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The Pathetic End Of The Obama Era
The Week ^ | January 3, 2017 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 01/03/2017 11:38:07 AM PST by OddLane

Barack Obama came into the White House in a cloud of glory and optimism.

He defined the problems that the nation faced in his first inaugural address. First, the nation was at war with a network of violence and hatred. Second, our economy was badly weakened. Homes were lost, and businesses shuttered. Health care was too expensive. Schools failed their students. And finally, "less measurable, but no less profound, is a sapping of confidence across our land; a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable." Obama promised that he and the country would meet these challenges head on.

Eight years later, as Obama prepares to depart the White House, he leaves the nation in a cloud of disappointment, recrimination, and even paranoia. None of the wars Obama inherited are truly over, and he has started or joined America to several more. If anything, the sense of America's decline is even more palpable than before...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama
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1 posted on 01/03/2017 11:38:07 AM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Maybe Trump can just re-read Bronko Bama’s speech? Nothing has changed in 8 years.


2 posted on 01/03/2017 11:40:15 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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Obama almost realized his real intent...The destruction of the USA...


3 posted on 01/03/2017 11:43:36 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: OddLane

Hit the Road Jack Barack!


4 posted on 01/03/2017 11:44:57 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama shut your lying mouth and leave America! You are past your use by date! You stink!)
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To: OddLane

Did the waters begin to recede? I haven’t been keeping up.


5 posted on 01/03/2017 11:46:59 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: OddLane

The bastard helped ISIS to grow. He supported BLM. He showed his hatred for this country. He’s leaving big problems for Trump.


6 posted on 01/03/2017 11:47:47 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: OddLane

No surprise to those of us with intelligence. This was all predictable from the beginning. It’s a bit like the fall of the Trade Towers. By God’s grace the death toll wasn’t 40,000. Likewise, by God’s grace the damage to America has been hindered somewhat from what the traitorous non-American desired to inflict.


7 posted on 01/03/2017 11:50:31 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: OddLane

Actually since the Bushes were lousy presidents and their reputation took Jeb out in the primaries and brought in Trump, you can say that
it’s Bushes fault”.

You can also say that “it will be a long time before a black president is given another shot”. If you say that, chances are you are a racist.


8 posted on 01/03/2017 11:51:01 AM PST by Kahuna
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To: OddLane

President Trump needs to have a closed-door meeting with whichever worthless foreign turd is currently UN Secretary and tell him in no uncertain terms that the Resolution on Israel must be withdrawn within say 60 days, or he can expect to see all UN funding from the United States to cease. And If I were him, I’d make it very clear that the UN HQ in Manhattan may need to be “repurposed.”


9 posted on 01/03/2017 11:52:41 AM PST by vette6387
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To: OddLane

I have to set up the pallet load popcorn delivery for monthly auto-replenishment


10 posted on 01/03/2017 11:53:32 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: I want the USA back

The constant downward slide of the prosperity of the USA was no coincidence or accident...It was purposely and willfully designed and initiated by Barack Obama...

We were on the edge of going over...

I believe Trump will take us back to being a great country, but it will take time and work...

He needs all our support...


11 posted on 01/03/2017 11:53:35 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

While that is beautiful, I’d much rather those trucks were SWAT vans and prison buses.


12 posted on 01/03/2017 11:58:18 AM PST by Gator113 (I use liberal tears in my milkshake ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~)
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To: OddLane

Obama post-mortem bump for later.....


13 posted on 01/03/2017 11:58:59 AM PST by indthkr
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To: OddLane
Obama romped in like a Lyin' King.

He slithers out as the Ayatollah's pet pogey boy.


14 posted on 01/03/2017 11:59:07 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: OddLane

If Obama were a conservative just imagine what he could have done for this nation. Imagine if Obama just stood on the national stage and said, “HEY, Black people. cut it out!!! Slavery ended 150 years ago, time to move on.”

That one statement alone could have led to an era of great peace and prosperity.

BUT, a liberal is a liberal is a liber uber alles. Unlike the morons that voted for him I read his words and looked at his past. He is a racist hate filled liberal with the power hungry blood of Hitler, Pol Pot, and Castro in his veins.


15 posted on 01/03/2017 12:02:01 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: OddLane

Obama Did Not Do One Good thing For America Or The world.

Ronald Reagan: “Tear down this wall”.

POS Obama: “Tear down that bathroom stall”.

etc. etc. etc. etc............


16 posted on 01/03/2017 12:05:11 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Yeah I can see the news outlets leveling charges of plagiarism now. LOL

P.S. I know you were just joking.

Besides Trump doesn't want to use the pack of lies with scattered truths thrown in that Obama gave as his inaugural speech.

He wants to give an uplifting one like the Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan that was given on Tuesday, January 20, 1981.

17 posted on 01/03/2017 12:14:35 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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18 posted on 01/03/2017 12:15:13 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: OddLane

I would call it a blessed end to 8 years of scorched American earth policy.


19 posted on 01/03/2017 12:17:06 PM PST by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: jiggyboy

Actually, no.

The liberals’ tears are still rising, bwahahahahahahaha!

Go Trump - MAGA


20 posted on 01/03/2017 12:18:12 PM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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