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I will be grateful forever to Obama (Original Post) flamingdem Jul 2016 OP
I think President Obama saved the country csziggy Jul 2016 #1
We just got so, so lucky flamingdem Jul 2016 #2
for one thing mercuryblues Jul 2016 #3
Yes indeed! flamingdem Jul 2016 #4
Me too! treestar Jul 2016 #5
Exactly! Plus pesky pre-existing conditions flamingdem Jul 2016 #6

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
1. I think President Obama saved the country
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:51 PM
Jul 2016

Can you imagine what things would have been like with John McCain and Sarah Palin in charge? Or Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan?

The country would have been screwed.

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
3. for one thing
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:03 PM
Jul 2016

the unemployment rate would still be high.

Rmoney said he would have the UE rate at or under 6% by the end of his 1st term. Obama did it 2 years earlier than rMoney's promise.


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