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Some people sure are having a having a hard time dealing with his inauguration. Is America becoming a cesspool of right wing hate mongers. I mean the guy won, what does all this achieve?
Flying the flag upside down is a signal of distress - and we just re-elected a president whom in his disastrous first term led us to $16 trillion in debt, a downgraded credit rating, double digit unemployment, multiple scandals, and loss of prestige in the world - with the president promising to continue the same failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place.
An upside down flag seems appropriate given those facts.
Thus flying the flag upside down is the distress call raised by half the electorate and most of the non voting public in response to the absence of a president.
Flying the flag upside down is a signal of distress - and we just re-elected a president whom in his disastrous first term led us to $16 trillion in debt, a downgraded credit rating, double digit unemployment, multiple scandals, and loss of prestige in the world - with the president promising to continue the same failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place.
An upside down flag seems appropriate given those facts.
Yes because he did all this within just a few months of his being elected right ? Wake up and stop being so foolish he inherited a country that was near destruction by the big spender himself GWB and his cronies who looted the country for all it was worth. The "fiscally responisble" republicans trashed this country than obama came and now suddenly Obama led us to $16 trillion in debt and downgraded our credit which btw if read why it was downgraded it was because of congress's inability to actually work together and raise the debt ceiling. Our loss of prestige happened before obama even got into office we've been losing prestige for sometime even before clinton it started waning bush jr just pushed it that much faster.
Thus flying the flag upside down is the distress call raised by half the electorate and most of the non voting public in response to the absence of a president.
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And what about Obama wearing a fake flag pin on his lapel instead of a real American flag? Does that make his administration a cesspool of left wing hate mongers? Or is your outrage selective?
Yes because he did all this within just a few months of his being elected right ? Wake up and stop being so foolish he inherited a country that was near destruction by the big spender himself GWB and his cronies who looted the country for all it was worth. The "fiscally responisble" republicans trashed this country than obama came and now suddenly Obama led us to $16 trillion in debt and downgraded our credit which btw if read why it was downgraded it was because of congress's inability to actually work together and raise the debt ceiling. Our loss of prestige happened before obama even got into office we've been losing prestige for sometime even before clinton it started waning bush jr just pushed it that much faster.
The man has served 4 years - been re-elected, and inaugarated - and yet what is the excuse that the liberals persist in using?
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The man has served 4 years - been re-elected, and inaugarated - and yet what is the excuse that the liberals persist in using?
Blame it on Bush.
16 Trillion in debt, 4 trillion directly from 3 wars(iraq,Afgan, Global war on terror) Bush started. So umm yea, if you want to make an argument about debt it is Bush's fault considering that when he took office, the National debt was at 5.3 trillion and when he left it was 10.7 trillion, not counting the stimulus that he and congress had already agreed upon before he left office and that Obama then signed after 100 billion in tweaking.
You Republicans/conservatives pretend that the country has a blank slate when the new guy gets elected and that just isnt true. Bush policies didnt just disappear on Jan 20, 2009. We still had to spend money on his wars, we still had to contend with his tax cuts that brought in 2 trillion less in revenue than the country would have if they had not existed. Bush could have ran a surplus 6 of the 8 years he was in office had he simply not passed those tax cuts. Obama also had to contend with Bush's Housing laws and the loopholes that were there.
* Technically, there would not have been 6 surpluses, they would have been accounted for at some point because surpluses are bad accounting.
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