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sixmile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:07 PM
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How many more crises can Obama have thrown at him?
Before he throws his hands up exclaiming "It's just not worth it!"? (metaphorically, of course)

I may not agree with tacts he has chosen, but in modern American history a President has never had so many domestic and global problems as Obama has faced.

I salute your fortitude and calm under pressure, Mr. President.
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:11 PM
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1. How about FDR?
Edited on Mon Mar-21-11 08:11 PM by MannyGoldstein
I'm of the opinion that FDR had more crises and worked hard to do the best for the most.
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sixmile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:20 PM
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2. A once-in-history President to be sure
Unfortunately, the right has been trying to destroy his ideas and programs since they were implemented.

I still salute Obama's staid determination.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:25 PM
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7. Yes, I agree. FDR also didn't try to help Corporations most.
He wasn't bailing out banks first with almost all of the governments resources, and then claiming that people had to help themselves because the government was out of money.

He resisted going to war instead of being a warmonger who deliberately extended one, continued a second indefinitely, and started a third. (While still telling people that they had to help themselves because the government was out of money! Funny, there seems to be money for those wars.)

Comparing Obama to FDR really shows clearly what a f*ck-up Obama is today.
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:33 PM
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10. Well, there's pre-game and there's post-game
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:35 PM
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11. Pre-game was speculation. Post-game was results.
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somone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:35 PM
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12. If Obama can't handle the pressure of pleasing the rich, he shouldn't be seeking a second term
Edited on Mon Mar-21-11 08:57 PM by somone
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golddigger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:01 PM
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29. Oh snap! +1
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:50 PM
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37. +25!!!!
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 12:02 AM
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43. Be fair now - he couldn't have expected that he'd hit the trifecta
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:23 PM
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3. Which crises are you refering to?
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:48 PM
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20. Here's a partial list
Bush's two wars: Iraq and Afghanistan
The oil spill in the gulf
The economy, jobs, and housing
Japan's nuclear plant and tsunami recovery assistance
Libya
etc...

If I were President Obama I'd say: Take this job and show it!
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:10 PM
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32. I would say three of those aren't really "his crisis".
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:17 PM
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33. He is still having to deal with them all.
And the crisis at the nuclear plant in Japan is going to be an American problem more and more as time passes.
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:46 PM
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36. Really, could you expand your answer.
As for Japan, how will it be a presidential problem?
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:56 PM
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39. TEMPCO said today the rods are damaged and now leaking into the sea....
So, once all that crap comes across the sea to Alaska and California and Washington state it will be a huge problem for us in the USA!
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catenary Donating Member (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:39 PM
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44. How does that work, exactly? Do they have little teeny outboard motors attached to them?
:shrug:
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:24 PM
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4. His kids might demand a cat
:eyes:

There is only ONE domestic and global problem : RICH PEOPLE

The voters gave Democrats and the Obama Administration a mandate for change starting in 2006.

Wha happened?
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catenary Donating Member (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:24 PM
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5. High gas prices? I can't think of any other ones
:shrug:
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:42 PM
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16. a General Strike ?!?!?
or a natural disaster

or a successful terrorist attack

or an epidemic of some type (bird flu kinda thing for real this time)

Israel in an all out war

Iran announcing it has nuclear weapons

need I go on?






High gas prices are an inconvenience but hardly a crisis.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:25 PM
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6. his amount of crises is pretty standard really. not that special nt
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Moondog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:30 PM
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8. If he keeps
shooting himself in the foot, he isn't going to have any toes left.

This latest adventure was purely of his own doing - the classic self-inflicted wound.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:31 PM
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9. There was no need to "do" anything about Libya or to expand the war in Afghanistan
Those two crises are totally self-inflicted.
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:51 PM
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25. wow. I guess you didn't see all the photos of the Libyans that were shot into pieces by Gaddafi's
hired mercenaries.
Do you also think that the USA should not have done anything about Hitler too?
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 11:19 PM
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40. Gaddafi is a tyrant, but he's not committing genocide
This is a civil war, one of dozens going on in the world right now. Should we intervene in every one?

(Or, interestingly enough, only in the countries that have oil? See a pattern?)
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:36 PM
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13. Crises are just part of being president
anyone running for president who doesn't think ahead of time about what they may have to deal with has no business running in the first place.
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FLPanhandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:37 PM
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14. Comes with being President.
They have all had domestic and international situations to deal with. Ever see how fast presidents age?
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:37 PM
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15. Dennis Kucinich is about to introduce an impeachment motion
Will that do?
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:46 PM
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18. I doubt it
he walked back that statement today on MSNBC, pulling what I call "a Beck" and saying that he was just raising the question. He also questioned the constitutionality of the War Powers Act. If he can get the SCOTUS to rule that the WPA is unconstitutional then he would be able to make a case for impeachment, until then he is simply making a fool of himself.


He will be on The Ed Show soon so we can watch that and see if he makes any news.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:02 PM
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31. I knew it wouldn't go anywhere
I question Kucinich's choice and timing of battles.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:43 PM
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17. I hope there's no alien invasion coming up this year.
It's getting hard to keep track of all the fires as it is.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:47 PM
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19. the "We Can Know" crowd says Jesus comes back May 21st
does that count?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:49 PM
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22. "And he's gonna be pissed."
:)
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:22 PM
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34. "Jesus is coming....... Look busy"
:rofl:
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chowder66 Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:49 PM
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23. too late....
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/03/sammy-hagar-aliens-were-plugged-into-me-/1
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:56 PM
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28. LOL!
:)
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:48 PM
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21. Dumped on him by Republicans! (media forgets that bit)
A+ Internationally for Obama.
D- domestically vis-a-vis workers
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sixmile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:49 PM
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24. Hmm. All good points...
I think I'm starting to develop a steely dislike for him. A creeping feeling of being hoodwinked.

There are no crises. He created all the current and former messes by trying to build consensus (a naive concept) and act constrained under pressure. Perhaps it was his goal all along.

Run as a Democrat, govern as a republican.

Thanks, DU for setting me straight. Now who should I vote for? An Independent?
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:53 PM
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26. Meh. He asked for the job.
Not much wasn't known going into it.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:54 PM
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27. Allow me to be K&R #1 !1 I salute your fortidude and calm, Mr President!1
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ProgressIn2008 Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:02 PM
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30. Thrown at him? Say what? He's a wealthy, powerful pol, how are any of these
things thrown at him? How is he experiencing any suffering?

What a bizarre object of sympathy, a president, in the midst of so much genuine suffering in the world.
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lib2DaBone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:26 PM
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35. Poor stressed-out Mr. Obama.... this Preszidential thing is tough work...
I feel sorry for Mr. Obama.. I'm sure his kids go to bed hungry and he worries where his next meal will come from and how is going to heat his 3rd floor walk-up.

Not unlike the American people who are suffering while their jobs are shipped to CHINA and the military spends $436 Million-a-day in Afghanistan.
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 09:53 PM
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38. Leave Obama Alone! Poor little Obama.
Gimme a break. If the job is to tough for him he should have just stayed home.
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 11:27 PM
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41. Nice try.
But being supportive of a Democratic president is not welcome on DU.

Thanks for trying, though.

-
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Keith Bee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 11:32 PM
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42. The GOP is working on it as we speak
Next manufactured crisis: Obama Invites Asteroid to Visit Earth
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