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MICHAEL MOORE: OBAMA 'HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT,' ONLY MEMORABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT BEING 'FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT'
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Michael Moore Obama a "Huge Disappointment' Only Memorable Accomplishment Being ‘First Black President’
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This week at the Toronto Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter interviewed progressive filmmaker Michael Moore who hammered President Barack Obama for his claims he saved Detroit with the 2009 $80 billion federal government bailout of Chrysler and General Motors.
Moore became emotional saying he is not sure how to remain "non-violent filmmaker" in light of the government turning off water and lights to thousands of Detroit residents struggling to pay their bills.

Moore said “[he] did not save Detroit” and added, “He’s been a huge disappointment.”

Moore said, “When the history is written of this era, this is how you’ll be remembered: ‘He was the first black president.’ OK, not a bad accomplishment, but that’s it. That’s it, Mr. Obama. A hundred years from now, ‘He was the first black American that got elected president.’ And that’s it. Eight years of your life and that’s what people are got to remember. Boy, I got a feeling, know you, that you’d probably wish you were remembered for a few other things, a few other things you could’ve done.”



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http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/09/10/Dem-Rep-Obamacare-Doubled-My-Insurance-Costs

Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) reported that his insurance and deductible have doubled since he signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act during a hearing by the House Committee on Rules on Tuesday.
After Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) stated “I’m on ObamaCare ... my plan is twice as expensive, and the deductible is twice as much,” Green responded, “That’s my experience also.”

In 2013, Green criticized Republican attempts to repeal ObamaCare, saying the ACA “will help not only the millions of uninsured but also everyone with health insurance because the ACA improves coverage.”
 
NYT BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF: OBAMA 'IGNORED' IRAQ, IS 'IGNORANT OF REALITY'

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by JORDAN SCHACHTEL 10 Sep 2014 453POST A COMMENT

Tim Arango, Baghdad Bureau Chief of the New York Times, lit up President Obama’s Middle East policies in a recent “Ask Me Anything” Q & A session with users of the online forum Reddit.
One user asked, “How do you rate the Obama administration’s actions in Iraq? What did they do right? What did they get wrong?

The Baghdad Bureau Chief responded by bluntly stating that the Obama administration since 2011 has “basically ignored the country [Iraq].”

He continued, “when [US] officials spoke about what was happening there they were often ignorant of the reality.”

The NYT correspondent said that Obama officials stubbornly refused to see the realities on the ground, “because it conflicted with their narrative.”

He then took a jab at Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken, known as one of the President’s trusted advisers on foreign policy.

“In 2012, as violence was escalating I wrote a story, citing UN statistics, that showed how civilian deaths from attacks were rising,” Arango added. “Tony Blinken, who was then Biden’s national security guy and a top Iraq official, pushed back, even wrote a letter to the editor, saying that violence was near historic lows. That was not true.”

Blinken is now Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama. After obtaining his JD Columbia Law School, he went straight into Democratic politics -- fundraising for the presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis. Blinken then joined the Clinton administration under the assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian affairs. In 2008, he worked on Joe Biden’s failed campaign for President but was then appointed by President Obama to be his Deputy National Security Advisor in January of 2013.

VP Biden has previously referred to Blinken as his “go-to-guy” on Iraq -- known for helping to facilitate the US withdrawal from Baghdad -- a plan marred by the administration's failure to secure a status-of-forces agreement.

Even when the Islamic State was marching across Iraq unchecked, Obama officials ignored the jihadi group’s rise because it wasn’t politically expedient to tackle such issues, according to the NYT journalist.

Arango concluded: “Even after falluja fell to ISIS at the end of last year, the administration would push back on stories about Maliki’s sectarian tendencies saying they didn’t see it that way. So there was a concerted effort by the administration not to acknowledge the obvious until it became apparent -- with the fall of Mosul -- that Iraq was collapsing.”


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MSNBC’s “Hardball” anchor Chris Matthews was critical of President Obama’s address to the nation on ISIS during MSNBC’s special coverage of the event on Wednesday.
Matthews argued “I didn't hear in there how we're going to encourage the Arab countries, the Islamic world to go after ISIS. I didn't hear that. I heard airstrikes by the United States. I heard military training and support for the Free Syrian Army. I heard vague reference to someone over there flying with us over Syria right now without saying what country that was, what ally that was. nothing really about the building of a posse, and everyone from...David Ignatius and others who really know this region are saying, the only way you defeat a cancer like this, like ISIS, is within the Islamic world itself. They must find themselves the strength and the determination to go in and erase this blot on their culture, and I didn't hear in this speech how we're going to do that, or if we can even imagine being the leaders of such an effort. As again, I'll say these are necessary steps. They didn't sound sufficient.”

Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett
 
Well Michael, when you vote for a guy whose only really qualification at the time was being black, you should not be surprised that's pretty much all he has to deliver. However, I must disagree when Moore says that's all he'll be remembered for. Obama will be remembered for being the guy who promised so much and delivered not only so little, but exactly the opposite of what the promise was. Just to name a few of his bitter disappointments:
1.Race relations? Yes, we were all supposed to be in a sea of brotherly love by now. Instead the racial divide is wider that ever. Of course it's someone else's fault.
2.ME relations? See number 1. Has the Nobel Peace Prize ever been given to someone less deserving?
3.Heatlhcare? ACA has done absolutely nothing to address the cost of heathcare. Been a boom for insurance companies while screwing the consumer with one broken promise after another. How's that 5000 dollar deductible working out for ya'?
4.Economy? A f'n sky rocket to profits for the very same people that destroyed the economy to begin with. You know Mr. O, the guys you rail away at day and night. The average guy in the street? Well, he's hoping for a 15 dollar an hour job flipping burgers because there isn't a decent fucking job to be had.
Yep, Obama will be remembered alright...as the guy who appeared between the columns like some mythological God on election night 2008, and turned out to be nothing more than another charlatan promising everything and delivering nothing but shattered dreams for his loyal followers, and a complete nightmare for those of us that knew what he was all along.
 
The liberals are taking shots at Obama now because the Clintons have sent the signal that they have to make sure all the failures get attributed to Obama and not Hillary. He made a stupid mistake to appoint her Secretary of State, a job she was singularly unqualified for and which she made a hash of.
 
I wonder how many, including amanpour, agitated for or supported the president when he took out the troops without negotiating a status of forces agreement. (or whatever the name of that agreement was.

This is sort of like the left eating itself.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-...-US-Non-Intervention-Allowed-ISIS-to-Flourish

CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour argued that the “vacuum” created by US non-intervention and failure to leave a residual force led to the rise of ISIS on Tuesday’s “CNN Newsroom.”
“Most certainly...doing nothing for the last three years has brought us here, the vacuum that’s been created by a non-intervention policy is what has allowed Syria to flourish with these ISIS and Jabhat Al- Nusra, as Peter Neumann said, and now Khorasan, and withdrawing the residual force from Iraq is what allowed the dysfunctional politics there to become a national security threat and the rise of ISIS there” she said.
 
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