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Good things Obama has done so far...
MSU

Posted on 05/05/2009 3:16:49 PM PDT by MSU

Help me out here. This is serious. I am trying to think of ANYTHING good Obama has done so far. Something actually good for the country. Can anybody suggest anything? Are we close to a top ten list?


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To: MSU

He bought his little girls a puppy.


41 posted on 05/05/2009 3:45:58 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: MSU

Seriously, there is a possibility he’s improved relationships with other nations. We, as Americans, have been too arrogant.


42 posted on 05/05/2009 3:46:01 PM PDT by ozarkgirl (I'll keep my money, my freedom and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: MSU

He left the country quite a few times- but he came back....


43 posted on 05/05/2009 3:49:37 PM PDT by matthew fuller (BHO- The new Jim Jones. USA- The new Jonestown.)
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To: Domandred
More troops in Afghanistan maybe good?...
Not good.
First of all, it just means more casualties as more American troops are put in the line of fire as sitting ducks by a president who doesn't know how to prosecute a war and sees US soldiers only as pawns for negotiations.

And Afghanistan is everything 0bama and his Democrats tried to portray Iraq as. There is no long-term military solution there. The war in Afghanistan is 'unwinnable.' This isn't to say we are losing the war or are in any danger of it, but simply that there is no possible exit strategy based on permanent victory there.

Afghanistan is the Wild Wild West. It is ungovernable. No one wants to live there except for outlaws. There are no natural resources except for poppies. It is landlocked with no major sources of water. It is inhospitable. This is the reason why outlaws and terrorists make it their home when no other country will take them.

That is why outlaws will always rule Afghanistan. A country where legitimate people will not live cannot have a legitimate government made up of legitimate individuals. The US will never be able to extract itself by setting up a legitimate, functional, non-corrupt government there. The only solution involving a military presence is one where we are there indefinitely, with US soldiers playing the role of cops. That's not an exit strategy.

Instead, we need to leave Afghanistan, and destroy what little infrastructure it has, torch all the poppy fields, and level the camps there.
We can do this from 10,000 feet. And we will need to do it once every decade or so, to prevent the likes of Al Qaeda and the Taliban from reconstituting and rebuilding too much.
 
44 posted on 05/05/2009 3:53:49 PM PDT by counterpunch (0bama can either protect terrorists or America. He made his choice.)
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To: Doe Eyes

Yes, it was a success, thanks to the skill of our Navy. It was handled like Jimmy Carter at the executive level, however.


45 posted on 05/05/2009 3:55:29 PM PDT by counterpunch (0bama can either protect terrorists or America. He made his choice.)
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To: MSU
He has done a couple of good things.

I have been keeping a list!

Let's see...

first, he put 5 millionaires on his cabinet....

well, that doesn't really help. no. ummmm

OK, I've got it!

He wouldn't allow a video of his second oath of office.

Naaahh...

Here is one

He cancelled 77 drilling leases near Utah parks!

nope. (what am I thinking?)

He ahhhh...um...

shut the Republicans out of the stimulus package deliberations!

achh, I'll get one yet...

He attacked Rush Limbaugh and Rush's ratings went through the roof!

SEE!! There is one after all.

46 posted on 05/05/2009 3:57:54 PM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: MSU

Zip. Zilch. Nada. Niks.


47 posted on 05/05/2009 3:58:49 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: counterpunch

Okay not good then, good points...wasn’t sure that’s why I said “maybe” and “?”.


48 posted on 05/05/2009 4:02:22 PM PDT by Domandred (Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
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To: MSU
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49 posted on 05/05/2009 4:13:07 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Yeah but it was a pedigree dog Ted “The Lifeguard” Kennedy bought from a breeder. How appropriate that it was a Portugese WATER dog (Mary Jo would get a chuckle out of that). Couldn’t have the mutt presbo consorting with just any old mutt.

Too bad the humanitarian presbo didn’t go ahead and get the rescue dog he at one time indicated he would.

Guess that one is a wash!

Sorry — but not as sorry as the would-be rescue critter that took a hit of sodium pentabarbitone because presbo never showed up at the shelter.


50 posted on 05/05/2009 4:15:59 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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51 posted on 05/05/2009 4:16:29 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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To: MSU

I was just thinking today that maybe all the hype over the Bird Flu pandemic that is to sweep the US and cause untold deaths was just hyped up so that Obama can say that due to his quick thinking and superhuman god-like actions, he saved all of us from sure death and extinction.


52 posted on 05/05/2009 4:20:06 PM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: ozarkgirl

Speaking for yourself?


53 posted on 05/05/2009 4:26:48 PM PDT by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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To: Prophet in the wilderness
I once had a web page:
<HTML> <TITLE>All the reasons why Bill Clinton is the greatest President we've ever had</TITLE> <BODY></BODY></HTML>

s/Bill Clinton/Barack Obama/

54 posted on 05/05/2009 4:28:03 PM PDT by altair (And it really ticked off a lib co-worker that I got fan-mail for that)
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To: null and void

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55 posted on 05/05/2009 4:30:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: pepperdog
Speaking for yourself?

Yep, I travel the world over and see that we Americans are perceived as being arrogant.

56 posted on 05/05/2009 4:30:57 PM PDT by ozarkgirl (I'll keep my money, my freedom and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: ozarkgirl

“Seriously, there is a possibility he’s improved relationships with other nations. We, as Americans, have been too arrogant.”

You’ve got to be kidding!


57 posted on 05/05/2009 4:43:06 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Really! It's time; NOW)
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To: ozarkgirl

“Yep, I travel the world over and see that we Americans are perceived as being arrogant.”

What you saw was the effect of a socialist worldwide media continual attack on the US. The same as we have seen in this country.

So making everyone like us is more important than-—God, never mind. If this needs to be explained to you, you need to redo your education or apply for membership at Democrats Underground.


58 posted on 05/05/2009 4:48:28 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Really! It's time; NOW)
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To: MSU
I am trying to think of ANYTHING good Obama has done so far

Search images, Obama President Humor.

He has given us stuff to laugh at.

59 posted on 05/05/2009 4:50:31 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: dirtymac
You’ve got to be kidding! >

Kidding about what? Traveling the world over? Oh yes, I've hardly been out of these Ozarks but the other, that we're perceived as being arrogant? Not kidding there, I actually believe that.

60 posted on 05/05/2009 4:54:38 PM PDT by ozarkgirl (I'll keep my money, my freedom and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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