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Obama: ‘We’ve Made Extraordinary Progress’ Over the Past 8 Years
Breitbart ^ | 31 Dec 2016 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 01/01/2017 6:01:27 AM PST by Cheerio

During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama reflected on his time in office and touted the “extraordinary progress” the country has made over the last eight years.

Transcript as Follows:

“Happy New Year, everybody. At a time when we turn the page on one year and look ahead to the future, I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for everything you’ve done to make America stronger these past eight years.

Just eight years ago, as I prepared to take office, our economy teetered on the brink of depression. Nearly 800,000 Americans were losing their jobs each month. In some communities, nearly one in five folks were out of work. Almost 180,000 troops were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Osama bin Laden was still at large. And on challenges from health care to climate change, we’d been kicking the can down the road for way too long.

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Just eight years ago, as I prepared to take office, our economy teetered on the brink of depression.

This line is wearing just a tad thin!!! Reagan entered office with the economy in MUCH WORSE SHAPE THANKSS HIS RAT PREDECESSOR.

If the past eight has been that great I would sure hate to have to live through a "real depression"!
1 posted on 01/01/2017 6:01:27 AM PST by Cheerio
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extraordinary, this POS is delusional and an arrogant racist little bastard liar.


2 posted on 01/01/2017 6:05:17 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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Nearly 800,000 Americans were losing their jobs each month

Obammy simply stopped counting them and kicked them off the rolls. Unable to find employment in your profession? Well then you aren't really looking, take $12 an hour for degreed professional jobs with 10+ years industry experience, why not?

3 posted on 01/01/2017 6:06:06 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Cheerio

clown Hussein’s a legend in his own mind.


4 posted on 01/01/2017 6:07:31 AM PST by utax
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Obama is still spiking the Osama football. Show the corpse photos, man.

Also Obama never mentions whacking Momar Gaddafi. He destabilized a nation using our embassy in Libya.

Also Obama has stopped mentioning how he also “got” Bo Bergdahl. Traded terrorists for a turncoat deserter and grinned at Papa Bergdahl’s Islamist prayer.


5 posted on 01/01/2017 6:08:38 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: utax

REAL progress was made in the past month and a half. Bye felicia.


6 posted on 01/01/2017 6:09:41 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Jeez....now that is just pathetic. He’s getting really silly and self-deluding now. I’m a little bit embarrassed for him actually.


7 posted on 01/01/2017 6:09:57 AM PST by Gaffer
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“We” doesn’t include us deplorables. “We”includes progressives and globalist.


8 posted on 01/01/2017 6:10:03 AM PST by Raycpa
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The Big Lie and he keeps repeating it.

All I hear now is people talking about how the Russians “hacked” the election.

Then I ask, exactly how did they hack it?

Then I get blank stares followed by stuttering.


9 posted on 01/01/2017 6:11:11 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: a fool in paradise

What? 92+million not working? Oh fie, no use carping on this anymore. We all know the state we find ourselves in because of this “progressive BS!”


10 posted on 01/01/2017 6:11:44 AM PST by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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The mute button is already getting a serious workout in 2017 every time the Head Jackass shows up on the teevee.


11 posted on 01/01/2017 6:11:50 AM PST by Libloather (Hillary - the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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Obama: ‘We’ve Made Extraordinary Progress’ Over the Past 8 Years

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He must have been speaking to a convention of jihadists chanting “death to America.”


12 posted on 01/01/2017 6:12:17 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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Progress. ........Progress?

Yes indeed. Progress toward his Marxist goal.


13 posted on 01/01/2017 6:12:31 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Yep.

President TRUMP will take a a page out of Barky’s book and use A PEN AND A PHONE to undo former President Servepro’s agenda.

LIKE HE NEVER EVEN HAPPENED.


14 posted on 01/01/2017 6:12:49 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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One has to understand that when Obama actually uses the words we/we’ve/us he really means what he usually terms as I/me....with the aiding and abetting of the RINOs, he really has made extraordinary progress in ruining our Nation - hence my longstanding tagline.


15 posted on 01/01/2017 6:14:10 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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I actually think he has been self-deluded for the whole 8 years. but his self-delusion is REALLY showing up now.


16 posted on 01/01/2017 6:15:33 AM PST by YepYep (Build the America you want at your house and keep looking up.)
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Progress?
I defy anybody to name one positive thing Obama has accomplished. He created an “affordable” care act that nobody can afford. He nearly doubled the deficit. Islamic adventurism has ballooned. And last but not least he has divided this country along racial lines to the point that race relations at their worst in the last 55 years.
Nice progress President Asshole!
17 posted on 01/01/2017 6:16:01 AM PST by Artemis Webb (Ted Kennedy burns in hell.)
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>>Just eight years ago, as I prepared to take office, our economy teetered on the brink of depression.<<

So the ferrules instituted the largest hoax on the American people by transferring the wealth of the middle class to the super wealthy/corporations/wall street by way of bailouts, TARP, multiple QE’s. Courtesy of taxpayers.

Well done Bush/Obozo/House/Senate...well done.

The result? Absolutely nothing. The U.S. economy has been dragging along at sub 2%, 20 (T)rillion in debt, interest rates for elderly savers at zero for years, trade deficits with almost every country round the world and millions of the worlds impoverished flooding across our borders to further overwhelm our infrastructure and social safety nets.

So...if we are a nation of roughly 330 million folks and we have 94 million working age citizens outside the workforce (see national debt clock), how is it that our unemployment rate sits at 4.6%? Should it not be upwards of 30%?

These are the best and brightest up in D.C., well done y'all.

18 posted on 01/01/2017 6:16:15 AM PST by servantboy777
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One further note to seff...seff, it's a new year with a new president. I pray Trump truly does care for the middle class as he has led us all to believe.

If so....it's gonna be a great year, great 100 dayz.

19 posted on 01/01/2017 6:18:37 AM PST by servantboy777
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Whenever I see a significantly more costly health insurance bill or a pervert in a public bathroom I will always think thanks, Obama.

:(


20 posted on 01/01/2017 6:19:54 AM PST by SteveH
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