'The Commish said:
Oh...and can I get a list of "poor decisions" made by the President overseas the last four years as well as "good decisions"....TIA.
FAILURES:His failed personal effort to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. His failed personal effort to negotiate a climate-change deal at Copenhagen in 2009. His failed efforts to strike a nuclear deal with Iran that year and this year. His failed effort to improve America’s public standing in the Muslim world with the now-forgotten Cairo speech. His failed reset with Russia. His failed effort to strong-arm Israel into a permanent settlement freeze. His failed (if half-hearted) effort to maintain a residual U.S. military force in Iraq. His failed efforts to cut deals with the Taliban and reach out to North Korea. His failed effort to win over China and Russia for even a symbolic U.N. condemnation of Syria’s Bashar Assad. His failed efforts to intercede in Europe’s economic crisis.
"SUCCESSES":
His successful personal effort to insult the head of state and prime minister of America’s closest ally (as well as removing the bust of its wartime prime minister from the Oval Office); his successful personal effort to put daylight between the U.S. and Israel; his successful effort to ostracize Honduras for enforcing its constitution against a Hugo Chavez wannabe; his successful effort to become the first U.S. president to chair a UN meeting; his successful effort to ignore the efforts of Iranian citizens protesting the stolen 2009 presidential election and then ignore seriatim deadlines for Iran to accept his outstretched hand; his successful efforts to oppose Congressional attempts to strengthen Iran sanctions, while touting each round of non-crippling sanctions as the “toughest ever”; his successful effort to ward off pressure to visit Israel from liberal Israeli columnists, Jewish Democrats in Congress, and friendly rabbis; his successful effort to jettison a U.S. ally in Egypt and reportedly invite the new Pharaoh to the U.S.; . . . . his successful effort to delay executing an already-negotiated free trade agreement with the closest U.S. ally in Latin America; his successful effort to improve relations with Mexico by suing Arizona on its behalf; his successful effort to build a knee-slapping relationship with Dmitri Medvedev to deliver a deferred flexibility message to Vladimir; and his winning a Nobel Peace Prize for not being Bush.
BTW, while he will likely claim Bin-laden as a success, Obama managed to mishandle that situation in many ways as well. There was a myriad of al Qadea intellignece that was found in Bin-laden's "lair". Obama, instead of allowing the information to be used to gain access to splinter cells, whereabouts of various top officials, secret funding sources, decided to go on TV as soon as possible to announce the "victory". He fumbled away the militray advantage of suprise, instead choosing to be quick to make sure he got credit. A couple of weeks later he could have been touting the death of Al Qaeda, by using the information and intelligence gained to eliminate the entire orginization. Instead, he opted to let the news be known hours after it happened, giving al Qaeda time to disappear back into the shadows...for now. Secondly, Bin-laden was killed - again, giving away opportunity to gain useful information about al Qaeda. A law in the mission plan as well as it's execution (no pun intended). Do we even need to get into how many times the story of the actual event changed? "40 minute fire fights" that were later determined to be only a few minutes long? Wives being used as "human shields" - only to find out later that wasn't the case. Navy SEALs later (well after the fact - unlike Obama's handling of the situation) disputing several of the "official" account details the White House was perpetuating.
Oh yeah, and that entire Liby debacle.
But other than the above, he's been solid.
I'll take the guy with little/no experience to the one who has a 4 year record with that many mistakes.
If we're talking household, sure. I have 6 cars, 4 of which are driven daily.
I didn't try to rationalize it myself or say he was correct. I just explained what he and whomever he got that talking point from actually meant. You then asserted that only an idiot would agree that lowering gas prices hurt the American economy. Something that nobody ever said.
, because I hate when people spread lies and misinformation as truth. If you don't care to read or understand the facts, that's fine, but you shouldn't spout those lies to people who may no know better. It's just not cool. And I find myself on the opposite side of you around here far more than anyone else. Seriously, just stop being so wrong so much, and you and I would get along swimmingly.
- 4 links, at least 2 to reputable sources like Reuters and Huff - and you are accusing me of lying. Oh boy. I just present the information - occasionally summarizing for those too lazy to actually click the links and read. And the only reason for the second post of the links was for some reason, the interwebs ate my original response - the only place it can be seen is on your quote.
You think OPEC will sit by idly.
