Toon: Worst President in history!

[Playinghardball]

Found on the Obama Diary

[11 Bravo]

1. I wonder what that guy's DU user name is?

[Progressive dog]

2. +1

[Whisp]

6. LOL.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

8. nice! but drones...

[AverageJoe90]

31. And climate doom! Fracking! Snowden! Bush-Lite!

You can't help but wonder sometimes.....

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. heh!

Called it!

[Hekate]

24. Ha! Already here, with pals. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

3. K&R. nt

[spanone]

4. k&r...

[NuclearDem]

5. I still don't see why soaring corporate and Wall Street profits is a good thing

And color me confused, but I missed the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

10. do some math on how many were there in 2008 and how many are there now

you may also want to research how stock price typically reflects valuation of a company based on expected growth from current level. many regular joe blow citizens have retirement accounts pegged to indexes. As those indexes go up, their 401k's and IRA's increase in value. Additionally, it speaks to a general economic climate that will spur hiring as companies grow and expand.

We can argue that not enough of a company's profitability makes it to labor, but it is hard to argue broad increase in company valuations by the market is not tied to the larger economic health in our country.

[NuclearDem]

13. What economic health?

This recovery has been terrific for Wall Street, but absolutely absent for everyone else. Wages are stagnant and most new jobs being created are shitty minimum wage jobs with little in the way of benefits.

That's not a recovery.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

14. pukrs blocked the jobs bill that PBO tried to get through congress,

Pukes blocked tax breaks meant to attract and keep corporations staying in US rather than moving overseas, pukes blocked and reduced stimulus amounts, blocked unemployment extension, food stamps....a zillion other actions that would have helped economy, blocked by pukes or passed during boosh.....

Way more than I can remember.

Also.....healthy stocks benefit way more than just Wall St. Wolves. Anyone with pension benefits for one thing...those programs invest in the market.
If stocks were to crash, the devastation would make what weve got now look like a picnic.

Way much more than I'm able to explain. More knowledgeable people than me here could help.

[progressoid]

17. US Stock ownership at an all time low.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-stock-ownership-at-record-low-2013-12

[Pretzel_Warrior]

18. all time low? Or since the start of your graph in 1999. The range is from 52% to 60%

not exactly a giant spread from fat years to lean years. What was stock ownership percentage for Americans in 1940? 1950? 1960? I doubt it was above 50%.

Still, half or more of U.S. households are directly tied to stock market per your own graph. That's pretty significant percentage.

[progressoid]

21. Worse, yet, like wealth in America, most of it goes to the top.

The average working American is NOT benefiting from this "recovery".

[treestar]

41. And they will get back in more

seeing the stock market go up.

It's silly these arguments that the stock market is only for the very rich. Do they realize what happens when it crashes? Then they are willing to admit it has overall effect.

[davidthegnome]

19. Damn Shameful.

Is the government still pumping billions of dollars into the stock market every month? It's not something I really keep up on because I haven't got any money to invest, but I do wonder if that's, at least in part, the reason why the stock market appears to be doing so well.

As for the wages... this is a National outrage and embarrassment. I make eight dollars an hour, without benefits - and it's not enough to survive on my own, it's not enough to go back to school. There are a lot of people on the same boat. It sucks. I guess the economic recovery kind of went over our heads, or something. It could be worse, I suppose, people like me could all be unemployed... but to call what's happening here an economic recovery for the majority, is a terrible lie.

[PowerToThePeople]

22. Likely, more average people are draining retirement accounts

to keep afloat during the non-recovery.

[progressoid]

23. Yep. n/t

[sheshe2]

26. Well it's OUR 401's

that are regaining strength after the free fall!

[joshcryer]

30. Obama started withdrawing in 2011.

So it's technically true how it's phrased.

[sakabatou]

7. I would've added something

The guy saying he's the worst president would be, from behind, used by Murdoch a la sock puppet/strings.

[progressoid]

9. Record Wallstreet and corporate profits are not the halmark of a great president.

Especially while the income of the rest of the country stagnates or declines.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Politicians have been suckered into thinking what's good for Wall Street is good for Main Street....

America has seen it's not but DC has always been slow to catch up.

[zeemike]

16. It is for the investor class.

The rest of us don't count...

[obxhead]

20. Not the worst,

but not the best.

We've yet to actually pull out from Afghanistan and 1,000's of private corporate militia with no or little government oversight still operate in Iraq.

Wall street records are based solely on the fed printing money faster than we can chop down trees and a banking industry that has nowhere else to put the money.

DADT was repealed simply to avoid a court battle.

OBL... that was a bold move that thankfully paid off. "props" on that one.

Certainly not the worst, by far, but the toon implies a rosy picture that simply doesn't exist.

[Cha]

25. Yes whine whine whine..

"Prez is not working fast enough. If I were President I could do 10 times as fast!"

[OilemFirchen]

27. ...with the able assistance of my lovely First Lady,

Morgan Fairchild.

[Cha]

28. lol

[sheshe2]

29. Wow, this thread must have gotten tons of views

from those that wanted him to fail.

You know, Cha. Those that really wanted to diss him~

Oh my~ 28 replies, 2265 views

[Cha]

32. Yeah, too bad

that!

Get your daily whine out on Obama..



[font color=blue]THANKS OBAMA![/font]




sheshe

[sheshe2]

33. Red whine can be drawn out,

just put salt on the wound (Ouch that stings) I meant the stain!

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Cha! Great pics~

[Cha]

36. Obama says..

thanks she!



mahalo she~

[PowerToThePeople]

35. Well sheshe2

I clicked this thread thinking it was something about GWB. You certainly can not tell from the title what it will be about.

Title is click fodder, lots of people took the bait.

[treestar]

40. The effort to claim there is no economic recovery

borders on hilarious.

[Gravitycollapse]

34. Except it was the Bush administration that is responsible for the auto bailout.

Credit should be given where credit is due.

[tridim]

38. Heh. Are they taking credit for that now too?

Yes, Bush threw some no-strings cash at the auto industry, failed, and then handed the bailout over to the incoming Obama administration who promptly made the bailout work.

In a few short months they'll also be taking credit for Obamacare, just watch.

[Gravitycollapse]

39. The bailout was the money given. And that was in 2008.

The Obama administration doesn't get credit for it for collecting the return checks.

[tridim]

42. Uhm, no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reorganization

The Bush admin provided a small bridge loan in 2008, but the bailout, restructuring and loan was stipulated and negotiated by the Obama Administration.

As much as you would apparently like to believe it, Bush did not save GM.

[Gothmog]

37. Great cartoon