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November 7, 2012 It may not be morning in America, but be thankful that its not the dawn of the living dead. With civil war breaking out in Greece, Spain in chaos as it seeks to exit the euro, California preparing to file bankruptcy following the failure of Governor Jerry Browns budget referendum, and Portland, Oakland, and Seattle busy clearing the rubble from the devastation of their Occupy fires, the American electorate has finally said Enough!
The great experiment in progressive democracy is over. Convincing a majority of American voters that they can live at someone elses expense proved a bridge too far, as those same voters watched the social democracies of Europe unravel. When presented with a choice between two presidential candidates with diametrically opposed visions of the proper role of government, Americans chose to step back from the abyss.
To no ones surprise, the campaign was ugly. As each successive poll revealed incumbent President Barack Obama slipping further behind, the Obama camps attacks grew ever shriller. Class, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexualityno variant of identity politics was left untapped in what turned out to be a futile attempt to divide the electorate into warring camps and shift the debate to anything besides the deteriorating economy and the cataclysmic national debt.
The Supreme Courts evisceration of Obamacarethe presidents signature accomplishmentset the tone for a long, hot summer. The Occupy movements escalating campaign of violence, which culminated in major street battles at both national conventions, did little to help Obamas cause. Persistently high unemployment, coupled with an inflationary uptick as the Federal Reserve made a desperate attempt to launch yet another round of quantitative easing, reminded too many voters of life under Jimmy Carter.
The bankruptcy of A123, Fisker Automotive, and a half dozen more solar and biofuel ventures that received hundreds of millions in tax dollars rang the death knell for Obamas green energy policies. The final nail into the coffin of the failed Obama presidency came from Europe, as Germany and France finally jettisoned the PIIGS to save the Eurozone corebut not soon enough to avert a deep recession in Europe and a 20% decline in U.S. stock markets.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrezza/2012/05/22/romney-crushes-obama-in-presidential-election-blowout/
This was written 5/22/12. The author asks to let him know how he does.
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)Bwaaaaaahahahahahaha!!!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)This was published January 17, 2001.
Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'
January 17, 2001 | ISSUE 4301 ISSUE 3701 | More News
WASHINGTON, DCMere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over."
"My fellow Americans," Bush said, "at long last, we have reached the end of the dark period in American history that will come to be known as the Clinton Era, eight long years characterized by unprecedented economic expansion, a sharp decrease in crime, and sustained peace overseas. The time has come to put all of that behind us."
Bush swore to do "everything in [his] power" to undo the damage wrought by Clinton's two terms in office, including selling off the national parks to developers, going into massive debt to develop expensive and impractical weapons technologies, and passing sweeping budget cuts that drive the mentally ill out of hospitals and onto the street.
During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.
MORE DEAD STUFF AT LINK....
http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)And the guy is batting .000 so far...
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)run the same sh*t story in 2008? Steve Forbes has his legacy hanging out here.