Barack Obama Wants Four More Years To Get It Right

Political Realities ^ | 09/02/12 | LD Jackson

[LD Jackson]

In recent days, I have learned of some people who voted for Barack Obama. These are people whom I know personally, but would have thought they would have never fallen for the feel good "hope and change" Obama was selling in 2008. I was wrong in that assumption, but knowing these people as I know them, I can not help but wonder how they were taken in by the man currently living in the White House. Be that as it may, we now have a task in front of us. We need to show everyone how badly Barack Obama has damaged our country and how his plea for four more years to do more is so wrong and so dangerous for America. Here is what Barack Obama told the Democratic caucuses in Iowa on January 4.

(US News) "We've done a lot and we have a lot more to do," Obama said. "That's why we need four more years."

Need I remind you of just how much Barack Obama has done in four years? Of how he has made our fiscal problems much worse, after being in office for only four year?

(The First Street Journal) Those of us who, in 2006, stuck with the GOP because we believed that the Democrats would prove far worse were soon proved right by events: in FY2008, the first budget passed by the new Democrat-controlled 110^th Congress spent 20.8% of GDP at the federal level, a higher level than under any of the Republican-controlled Congresses from 1995 through 2006. But being proved right was cold comfort, as the massive over-spending caused the federal deficit and the national debt to soar. Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-IL), who roundly condemned the huge rise in the deficit and debt under President Bush, was elected to succeed President Bush, but once he became President he started exploding the deficit and the debt far beyond anything done under President Bush; the deficit has exceeded a trillion dollars every year that Mr Obama has been in the White House, and the national debt has increased more in President Obama’s 3½ years in office than in all eight years under President Bush. The Democrats had a rare chance to take the Republican’s poor stewardship of the budget from FY2002 through FY2007, and completely undo any Republican reputation for fiscal conservatism, and cement the Democrats’ majority status for a decade; instead they made the Republicans’ FY2002 through FY2007 budgets look (almost) responsible and respectable.

In the post at The First Street Journal, the Editor mentions how badly the Republicans handled their responsibilities. In other words, not at all well. In doing so, he references an article in the Wall Street Journal who has a quote from Mitt Romney that may not set well with some diehard Republicans. Nevertheless, it is the truth.

“We’re going to finally have to do something that Republicans have spoken about for a long time and for a while we didn’t do it. When we had the lead, we let people down,” Mr. Romney told a crowd in this important swing state. “We need to make sure” they are not let down again. “I will cut the deficit and get us on track to a balanced budget.”

The outcome we will see from the fiscal problems we are facing depends on us. To the people I mentioned in the opening paragraph, as well as any other voters who are seriously contemplating voting for Barack Obama, but are still undecided, I ask this question. What are you going to do on November 6? Are you going to follow Barack Obama down the path to further fiscal insanity, or will you recognize your responsibility to help put the brakes on the runaway fiscal train that is rapidly approaching the end of the track? Will you cast your vote, as did many others in 2008, for Barack Obama, just because it was time for America to have her first black President? Or will you decide that giving Barack Obama another four years to do more damage to our country is not the best idea you could come up with?

Take a look at the choices we have. Would I prefer Mitt Romney to be more conservative? Certainly, the answer to that question is yes. However, he at least is acknowledging the problems we are facing, both as Americans and Republicans. His statement quoted in The Wall Street Journal is proof that he understands how badly the Republicans mishandled their time in the leadership. He knows we have to do better, if we are to have a hope of correcting our fiscal path, and he knows the path Barack Obama has driven us down is not the right path.

Compare that with Barack Obama. He says we need more spending and higher taxes. He seems to honestly believe the only reason his policies haven't worked is because we haven't spent enough money on them. As if $5 trillion was enough in new debt, he wants us to spend even more. And, don't forget the taxes he wants to raise. We can't have all that spending, without raising taxes. Do we really want Barack Obama to have four more years to damage our country even more?

Do we want to give Barack Obama four more years to spend us into fiscal oblivion, or would it be smarter to give Mitt Romney four years to get our fiscal house in order and on the right path? The choice is ours and it should be simple to make.

[csmusaret]

Did you know that Bush’s worst unemployment figures came on the same day as Obama’s best numbers? 20 January 2009— Inauguration Day.

[varon]

Barack Obama Wants Four More Years To Get It Right richer, play more golf and take more luxury vacations!

[MissMagnolia]

I just saw comments by Obama again (Aug. 30?) where he was talking about using administrative methods to bypass Congress if the Republicans won’t go along with what he wants to do in his second term. The guy is going to get his way no matter what the Constitution says, or the laws that are on the books ..... he has GOT to go in November. I hope he keeps talking about doing this because it alarms the heck out of people .... he’s SO arrogant he obviously thinks it makes him look “tough” and like a “leader” to threaten this unilateral action.

[trebb]

“We’re going to finally have to do something that Republicans have spoken about for a long time and for a while we didn’t do it. When we had the lead, we let people down,” Mr. Romney told a crowd in this important swing state. “We need to make sure” they are not let down again. “I will cut the deficit and get us on track to a balanced budget.”

Romney speaks more truth...counting down the seconds until his tunnel-visioned detractors start the usual spew ..... .... ... .. .

[autumnraine]

And the Republicans just nod right along.

Congress could have done something when he went to war without consent, but nope.

I’m trying to feel like it matters who is in office, but they are making it hard.

[MissMagnolia]

Congress has been complicit in allowing it, for sure. Obama knows nobody has the stones to stop him .... it’s going to have to be the voters in November who call a halt to this lawlessness by throwing him out.

[ez]

It remains the biggest sleight of hand ever perpetrated against the American electorate, to keep pounding on the meme that George W Bush ruined the US economy when, in fact, the economy was fine until 2006 when the left took over Congress. They trashed the economy, blamed it on Bush, and the media went right along with it...to this day.

[txrefugee]

Job #1 for Republicans in the House is to dump Boehner. He is a worse failure at his job than Obama is at his.

[bgill]

Get it right for whom? Him or the country?