The Big Lie Of The Day: Fabricating A Failed Obama Presidency

[Bill USA]

http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-big-lie-of-the-day-fabricating-a-failed-obama-presidency/

How do you attack a president who prevented a Great Depression? A president who saved the auto industry and passed student loan, credit card and health care reform while securing trillions in deficit cuts? How do you bring down a president who oversaw the capture of Osama bin Laden and the destruction of most of the leadership of al Qaeda? A president who ended one war and convinced the nation to responsibly end another?

If you’re a former John McCain adviser with a huge crush on Paul Ryan, you simply make up a different president to attack.

Historian and Harvard professor Niall Ferguson has done just that in his screed featured on the cover of this week’s Newsweek. What amounts to a a free Romney campaign ad was clearly intended to balance Michael Tomasky’s factually accurate lashing of Mitt Romney published by Newsweek last month. Ferguson’s article is a tour de force of the same tired bromides that have been used to bash the president since the day he took office, along with a cavalcade of falsehoods.

The chief arguments presented by Ferguson are recycled Republican clichés. First, he blames the president for job losses that began in January 2008, when Hillary Clinton was still the frontrunner in the Democratic primary. Second, he upbraids Obama for predictions and promises made before anyone—including the Bush Administration — had any idea how deep the financial crisis would become. But I haven’t seen a single right-wing critique of this President that doesn’t rely on faulty predictions from early in 2009 as the crisis was unfolding. Suddenly the fact that the Bush economy was worse than anyone expected is this president’s fault.
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1. Unfortunately the GOAT party was elected to rule the house...

...in 2010.

The 'Grand Old American Tea' party.

Very obstructionist bunch; through the leadership of Paul Ryan (among others). They were able to punish Americans for electing Obama by not passing any legislation in order to prevent the economy from a full recovery.

Isn't it odd that Ryan would vote for bailing out banks, but vote against improving infrastructure. For that matter; vote for a third stimulus package under Bush, but not a second stimulus under Obama.

Damn GOAT party.

[julian09]

2. That has been Rmoneys salutation from the day he announced he was running

How can Obama have any success when the congress wity only 10% approval obstructed every thing he did with only 41 votes when he had 59 votes. Palosi passed 300 bills to languish in senate because 41 votes defeated the majority 59 votes. Talk of representation in the house and misrepresentation in the senate. Obama had many majority votes that simply didn't become law because of dysfunctional senate filibuster rule. Who were the losers, the American people because GOP want Obama to fail more than solve problems in jobs, banking reform, health care, wars, infrastructure, etc.

A lot of people blame Obama, because repugs did everything to stop job creation, held back business loans by banks, not hiring by business sitting on two trillion dollars. The obstructionist congress is a disgrace and responsible for people not being hired, when this is pointed out after convention people should throw them all out.

[Bill USA]

3. the other part of the political equation is that corporate media are not telling people what's going

on. Since Obama was elected 'filibuster' has become a taboo word on M$M (specifically televised, network media). They will not report on facts that back up the Democrats charge of obstructionism, such as the record number of filibusters by the GOP, the ridiculous, screw ball amendments the GOP add on to be debated and voted on - all taking up time and getting nothing done.


"The obstructionist congress is a disgrace and responsible for people not being hired, when this is pointed out"

The only way this will be pointed out is if a band of rebels 'takes over' a tv network and then tells the public what the corporate minions refuse to. In lieu of this people will have to bring it up on the web including on coprorate media web-sites.

[julian09]

4. It would be good to bring it up at dem convention, with list of votes over 50% that were defeated

because of filibuster rule on every vote. They should spend a lot of time on this because IT IS OBAMAS' PASSIVE RECORD or should I say GOP RECORD in governing.