No dude, we hate the abuses of welfare. I used to see it every frickin day when I worked patrol. Sure there are people that it is absolutely needed for, but I bet half who receive government aid now don't.No they hate welfare. Or rather they have an archetype of a "typical welfare recipient" in their head, and hate them. They make excuses for it, but there's a reason welfare recipients are treated like convicts in this country.
Says the guy who voted for Obama. lolIt was a train wreck, how any one could vote for any of those guys is beyond me. No policy no substance, just empty rhetoric, gnashing of teeth/whining re the president and Hillary.
you always know when someone is a brainwashed member of the Republican Party, when they act like the word Obama is like the ultimate insult mic drop.Says the guy who voted for Obama. lol
Do you think Obama has been a good president?you always know when someone is a brainwashed member of the Republican Party, when they act like the word Obama is like the ultimate insult mic drop.
middle of the road. I hate his drone warfare and ACA. Not fond of Trans Pacific partnership.Do you think Obama has been a good president?
It's really hard to say on this only because I don't know who the next president will be. I think Obama has done some bad things. I think Obamacare has taken our health care industry backwards. The economy has taken steps in the wrong direction under him despite what some try to justify with the numbers. But the majority of his presidency has been inactivity in my opinion. I can't really give him credit for things like gay marriage because it was a Supreme Court decision and really had nothing to do with Obama.In the end I'm more satisfied than I was with the last President or (likely) the next.
He's been competent. If ideologically off-base. It says a lot that he's out there beating brows at the stage of the Presidency where Bush had tuned completely out, and Clinton had become a national laughing stock.It's really hard to say on this only because I don't know who the next president will be. I think Obama has done some bad things. I think Obamacare has taken our health care industry backwards. The economy has taken steps in the wrong direction under him despite what some try to justify with the numbers. But the majority of his presidency has been inactivity in my opinion. I can't really give him credit for things like gay marriage because it was a Supreme Court decision and really had nothing to do with Obama.
I do agree with you though that I don't think calling someone Obama is the end to a punchline. He hasn't been that epically bad of a president to justify that.
Actually there is a lot of truth in that.
I don't think he has been competent at all. But again, I don't think he has done anything horrific either. Oddly enough race relations have seemed to have gotten worse under him in America.He's been competent.
I think Race relations have deteriorated largely because of the Internet. As we've discussed in the GPW thread there's been a lot of screwed up stuff happening to blacks that we're just now realizing is a daily occurrence.I don't think he has been competent at all. But again, I don't think he has done anything horrific either. Oddly enough race relations have seemed to have gotten worse under him in America.
You like the Iran deal do you?I think Race relations have deteriorated largely because of the Internet. As we've discussed in the GPW thread there's been a lot of screwed up stuff happening to blacks that we're just now realizing is a daily occurrence.
Now add to that a slightly more mainstream black political voice, that powder keg's gonna go off.
Don't forget how many racists felt powerless when Obama got elected. Nothing says cornered animal quite like a gun enthusiast that wants his country back. The extremist right wing has been increasingly active over the last decade (because it knows it's dying). That does not help race relations either.
As far as competence goes. It's a mixed bag. Show me a "competent" president. I will show you a dozen bone head moves he made that made this country worse. So you have to grade on a curve. The Iran nuclear agreement was no simple task.
The fact that Obama managed to strike a decent deal (that none of his predecessors could have pulled off) to lift sanctions, in a multinational agreement, and has the enormous balls to defy Israel. Improves him a lot in my eyes.
Absolutely. As a libertarian I'm almost wholly opposed to sanctions. It allows the most corrupt and militant fringes of a country to prosper, while hurting legitimate business. There's no better nuclear deterrent than economic interdependence.You like the Iran deal do you?
It's been a long time since we have seen the African American community burning down buildings and looting to such extreme lengths in protest. I don't think officers are killing black people at any sort of an increased rate. You would think an African American president would have more success at calming the African American as opposed to a white President but it seems like it is worse then ever.I think Race relations have deteriorated largely because of the Internet. As we've discussed in the GPW thread there's been a lot of screwed up stuff happening to blacks that we're just now realizing is a daily occurrence.
Now add to that a slightly more mainstream black political voice, that powder keg's gonna go off.
Don't forget how many racists felt powerless when Obama got elected. Nothing says cornered animal quite like a gun enthusiast that wants his country back. The extremist right wing has been increasingly active over the last decade (because it knows it's dying). That does not help race relations either.
As far as competence goes. It's a mixed bag. Show me a "competent" president. I will show you a dozen bone head moves he made that made this country worse. So you have to grade on a curve. The Iran nuclear agreement was no simple task.
The fact that Obama managed to strike a decent deal (that none of his predecessors could have pulled off) to lift sanctions, in a multinational agreement, and has the enormous balls to defy Israel. Improves him a lot in my eyes.