Posted on 05/16/2016 8:22:11 AM PDT by Zakeet
Delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University in New Jersey today, President Barack Obama told the graduates that "the good old days weren't that good" and that both America and the world are better than they were "even eight years ago."
"When you hear someone longing for the good old days, take it with a grain of salt, take it with a grain of salt," Obama said in his address.
"In fact," he said, "by almost every measure, America is better and the world is better than it was 50 years ago or 30 years ago or even eight years ago."
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The devil you say?
Devil’s certainly making sport of us all.
Eight years ago there was no issue about bathrooms. And somehow he made the matter by enabling pedophiles?
All he can say is its better than 8 years ago when it was crashing in flames. Nine years ago things were much better than they are now.
At least then we knew what the problem was and it could be fixed. He and Bush messed it up. Should of never done TARP or the Stimulus. Should of broken up the banks and got on with building the economy. Now we’re 10 Trillion in debt more than then and the banks are too big to fail and own us.
Among other things.
Lying totalitarian psycho doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Obamas “good ‘ol days” we’re spent in Kenya, what he know about it?
Whoops! I left put the word better!
It’s been a great eight years for queers and muslims, I’ll give him that.
Eight years ago the gays were running rampant and nobody cared as long as it didn’t gore their own oxen (and cows).
Now our oxen are being gored and we’re caring, but only because of that. What if Barack capitulated on the bathrooms. Everyone would go back into their own dumb little stupor.
In the world view of a liberal, the utopian era began Jan. 20, 2009.
To talk about are “things better”, you have to talk about the criteria used for judgement.
If you want to talk about advances in science and technology and smart phones and all that stuff, then we can say things are “better” because look at how technology has changed our lives for the better.
If you want to talk about the economy, things are “worse” from the standpoint of how we have exported entire industries overseas in recent decades. Things are worse as per capita income has fallen.
If you focus on minority groups, including LGBT types, then there probably have never been a better time to be a member of such a minority as right now.
If you look at the breakdown of the family structure in this country in recent decades, things are far worse off.
The state of public education has declined, in spite of laws such as no child left behind and magnet schools and charter schools and all the rest.
So Obama can go around making self serving comments about how things are better in the last eight years, which corresponds to his presidency, but it all depends on what criteria we are judging by. He will judge by ever changing subjectively biased criteria which reflect on what he sees as the achievements of his presidency.
The Barking @sshole is such a pathological liar that his lips are probably flapping even even when he sleeps....
he spelled worse wrong.
I guess that was Bush’s “Merkel Moment” when he sold us down the river. When he “destroyed capitalism in order to save it.”
You and I might think they are failures, but I think the Obungler purposely set out to screw things up as much as possible. In that, he has not failed.
A lie travels around the world by the time the truth gets its pants on.
By almost any measure, America has suffered grievous damage, some of which is beyond repair.
Exactly. We have a mentally ill POTUS who is well on his way to destroying America, following the lead of his two predecessors.
LOL - it’s a pretty low bar considering the financial world was in the middle of unraveling. We hadn’t hit the collapse of Lehman yet (September) but the credit markets were significantly tightening.
What color is the sky in Opposite World?
Obama knows exactly what he is saying is false...His whole time in office, he says one thing, then does the opposite...
He knows how bad it is in America because it is the way he wanted it...He has worked his whole 7 years to bring down our country...
He spouts off that things are really better and laughs behind our backs when we disagree...
Obama is not delusional...He knows exactly what he is doing...The delusional ones are the people who voted for him....
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