Barack Obama: 4 Years In Review

[Mavorpen]

Alright, jokes over, seriously if you can't afford insurance that's your problem, whatever happens happens.

No thanks.

[Desperate Measures]

I guess you'd have to have some sort of gov't free gun program.

Nah, if they offered, I'm sure everyone in my town would let them borrow a rifle here, some ammo there...

We're neighborly types.

Alright, jokes over, seriously if you can't afford insurance that's your problem, whatever happens happens.

I wasn't joking. This is basically what you're saying.

[Khodoristan]

My sister got diagnosed with cervical cancer in mid-November.

Before Christmas she'd had her surgery and was back out of hospital.

Truly, universal healthcare is the scourge of the free world.

I broke my arm a few years back. It took months for me to see a doctor about it. And by months I mean hours.

I broke my spine a few years back. I sat. SAT WITH A BROKEN SPINE FOR 6 HOURS IN THE ER.

I'm so glad we don't have national healthcare, after all, who needs emergency surgery?

[Divair]

Alright, jokes over, seriously if you can't afford insurance that's your problem, whatever happens happens.

No thanks.

I'll back that sentiment.

[Howdoyoudoland]

I'll have to review all the famous Afghani scientist, composers, artist, philosophers, engineers, industrialist, statesmen, and generals and get back to you.

Ooh! So snide. Someone needs a hug...or two...or twenty.

Typical conservative egocentrism. Knocking an entire people while playing brownnose to Rush Limbaugh and Mittens. So sad, really.

Limbaugh I don't mind, but how dare you insinuate I support that two-faced faux conservative loser WILLARD MITT ROMNEY?!

Honestly, fuck him.

[Mavorpen]

I'm so glad we don't have national healthcare, after all, who needs emergency surgery?

What?

[Swordishaw]

Barack Obama's Presidencial Grade:

Foreign Policy: A-, The patriot act, F.I.S.A., and Guantanamo bay were all kept in place mirroring his predecessor George W. Bush in those aspects this tells me George W. Bush was correct in his legislation and proof of its effectiveness. The killing of usama bin laden, mammar quadaffi, and anwar allaqui give this president an A- for Foreign policy.

Economy: F-, Unemployment remains relatively high, considering Bush left with a 7.6% Unemployment rate and the current unemployment is above 8.5% while the U.S. debt continues to grow out of control at a current amount of 16.47 Trillion dollars, and the government stimulus was seen as an abject failure by most of the U.S. economist such as Neil Cavuto and Hubert Humphrey and had very little effect on the economy considering unemployment remains higher than it was under Bush, while economic growth continues to be very little leaving some to believe that the nation is still not out of the recession they were in four years ago.

Overall Presidential Grade Performance: D-, which is overall not bad, but below average, okay to say the least.

[Howdoyoudoland]

Nah, if they offered, I'm sure everyone in my town would let them borrow a rifle here, some ammo there...

We're neighborly types.

Alright, jokes over, seriously if you can't afford insurance that's your problem, whatever happens happens.

I wasn't joking. This is basically what you're saying.

Eh, you took it to an absurd place where the government gives out free guns so people can end their suffering.

It would be a lot more quiet and gradual than that, a phasing out of the irresponsible, if you will.

[Laerod]

Ooh! So snide. Someone needs a hug...or two...or twenty.

Typical conservative egocentrism. Knocking an entire people while playing brownnose to Rush Limbaugh and Mittens. So sad, really.

Limbaugh I don't mind, but how dare you insinuate I support that two-faced faux conservative loser WILLARD MITT ROMNEY?!

Honestly, fuck him.

Well, at least you're in favor of gay marriage...

[Nadkor]

My sister got diagnosed with cervical cancer in mid-November.

Before Christmas she'd had her surgery and was back out of hospital.

Truly, universal healthcare is the scourge of the free world.

She wasn't forced to work herself to death to pay for life saving surgery. Such a fucking shame, truly. In a REAL country she'd be put into debt and then the debt collectors would be authorized to shoot her on sight.

Oh, yeah, I forgot to say.

Her and her husband were both immediately signed off work by their doctor. He went back last week and she's still off.

And they'll never, ever, have to pay a penny for her treatment.

Socialist nonsense that doesn't work, clearly.

[Divair]

while the U.S. deficit continues to grow out of control at a current amount of 16.47 Trillion United States dollars

I'm going to let others dissect the crap out of this, but this is too hilarious to pass up.

[Silent Majority]

I wasn't joking. This is basically what you're saying.

Eh, you took it to an absurd place where the government gives out free guns so people can end their suffering.

It would be a lot more quiet and gradual than that, a phasing out of the irresponsible, if you will.

The 19th century called, they want their social darwinism back.

[Enadail]

I guess you'd have to have some sort of gov't free gun program.

Nah, if they offered, I'm sure everyone in my town would let them borrow a rifle here, some ammo there...

We're neighborly types.

Alright, jokes over, seriously if you can't afford insurance that's your problem, whatever happens happens.

And that's among the biggest loads of bullshit EVER.

We're hardly in a world where "whatever happens happens". Companies pollute the waters, frack the land, poison the air. Yet people need to pay for their own healthcare to get past these.

If you get hit by someone else in a car accident, the payout from the insurance doesn't always cover the medical costs you may incur, specially if its a serious accident. If you work hard for a company for 20 years, and they outsource/downsize, and you lose your insurance and your savings can't cover it, that's somehow your fault?

We don't live in some disconnected world (ironic, given your comment about neighborly). Its an interconnected world, we're an interconnected people. Nothing is just "my problem" or "your problem".

[Desperate Measures]

I wasn't joking. This is basically what you're saying.

Eh, you took it to an absurd place where the government gives out free guns so people can end their suffering.

It would be a lot more quiet and gradual than that, a phasing out of the irresponsible, if you will.

You're a remorseless monster. I'm just glad you're losing the fight.

[North Stradia]

Ooh! So snide. Someone needs a hug...or two...or twenty.

Typical conservative egocentrism. Knocking an entire people while playing brownnose to Rush Limbaugh and Mittens. So sad, really.

Limbaugh I don't mind, but how dare you insinuate I support that two-faced faux conservative loser WILLARD MITT ROMNEY?!

Honestly, fuck him.

How about libertarianism instead? There's really no reason for social conservatism besides ignorance, fear, intolerance, and bigotry.

[Divair]

Eh, you took it to an absurd place where the government gives out free guns so people can end their suffering.

It would be a lot more quiet and gradual than that, a phasing out of the irresponsible, if you will.

You're a remorseless monster. I'm just glad you're losing the fight.

I think that's the funnest part of these online debates. No matter how much certain people whine and complain, they still lose in real life because progress cannot be stopped. Quite fun.

[Mavorpen]

Unemployment remains relatively high,

According to...?

while the U.S. deficit continues to grow out of control at a current amount of 16.47 Trillion United States dollars,

Actually no, that's the debt. I just love how you guys pretend you care about economics when you don't know the difference between the debt and the deficit.

and the government stimulus was seen as an abject failure by most of the U.S. media

Protip: The U.S. media doesn't determine success of economic policies, economists do.

and had very little effect on the economy,

Nope, it cushioned the fall of the recession quite adequately.

while economic growth continues to be very little leaving some to believe that the nation is still out the recession they were in four years ago.

Actually the recession ended in June 2009.

[Howdoyoudoland]

Eh, you took it to an absurd place where the government gives out free guns so people can end their suffering.

It would be a lot more quiet and gradual than that, a phasing out of the irresponsible, if you will.

You're a remorseless monster. I'm just glad you're losing the fight.

You'd like to think so, but in all actually, everything will flip around in the coming years as Obama's policies begin to really eat away at this country.

I forsee a Republican wave coming...

[Khodoristan]

I'm so glad we don't have national healthcare, after all, who needs emergency surgery?

What?

I broke my spine in a fall. Thankfully, I wasn't paralyzed. I waited over six hours for an x-ray, and when I finally got it, turns out that I broke two vertebra, and I needed emergency surgery to prevent serious damage.

Why did it take so long to get the care? Because the hospital was dicking around with my insurance provider who had a series of gaffes on their end. Turns out they 'lost' my information, including info on my copay info and beneficiary info (being a 20-year old college student, I had no beneficiary, sans parents, and maybe my sisters).

[Divair]

You're a remorseless monster. I'm just glad you're losing the fight.

You'd like to think so, but in all actually, everything will flip around in the coming years as Obama's policies begin to really eat away at this country.

I forsee a Republican wave coming...

Sounds like the people predicting a huge Romney win before the election are back.

[Mavorpen]

I forsee a Republican wave coming...

Not likely.

[Khodoristan]

You're a remorseless monster. I'm just glad you're losing the fight.

You'd like to think so, but in all actually, everything will flip around in the coming years as Obama's policies begin to really eat away at this country.

I forsee a Republican wave coming...

Yeahno.

[New England and The Maritimes]

You're a remorseless monster. I'm just glad you're losing the fight.

You'd like to think so, but in all actually, everything will flip around in the coming years as Obama's policies begin to really eat away at this country.

I forsee a Republican wave coming...

Won't happen, just like it didn't happen last november. I foresee Republicans losing in a landslide in 2014, honestly.

[Desperate Measures]

You're a remorseless monster. I'm just glad you're losing the fight.

You'd like to think so, but in all actually, everything will flip around in the coming years as Obama's policies begin to really eat away at this country.

I forsee a Republican wave coming...

There might be a step backwards but not for long. It's inevitable. (Always wanted to say that and mean it.)

[Howdoyoudoland]

Nah, if they offered, I'm sure everyone in my town would let them borrow a rifle here, some ammo there...

We're neighborly types.

Alright, jokes over, seriously if you can't afford insurance that's your problem, whatever happens happens.

And that's among the biggest loads of bullshit EVER.

We're hardly in a world where "whatever happens happens". Companies pollute the waters, frack the land, poison the air. Yet people need to pay for their own healthcare to get past these.

If you get hit by someone else in a car accident, the payout from the insurance doesn't always cover the medical costs you may incur, specially if its a serious accident. If you work hard for a company for 20 years, and they outsource/downsize, and you lose your insurance and your savings can't cover it, that's somehow your fault?

We don't live in some disconnected world (ironic, given your comment about neighborly). Its an interconnected world, we're an interconnected people. Nothing is just "my problem" or "your problem".

If someone robbed, raped, and shot you tonight, how many people outside of your immediate family and friends would give a fuck tomorrow?

Your problems really are just your problems, they have nothing to do with me and the rest of the world.