{UAH} OBAMA's LIMITED ACHIEVEMENTS

Abu,

I agree that Obama accomplished some good things. Still, his achievements are limited.  As a beloved figure among Democrats, Obama was instrumental in securing the nomination for Hillary. But as a president who has accomplished little since 2011, however, Obama has pretty much undermined Clinton's ability to sell us on another centrist Democratic presidency. His legacy has diluted her promise.:

1. Obamacare has many good provisions but Bernie showed us that it is not working well (inadequate coverage, increasing premiums, increasing drug costs).  He suggested that we need single-payer.  Bill Clinton has called it "the craziest thing in the world". Two months ago, Obama himself agreed that we need a public option...but he did not fight for a public option when the law being drafted!

2. On foreign policy, Obama chose withdrawal (e.g Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq) and multilateralism (e.g Syria, Crimea, Ukraine, China, North Korea, Libya, Iraq). Both approaches have largely failed. 

3. He continued the decimation of manufacturing in America.  His TPP is going to kill more jobs.  Last night, WikiLeaks revealed parts of Hillary's speeches to bankers. She envisioned exporting more American jobs!  That is partly why she hid those speeches!

3. On banks, he promised to deal with "too big to fail". But today, the top banks are THREE times bigger than they were when he bailed them out! If they were too big to fail when they were much smaller, how about today when are they NOW much bigger???  In Hillary's secret speeches, she said that folks are exaggerating the role banks played in the financial collapse...if she doesn't blame the banks, she will bail them out again!

4. Hillary Clinton has lots of good policy ideas. She promises many fine things. That these things do not attract more voters to her side is mainly because of the glaring contradiction between the nice things she says she will do and the failure of Obama to advance the ball very far on those same issues. e.g I was pleased to learn, for example, that this year's Democratic platform includes strong language on antitrust enforcement, and that Hillary Clinton said that she intends to take the matter up as president. Hooray! Taking on too-powerful corporations would be healthy, I thought when I first learned that, and also enormously popular. But then it dawned on me: antitrust enforcement is largely up to the president and his picked advisers. If Democrats really think it is so damned important, why has Clinton's old boss Barack Obama done so very, very little with it?

4. The NY Times declared "Clinton promises to hold Wells Fargo accountable". Go get 'em, Hillary! To see a president get tough with elite bankers and with CEOs in general – that's something we can all cheer for. But then that nagging voice piped up again: if Democrats think it is so critical to get tough with crooked bankers, why oh why didn't Barack Obama take the many, many opportunities he had to do so back in the days when it would have really mattered?

5. At the democratic convention, Hillary and other speakers made a powerful indictment of what they called a "rigged" system – except for one thing: that system is presided over by Obama, man that same Democratic convention was determined to apotheosize as one of the greatest politicians of all times.

6. It doesn't really help matters to claim, as the most ardent Obama defenders do, that the president was powerless before Congress, and that it was therefore impossible for Obama to do anything differently than he did during his eight years. Such fanciful talk may help us to feel better about Obama, but it also negates Hillary's promises more effectively than any lesser argument you might make against them. It transforms a vote for Hillary from mildly distasteful to almost totally futile.

Conclusion: my guy Bernie said "establishment solutions" wouldn't work.  I used to post links to Bernie's rallies.  You should have watched him.  Ask Nekyon that supported Bernie in the primaries!

thanks

---In UNAANET@yahoogroups.com, <senkayi@...> wrote :

Frankly, Joseph, I hate to remind you that Bernie is no longer in the picture.  One of these two people, either HRC or Trump, will become president.  So, if you do not vote for one of these people, then you are throwing away your vote.  It is not useful at this time to keep obsessing about Bernie's fate.  I think that you are just wasting your time if you keep doing it.

Seriously, I don't understand you when you make a blanket statement that Obama's policies have not worked for the last 8 years.  Do you remember that when Obama came to power the economy was spinning out of control?  Thousands and thousands of people were losing their jobs every week.  The stock market was falling by 500 points a day.  That is where we were back then but look at where we are today (especially the stock market).  So, how can you say that Obama's policies have not worked?  That is just propaganda.  Be fair and give Obama some credit.

My worry is that Trump may start a nuclear war and that is a very significant issue for many people.  The man is unstable (look at how he tweets in the middle of the night).  Are you not scared of this man becoming president of this great country? 

Abu

 

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