Originally Posted by
excon
Hello twink,
10 things, huh? Ok..
1) He ended torture
No he didn't because it wasn't torture. What he did was put an end to valuable techniques for obtaining information from our enemies.
2) The prosecution of the torturers is going to happen.
Prosecutions for something that never happened is a good thing? For who?
3) He is restoring our good name in the world.
Sure, if you call laughing at us "restoring our good name". So far he's managed to insult the UK PM (twice), the UK Queen, and the Russian government, while at the same time kissing up to dictators like Chavez and the Castro boys.
4) He's fixing the economy.
How? I'm curious how you think that increasing the national debt is going to solve a national debt crisis, and how increasing spending is going to close a budget deficit.
5) He's cutting taxes for the middle class.
Really? When did that happen?
6) He's ending the war in Iraq.
No he isn't. The war is still going on. The only thing that he MIGHT be doing is to pull out our troops. The war will go on. And in fact, he isn't even going to do that much. He's leaving 50,000 troops in Iraq.
7) He's stepping up the "good war" in Afganistan.
I've seen that he PLANS on sending some more troops to Afghanistan. I haven't seen it happen yet. Nor have I seen anything that resembles a change in the ROE in Afghanistan necessary to "step up" prosecution of tha war. All he's doing is shifting soldiers from one place to another... and he hasn't even done that yet.
8) He's restoring "diplomacy" as a tool.
Yeah... he's talking to Cuba, Iran, North Korea and China. Because diplomacy has worked so well with these countries in the past.
I thought we were talking about doing GOOD things.
9) He's UN-politisizing the Justice Department.
You mean the same Justice Department that just released a bunch of memos about CIA interrogation techniques for purely partisan reasons?
10) He extended un-employment benefits.
Well, you found ONE good thing.
11) He's going to approve legislation that will help the American worker organize.
No, he's going to approve legislation that is going to force the American workers and the businesses they work for to be unionized whether the worker or the employer wants it or not. And he's doing it to support the labor unions that can't get membership unless they can force people to unionize. Unions are some of the biggest donors to Obama's campaign coffers, so he's returning the favor... regardless of what the effect on workers, businesses or the economy as a whole ends up being.
12) He's fixing the health care system.
You mean the same healthcare system that Church Schumer just yesterday called the best in the world (regarding travel to the USA in the wake of the swine flu outbreak)?
13) He's fixing the education system.
How? By throwing more money into a broken system? He isn't fixing anything. He's just spending more on the same broken system.
14) He's restoring the American Dream.
More like the American nightmare. A nation so deep in debt that our grandchildren are going to be paying for it, so lacking in respect that the Third World $h!tballs of countries are laughing at our "naivete", so unprepared for a military emergency that the terrorist are licking their chops at the chance to get us again.
I hope YOU can sleep well.
I got more if you need 'em.
Excon
Yep. You have a knack for being wrong more often than almost anyone I know. I'm sure you can do it over and over again. You've certainly proven that.
Elliot