More than three months into President Obama’s second term in office, 166 men are still imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, the majority of them held for more than eleven years without any charge or fair trial. While President Obama has rightly argued that Congress is standing in the way of his fulfilling his promise to close the prison, human rights groups have pointed out the many meaningful actions he can take.
TO DO

The Center for Constitutional Rights is calling on the President to end his “self-imposed moratorium” on releasing Yemeni detainees, to resume prisoner transfers and to appoint a senior official to “shepherd the process of closure.” Sign The Nation’s open letter and implore President Obama to take these steps and to fulfill his promise to close Guantánamo Bay. To amplify your voice, call the White House at 202-456-1111.
TO READ

In the new issue of The Nation, editors explain why 100 Guantánamo prisoners are so desperate that they’re risking death by refusing food.
TO WATCH

In this Democracy Now! interview Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, explains what President Obama can unilaterally do to redress human rights abuses at Guantánamo.


http://www.thenation.com/blog/174152/president-obama-close-guantanamo-bay#sthash.1ewibwyw.ejhh

[Hydra009]

Trying to close and actually closed are two very different things.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

To many WHAT IF reactionaries in congress.  WHAT IF one is a terrorist and 'masterminds' an attack it's fodder to hang on his presidency and democrats forever..