Ineptness:
A short list, a scorecard, if you will, should speak for itself:
Some positives:
- Healthcare legislation
- Saving the banks and automobile industry (more for “the rich!”)
- “Iron shield” missile defense with Israel
- Early improvement of the US image over that created by George W. Bush
Some Negatives:
- Failed to repeal the Bush tax cuts for the rich, lost opportunity
- Why Libya (where we are losing,) and not Syria (where we are, indeed, needed!) Why not Yemen, Somalia, etc.?
- Debt Ceiling “compromise,” is Obama turning into the reverse Robin Hood: Take from the poor and give to the rich? Is he a GOP surrogate? Another lost opportunity.
- Unemployment in US still over 9%.
- Iran: Making the US C.i.C.* into a laughing-stock
- Giving up Europe missile defense to please Russia, nothing in return
- Afghanistan; per US military: Less safe today than last year
- Iraq: Still “a mess,” and we are leaving with the most expensive embassy in the world, and with strong Iranian and Russian influences.
* C. i. C. = Commander-in-Chief, Capitulator in Chief…
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