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Good Riddance, Mr. Obama, by Robert Gore

Posted by straightlinelogic 8 years, 6 months ago to Government
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Barack Obama was not the worst president in US history. That honor goes to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was dead before most of us were born. Any education in history threatens to shed light on present conditions, so it’s been eliminated from curricula, replaced with pandering propaganda. Proper instruction would teach that FDR effected the sea change that transformed the US from a melting pot of mostly self-confident, self-reliant, marvelously competent individuals into a bankrupt welfare and warfare state, the majority of whose citizens are jumpy at their own shadows, afraid of their fellow citizens, and terrified of their politicians. Mr. Obama has merely been mop-up relief for the welfare-warfare team’s starter, FDR.

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    Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'll ignore the few ad hominem claims and focus on the substance. Your unstated premise is the US president has a big role in expansion of gov't powers. If President-elect Trump plays a large role in cutting gov't spending and intrusiveness in half over the next ten years, or even 10% over the next two years, it will prove you right that a) the president can radically change the scope of the federal gov't and b) Trump is not the carnival clown he currently appears to me to be. If I'm right that a) it's easier for the president to assert new powers than reduce gov't power and b) the president-elect is a showman, then we're playing with fire.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Straightlinelogic , I can guarantee you will never long for Obama .Barry has been a boil on the ass of progress. He will try to disrupt progress of our country create negative race relations and a reversal of his edicts that ignored the constitutional limits. Oh and he will become very wealthy in the near future.
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    Posted by 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You're unhinged. If I criticize a bunch of presidents, how I am unfairly singling out President Obama? He's the latest in a long line who expanded the power of the government at the expense of the rights and liberty of individuals, which is what I said in my article. By my standards, and those of Ayn Rand, that's bad. You have different standards, so why are wasting your time on this site? All I said about Trump is that it remains to be seen what he'll do with his electoral victory. If he cuts "the size of the federal gov't in half over the next ten years," and that's a good thing, then how can Obama, who expanded the government, have been a good president? If "a drastic reduction in state power" is a good thing, how can Obama have been a good president? I don't care what happens in the next few years, I, who consistently oppose statism, will never long for statist Obama, or any of his statist predecessors from Roosevelt to Bush.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 6 months ago
    Greetings Mr. Robert Gore,
    Thanks for the graphic illustration . I am also guilty of claiming
    Oblame-all as the worst President. Well we sure have had a string of vile repugnant kakistocrats.
    In my life, I first learned of the tremendous JFK from an adoring media and as time past, his morals and fraudulent election were revelations.
    Than LBJ what a creep. Was he capable of participating in an assassination? I wouldn't be shocked. Nixon , I think he was in over his head
    The military money machine( Kissinger) and his deplorable Intelligence pals they were the frauds.
    From what I've come to believe were derived from Dulles and the Rockefeller CFR. Carter was like a disease to the economy. +1 for Reagan 1st term,
    Having Bush as Vp was big mistake. Fast forward to today. The open mendacity of virtually everything regarding Obama. His narcissism, the castigation of producers. IRS as his weapon , Al Sharpton as a White House advisor...wtf. His loud vituperation to "deniers" of AGW. Aggressive fed land grab all right before our seeing and understanding eyes.
    The others before him at least pretended to care about the middle class or producers.
    Another great hero like yourself spreading truth of our history was Norman Dodd . Crediting Roosevelt as the birth of the end may well be right although the holding hands ,the courting , the first kiss ,second base all led to the copulation that enabled a birth in the first place. The Carnegie institute for world peace had the funds and the plan to place Wilson and his secretary of war. Their meeting min.s explain what has occurred
    All According to their plan.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz-ouH2MRfQ
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    Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 6 months ago
    You criticize a bunch of presidents and completely unfairly single out President Obama, who I believe has been a good president. At the very end you mention President-elect Trump with a note of blind hope that he will somehow stop the statist trends you describe in the rest of the article. This hope for change is blinder than the hopes I had for President Obama.

    I sometimes indulge in this blind hope. I figure if President-elect Trump can sell amazingly absurd crap, then maybe he can sell the "absurd" (according to conventional thinking) notion of cutting the size of the federal gov't in half over the next ten years. This is pure fantasy, but I'd take it if it came true. The other side of the coin is he'll act on the stuff he spews for the consumption of the deplorable looser element of his supporters. They're a minority, I know, but so are those of us who want a drastic reduction in state power. If you truly oppose statism you may long for President Obama in a few years. We don't know. In the absence of Constitutional limits that we actually observe, we are playing with fire.
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