Midknight Review -- new and revised: What DID Obama "inherit."

What DID Obama "inherit."

In answer to our headline question, we give you this:

Obama inherited a 5.5% unemployment rate.
He inherited a record setting 52 week increase in our national GDP.
He inherited a war in Iraq that was, for all intents and purposes, a victorious affair.
He inherited the second strongest economy in our nation's history.
He inherited a Democrat congress that had superintended a growing recession.
He inherited a nation that still believed in itself and its manifest destiny.
He inherited a GDP to debt ratio of 20% and moved it to 25% in just 24 months.
He inherited an antagonistic Arab world and made it even more so.
He inherited a friend in Israel and has spent months and months dishonoring that friendship.
He inherited a stable job market and has made it impossible for millions to get a meaningful job.
He inherited a world of financial regulations and has made that worse with no positive results.
He inherited a world of hope but has only humiliated his followers.
He inherited a national politic centered in partisan bickering and turned it into a war zone.
He inherited a national opposition to communism and has opened the doors to its influence.

2 comments:

WilliamAugust 17, 2011 at 2:30 AM
Unlike BUSH::
1. Obama did not inherit a surplus in the national treasury
2. Obama did not put America into a senseless, illegal war that took the nation from the financial leader of the international community to a debtor nation.
3. Obama did not give us a complete rewrite of corporate tax law in recent history, giving $136 billion in new tax breaks to big business, bankrupting America and crushing the middle class.
4. Obama did not destroy America's image across the world and he has not been named the most hated man in the world as was Bush.
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John SmithsonAugust 18, 2011 at 1:32 PM
1. Obama did not inherit a surplus in the national treasury NEITHER WILL OBAMA SUCCESSER.
2. Obama did not put America into a senseless, illegal war that took the nation from the financial leader of the international community to a debtor nation. AND OBAMA IS IN LIBYA AND AFGHANISTAN WITH NO PLAN FOR VICTORY IN EITHER PLACE.
3. Obama did not give us a complete rewrite of corporate tax law in recent history, giving $136 billion in new tax breaks to big business, bankrupting America and crushing the middle class. i AM MIDDLE CLASS AND I AM NOT "CRUSHED."
4. Obama did not destroy America's image across the world and he has not been named the most hated man in the world as was Bush. OBAMA'S POPULARITY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD IS LOWER THAN AT ANY TIME WITH BUSH.

OH, BY THE WAY, ALL OF THE POINTS IN MY POST ARE TRUE. YOU FAILED TO DEAL WITH THOSE ISSUES.
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