He's good at that Presidenting stuff after all.

He's a failure, and weak and a dictator and lawless and hasn't accomplished one thing in his entire presidency!11!

Ben Gazzi!

He won't get his due from some for awhile.

Then some of us know better now!

and yet, they dismiss Obama as a failure.

Of course Bush43 looks better the further away from 1/19/2009 we get ... it's the "Tootsie" effect.

with each passing year, but Bush43 -- and his Presidency -- were the worst things that ever happened to this country. Time can heal the pain but not the facts.

That is, Republicans!

First they vowed to make him a 1 term president.



And~





treestar!

If President Obama had had a congress that was working with him, instead of against him.

blah blah blah. HAHAHA No wonder nobody with a brain takes them seriously.

It's a beautiful chart indeed.

I don't know whether some of the local teabaggers have left me in peace a lot more lately because they've given up on me, or whether any of them are beginning to see the light. At least a glimmer.... in the distance....

President Obama's correct, too, about how several years from now when ACA's in full swing, lots of people will NOT want to call it ObamaCare. God forbid POTUS should get credit for anything!

because they are indeed seeing a glimmer of light.

Though I certainly put a stop to that political hate crap they wanted to vomit in Sunday School. Ruined their fun, I did, and I'm not even a member of that congregation - just a regular visitor. Cheeky! You'd think with recent events and GOP scandals, there wouldn't be a single Republican left in town. But I am convinced that HRC could carry this county in '16, if not the whole state. And I am keeping my eyes on midterms, never worry.

for the Obama-bashers on DU to chime in. Oh, maybe they're still at dinner.

All groups have mission statements and rules. We are not a forum, I hope that is indeed honored.

You don't get a lot of play on the home page. Maybe I should lurk here.

The rules are easy to follow, albino.

IMHO, we get a lot of play in GD and the home page, sadly not as much as the bashing.

because they get it from the Latest Posts and don't notice they are in the BOG.

How could I possibly know!?

Hint!

*************** This is the Barack Obama Group*******************

Thanks for sharing.

K&R

We could be years ahead if the GOP did not have to be pulled every inch of the track just to get them to the finish line.

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The Dow went down to 6500 shortly after Obama took over so the 7950 doesnt show the depth of the Bush crash.

I've heard the GDP GROWTH went as low as -9%.

TYPO?-The DEFICIT GDP should be DEFICIT/GDP or DEFICIT-to-GDP or deficit as a percent of GDP.

And the Unemployment went all the way up to 10.5% shortly after Obama took office again not showing the full extent Obama has dug us out.

Thanks for pointing that out.

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Climate Change

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2014/02/flooding_in_britain.html

With the planned obsolescence and waste embedded in the system, changing the light bulbs and driving a few hybrid vehicles contributes to the GHG emissions.....There is no way to 'grow our way' out of the environmental crisis no matter how many statistics big business produces. Big business initiatives such as fuel efficient cars for example just cause people to dry farther with more cars.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/21743-missing-the-marx-more-or-less-on-intellectual-failure-and-environmental-catastrophe#.Uvf8yXMHtWA.email

Since the initial climate change summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, administrations from both parties have worked to undermine the emissions reductions and weaken participation by other states. This was especially true of the Obama Administration's behavior at the Copenhagen Summit when he worked behind closed doors to undermine participation...Now it is coming out about the NSA spying on the participants. Despite SoS Kerry's rhetoric, there has been limited actions by this administration to reduce climate change - in fact by pushing the Trans XL and TPP, their initiatives will make climate emissions worse.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/20/finance_climate_action_not_fossil_fuel

Look at who Obama appoints as Energy Secretary - big ties to BP and fracking and nuclear industries...

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/26/energy_nominee_ernest_moniz_criticized_for


http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/13/this_should_not_come_as_a

Despite the rosy scenario that these pro-corporate (and let's be honest they are all pro-corporate statistics and come from big business), the statistics for the 99% of the US population are worse....The unemployment numbers for example don't reflect the lack of employment for the people who have stopped looking for work...They also don't measure the rising gap in
income inequality like life expectancy which is a derivative of the rising inequality..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

And I will not even mention the statistics on war and peace and how our military empire is expanding and has expanded over the past 5 years, nor will I mention Obama's being the first Democratic Party president to put social security and medicare cuts on the table....and to privatize public education.

a remarkable number of posters here say that the economy is just as bad as ever, no one gets hired anymore, especially no one over 60. Or over 50. Or over 40. It's completely impossible to retire, ever. And so on.

I'm with you, however. Things have gotten better. They can still get a lot better and I hope they will.

When I was much younger I was taught that revolutions were most likely to occur not when things were at their worst, but only after things had started to get better.

Corporate media won't cover this. GOPers in congress instead of creating jobs, helping the unemployment, cutting social issues, fucking with women rights and her body, fucking with voting rights, won't do a damn thing about immigration, gun control, y'know the things that would benefit common Americans, but house gopers are securing a bill "stopping the President from overreaching" bill. What a load of shit.