Obama, progress in action, these are the good old days.
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The republicans seem to want to win at any cost. In the 1980s they nominated an actor. Then they nominated the guy that the actor picked, then they nominated the son of the guy that the actor picked. In that time they blocked the creation of a national health care system under Clinton. When they found out he was tickling some lady they rushed out and worked to shut down the entire government, side track everything and make this the number 1 priority. Then when the democrats nominate the first black candidate the republicans rush out and select the first female vice presidential candidate. That’s 4 picks, actor, the guy the actor picked, the son of the guy the actor picked, and a well meaning lady who doesn’t know that Africa is a continent and runs around making fun of democrats like they did in grade school. Do the republicans pick opportunistically, or for intelligence and proven capability?
Bush slowed down stem cell research, sent us into sketchy wars, and is borderline horrible at articulating anything. This is the guy we had talking to the world.
So Obama comes in. Articulating well isn’t a down fall, just because you articulate well doesn’t mean you perform poorly, the logic that republicans use there is deplorable. They are saying it just because they think that it will resonate with people. They do it in the same way that when the nice handsome dapper new well dressed guy gets the job they say that he only got hired because of those things. Its not true, its embarrassing to hear our fellow countrymen making these kinds of arguments.
Obama has done so much that its hard to remember it all. I remember the Clinton years pretty well, and the Bush 1 and 2 years. I remember the wars, gulf war, the attempted health care reform, the prescription pills act, I remember Clinton leading the economy up until we landed on a surplus. I remember Clinton chasing Saddam around, remember Bush II hanging him. Bush II tried his best to help the children with no child left behind, and he started 2 wars. Now Im sure Ive missed a few key things, but that about sums up what I can remember of those years. Obama has already done as much or more than all three of them combined.
Obama said he was going to pass health care reform, he ran on it, he got into office and he did it. We have been championing the idea for years and years, he ran on it, he got elected with it as a major part of his platform, and he got it passed. He did it. He did what he said he would do and now we have it.
When the economy started a head first slide down hill Obama passed bail outs and put the brakes on what would have otherwise slid us down into an all out crisis for every household in the US. This would have been unspeakably catastrophic to every aspect of most every bodies every day lives, and probably would have spread to other parts of the world.
He helped get the Wall Street reform passed. Wall Street was largely unregulated with loop holes the size of Mac trucks. Many of the Wall Street workers were marauders, looting and pillaging thousands and thousands and millions and millions of dollars from every nook and cranny of the US citizen’s pocket books. Even when the rats were drawn out into the spot light, they were so despicable and vile that they continued giving themselves thousand dollar vacations and million dollar bonuses with bail out money. Wall Street is now more regulated. It is now harder for this marauding to go on. This is a major success comparable to few others. Marauding, much harder to maraud.
Obama closed down Guantanamo Bay. It is now on its way out.
Obama changed the focus of the wars from Iraq back to the country that bred the guy that brought us 9/11. We are now much more focused on getting that guy. We really, really need to get that guy, more so than worry about Iraq.
Obama brought diplomacy back into the fabric of the US character. When Bush was a careless do-what-he-wants-gun-slinger as the face of a America, to the rest of the world, it was crippling us. It is insane to be a bully in a world full of nukes and missiles. Most every cognizant person in the US at that time was holding their breath asking themselves and their neighbors what the F he was doing and when was it going to end. Obama brought us back out of that. Obama brought respectable diplomacy back to the table.
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Whether Bush maliciously had his hand in the Oil companies pocket books or not, we know that he had a well vested interest in it and was at the very least biased toward the oil companies. We need oil, that’s right, but we also need to get on the fast track to a green future, and though I don’t think Bush was malicious about this, drill baby drill is now being replaced by a guiding light for a green tomorrow because of Obama. I have never seen a greater champion of a green future than Obama.
Obama ended an 8 year ban on embryonic stem cell research. Do I have to explain what a life send for the future of humanity this is? That was a galacticly important chess move in the game of life that Obama is helping us win.
Those are just the things I can think of off the top of my head. These things are crazy good. The republicans want to get elected again and we understand that but shameless opportunism is fire in the rafters. Compared to Bush II Obama is from every single last angle and perspective a progressive, nation bettering genius. Bush II wasn’t all bad, but Obama is blatantly, obviously 100 times better.
These are the good old days if there ever were any, with many bright, bright tomorrows ahead of us. Relish in this. Help add to it and lets use this positive energy to help the progressive thrust of this world reach as far as it can now, now while the iron is hot.