The Case Against Obama

This is the best case against reelecting Obama I've read so far.

It's from Salon.

Thank you SE for the article.

As I've clumsily said all along on this blog: He's a poser.

A guy who can snap fingers but not much else.

Moreover, this Benghazi thing is major. Conservatives argue that for liberals Watergate is a symbol of the wretchedness of conservative politics, but Benghazi is a shocking political and even moral breakdown of leadership.

Will it come to define liberalism for decades to come?

Anyway, the article is brutally honest and Matt Stoller deserves credit because if he's a Democrat he cares about his party. He's no cultist.

He challenges all the "inherited a mess" strawman employed by liberals. A lot of it is of Obama's on doing.

These past four years have been terrible for the United States. While Obama spent some time blaming others, ultimately it'll be his name next to these four years. He owned it and ain't nothing he can say about it.

Just a small excerpt:

"...Under Bush, economic inequality was bad, as 65 cents of every dollar of income growth went to the top 1 percent. Under Obama, however, that number is 93 cents out of every dollar. That’s right, under Barack Obama there is more economic inequality than under George W. Bush..."

"..Many will claim that Obama was stymied by a Republican Congress. But the primary policy framework Obama put in place – the bailouts, took place during the transition and the immediate months after the election, when Obama had enormous leverage over the Bush administration and then a dominant Democratic Party in Congress. In fact, during the transition itself, Bush’s Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson offered a deal to Barney Frank, to force banks to write down mortgages and stem foreclosures if Barney would speed up the release of TARP money. Paulson demanded, as a condition of the deal, that Obama sign off on it. Barney said fine, but to his surprise, the incoming president vetoed the deal. Yup, you heard that right — the Bush administration was willing to write down mortgages in response to Democratic pressure, but it was Obama who said no, we want a foreclosure crisis..."


It's not just Obama who has to be tossed. People like Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts as well. There's too much hypocrisy there. Too much incompetence. Too many bad people in the wrong places. Too much cluelessness. Too many terrible videos appealing to emotions. Is it really that hard to see past Big Bird?

If you vote for people like this then you get the governance you deserve.