Obama’s Presidency

Barack Obama will be crit­i­cized and dis­re­spect­ed by prob­a­bly half of America irre­spec­tive of how well he does on any giv­en sub­ject. On September 11^th 2001 planes crashed into the twin tow­ers in low­er Manhattan killing over 3,000 peo­ple. George Bush who was President at the time was alert­ed by his chief of staff Andy Card as he sat in a Florida class-room. Bush sat trans­fixed for a good five min­utes as if unsure how to react.

Bush waged America’s longest war in Afghanistan. Not sat­is­fied he waged an ille­gal war in Iraq killing that Country’s leader and splin­ter­ing Iraq’s eth­nic tribes the Sunnis, Shiite and oth­er eth­nic minori­ties leav­ing them to wage war against each oth­er. Unable to cap­ture or kill Osama Bin Laden whom they blamed for the attacks on the twin Towers Towers and the Pentagon , Bush shift­ed his rea­son for being in Iraq to Nation-building.

There was no talk of Nation Building when he ille­gal­ly invad­ed a Sovereign Iraq. The lie then was that Saddam Hussein had what was coined as weapons of mass destruc­tion. Never mind that America, it’s European Allies and Israel pos­sess enough weapons of mass destruc­tion to destroy the Earth sev­er­al times over. Bush’s Cowboy atti­tude with America’s mil­i­tary pow­er, the Neocons world view and Donald Rumsfeld’s incom­pe­tence in han­dling the Iraq war cre­at­ed a smol­der­ing caul­dron of Militancy in the Middle East. At the cen­ter of Middle East ani­mos­i­ty toward the west is the Palestinian peo­ple’s con­tin­ued oppres­sion at the hands of Israel , aid­ed and abet­ted by America and some west­ern nations.

Bound at the hip in Military mus­cle-flex­ing with America was Britain, which was still act­ing like a world pow­er. Recent events includ­ing the newest Militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS emerged from the hor­nets nest Bush and his Neocon friends stirred up. Between the wars and incom­pe­tence Bush wrecked the Economy caus­ing mil­lions their jobs and homes. The crash of the American Economy in 2008 was rivaled only by the great depression.

THE ECONOMY

Under Obama, the econ­o­my has added 9.425 mil­lion jobs and lost 4.887, for a net gain of 4.538 mil­lion jobs. That’s a 3 mil­lion advan­tage over Bush. accord­ing to the Daily beast Michael Tomasky. 

WARS

Obama has wound down the Iraq war which he opposed from the start. In fact some argue he was elect­ed President pri­mar­i­ly because of his oppo­si­tion to that ille­gal, illog­i­cal war. The Afghan war is in it’s final throes. Obama did as he promised he would.

IMMIGRATION

Many Liberals are miffed at Obama for the num­ber of peo­ple deport­ed on his watch. Every week thou­sands of peo­ple are deport­ed from the United States for the flim­si­est of rea­sons. This process rips fam­i­lies apart, usu­al­ly it’s the par­ents who have breached US laws. Notwithstanding the chil­dren are made to suf­fer. The entire notion sur­round­ing the stat­ue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your hud­dled mass­es yearn­ing to breathe free”,now a colos­sal lie. Republicans have stead­fast­ly blocked Immigration reform claim­ing that Immigrants are Democratic vot­ers. Every attempt at reform is labeled an Amnesty. Of course their Conservative Hero Ronald Reagan grant­ed amnesty to peo­ple in the shad­ows dur­ing his presidency.

OSAMA BIN-LADEN

This speaks for itself, Bush could­n’t get him, Obama did.

HEALTH CARE

Affordable Care Act the law of the land

Obama has out per­formed George Bush by every met­ric in less than 6 years , com­pared to Bush’s two terms. So there is no log­i­cal claim to be made against Obama as it relates to com­pe­tence, as it has been dur­ing Bush’s tenure. I won’t both­er to talk about the fact that despite Government lock-downs and across the board dis­rup­tion of the econ­o­my, Republicans, are slat­ed to retake the sen­ate and make fur­ther gains in the House. You decide on what that says about the voters.

Recently President Obama was exco­ri­at­ed for going back to play Golf after address­ing the Nation on the exe­cu­tion of an American Journalist by ISIS. The ver­bal assault is noth­ing new from those on the right. Their hatred for this President because of his

race is pal­pa­ble . It also makes them irrel­e­vant as seri­ous objec­tors. In response the pres­i­dent said he should have been more aware of the optics! You think?

Which leads me ask this of the President. Why would you want to play Golf at a Country Club owned by the Racist smut Donald Trump? Mister President there is an old Jamaican proverb which says “you lie with dogs you rise with fleas“No dis­re­spect to my Lab “Bud”. President Obama did not catch fleas from this Mutt. He end­ed up hav­ing to con­tend with the snide remark attrib­uted to him below.

Mister President you are a smart man but I believe the fact that you were raised on the Hawaiian Islands have total­ly cre­at­ed a false sense of America in you. On learn­ing that major Clubs in Westchester New York have rebuffed the President’s attempt to play Golf on their cours­es, I was embar­rassed for him, but most­ly I was embar­rassed for America, just not surprised

This is the kind of thing one would expect from states such as Mississippi Alabama Texas and oth­ers where intel­li­gence is a rar­i­ty, and where igno­rance flour­ish­es. Obviously the back­lash against Barack Obama is far deep­er than just the KKK mem­bers who now don Police Uniforms under the guise of law enforce­ment offi­cers. The chick­ens are indeed com­ing home to roost.