I used to own a Jimmy Carter t-shirt back in the days, people say he was the worst President because he never lifted a finger. I thought those were the best presidents.
Is Obama the worst president ever?
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How ironic... The very people that piss and moan about Bush are the ones to accuse others of not letting go of the past.
get over yourself already - and maybe learn to read while you're at it.
You've gotta be kidding
President really does not have all that much power. He cannot pass any laws; he has to rely o the Congress to pass the laws. He cannot even propose a budget; Congress has to authorize the money before President can spend it.
All of his nominees, to the cabinet, to the courts etc. must be approved by the Senate. Any foreign treaties he may sign must be ratified by the Senate by 2/3rd majority. I don’t think president has that much power at all. The Prime Minister of Canada has lot more power than the president does, especially if he has a majority in the House of Commons. Same with UK, the PM there has lot more power than US president.
Now the presidency may have prestige, but it doesn't have all that much power.
He may have been harmless, but he did start the conservative tradition of borrow and spend. Since Reagan, conservatism has been synonymous with borrow and spend, both in USA and here in Canada.
Before Reagan, conservatives used to insist on balanced budget, prudent fiscal management etc. Now all they insist on is tax cuts, it doesn't matter what that does to the baalnce sheet.
I liked the guy who used to fall down all the time. They should'a called him Rusty
roflmao "Whatta maroon" B Bunny
Ah, you are right. The analogy is too complicated for you. I'll try thinking of something simpler.
Who has no power? The Republican President or Democratic President ?....Every party needs a leader ...A face man .Goto guy ....Obama makes a great pres...
You really want to know what I think? :lol::lol::lol: I think it's about the stupidest f'n question asked so far about Obama. Would you declare a winner or loser of a baseball game after 2 innings? I've got no idea how he'll stack up when he's finished, but before you declare him to be the worst you'd better study up on Warren G. Harding and James Buchanan for starters.
I don't want to p*ss on his parade/healthsystem.................I think it will probably be equally as good/bad as what was already in place.
When I see all the bath mouthing of Obama on a Canadian forum, I'm beginning to wonder if we aren't a lot more racially prejudiced than the U.S. - especially pertaining to a matter that doesn' really concern us, albeit our welfare is partly dependent on the U.S. but before we concern ourselves too much about them maybe we should ensure our house is tickety boo.
Penis envy... The biggest dicks worry most.
*shyte! Is this thing on? Can I say that on a public forum?
*shyte! Is this thing on? Can I say that on a public forum?
When you have a mess to clean up it always gets worse before it gets better.
The reason Obama is having so much trouble is because he is taking action
and change real change is always difficult, sometimes the things you thought
would work, don't and that creates problems in itself. Most people focus on
the Banks and large companies being saved, not realizing the danger had he
not done it. The problem was not saving the companies it was saving the
finance companies they owned, like GMAC, which owns Ditech the housing
mortgage company. Has anyone ever heard of leveraged funds or sometimes
called Derivatives? Still outstanding is a time bomb most people don't even
know is there. Most do not know that speculators were able to borrow at a
ratio of 1 to 1,000,000. Yes for each dollar you had you could leverage it to
one million dollars in speculative investments. There is a book out there that
explains a lot, its call Game Over. Still out there is a problem estimated by
some to be around 900 trillion dollars. It diminishes over time, but if nothing
was done, the leveraged market would completely default taking the world
economy with it. Its what happened to Japan in the 80's and they have been
in recession or on the doorstep of such for over 20 years.
Health care is long overdue in America. they spend more than we do on health care
by percentage and value for consumers is not that great. Virtually all the rest of the
industrialized world has some form of medicare for citizens at large.
The United States is run by a collection of special interests groups and nothing more
the whole place is one big lobby. Yes Obama is leaning somewhat to the left but
in terms of the western world he is still a Conservative. I think people will be surprised in the coming elections. The Right wing is the party of oppose everything,
Women, lower income groups and others who are socially progressive will come out
in droves to save the gains made, and the emotional shrill voices of Palin and that
crowd will further undermine the Republican right.
The reason Obama is having so much trouble is because he is taking action
and change real change is always difficult, sometimes the things you thought
would work, don't and that creates problems in itself. Most people focus on
the Banks and large companies being saved, not realizing the danger had he
not done it. The problem was not saving the companies it was saving the
finance companies they owned, like GMAC, which owns Ditech the housing
mortgage company. Has anyone ever heard of leveraged funds or sometimes
called Derivatives? Still outstanding is a time bomb most people don't even
know is there. Most do not know that speculators were able to borrow at a
ratio of 1 to 1,000,000. Yes for each dollar you had you could leverage it to
one million dollars in speculative investments. There is a book out there that
explains a lot, its call Game Over. Still out there is a problem estimated by
some to be around 900 trillion dollars. It diminishes over time, but if nothing
was done, the leveraged market would completely default taking the world
economy with it. Its what happened to Japan in the 80's and they have been
in recession or on the doorstep of such for over 20 years.
Health care is long overdue in America. they spend more than we do on health care
by percentage and value for consumers is not that great. Virtually all the rest of the
industrialized world has some form of medicare for citizens at large.
The United States is run by a collection of special interests groups and nothing more
the whole place is one big lobby. Yes Obama is leaning somewhat to the left but
in terms of the western world he is still a Conservative. I think people will be surprised in the coming elections. The Right wing is the party of oppose everything,
Women, lower income groups and others who are socially progressive will come out
in droves to save the gains made, and the emotional shrill voices of Palin and that
crowd will further undermine the Republican right.
When after two innings the home team is down fifty to nothin yes the fans smell defeat, you however will swill beer and pretzels until the bloody lights go out and have to read about the score next day in the paper to see how the game really turned out. He is the worst simply because he is the latest and in office at the end.
I tried to changed my password on CanadianContent to 'Penis' once.
I got an error message, 'too short'.
So what's your point? The other team can just as easily score 50 runs in the next two innings...................:smile: