It is my belief that negative criticism throughout this President's first 20 months in office
of everything he has accomplished or dealt with has been given much more time than
the positives that we have experienced be it.....
a very large stimulus passed that saved millions of jobs,
budgets inacted demonstrating priority toward progressive governmental action,
progressive supreme court nominees selected and confirmed,
Stem Cells research put back on the table,
Student loan programs unprivatized,
credit card laws passed to provide us with intelligent consumer information,
large educational money pumped into various states that otherwise wouldn't have,
community colleges funded,
State budget saved via Federal funds,
signing the Tribal Act and Order benefiting Native Americans,
approving an age-old settlement with thousands of Black Farmers,
thousands of Free Clinics established,
passing employment extensions,
hate crime bills signed,
Health Care legislation and Wall street reform passed,
saving the American auto industry,
forcing BP to promise 20 billion dollars for their oil spill,
responsibly bringing the Iraq War to a close as promised with a deadline imposed that will end that war completely,
and even in escalating the Afghanistan Conflict as promised, still imposing a deadline of when we can start to see an end to it,
while getting the world to agree to sanctions against both Iran and N. Korea,
commencing on ME peace in earnest,
speaking out against Arizona's immigration law and then having the justice department do something about it,
commenting forcefully against the hateful hotly propagandized views on Muslims,
and a host of other rarely talked about betterments in this government,
for the good of this nation and its citizens,
and those of the world,
just in the first 20 months of this administration!
Instead, it appears that the negativity peddlers are winning the PR war all over, as they constantly discuss what hasn't happen, discount anything that has, speculate in the negative about anything that might, and intimate that the reasons that Democrats don't care about voting is because this administration hasn't given them anything to be satisfied about over and over again.
I disagree with the view that voters have nothing to be glad that this government did. I just think that there are some who don't want us to ever discuss the positives and so those are swept under the carpet, and are frowned upon in being discussed unless it is about what each of those actions didn't do, as opposed to what they did do.
so my answer is that the negativity peddlers spreading doom without regard
to the positive achievements came first.
17 months before election 2010....the media decided that the Tea Party
would be seen and heard... and so they have constantly and consistently....
Hitler poster of Obama and all!
Origin of the Tea Parties & Media Biases : NO QUARTER
Apr 16, 2009 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/04/16/origin-of-the-tea-parties /
(here, no quarter promotes them as a non-partisan group expressing outrage :puke: )
The narrative of Republicans taking over Congress came next....before a public option
was in or out of healthcare; before Wall Street regulations had passed, weakened or not as weakened as expected;
before a "death-Panel Cat food commission on Deficit reduction" was formed,
and before progressives decided that insults from Rham or Gibbs should be required
to count as much if not more so than actual issue legislation passed.
For Republicans, Could 2010 Be Like 1994? - Political Hotsheet
Sep 24, 2009 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5335263-503544.html 2010 elections: Democratic fears, GOP hopes - Politics -
11/8/2009http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33770168/while the questions about the legitimacy of a President who won nearly 53% of the vote
were always present....although now....instead of as Internet ridiculous rumors, legitimate
points of pundit conversation and poll questions.
The Emergence of President Obama's Muslim Roots - Political Punchhttp://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/abc-news-jake-tapper-and-sunlen-miller-report-the-other-day-we-heard-a-comment-from-a-white-house-aide-that-neverwould-have.htmlThe option to ignore anything good done by this President was always Present.....
as the negativity peddlers, never did anything but criticize since Day one:
Obama's Guantánamo Mistake: He's Not Closing Gitmo the Right Way
January 22, 2009President Obama is shutting down Guantánamo, but he's doing it the wrong way. I am not talking about the practical matters involved: where to put the detainees, how to prosecute them, whether to send some to other countries, and so forth. Those are all thorny questions, and they must be answered. But there is another dimension to putting an end to Guantánamo that doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves, and that is the legal dimension. Obama has issued an executive order -- a directive from the president -- to shut down the prison. That alone is not enough. What Obama must do now is work with Congress to enact a federal statute that outlaws forever the use of Guantánamo as a detention facility.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brandt-goldstein/obamas-guantnamo-mistake_b_160028.htmlStimulus News Seen As More Negative Than Positive
February 11, 2009 http://people-press.org/report/491/stimulus-news-seen-as-more-negative-than-positiveObama Sells Continuation of Iraq War as the New Pullout Plan ...
February 27, 2009 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/02/27/obama-sells-continuation-of-iraq-war-as-the-new-pullout-plan/Obama didn't do shit on the Pirate Situation...
4/13/09http://obambi.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/obama-didnt-do-shit-on-the-pirate-situation-other-than-take-credit-and-eat-pizza/Obama Attacks Cambridge Police Department
July 23, 2009 http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1976024/obama_attacks_cambridge_police_department.html?cat=9H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Obama Revives Bush-Era Militarized Quarantine Regulations
August 15, 2009 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14784Did Obama Help Create 'Death Panel' Hysteria?
August 21, 2009http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/08/today-eugene-robinson-argues-that-obama-aided-and-abetted-the-now-hysterical-fears-of-health-care-rationing-reform-is.htmlMajor Factor In Obama's WaPo Poll Slide: Drop Among Dems, Liberals
Aug 21, 2009http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/major-factor-in-obamas-wapo-poll-slide-drop-among-dems-liberals/Critics Decry Obama's 'Indoctrination' Plan for Students
9/2/2009http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/02/critics-decry-obamas-indoctrination-plan-students/Nobel peace prize: Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama's snubs
December 9, 2009http://www.google.com/search?q=pulitzer+peace+prize%2C+obama&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7_____enCritics Say Obama Lacks Emotion - US News and World Report
12/24/2009http://politics.usnews.com/news/obama/articles/2009/12/24/critics-say-obama-lacks-emotion.htmlObama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting | NBC Chicago
Jan 20, 2010http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.htmlthe BP Oil Spill: A disastrous speech from the Oval Office
June 16, 2010http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/64582,news-comment,news-politics,bp-oil-spill-barack-obamas-disastrous-speech-from-the-oval-officeHere's How Obama's Financial Reform Could Make Another Crisis Even More Likely
7/20/2010http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-reform-financial-crisis-2010-7#ixzz0ygy3KIYzAs midterm election nears, Obama on shaky ground
09/05/2010http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/as-midterm-election-nears-obama-on-shaky-ground/1119363In other words, according to the negativity peddlers, there is nothing that Barack Obama has done right, ever, and whatever was done was never enough, and he did that on purpose. That narrative is the one that is being presented now to the voting electorate, just 2 months shy of elections that will determine how the census results are dealt with for the next 10 years, whether the Rich will continue to enjoy their tax cuts, and whether this country will continue on the road to repairing itself from the damage left by prior administration....even if slower than some might deem reasonable.
Of course, history will be kinder to this President, as all of the difficulties and nuances of the times we currently live in will be taken into fair account, including the limitations of what one politician can achieve in a polarized nation where the corporate media has a bigger bully pulpit than a President, and where the people, based on past negative experiences have a reasonable rational for not trusting any politician. It will be discussed as to what happened in a society where people have been fed the malarkey that long term problems demand instant solutions, and where too many of us fall for the distraction and the divisions that are created so that we treasure more fighting against each other for no spoils, while leaving the real villains ignored....until they come back with a vengeance and start to reverse everything that 20 months has brought in change thus far.
I believe that at such time that History is written, The President's critics will be seen as over the top and panicked.
I believe that time passing will tell more than anything you will read or see anywhere today.
And for that lone ray of fairness in assessment to come, I am thankful.
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