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Old 11-27-2012, 10:32 AM
 
Location: The Beautiful Pocono Mountains
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Really? So my house and 401K have recovered their value? My neighbors all have jobs???? Man, someone forgot to tell us...

If you believe that, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you. Yes, we moved up from the bottom but we have FAR FROM recovered. Not even close.
I'd love to know what rock some of these people live under

It improved over the last 4??? Really????
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Old 11-27-2012, 02:42 PM
 
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The UE rate is pretty much useless as they currently report it.
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Old 11-27-2012, 03:54 PM
 
Location: USA - midwest
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Seems you said a whole lot of nothing in this post. Some explanation is in order.
Seems you're asking for an explanation of the obvious.

But I'll play along a little bit.

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What has he repaired so far? How are things better because of those repairs.
He kept the economic disaster of 2008 from sliding into another depression.

He ended the Iraq fiasco. He's ending the Afghanistan fiasco. Both mindlessly devolved into senseless quagmires by his predecessor.

He revived the US auto industry, against strident GOP opposition.

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Could you clarify what the "control freakish social aganda of the irrational right" is?
Anti-abortion, anti-science, injecting their religion into the public sphere where it has no place.

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And how things are better/will become better because he opposes whatever it is you're talking about here?
America is a nation that has always been forward-looking. Powerful social forces (religious right) desperately want to halt that vision and progress in favor of a return to the past. That's not America. That's Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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Old 11-27-2012, 04:08 PM
 
Location: Minnysoda
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Seems you're asking for an explanation of the obvious.

But I'll play along a little bit.



He kept the economic disaster of 2008 from sliding into another depression.

He ended the Iraq fiasco. He's ending the Afghanistan fiasco. Both mindlessly devolved into senseless quagmires by his predecessor.

He revived the US auto industry, against strident GOP opposition.



Anti-abortion, anti-science, injecting their religion into the public sphere where it has no place.



America is a nation that has always been forward-looking. Powerful social forces (religious right) desperately want to halt that vision and progress in favor of a return to the past. That's not America. That's Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Are you flippin high! We have guys rotateing on and off the Iraq border right now and more guys are deploying to Afghanistan next month!!! Tell those guys the war has ended
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Old 11-27-2012, 04:12 PM
 
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CAMBRIDGE September 20, 2010 - The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday by conference call. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in June 2009. The trough marks the end of the recession that began in December 2007 and the beginning of an expansion. The recession lasted 18 months, which makes it the longest of any recession since World War II. Previously the longest postwar recessions were those of 1973-75 and 1981-82, both of which lasted 16 months.
Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research

That pretty much refutes that Obama had much of anything to do with the recovery. Obama was still rearranging furniture in the White House when they announced that the recession was over and the economy had started expanding.

Another Great Depression huh?
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Post-2014 Afghanistan Troop Levels Remain Undecided

By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2012 – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has yet to forward a recommendation to the White House on how many U.S. troops should remain in Afghanistan after 2014, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said today.
Defense.gov News Article: Post-2014 Afghanistan Troop Levels Remain Undecided
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Old 11-27-2012, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Richmond/Philadelphia/Brooklyn
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They are finally going to get to the high speed rail plan in action.
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Old 11-27-2012, 04:40 PM
 
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1. Continue to repair the damage of the Bush years.

2. Oppose the control freakish social agenda of the irrational right.

3. Promote science over superstition.
This was my favorite post, especially the comment on science. Obama the witch doctor, yeah that guy with the bone in his nose, that said "By this time next year trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas." That witch doctor and his Bill Clinton's EPA have no clue about any science and or what a Air to Fuel ration IS.

But of course we all know Bill never did understand the word 'IS' and he still doesn't. The economy going down is directly related to Bill' and his artificial sense of economics. That bubble blew in 2004 and bottomed out in 2008.


But this comment on science is just over the top...

The facts are now that Obama is going to sting the very people who voted him in and in these next 4 years I promise you by the end you will be poorer than you are now, and we will all feel the sting from Obama.

And to the OP no can answer because Obama isn't going to do anything good for the USA, unless your a lefty and want to see the USA fail, which is very likely if not certain.

This in fact is what the liberal mind set wants. To punish the wealthy, which will have the affect that no one gets jobs.

The only problem is the left has no idea the govt can't give what it can't TAKE.

The dollar is in the DUMP. Last week i figured it out and the dollar then was worth 4 cents silver..... last week it took 26 paper notes to buy 1 silver dollar.

That makes a silver dime worth $2.60, and or penny on the dollar at 4 cents.

Today the cost of that silver dollar is higher but i have other things to do than figure out what a paper note is worth.

Probably by the next time I get a round to it, the dollar with be negative cents... A sad state of affairs from the spoiled rotten left.

I hope they are happy when it gets to the point they get a Govt cardboard box to live in and a dixie cup of plain white rice, because that will be what this Admin is giving out in 4 years ....
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Old 11-27-2012, 05:27 PM
 
Location: S.E. US
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He ended the Iraq fiasco.


America is a nation that has always been forward-looking. Powerful social forces (religious right) desperately want to halt that vision and progress in favor of a return to the past. That's not America. That's Iran and Saudi Arabia.
I see you bought that, hook line and sinker as the saying goes. It was the Dem partyline. Obama's "Forward" (march) slogan. Still is, but the left doesn't know and doesn't ask, "forward WHERE?"

As for Iraq, it's turning into another Iran. You haven't heard? Didn't notice? Now it will really be a fiasco.
And it's all Obama's now. Let's see how he handles that.
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Old 11-27-2012, 05:46 PM
 
Location: USA - midwest
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Lots of sore losers in this thread!
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Old 11-27-2012, 05:48 PM
 
Location: 500 miles from home
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Wade,

Don't waste your breath or typing skills on this one. You'll never get anyone to agree that Obama could do anything positive. Waste of time here.
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