And since election season is upon us, it is probably pointless here to put up any topics other than the election until after 2 weeks have passed, but here is what Republicans are so desperate to drown out.
Obama has been the one of the most effective presidents in our lifetime. If one rates his presidency along the same lines one would of a CEO in charge of ones investments, for example Bank of America or JP Morgan, and uses the same criteria every other leader is rated by, Obama comes out looking very good.
When stockholders look at who should run their company, they look at one major thing.
Their standard of executive leadership is: are things better when someone leaves office than when they entered?
Look at 2008. Look at today... Only Franklin Roosevelt can boost of such an accomplishment and he had to have a World War to achieve his employment figures....
We all know some people will roll their eyes here because this truth does not fit in with their micro-bubble philosophy. They believe in taking a pre-formed opinion and then sorting through millions of facts to find those one or two which support it... Others more astute, look over millions of facts and then based on them, come to an at-large opinion more in line with the reality on the ground....
This dichotomy in American politics can actually be visualized by the spread of commenters across this and most other threads. Republicans make things up; the Democrats show you facts... it is up to the independents to listen to both and decide which of the two are the most calm, collected and reasonable at the time....
Making up stuff is not all bad... As one single example, we should probably have a plan buried somewhere to be put in place for when extra-terrestrial aliens decide to invade our planet... That way we have already thought of what would work and what would not, before any alien ships surprise us... Although such a good idea for just-in-case, it would still be hard to persuade precious resources to be allocated to such, simply because of more pressing problems affecting us in the here-and-now.
But this is what Republicans do... Make up false scenarios. Example.
A) We should not register guns like we do dogs and cars, because the government will then come and take them away? Really? Why haven't they taken our cars and dogs away then?
B) We should not tax people earning $400 billion a year, because then they won't create jobs and there will be mass unemployment. Really? Why was unemployment the lowest ever when taxes were highest ever, and why have the employment rates cascaded each and every time taxes were cut?
C) We should not regulate Wall Street and investment firms and in order to prevent them from betting all our nation's money on risky investments with less of a payback than the roulette table at Atlantic City's Trump Casino... Really? Why did we have no Great Depression as long as the safeguards were in place, and then, 8 years after their removal... KABOOM!
To extend the above metaphor, these Republicans are attempting to set us up to lose our future battle with the aliens. In this case, the aliens we are speaking of are the top 1%. They don't live, eat, think, respond, like you or I, so they for all practical purposes, are alien to us members of the middle class.... In fact, whatever helps them, hurts us, so they might as well be considered alien and not normal Americans like you and me.
So anyone who supports "them", is now setting up the US for future failure. Anyone who votes against "them", is creating a wall that contains and prevents the current policy-ordained demise of the United States from ever happening....
For the United States IS its people. Not borders. Not land. But people. Our Constitution begins... with "WE, THE PEOPLE."
Voting against "the people" (which is entirely the foundation of our Constitution), is essentially voting against the United States of America's best interest.
That said; here is what the noise machine of the Republican Party so wants you not to hear, never to know, and never to use in how you decide to vote... After all, anyone can gang up on one person. But no one can gang up on the entire American People... The American people need to step up here like they did after 9/11, and like they did after Pearl Harbor.
If Republicans win 2014, it will be a gigantic loss to "America's people". We might as well have elected the King's Royalists into Congress in the first election of '88... 1788... Because today, this Republican Party is putting forth policies that "aid and abet" their alien friends... Aliens who are earning billions while you and I struggle to find enough pennies to pay our minimal monthly obligations... Our nation should be and deserves to be better than that. And as facts show, the only way to do better than that, is to actually move forward instead of wasting another fours years as in the past, arguing about whose toes are touching the starting line, and whose are not.
“I think it is useful for me to end by reminding folks that during my first term,” President Obama said. “If I had press conferences like this typically everybody wanted to ask about the economy. And how comes jobs weren't being created. How come the housing market is still bad. Why isn't it working? Well you know what? ‘What we did worked. And the economy is better. When I say that we've just now had six months of more than 200,000 jobs (that hasn't happened in 17 years)that shows you the power of persistence. It shows you that if you stay at it, eventually you make some progress.”
And that will be the lasting legacy of this president. He accomplished what he set out to do.. And to put it into perspective, he did it against the backdrop of a failed party of opposition who upon his election had only one single agenda... to make him a one term president...
They failed at that. They've failed at everything.. They've succeeded at zero. nothing. Using the executive standard mentioned above, shouldn't they be the ones you fire? They didn't do their job. The President did his.
Therefore it is no wonder that all the news is microscopically focused on every movement made by this president, who will one day (over the objections of the bubble crowd here in DC) be enshrined along with our other best ( right beside Washington, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Truman), as prime examples of the best America has been able to offer. Any and all negative presidential focus is being done purposefully to displace your attention away from the other alternative, the Republicans, who have not since the slave-owning Congressional delegations from before the Civil War, given us a Congress that has performed more abysmally.