ObamaNation - Page Two

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This is page 2.

When I first started ObamaNation, I never knew how wildly successful it would become.

Updates

January 7, 2014: after a $4 million vacation in Hawaii, President Obama makes speech about income inequality. No shame for this president. He and the children flew back to get them back to school. The missus stayed behind in Hawaii to extend her vacation; she will be staying at Oprah's mansion. 

October 29, 2013: this is actually quite a good story, explaining why Obama won't sack Sebelius despite the disastrous ObamaCare rollout. It will be interesting how long she sticks around. The administration says the website will be "fixed" by the end of November, 2013. So, we'll see how long his patience lasts.  But, I digress. As I was saying: the linked article is actually quite a good story. Near the end, the writer lists the larger debacles of ObamaNation.

If Sebelius is dug in, Obama has no objections. It's a trait: This president has a profound unwillingness to chew out secretaries when he thinks it's mere politics. "It's not Obama's thing," says a former assistant secretary in the Obama Cabinet. "You never seen him fire anyone. They [i.e. the White House staff] kind of go dark for awhile [when they're upset] and then move on."

During the Solyndra mess Obama resisted calls to replace Steven Chu as Energy secretary.

After the BP oil spill he never ripped into Interior Secretary Ken Salazar even though the Minerals Management Service, which regulated oil drilling, was under his eyes.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was never chewed out for the Cash for Clunkers program.

And Eric Holder has never been at risk.

I had completely forgotten about the "Cash for Clunkers" program.

Original Post

The break from "page 1" to "page 2" is significant.

I made the decision to break to page 2 just about the time the ObamaCare website was beginning its death spiral and about the same day that the German chancellor discovered Mr Obama was eavesdropping on her mobile phone (I wonder if it was an iPhone?). I couldn't quite come up with a 30-second soundbite to describe what was going on, but today, a link at The Drudge Report, I think, has provided that soundbite: Mr Obama's credibility is in meltdown.

Despite mainstream media's love affair with Mr Obama, it appears main street USA is finally sorting this out. Again, thank goodness for the internet, posting stories that we would otherwise never see.

Even the Saudis are cutting their diplomatic ties with the US. That was the headline, but the story did not confirm the headline. I don't think Saudi Arabia is officially severing diplomatic ties with the US, but that relationship is at an all-time low. Of course, the average American probably would be happy to see that rift widen; I am unaware of any American who has good feelings for OPEC or its sheiks and princes.

It is interesting that after I wrote the above, I went over to the linked article. Amazing how smart minds think alike.

Bluntly, Mr. Obama's partners are concluding that they cannot do business with him. They don't trust him. Whether it's the Saudis, the Syrian rebels, the French, the Iraqis, the unpivoted Asians or the congressional Republicans, they've all had their fill of coming up on the short end with so mercurial a U.S. president. And when that happens, the world's important business doesn't get done. It sits in a dangerous and volatile vacuum.  

Mr Henninger is wrong on one account. The Saudis, the Syrian rebels, the French, the Iraqis, the unpivoted Asians, and the congressional Republicans will continue to do business with Mr Obama; he's the only "game" in town (Washington, DC).

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22 Fun Facts Before The 2014 State of the Union Address

From ijreview

1. The number of Americans that have joined the food stamp program since
   Obama took office: 19.4 million.
2. The number of people unemployed at the end of Obama’s fifth year as
   president: 10.4 million.
3. The number of people working part-time that would like to work full-time: 7.8 million.
4. The number of people that have entered poverty since 2008: 6.7 million.
5. Americans who received cancellation notices for their health plans
   due to ObamaCare after Obama promised they could keep their plans in his 2010 state of the union address: 5 million.
6. The number of Americans struggling with long-term unemployment of 27 Weeks or over: 3.9 million.
7. The increase in Americans struggling with long-term unemployment since Obama became president: 1.2 Million.
8. Construction jobs (aka “shovel-ready jobs”) lost since Obama took office: 721,000.
9. Manufacturing jobs lost since Obama took office: 528,000.
10. The number of people that left the labor force in december: 347,000.
11. The debt per capita for Americans at the end of 2013: $54,688.
12. Average student debt for a college graduate: $29,400
13. The increase in debt per capita for Americans since Obama took office: $19,661
14. The decline in median house hold income since Obama became president: $3,827.
15. Increase in family health care premiums under Obama, despite his claim
    that ObamaCare would reduce premiums during his 2010 state of the union
    address (subsidies being irrelevant): $3,671.
16. The last time the labor force participation rate was at its current level: 1978.
17. Increase in the average price per gallon of gas since Obama took office: 79%.
18. The percent of unemployed that are 18-34 year olds: 46%.
19. Average number of weeks someone will be unemployed: 37.
20. Poverty rate in 2012 – an increase from 13.2 percent the year before
    Obama became president: 15%.
21. The number of times Obama has pivoted to the economy: 14.
22. The number of new ideas expected from Obama’s 2014 state of the union address: 0. [He did not disappoint.]
    
    
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    The President's "Firsts"
    I think most presidents have been "corrupt" in some sense, but this president seems to have been most corrupt for "personal advancement"; and most successful in promoting his own personal religion

• First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner
• First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in
• First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States
• First President to violate the War Powers Act
• First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
• First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party
• First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs
• First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters
• First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat
• First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions
• First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees
• First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign
• First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space
• First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation
• First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present
• First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it
• First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases
• First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory
• First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN)
• First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago
• First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal). 
• First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case
• First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office
• First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists
• First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office
• First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records
• First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it
• First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers
• First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife
• First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense
• First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense
• First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth 
• First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states ( Mexico vs. Arizona )
• First President to refer to the 57 states of America (which coincidentally is the number of Islamic "states" worldwide (he got his facts crossed)
• First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences" 
• Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. (Thank God he didn't get away with THIS one.)