President Obama's Farewell Speech

[Orlong]

*Cutting the national deficit in more than half.

Ill give you that, but he tripled the national debt

*Deporting more illegals than any other president in history

Only due to reclassifying what is considered a deportation. He started calling border Agents catching people crossing the border and immediately putting them back in Mexico as a deportation. He removed less illegal aliens from the country who have been here for years than any other President

*Pardoning more non-violent drug offenders than any other president in history.

Not a good thing at all.

*Took over during the greatest recession since the great depression and turned market hemorrhaging jobs at the rate of millions per year and turned it into 75 consecutive months of job growth which is a record not seen since the 1930's. (Didn't say they were great jobs).

Ill give him credit for that but like you said, the overwhelming majority of those jobs were crappy low wage service, fast food, and retail jobs

[Elegiac]

Ill give you that, but he tripled the national debt

Your point being....what?

Only due to reclassifying what is considered a deportation. He started calling border Agents catching people crossing the border and immediately putting them back in Mexico as a deportation. He removed less illegal aliens from the country who have been here for years than any other President

Good. There's no reason to dislocate people from their homes because 'they took our jeeerbs'.

Ill give him credit for that but like you said, the overwhelming majority of those jobs were crappy low wage service, fast food, and retail jobs

Hey I mean you could always support making these jobs pay more. Novel idea right?

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

If you're not acknowledging what President Obama did as President, you are truly ignorant.

[Stormspellz]

Ill give you that, but he tripled the national debt

leans into mic - WRONG!

[Torto]

Indeed, mission accomplished Republicans.

Nah-uh you don't get to blame Republicans for Obama's indolence. He wasn't the first political leader to face a hostile parliament or senate. The fact nothing got done was all down to his inability to negotiate or unwillingness to compromise.

[Fugus]

Seems impressive. The pardonings were interesting, saw that recently. Get the feeling the toning down of the war on drugs is going to take a bad turn with Trump.

Yeah, while Obama managed to rack up a 7.8 Trillion dollars added to the national debt, without him it would have been a 11-13 trillion debt under the Bush setup he inherited while Trumps setup can reasonably be expected to add upwards of 15 trillion over an 8 year person from what we know so far as his tax plan alone is expected to add upwards of 800 billion to 1 trillion to the national deficit on top of what we already owe. Leaving a great legacy for the children to look forward to to clean up......

With Trump, I expect the War on Drugs to be kicked up a notch especially with his Attorney General who from what can be told is a racist and openly admits that he hates pot, says no good people use pot and sees it about as dangerous as heroin and the rest and he will have the authority to go into Florida and other such states that have legalized pot to put its growers, dispensers and users under federal law. With his comment about liking the KKK too, I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see him targeting minority areas within those states extra heavily.

Also all the other crap about him. Next 4 years will definitely be one for the history books and not for anything good either as the mans overall setup so far sells out the working class and their children to the rich while racking up huge debt to also funnel that money to the rich. Guessing he figures to loot and run at the end possibly.

[Elegiac]

Nah-uh you don't get to blame Republicans for Obama's indolence. He wasn't the first political leader to face a hostile parliament or senate. The fact nothing got done was all down to his inability to negotiate or unwillingness to compromise.

Or it could be because the opposition was, from the outset, determined not to compromise or be negotiated with.

Obama is the first President in recent history to have such a hostile Congress, point in fact.

[Pebrocks The Warlock]

unarguably in my opinion, the best President the US has ever had.

You're fucking kidding me right? You're not actually this delusional are you?

[schwarzkopf]

Nah-uh you don't get to blame Republicans for Obama's indolence.

Of course you get to state facts ... it is a rational thing to do.

[PACOX]

[Fugus]

Ill give you that, but he tripled the national debt

He took the debt from 10.6 trillion to about 18 trillion, he didn't triple it, he didn't even double it. He added about 7.4 trillion which is less than doubling it and if it weren't for Obama, the debt would have been between 11 to 13 trillion increase with the Bush policies taking it to over 22 trillion in debt to end with.

And as crap as the jobs were, getting crap jobs was still superior to losing millions of jobs every year.

Basically Obama's entire presidency has been nothing but cleaning up Bushes mess while the republicans blamed him for the mess while trying to block him from cleaning it up in an attempt to make him look bad.

Edit: Just did the math and Obama only increased the debt by 68-69%

[Kuntantee]

He accomplished nothing. He was one of the worst presidents USA had and election of Trump is his biggest failure.

[Elegiac]

He accomplished nothing. He was one of the worst presidents USA had and election of Trump is his biggest failure.

Why do people pretend that American political history seems to begin in 1990?

[schwarzkopf]

election of Trump is his biggest failure.

Amazing how you can blame Obama for THREE lots of Republican stupidity and still consider yourself rational.

[Jimusmc]

one of the worst presidents of all time.

[Fugus]

Why do people pretend that American political history seems to begin in 1990?

He is intentionally trying to troll, look at his avatar.

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

You're fucking kidding me right? You're not actually this delusional are you?

The President, our commander in chief, speaks in 13 minutes.

[Kuntantee]

Amazing how you can blame Obama for THREE lots of Republican stupidity and still consider yourself rational.

You are right, I should have blamed Democrats as a whole.

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He is intentionally trying to troll, look at his avatar.

What's up with my avatar?

[schwarzkopf]

Why do people pretend that American political history seems to begin in 1990?

Because you can't compare anyone since with Reagan - with the complete lack of a clue that Reagan had, he still shines compared to anyone since.

I lived through the cold war, and Reagan was the right kind of fool at the right time to end that

[Pebrocks The Warlock]

The President, our commander in chief, speaks in 13 minutes.

You can't even reply correctly to what people say to you. Are you on anything?