Quit picking on Obama……
- Thread starter DaSleeper
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Just like Pelosi said with a smirk...
"Obama stood for a lot of things on the campaign trail."
President Obama is just an empty suite. Some people don't hesitate to speak their minds because they have nothing to lose.
According to PolitiFact.com's Obamameter, Obama has kept 105 out of the 503 campaign promises they identify; 17 promises are broken; and 259 promises are in the works.
Source: PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises
This idea that Obama hasn't kept his promises is pretty baseless.
Hey that's pretty good.
When did they close GITMO? He said his first week in office it would be closed in 1 year. (18 )
Offshore drilling (19)
Those are just a couple off the top of my head.
PolitiFact.com rates the promise to close Gitmo as "In the Works". They pointedly say that the goal to close Gitmo WITININ 1 YEAR was not a campaign promise, but rather a post-inaguration goal. Full info, including updates on the process of closing Gitmo below.
Source: PolitiFact | Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center - Obama promise No. 177:
Ahhhh....so THOSE promises don't count. Understood. :lol:
Well heck if they weren't promises and are now goals then he is the most honest President ever!
Talk about spin.
It's not spin. PolitiFact has been grading Obama's campaign promises all along, not what he has done since he's been inagurated.
Obama did promise to close Gitmo during the 2008 campaign, but he didn't give a timetable. During his first full day as POTUS, he signed an Executive Order ordering Gitmo closed and detailed how it was going to happen. These details included a timeframe of having Gitmo closed within a year. That did not happen, but Gitmo is still being closed.
You can criticize him for not doing it by his timetable, but that wasn't a part of his campaign promises.
One of the ironic things about the Gitmo closing I always found: a maximum security prison in the US is probably more brutal than Gitmo. So if detainees got sent to one, it would probably be a worse situation for them. At least they would get a trial, but if found guilty, they would be locked in a small cell for 23 hours a day in some big compound in the Rocky Mountains or somewhere.
Obama did promise to close Gitmo during the 2008 campaign, but he didn't give a timetable. During his first full day as POTUS, he signed an Executive Order ordering Gitmo closed and detailed how it was going to happen. These details included a timeframe of having Gitmo closed within a year. That did not happen, but Gitmo is still being closed.
You can criticize him for not doing it by his timetable, but that wasn't a part of his campaign promises.
One of the ironic things about the Gitmo closing I always found: a maximum security prison in the US is probably more brutal than Gitmo. So if detainees got sent to one, it would probably be a worse situation for them. At least they would get a trial, but if found guilty, they would be locked in a small cell for 23 hours a day in some big compound in the Rocky Mountains or somewhere.
What's wrong with the Rocky Mountains? At least they could enjoy the view (while on work detail)
I find that very ironic too. Once they get sent to a SuperMax in Illinois or Leveanworth Kansas they are going to dream of their warm Carribean nights spent in Cuba. You are also right about their sentence. Most likely they will get that 23 hour in a cell per day which happens to folks who can't be released into general population.
But hey...they want it closed down and I think we should close it down soon and get them sent to a SuperMax.
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Gingrich: Obama is 'most radical president ever'
NEW ORLEANS – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a potential presidential candidate in 2012, called Barack Obama on Thursday "the most radical president in American history" who oversees a "secular, socialist machine."
Gingrich reminded conservative activists why he was one of the nation's most polarizing leaders in the 1990s, opening the Southern Republican Leadership Conference with a biting assessment of Obama's policies.
"The most radical president in American history has now thrown down the gauntlet to the American people: 'I run a machine. I own Washington and there's nothing you can do about it,'" Gingrich said. He urged his fellow Republicans to stop what he called Obama's "secular, socialist machine."
Gingrich: Obama is 'most radical president ever' - Yahoo! News
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree . . . and think 25 to life would be appropriate. Leno
NEW ORLEANS – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a potential presidential candidate in 2012, called Barack Obama on Thursday "the most radical president in American history" who oversees a "secular, socialist machine."
Gingrich reminded conservative activists why he was one of the nation's most polarizing leaders in the 1990s, opening the Southern Republican Leadership Conference with a biting assessment of Obama's policies.
"The most radical president in American history has now thrown down the gauntlet to the American people: 'I run a machine. I own Washington and there's nothing you can do about it,'" Gingrich said. He urged his fellow Republicans to stop what he called Obama's "secular, socialist machine."
Gingrich: Obama is 'most radical president ever' - Yahoo! News
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree . . . and think 25 to life would be appropriate. Leno
For all Canadians here who may not know (I don't know for sure how much US politics is followed), Next Gingrich was the Republican Speaker of the House in the 1990s who led the impeachment of President Clinton, and was laughed off the national stage when Americans noticed the Clinton impeachment was ... kind of stupid.
These folks will be finally shut up when the fairness doctrine is resurected and then the Bamster will only allow nice things to be said.
LIMBAUGH: Obama 'inflicting untold damage on this great country'...
MARK LEVIN: Civil disobedience is coming...
PALIN: Obama's Nuke Stance Like Kid Who Says 'Punch Me in Face'...
LIZ CHENEY: Obama Putting America on 'Path to Decline'...
HANNITY: Obama 'Is a Socialist'...
SAVAGE: 'Obama The Destroyer'...
LIMBAUGH: Obama 'inflicting untold damage on this great country'...
MARK LEVIN: Civil disobedience is coming...
PALIN: Obama's Nuke Stance Like Kid Who Says 'Punch Me in Face'...
LIZ CHENEY: Obama Putting America on 'Path to Decline'...
HANNITY: Obama 'Is a Socialist'...
SAVAGE: 'Obama The Destroyer'...
"For all Canadians here who may not know (I don't know for sure how much US politics is followed), Next Gingrich was the Republican Speaker of the House in the 1990s who led the impeachment of President Clinton, and was laughed off the national stage when Americans noticed the Clinton impeachment was ... kind of stupid."
And for all the people who are ignorant about history and politics, Winston Churchill, who saved the ass Brittain was defeated and laughed out of office. And to add insult to injury, the Royals who deserve life about as much as a cockroach did not even attend his funeral. Ignorance has no bounds.
History redeemed the reputation of Sir Winston Churchil. It will put the yahooes who try to demean Newt Gingrich the same place with those who demeaned Churchill.
And for all the people who are ignorant about history and politics, Winston Churchill, who saved the ass Brittain was defeated and laughed out of office. And to add insult to injury, the Royals who deserve life about as much as a cockroach did not even attend his funeral. Ignorance has no bounds.
History redeemed the reputation of Sir Winston Churchil. It will put the yahooes who try to demean Newt Gingrich the same place with those who demeaned Churchill.