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First time in US history that US credit rating has been downgraded under his watch, he is a disgrace and needs to be impeached for being an enemy of the United States. He is an embarrassment.
Hmmm.....I'm sorry but that's not an answer. You blame the credit rating on Obama? What about Congress? Did you forget we have a Congress? So, do you have specific things or just a general "I don't like him so he needs to resign" feeling?
3.9% unemployment when Bush took office
4.4% January 2007
7.8% January 2008 when Obama took office (3.4% increase in a year, thats millions of people who became unemployed under Bush, how lucky you are to have known none.)
Obama slowed it, it peaked at 10.1% under him, 9 months after taking office. 2.3%, a full 1.1% less then Bush raised it. It has been dropping slowly ever since then. People forget he really DID inherit a mess. Unemployment didn't even reached as high as it did under the republicans hero Reagan (10.8%).
If you really thought Obama would be able to come in, without the full power of congress backing his agenda, and repair things in 4 years, you don't really understand how it works. I think he COULD have actually, but he would have needed to end the wars immediately, and we needed a bigger stimulus, but everyone thinks spending is so bad... even though right now that is what we need to get people back to work.
The housing market crashed in 2007... once again this is just facts. Look it up...just because you didn't know anyone effected doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Let me help YOU. Those numbers how me that it was the Democrats that caused this. Those numbers jumped after they came into power, then went through the roof after they took the WH.
Funny, when he was running, everybody bought into his "I'll fix everything immediately". Now that he's made a huge mess of things, he's backpedaling.
We needed bigger stimulus? What, so we could be MORE in debt and have more people unemployed?
Indeed, if Bush had got bin Laden, he'd have a celebratory jet landing on an aircraft carrier and his approval rating soars.
Obama gets him, does a quick speech, and people immediately start criticizing whether or not he should've actually ordered his death, or how his burial was executed, or whether he, indeed, got him, etc.
You can't tell me this doesn't have an element of racism to it.
No, it doesn't. Well, only to people who see things with regards to race in EVERYTHING.
Let me help YOU. Those numbers how me that it was the Democrats that caused this. Those numbers jumped after they came into power, then went through the roof after they took the WH.
Funny, when he was running, everybody bought into his "I'll fix everything immediately". Now that he's made a huge mess of things, he's backpedaling.
We needed bigger stimulus? What, so we could be MORE in debt and have more people unemployed?
The democrats didn't get much done because republican filibustering when they gained control of congress. You can also just as much apply the same thing to republicans, as all the problems that happened since they got the House (credit rating downgrade, unemployment bumped back up, etc...)
We fix the economy and the debt problem will fix itself.... a stimulus that actually put money to shovel ready projects involving infrastructure will put people to work. Obamas idea for high speed rail is excellent, it would involve all areas of the country, it requires workers of all different backgrounds (engineers, computer scientist, geologist, laborers, etc...) and would have long term jobs created.
He never ran saying he would fix everything immediately. Youtube is your friend, he has a lot of videos saying it won't happen quickly, not with the damage he already inherited. Anyone who thought that was the case is clueless....
What happened in 2006? The democrats gained control of the congress and thus the economy. Then things started to unravel. As your "data" shows, that is when the decline started. Bush had a pretty good economy until the dems gained control of congress and San Fran Nan started looting the treasury.
PS- Unlike Obama, Reagan ushered in an economic boom, not another recession.
Please tell me what the dems did in 2006 that caused the housing market crash and the recession, i'd sooo love to know.
I don't see race in everything, just when our first black president has about a 45% approval rating during a crippling recession, and yet people call for his resignation right after we had a white president with a 20% approval rating during a crippling recession.
Also, when the teabaggers hold up racist signs at their rallies, I tend to put 2 and 2 together.
There is such blatant racism against him too, even from the news media.
Look at Fox headlines "Obamas Hip Hip BBQ" showing only the black guest, when famous white people far outnumbered them. They made up the idea of a "terrorist fist bump." They criticize him for having Common read poetry to kids.
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Should Obama resign?
