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  • chewkw
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    slowoldman – Member
    chewkw, you never cease to amaze me with your huge knowledge. You now demonstrate your amazing abilities as a military strategist.

    Me military strategist? Where? 😯

    km79 – Member
    I mean if the system allowed Chewkw to get in then maybe we do need stricter controls.

    EU bureaucrats say you have no say and you are not allowed to control.
    Remember I am the good one.
    The ones you need to look out for are those that might chew you up and spit you out. 😛

    jambalaya
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    Those evil bastard Germans, putting all that money into helping people live, we should get moptop to remind them about the war.

    The vast majority of the people who came from Germany are not from Syria, Germany regards Afghanistan as a safe country. Pakistan, Morocco, Tunisia etc … So “helping people live” doesn’t really wash. Germany has been underspending by €20-30bn year in year out. Why on earth should the US pickup the tab for that.

    slowoldman
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    Me military strategist? Where?

    Your brilliant solution to terrorism. “Press the button”.

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    ninfan
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    🙂

    [video]https://youtu.be/DYZvB6TM7dw[/video]

    chewkw
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    slowoldman – Member

    Me military strategist? Where?

    Your brilliant solution to terrorism. “Press the button”. [/quote]
    O that one … I see … ahhh … true, true …
    That’s No military strategy rather it is just a simple push of the button. For military strategy you need to think etc for this one there is no thinking. i.e. the enemy(s) just have to try not to poke that fellow with fingers on the button. 😛

    chestercopperpot
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    On the plus side we will be front of the queue for a deal worse than TTIP. Which our shit sniffers will fall over themselves to sign.

    jambalaya
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    @ninfan brilliant, what you can’t see is she is holding a sign saying “SJW Snowflake here” 🙂

    My French inlaws who have just taken citizenship in California where complaining and saying they had thought of going on a protest today. I just wanted to say to them WTF where you expecting ? They’ve been there 10 years and went when Bush ran the country.

    Poopscoop
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    After watching the world go a little darker today I thought of this oddly:

    In ancient Roman times they supposedly had slaves whispering ‘memento mori’ (remember you are mortal) in the ears of successful emperors during parades of Triumph.

    What happens to that Emperor when that slave isn’t there anymore?

    chewkw
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    ninfan – Member

    “NNNnnnnnnoooooo….!”

    😆 So funny.

    centralscrutinizer
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    This parade in Washington looks more like a high security state funeral than anything else.

    hh45
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    Apologies for the slight hijack but why do so many people hate Hilary? I understand why a certain type of bloke hates her but even a lot of middle of the road people seem to really viscerally dislike her.

    I know about Whitewater and the emails but that cant be enough. Can it?

    ernie_lynch
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    Apologies for the slight hijack but why do so many people hate Hilary?

    She is a two-faced hypocritical warmonger with a misplaced sense of entitlement, that’s enough for me to intensely dislike her and be hugely relieved that she is not US president.

    Klunk
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    BobaFatt
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    Another video of an Anti Trump protester screaming

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s[/video]

    mikewsmith
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    jambalaya – Member

    @ninfan
    brilliant, what you can’t see is she is holding a sign saying “SJW Snowflake here”

    About the same as when someone unleashed his Twitter fingers because his parody on SNL has a better approval rating or when an actress questioned his morals. Such a delicate little orange snowflake

    Jamie
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    ditch_jockey
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    What happens to that Emperor when that slave isn’t there anymore?

    …Caligula

    chewkw
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    hh45 – Member

    Apologies for the slight hijack but why do so many people hate Hilary? I understand why a certain type of bloke hates her but even a lot of middle of the road people seem to really viscerally dislike her.

    I know about Whitewater and the emails but that cant be enough. Can it?

    In the far east we couldn’t care less about her emails …

    What we Do Not want is the ex-Merican administration poking their noses into other countries’ affairs. Stay out and stay gone. Let them fight.

    They don’t mind trading with Merican but certainly not their lackey.

    mikewsmith
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    What we Do Not want is the ex-Merican administration poking their noses into other countries’ affairs. Stay out and stay gone. Let them fight.

    Wow one page and the A is gone…
    The US will be poking around in the far east, they will be having a go at china and starting a bit of a trade war.

    @iolo and so it begins, I’m sure she is already working on her impeachment collection remember kids grab cash where ever you can and always keep the jut fuelled and ready to go (pass me the list of Russian golf resorts)

    chewkw
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    mikewsmith – Member
    Wow one page and the A is gone…
    The US will be poking around in the far east, they will be having a go at china and starting a bit of a trade war.

    Merican can tango with China as long as they want coz both are no angels.

    However, we certainly do not need another busy body know it all to poke into SE Asia’s affairs.

    We can deal with our own rotten apples ourselves and our styles. No need for others to tell us. Stay out & stay gone.

    mikewsmith
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    Glad you got the faith there…

    mikey74
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    Obama on left, Trump on right.

    chewkw
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    mikewsmith – Member
    Glad you got the faith there…

    Of course we have faith in our ways.

    You can have all the riches and prosperity in the world but please leave us alone in SE Asia.

    chewkw
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    mikey74 – Member
    Obama on left, Trump on right.

    Now go ask those people who attended Obama inauguration with so much of a high hope, how they feel after so many years of ex-President Obama’s administration.

    slowoldman
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    You can have all the riches and prosperity in the world but please leave us alone in SE Asia.

    Are you posting this from the Brockwell Seam in Cramlington?

    ninfan
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    Now go ask those people who attended Obama inauguration with so much of a high hope, how they feel after so many years of ex-President Obama’s administration.

    And you could maybe start by asking the poor ****ers still locked in Guantanamo…

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8USRg3h4AdE[/video]

    mikey74
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    Now go ask those people who attended Obama inauguration with so much of a high hope, how they feel after so many years of ex-President Obama’s administration.

    Gutted he’s leaving, I imagine.

    I was chatting to a friend of mine who’s from Washington DC today and I mentioned I was actually feeling quite nauseous about Trump being sworn in and she replied saying that was pretty much the overriding feeling around Washington. She’s a tour guide and gets to meet people from all over the country and World, so gets quite a disparate source of opinions.

    ninfan
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    I mentioned I was actually feeling quite nauseous about Trump being sworn in and she replied saying that was pretty much the overriding feeling around Washington.

    defenders of the status quo crapping themselves – sounds like a win for Trump to me!

    GrahamS
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    [video]https://youtu.be/70hIxu4WCmM[/video]

    mikey74
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    And you could maybe start by asking the poor ****ers still locked in Guantanamo…

    He tried, but was blocked at every turn. He’s certainly greatly reduced the numbers there. Perhaps you should look at your fellow republicans before blaming Obama:

    Congress recently passed a law banning Guantanamo’s closure

    Congressional Republicans have repeatedly argued that releasing or transferring prisoners poses a threat to national security, and have fought against the installation’s closure. In the larger defense bill that the President signed into law in November, congressional Republicans included a measure, opposed by Obama, that prohibits the use of funds to close or abandon the prison, transfer detainees to the United States (or Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen) or build or modify facilities to house detainees in the United States.

    From Time magazine.

    defenders of the status quo crapping themselves – sounds like a win for Trump to me!

    Try reading, and understanding, my whole post before commenting, please.

    Jamie
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    Huh. The more you know….

    For decades, the US National Park Service provided official crowd estimates for gatherings on the National Mall.

    But the agency stopped providing counts after organisers at 1995’s Million Man March threatened a lawsuit. They complained that the National Park Service undercounted attendance at the march.

    ninfan
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    Mikey – story is a bit more complex than that:

    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/why-obama-has-failed-to-close-guantanamo

    (edit, and I’m sure that if Trump doesn’t achieve something you would be perfectly happy accepting “some big boys in congress did it and ran away” as an excuse)

    chewkw
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    slowoldman – Member

    You can have all the riches and prosperity in the world but please leave us alone in SE Asia.

    Are you posting this from the Brockwell Seam in Cramlington? [/quote]
    That is the sentiment in SE Asia. True.

    kimbers
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    lowest approval rating ever recorded (by a huge margin for an incoming president), 2 impeachment attempts underway

    the shitshow wont last too long

    mikewsmith
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    And you could maybe start by asking the poor ****ers still locked in Guantanamo…

    Happy that they will get some new mates soon? Ready for a bit more water boarding? Perhaps you could explain how Trump will make their lives better.
    And here is somebodys top. 50

    1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of America’s long-term fiscal problems.

    2. Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.

    3. Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The new law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, requires derivatives to be sold on clearinghouses and exchanges, mandates that large banks provide “living wills” to avoid chaotic bankruptcies, limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit, and creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (now headed by Richard Cordray) to crack down on abusive lending products and companies.

    4. Ended the War in Iraq: Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.

    5. Began Drawdown of War in Afghanistan: From a peak of 101,000 troops in June 2011, U.S. forces are now down to 91,000, with 23,000 slated to leave by the end of summer 2012. According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the combat mission there will be over by next year.

    6. Eliminated Osama bin laden: In 2011, ordered special forces raid of secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was discovered.

    7. Turned Around U.S. Auto Industry: In 2009, injected $62 billion in federal money (on top of $13.4 billion in loans from the Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. Since bottoming out in 2009, the auto industry has added more than 100,000 jobs. In 2011, the Big Three automakers all gained market share for the first time in two decades. The government expects to lose $16 billion of its investment, less if the price of the GM stock it still owns increases.

    8. Recapitalized Banks: In the midst of financial crisis, approved controversial Treasury Department plan to lure private capital into the country’s largest banks via “stress tests” of their balance sheets and a public-private fund to buy their “toxic” assets. Got banks back on their feet at essentially zero cost to the government.

    9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: Ended 1990s-era restriction and formalized new policy allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time.

    10. Toppled Moammar Gaddafi: In March 2011, joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troops. Gaddafi’s forty-two-year rule ended when the dictator was overthrown and killed by rebels on October 20, 2011. No American lives were lost.

    11. Told Mubarak to Go: On February 1, 2011, publicly called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to accept reform or step down, thus weakening the dictator’s position and putting America on the right side of the Arab Spring. Mubarak ended thirty-year rule when overthrown on February 11.

    12. Reversed Bush Torture Policies: Two days after taking office, nullified Bush-era rulings that had allowed detainees in U.S. custody to undergo certain “enhanced” interrogation techniques considered inhumane under the Geneva Conventions. Also released the secret Bush legal rulings supporting the use of these techniques.

    13. Improved America’s Image Abroad: With new policies, diplomacy, and rhetoric, reversed a sharp decline in world opinion toward the U.S. (and the corresponding loss of “soft power”) during the Bush years. From 2008 to 2011, favorable opinion toward the United States rose in ten of fifteen countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, with an average increase of 26 percent.

    14. Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program, Expanded Pell Grant Spending: As part of the 2010 health care reform bill, signed measure ending the wasteful decades-old practice of subsidizing banks to provide college loans. Starting July 2010 all students began getting their federal student loans directly from the federal government. Treasury will save $67 billion over ten years, $36 billion of which will go to expanding Pell Grants to lower-income students.

    15. Created Race to the Top: With funds from stimulus, started $4.35 billion program of competitive grants to encourage and reward states for education reform.

    16. Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards: Released new fuel efficiency standards in 2011 that will nearly double the fuel economy for cars and trucks by 2025.

    17. Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis: To keep world economy out of recession in 2009 and 2010, helped secure from G-20 nations more than $500 billion for the IMF to provide lines of credit and other support to emerging market countries, which kept them liquid and avoided crises with their currencies.

    18. Passed Mini Stimuli: To help families hurt by the recession and spur the economy as stimulus spending declined, signed series of measures (July 22, 2010; December 17, 2010; December 23, 2011) to extend unemployment insurance and cut payroll taxes.

    19. Began Asia “Pivot”: In 2011, reoriented American military and diplomatic priorities and focus from the Middle East and Europe to the Asian-Pacific region. Executed multipronged strategy of positively engaging China while reasserting U.S. leadership in the region by increasing American military presence and crafting new commercial, diplomatic, and military alliances with neighboring countries made uncomfortable by recent Chinese behavior.

    20. Increased Support for Veterans: With so many soldiers coming home from Iraq and Iran with serious physical and mental health problems, yet facing long waits for services, increased 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs budget by 16 percent and 2011 budget by 10 percent. Also signed new GI bill offering $78 billion in tuition assistance over a decade, and provided multiple tax credits to encourage businesses to hire veterans.

    21. Tightened Sanctions on Iran: In effort to deter Iran’s nuclear program, signed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (2010) to punish firms and individuals who aid Iran’s petroleum sector. In late 2011 and early 2012, coordinated with other major Western powers to impose sanctions aimed at Iran’s banks and with Japan, South Korea, and China to shift their oil purchases away from Iran.

    22. Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants: New EPA restrictions on mercury and toxic pollution, issued in December 2011, likely to lead to the closing of between sixty-eight and 231 of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants. Estimated cost to utilities: at least $11 billion by 2016. Estimated health benefits: $59 billion to $140 billion. Will also significantly reduce carbon emissions and, with other regulations, comprises what’s been called Obama’s “stealth climate policy.”

    23. Passed Credit Card Reforms: Signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act (2009), which prohibits credit card companies from raising rates without advance notification, mandates a grace period on interest rate increases, and strictly limits overdraft and other fees.

    24. Eliminated Catch-22 in Pay Equality Laws: Signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, giving women who are paid less than men for the same work the right to sue their employers after they find out about the discrimination, even if that discrimination happened years ago. Under previous law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the statute of limitations on such suits ran out 180 days after the alleged discrimination occurred, even if the victims never knew about it.

    25. Protected Two Liberal Seats on the U.S. Supreme Court: Nominated and obtained confirmation for Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman to serve, in 2009; and Elena Kagan, the fourth woman to serve, in 2010. They replaced David Souter and John Paul Stevens, respectively.

    26. Improved Food Safety System: In 2011, signed FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which boosts the Food and Drug Administration’s budget by $1.4 billion and expands its regulatory responsibilities to include increasing number of food inspections, issuing direct food recalls, and reviewing the current food safety practices of countries importing products into America.

    27. Achieved New START Treaty: Signed with Russia (2010) and won ratification in Congress (2011) of treaty that limits each country to 1,550 strategic warheads (down from 2,200) and 700 launchers (down from more than 1,400), and reestablished and strengthened a monitoring and transparency program that had lapsed in 2009, through which each country can monitor the other.

    28. Expanded National Service: Signed Serve America Act in 2009, which authorized a tripling of the size of AmeriCorps. Program grew 13 percent to 85,000 members across the country by 2012, when new House GOP majority refused to appropriate more funds for further expansion.

    29. Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection: Signed Omnibus Public Lands Management Act (2009), which designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, created thousands of miles of recreational and historic trails, and protected more than 1,000 miles of rivers.

    30. Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco: Signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (2009). Nine years in the making and long resisted by the tobacco industry, the law mandates that tobacco manufacturers disclose all ingredients, obtain FDA approval for new tobacco products, and expand the size and prominence of cigarette warning labels, and bans the sale of misleadingly labeled “light” cigarette brands and tobacco sponsorship of entertainment events.

    31. Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders: Issued executive order in 2009 requiring all federal agencies to make plans to soften their environmental impacts by 2020. Goals include 30 percent reduction in fleet gasoline use, 26 percent boost in water efficiency, and sustainability requirements for 95 percent of all federal contracts. Because federal government is the country’s single biggest purchaser of goods and services, likely to have ripple effects throughout the economy for years to come.

    32. Passed Fair Sentencing Act: Signed 2010 legislation that reduces sentencing disparity between crack versus powder cocaine possessionfrom100 to1 to 18 to1.

    33. Trimmed and Reoriented Missile Defense: Cut the Reagan-era “Star Wars” missile defense budget, saving $1.4 billion in 2010, and canceled plans to station antiballistic missile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic in favor of sea-based defense plan focused on Iran and North Korea.

    34. Began Post-Post-9/11 Military Builddown: After winning agreement from congressional Republicans and Democrats in summer 2011 budget deal to reduce projected defense spending by $450 billion, proposed new DoD budget this year with cuts of that size and a new national defense strategy that would shrink ground forces from 570,000 to 490,000 over the next ten years while increasing programs in intelligence gathering and cyberwarfare.

    35. Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission: Allowed the expensive ($1 billion per launch), badly designed, dangerous shuttle program to make its final launch on July 8, 2011. Cut off funding for even more bloated and problem-plagued Bush-era Constellation program to build moon base in favor of support for private-sector low-earth orbit ventures, research on new rocket technologies for long-distance manned flight missions, and unmanned space exploration, including the largest interplanetary rover ever launched, which will investigate Mars’s potential to support life.

    36. Invested Heavily in Renewable Technology: As part of the 2009 stimulus, invested $90 billion, more than any previous administration, in research on smart grids, energy efficiency, electric cars, renewable electricity generation, cleaner coal, and biofuels.

    37. Crafting Next-Generation School Tests: Devoted $330 million in stimulus money to pay two consortia of states and universities to create competing versions of new K-12 student performance tests based on latest psychometric research. New tests could transform the learning environment in vast majority of public school classrooms beginning in 2014.

    38. Cracked Down on Bad For-Profit Colleges: In effort to fight predatory practices of some for-profit colleges, Department of Education issued “gainful employment” regulations in 2011 cutting off commercially focused schools from federal student aid funding if more than 35 percent of former students aren’t paying off their loans and/or if the average former student spends more than 12 percent of his or her total earnings servicing student loans.

    39. Improved School Nutrition: In coordination with Michelle Obama, signed Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010 mandating $4.5 billion spending boost and higher nutritional and health standards for school lunches. New rules based on the law, released in January, double the amount of fruits and vegetables and require only whole grains in food served to students.

    40. Expanded Hate Crimes Protections: Signed Hate Crimes Prevention Act (2009), which expands existing hate crime protections to include crimes based on a victim’s sexual orientation, gender, or disability, in addition to race, color, religion, or national origin.

    41. Avoided Scandal: As of November 2011, served longer than any president in decades without a scandal, as measured by the appearance of the word “scandal” (or lack thereof) on the front page of the Washington Post.

    42. Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill: Though lacking statutory power to compel British Petroleum to act, used moral authority of his office to convince oil company to agree in 2010 to a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; $6.5 billion already paid out without lawsuits. By comparison, it took nearly two decades for plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez Alaska oil spill case to receive $1.3 billion.

    43. Created Recovery.gov: Web site run by independent board of inspectors general looking for fraud and abuse in stimulus spending, provides public with detailed information on every contract funded by $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Thanks partly to this transparency, board has uncovered very little fraud, and Web site has become national model: “The stimulus has done more to promote transparency at almost all levels of government than any piece of legislation in recent memory,” reports Governing magazine.

    44. Pushed Broadband Coverage: Proposed and obtained in 2011 Federal Communications Commission approval for a shift of $8 billion in subsidies away from landlines and toward broadband Internet for lower-income rural families.

    45. Expanded Health Coverage for Children: Signed 2009 Children’s Health Insurance Authorization Act, which allows the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to cover health care for 4 million more children, paid for by a tax increase on tobacco products.

    46. Recognized the Dangers of Carbon Dioxide: In 2009, EPA declared carbon dioxide a pollutant, allowing the agency to regulate its production.

    47. Expanded Stem Cell Research: In 2009, eliminated the Bush-era restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, which shows promise in treating spinal injuries, among many other areas.

    48. Provided Payment to Wronged Minority Farmers: In 2009, signed Claims Resolution Act, which provided $4.6 billion in funding for a legal settlement with black and Native American farmers who the government cheated out of loans and natural resource royalties in years past.

    49. Helped South Sudan Declare Independence: Helped South Sudan Declare Independence: Appointed two envoys to Sudan and personally attended a special UN meeting on the area. Through U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, helped negotiate a peaceful split in 2011.

    50. Killed the F-22: In 2009, ended further purchases of Lockheed Martin single-seat, twin-engine, fighter aircraft, which cost $358 million apiece. Though the military had 187 built, the plane has never flown a single combat mission. Eliminating it saved $4 billion.
    http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchapril-2012/obamas-top-50-accomplishments/

    mikey74
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    Mikey – story is a bit more complex than that:

    Of course it is. However, US politics is all about choosing your battles. Fighting for the closure of Guantanamo would have made everything else pretty much impossible; hence why the Obama administration couldn’t adopt a “close it at any cost” attitude.

    Anyway, your hero, Trump, promises to keep it open and re-populate it, so you really have no right to beat Obama with that stick.

    chewkw
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    kimbers – Member
    lowest approval rating ever recorded (by a huge margin for an incoming president), 2 impeachment attempts underway

    the shitshow wont last too long

    Good. Now let’s bet.

    Wanna bet he will see through his first term with ease?

    😛

    mikewsmith
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    Mikey – story is a bit more complex than that:

    Oh the irony of picking a one liner to attack Obama then coming back with its more complicated than that and then to find out your heron wants more of it…

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