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Samantha

(9,314 posts)
34. Here is how I answered this question this afternoon in another post
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 12:42 AM
Sep 2012
I am definitely better off today since four years ago Bush* was still occupying the Oval Office


and today he is not. The rest of the world held this Country is deep disrespect. And the Wall Street high rollers tanked the economy in the "anything goes" days of no regulation condoned by Bush*. Thousands of jobs were being lost each month, and none of our public officials had the foggiest idea of how to stabilize our crumbling economic world.

Today, a different man sits in the Oval Office, one who has carefully crafted a reconstruction that involves tangible stabilization planks as opposed to bubbles destined to pop in the near future. I do not worry that this man will implement a "preemptive war" on another nation that will send many of our citizens to fight in the name of greed. My rights as a female are being protected, and I look forward to The Affordable Care Act giving me lower prices for the health care I need. I look towards Michigan and I see a booming automobile industry, one that was indeed failing under the previous administration and was propped up just long enough for its politicians to blame Obama for its failure, but which industry our current President assisted into recovery and prosperity.

Absolutely yes! I am better off today than I was four years ago. I am no longer ashamed of my President and I look forward to his re-election in November. At that time, hopefully, the Republican obstructionists which hindered his attempts to inject shots of stimulus into this suffering nation's economy, will be packing their bags and cleaning out their offices for newly-elected Democratic replacements. I do have an overabundance of hope that a full recovery will be opening up soon to the American people who have waited so long for the scabs and scars of the Bush* administration to heal.

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Shortly after I posted this, I turned on Martin Bashir and he was saying pretty much the same thing.

Sam
billky HDavis Sep 2012 #1
Welcome to DU! livetohike Sep 2012 #4
1 post since 2002. Kingofalldems Sep 2012 #16
L-DOPA? UnrepentantLiberal Sep 2012 #18
let's see, 4 years ago bin laden was alive and republicans had shoved the economy off a cliff. unblock Sep 2012 #2
Chuck Todd is a dog with a bone re this question... polichick Sep 2012 #3
He got he's fax from NRC this morning. Evergreen Emerald Sep 2012 #27
4 Years ago... ELI BOY 1950 Sep 2012 #5
And that tells me the Private Sector is actually doing fine Proud liberal 80 Sep 2012 #6
Bingo, and welcome to DU. Scuba Sep 2012 #9
Well, Answer the Question! Bad Thoughts Sep 2012 #7
That's the point BrainMann1 Sep 2012 #8
Well personally I prefer the re-phrasing rock Sep 2012 #10
Hell, yes, I'm better off with Obama. Control-Z Sep 2012 #11
An honest answer would be that the country IS better off than we were 4 years ago. Iris Sep 2012 #12
Thanks for that all-important distinction (from someone who is worse off individually). - n/t coalition_unwilling Sep 2012 #20
And I hope you realize Iris Sep 2012 #22
OMG, with a Romne administration, unemployment would easily reach coalition_unwilling Sep 2012 #23
In the 13 keys book the question are we in a Recession bigdarryl Sep 2012 #13
Middle out not top down Iris Sep 2012 #36
Why don't you tell us, billky, why we Democrats are so stupid? CTyankee Sep 2012 #14
Simple answer: YES! 4 yrs ago we were losing almost a million jobs a month, ProgressiveEconomist Sep 2012 #15
How stupid xfundy Sep 2012 #17
+1,000 freshwest Sep 2012 #24
Hell fucking yeah I'm better off! Mentally, financially, environmentally, socially better off than lonestarnot Sep 2012 #19
+1 Cha Sep 2012 #25
OUR NATION is certainly better off!!! lastlib Sep 2012 #21
You are so right. The rich would answer yes, hell yes. The poor and the middle class applegrove Sep 2012 #26
Time to fight fire with fire randr Sep 2012 #28
Read up on the mechanics of the mortgage crisis. Just one example of how we are being held patrice Sep 2012 #29
Dems need to pound this point over and over muntrv Sep 2012 #30
Yes, I'm better off ann--- Sep 2012 #31
This fucker says: and I quote.. "Romney is right! I'm not better off than I was four years ago!" Cha Sep 2012 #32
i haven't done well since the bush tax cuts. pansypoo53219 Sep 2012 #33
Here is how I answered this question this afternoon in another post Samantha Sep 2012 #34
Nate Silver takes it on pretty well abumbyanyothername Sep 2012 #35
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