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This is a question that pops up every election and I am going to answer it honestly. Not only no, but hell no!
Before President Obama came into office I was incredibly successful. In fact, under President Bush, I had my most successful year ever. I had a business that operated around the world and it made international news the first year of the Bush presidency by expanding operations in the U.S.
My organization continued to run like a top, spinning off subsidiaries and growing exponentially, all under the watch of George Bush and the republican party. Times were good and it seemed like nothing could stop me. I was walking tall and carrying a big stick.
Then President Obama was elected.
Things turned pretty sour shortly after the election. My business shrank considerably and most of my top executives were terminated because of Obama and his "new" policies. My world became smaller and smaller as cutbacks were made. In fact, under Obama, I was forced to stop operations and cut ties with most of the people I worked with. Under Obama, it soon became clear I would never achieve success again the way I had under Bush and it broke my heart.
It got so bad, I was holed up in a small house without electricity and only my family to keep me company, we didn't even have a phone. But Obama wasn't happy just destroying my day to day operations and my close associates, his policies almost seemed personally directed at me. Then when I thought things could not get much worse, Obama did something all the republican candidates for president, including Mitt Romney, specifically said they never would, he acted unilaterally and personally signed off on a secret plan that put the final nail in my coffin. It only took President Obama 3 years to destroy everything I had worked hard for my entire life.
I can easily answer the question, "Am I better off now than four years ago?" I am not. Thanks to President Obama, I am dead in the water. Man I wish Mitt Romney would have won in 2008.
Sincerely,
The Ghost of Osama bin Laden
p.s. Death to America
Webster Green
(13,905 posts)Mortos
(2,390 posts)DippyDem
(659 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Mortos
(2,390 posts)Cha
(297,197 posts)I knew there had to be some catch, Mortos! Even with John McCain and sidekick..this guy would have been Safe.
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h/t The Obama Diary
Yeah, we could still have bin Freaking Laden plotting future shite.
remember how the republicans excoriated candidate Obama for saying he would go into Pakistan to get bin Laden if he had actionable intelligence?
They all ignorantly shouted they would never do such a thing and mocked Barack for saying he would.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/flashback-2008-mccain-clinton-slam-obama-for-saying-hed-go-get-bin-laden-in-pakistan-video.php
Cha
(297,197 posts)to the gates of hell but he wouldn't go into Pakistan.
"We will do whatever is necessary. We will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/30/1087616/-Republicans-Wouldn-t-Couldn-t-Shouldn-t-Get-Bin-Laden
MatthewStLouis
(904 posts)Lugnut
(9,791 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)I hope you don't mind...I posted to my facebook.
K&R
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)I kept reading and of course figured out why you were worse off.
Very well played.
There will be a little extra in your paycheck next week.
Mortos
(2,390 posts)I will donate it to the Obama campaign.