Just One Term for President Obama?

"Some in the media are worried Obama won't be able to deliver on campaign promises?" In other words, Matt, you. And other hopeful conservatives.
Sure, there is a lot of hype out there with Obama - but let's be blunt here. Many folks have not been so anxious to see a President (Bush) leave the White House since Richard Nixon in 1974. I am sensing a lot of relief out there - and not just among liberals.

1460 Obama.... 1460 days in office then unemployed..

One term? After parting the waters and feeding the multitudes with loaves and fishes, I expect the Messiah to be retained as President for life!

That is, if "The Chosen One" doesn't drown in media drool!

Let's see how many promises he keeps before we talk second term.
How many presidents of the past have fulfilled all of their promises??
How many have left office without any scandle attached to them??
How many have escaped the bashing from the news media???

The same media that raised Obama to "Rock-Star" status, will be the same media that will bash him.

The media is more fickle than any woman ever tried to be. The liberal media put Obama in the White House and that same liberal media will take him out in 2012.
All you liberals who listened to and believed what the media told you in this campaign, will you also believe them when they start taking Obama down?
I hope so and I hope you have learned your lesson well. Don't believe everything you hear - think for yourselves.

IMA GROUCH: Keep parroting the same old pathetic recycled shit because that is the only thing you dimwit, nitwits, nincompoops are capable of doing in your sorry ass life. We, liberals, use our God given brains to think for ourselves and make our decisions. You loser GOP's still don't get it. You lost and your party has crumbled. Now have the guts to stand up and take responsibility for your crap shit actions that has destroyed our country down the sewer drain for the last 8 years. See everytime you repukes get in office, you screw up and a Democrat has to bail your asses out. That's is a reality and the sooner you accept it, the better you will feel. On the other hand, if you don't like it here, pack your bags and get the hell out of this country.

More Republican wet dreams. Keep rubbin' it raw over Sarah Palin, boys. Keep rubbin'it raw! LOL!!!!

After repairing the brain damnage of Worst:43 in his first term, another 2:1 EC victory is a cinch for an un-opposed Obama as 20% of Conservatives in the 32% Repub Minority have already voted for him in 2008!

If he can fix this mess in one term, he IS the messiah.

Of course he won't deliver on his campaign promises as understood by a lot of shortsighted people. It would be hard under the best of circumstances, and these are the absolute worst.

Unfortunately, he paid the American people the compliment of assuming intelligence, of understanding that all these things will take time and that he would immediately begin us on the path to fulfilling them.

It's hard to understand the mentality of hoping someone will fail at such a critical and difficult job. I wonder why you do it.

All you who obsess about the 'liberal media' - are you so helpless and ignorant that you don't know there's a range of media biases out there? No one is at the mercy of any particular source.

One term for Obama? So THAT'S where hope figures into all this.

Obama is well aware of History.

Obama is well aware Warren Harding and Calvin Coolige cut Woodrow Wilsons 70% tax rates down to 25% and it directly resulted in what was the decade of prosperity now called the "Roaring 20's."

Obama is well aware our economy, following a post WWII economic boom, had been in slow or in recession since 1957 when John F. Kennedy walked into the White House in 1960. John F. Kennedy's tax cuts sparked an economic recovery.

Obama is well aware Ronald Reagan, following Kennedy's example, cut taxes from 70% down to 28% and it turned our Carter-era stagnation-inflation economy around leading to an unprecedented 25 year bull-market economy.

Obama is well aware when our economy was slammed by 9/11 as we struggled to recover from the 2000 tech bubble, George Bush's tax cuts stimulated our economy and lifted our economy out of recession.

Obama is well aware last years $600 per person "tax rebates", at the cost of 180 billion to the treasury, accomplished NO LASTING improvement to our economy. It was nothing more than a PR stunt, speed bump improvement to our economy.

Obama is well aware the great depression did not end until government spending ON BIG BUSINESS, to build up our military for WWII, provided jobs and lifted us out of depression.

Obama is well aware FDR spent billions on "infrastructure programs" and other make work programs to stimulate the economy DID NOT work.
Unemployment was 16% in 1931, 25% in 1933 and after spending billion for eight years unemployment was STILL 14% in 1940.


WHAT OBAMA is truely well aware of is these FDR work programs accomplished little to improve the economy but they did BUY millions of appreciative votes for generations. FDR is the ONLY president to be elected to FOUR terms. Republicans were nearly wiped off the political scene.

Obama is well aware from the FDR example; government helping big business to provide the jobs people need does not buy the gratitude people feel when they have no job and need government help.

Judging by the historic Democrat template, the Obama plan is to keep them needy and hooked on our hand outs.

Respectfully,
Pete

Pete, unfortunately the following facts dispute your faux fantasies: "legacy links" to the non-partisan CBO Data proving the GDP/trickle down lack of job creation, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms

ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Debt_Trend.svg

BLS Unemployment data by President is below;
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet

"JOB GROWTH FOR DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS.
Since Truman's election in 1948, Democrats have occupied the White House for 24 years, and Republicans for 36.

In Democratic years, according the the chart above, job growth per year has been 2.26 million; and in Republican years, 1.07 million"

This time he was selected. Next time he would have to be elected & unless he performs the miracles many are expecting he has no chance of WINNING a second term.
We will wait & see. Interesting times ahead I'm sure.

Pete9:39PMJan 13th 2009

Obama is well aware of History.

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You're not. Everything in that tiresome post was an L. Rush Hubbardbaugh talking point. That act don't play peoria no more.

Pundit

Wikipedia is your source???

I bet Clif is busy editing your "sources" as we speak.

Most of the information in my comments above, that I suspect you contest, are directly from the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning paper, Issues & Insights, Investors Business Daily.

Viewpoint
"Obama, In Channeling Roosevelt,
Ignores What Has Really Worked"
Investors Business Daily
January 11th 2009

The "facts" in my comments above are NOT controversial assumptions but simple historic facts. Your "facts" are statistics, skewed to favor your argument. Statistics, Pundit statistics, you know what they say about statistics don't you?
Clif did a good job on wikipedia, huh!

Respectfully,
Pete

Clif

These are simply historic facts liberals know most people are unaware of.
Lets be real. In the REAL great depression in 1933 we had a 25% unemployment rate. Today our media is selling our 7.2% unemployment rate, just 2.2% above the post WWII average of 5%, is another GREAT depression. 25% = 7.2% what is that? Could it be liberal FEARMONGERING to scare millions of GEN Xers who have spent their ENTIRE adult lives in the post 1982 booming economy we have enjoyed just how BAD things are?

These are simply historic facts liberals know most people are unaware of and dont want the public to be infomed of while Obama goes off on a vote buying spending spree.

A few more historic facts are:

After spending billions over eight years FDR's "infrastructure programs" like WPA and CCC
did NOTHING to significantly change the economy.

The historic FACTS:
Unemployment in 1931 16%
Unemployment in 1933 25%
Unemployment in 1940 14%

The great depression ended when FDR, in preperation for our entry into WWII, funneled billions to BIG BUSINESS, who then provided people with REAL jobs who then paid taxes.

What WPA and CCC DID do was buy millions of votes for generations.
The historic record is TAX CUTS worked to stimulate the economy in the 1920's, the 1960's the 1980's and again in 2001.
Obama's plan of "tax rebates" did not work and "infrastructure programs" are reminiscent of FDR's WPA & CCC work programs that did NOT significantly change the economy over eight years.

FACTS, straight forward facts, not something you libs with itchy palms want to hear but its fact.

Respectfully,
Pete

Come Clif and Pundit you guys must have liked the part where the same historic facts are republicans were wiped off the political landscape by FDR's unprecidented FOUR terms as President.

Dream on...

you guys will need something to hang on to while you wander the wilderness the next 40 years...LOL

there is nothing respectful about you Pete...you need a better close

i think the infrastructure program is intended to stimulate purchases of raw materials and get folks back to work while working on the longer term fixes...

some folks can multitask...

but you guys never figured that out during the election why expect you to get it now...

watch & learn

infrastructure needs repair very badly...you can't argue that point...our nation is in a sad state of disrepair....imagine a home without any repairs for 50 years?