Why can't we hold Obama to the standard he himself set in 2008?

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Cut Him No Slack


Do not buy into the narrative:
 

“Well, President Obama inherited the largest set of problems of any president in history, perhaps except FDR and maybe Abraham Lincoln…” (Wasserman-Schultz)
 
“…Obama reiterated that he had inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression…” (Robert Reich)
 
The excuse of inheriting a bad situation is simply another false narrative being foisted upon the public by those who ought to know better (and undoubtedly do).
 
Barack Obama sought the job of the Presidency with his eyes wide open. It doesn’t matter what he inherited. He knew he was going to inherit it. He wanted it. He applied for the job, actively interviewing across all 57 states. He had the best advisors the Chicago political machine money could buy.
 
In short he spent $750 million dollars — yes, 3/4 of a billion dollars — and nearly two years convincing the American people that he wanted the job, that he understood the problems we were facing, and that he knew how to fix them.
 
He knew the situation was bad when, in his arrogance he said, “f I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.” The next year he was singing the same hubristic tune, warbling his preference to be  ”[A] really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” Of course, he will be neither.
 
So when I heard Paul Ryan earlier this month say, “No one disputes President Obama inherited a difficult situation…” I cringed.
 
Of course no one disputes it. It doesn’t come into play one way other the other, except as the Left would have you believe.
 
Obama is not just moving the goal posts, he’s trying to re-define the entire playing field to suit himself. Don’t allow it, don’t play into it. America can’t afford it.
 
Cut him no slack.
 
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Well that would just be racist to you his own words against him, you should be ashamed of yourself..........

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Dems defend Obama on debt, say balancing budget now a bad idea
foxnews.com ^ | 9/2/12 | foxnews.com
Posted on September 2, 2012 11:49:51 AM EDT by ColdOne

But, when pressed, Axelrod would not say when the president's plan could bring the budget into balance. With the deficit clocking in at more than $1 trillion once again this year, he suggested that's not the goal in the near-term.

"What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there," he said. "You can't balance the budget in the short term, because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/02/barack-obama-politics_n_1847947.html



Ouch! 

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cause thats the common sense thing

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Debt to reach $16 trillion in time to crash Democrats’ convention
The Washington Times ^ | September 2, 2012 | Stephen Dinan
Posted on September 3, 2012 9:45:57 AM EDT by Qbert

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Just as Democrats are gaveling in their convention Tuesday, the federal government likely will announce another dubious milestone — $16 trillion in total federal debt.

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With several debt auctions scheduled for the end of last week, budget analysts think the government probably broached the $16 trillion number on Friday, and it will be reported to the public Tuesday, which, thanks to the Labor Day holiday, is the next business day.

While $16 trillion isn’t a tipping point, it is a stark number that Republicans said will reflect poorly on Mr. Obama, who has overseen the biggest debt explosion in the country’s history.

“This is a grim landmark for the United States,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. “Yet the president seems strangely unconcerned.”

The Obama campaign didn’t respond to a message seeking comment on the milestone, but, speaking on “Fox News Sunday,”David Axelrod, a top adviser to Mr. Obama, said the president has a “plausible plan” to stabilize the debt, but acknowledged the plan doesn’t actually begin to reduce it.

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The Congressional Budget Office last month said raising taxes or cutting spending, or both, might indeed send the economy into a recession, though the alternative — putting off fiscal tightening — means things are worse in the long term.

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Gross debt stood at $4.188 trillion when Mr. Clinton took office in 1993 and grew to $5.728 trillion when he turned the White House over to Mr. Bush, who added $4.899 trillion in his eight years in office, to reach $10.627 trillion on Jan. 20, 2009, when Mr. Obama took over. The country has already notched another $5.364 trillion during his term.

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Oh, the sweet irony. The libs were so happy that Isaac hit Tampa on last week. Problem is, Biden had to cancel his trip as a result; so, he didn't get to pound on the Republicans the way Ryan is hitting the Dems.

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To answer your question it is because almost all politicians will say anything to get elected. If you think Romney is doing anything different, you clearly have you head stuck in your ass. Check Politifact [http://www.politifact.com/], both candidates are telling a flock of lies during the current campaign.

I guess the public could demand that an elected official, such as the President be held accountable to their campaign promises. The process for removing elected officials from office is problematical. President Nixon was the last President to be forced to resign (basically to avoid being impeached). There was talk of impeaching President Clinton, but that never happened.

No president to date has been removed from office via the impeachment process. Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson were impeached by the House. Neither one was convicted by the Senate. You might say that the threat of being impeached and convicted caused Richard Nixon to resign and leave office, but technically he left office voluntarily.

And there you have it.

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Obama gives himself ‘incomplete’ grade on economic policy
 The Hill ^

Posted on Tuesday, September 04, 2012 8:27:59 AM

Obama gives himself ‘incomplete’ grade on economic policy By Alicia M. Cohn - 09/04/12 07:34 AM ET

President Obama gave himself an "incomplete" when asked in Colorado over the weekend to grade his first term.

"I would say incomplete," Obama told Colorado's KKTV 11, in an interview aired Monday evening. "But what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term."

Obama’s interview comes as Republicans are pressing the question of whether voters are better off now than they were four years ago.

Obama’s top surrogates yesterday argued forcefully that the country was better than when Obama took office and said economic troubles left by former President George W. Bush would take longer to address.

Republicans, however, point to the unemployment rate which tops 8 percent and the growth in the nation’s debt and say Obama has failed to right the economy in his first term. In a campaign speech yesterday, Romney’s running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Obama’s economic policies had been worse than former President Jimmy Carter’s.

In his interview, Obama said that the recovery was under way.

"Obviously we are still going through one of the toughest times that we've had in my lifetime and because of the financial crisis we lost 9 million jobs," he said. "We've recovered 4.5 million jobs since that time and half a million manufacturing jobs and here in Colorado you've seen sort of progress in areas like wind energy, for example, and clean energy where because of the investments we've made you're starting to see companies people being hired."

Obama gave himself "a good solid B-plus" when asked to rate his performance at the end of 2009, following his first year in office. At the time, Obama added, "If I get healthcare passed, we tip into A-minus."

Later that year, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) graded Obama as "incomplete," saying that at that point the president had yet to achieve real results. Mitt Romney and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have more recently given him "F"s in various subjects.

Obama has often said on the campaign trail that he needs to win this November in order to "finish what we started" in his first term.

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