How is Obamacare a failure? It is not:
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Republicans can cry me the river on this, but US is the only developed country in the world with no universal healthcare to this date:
United States National Health Care Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Healthcare provision is not a legitimate function of government, so yes, this is a failure. In addition, it did not slow the growth of healthcare costs, and there are still millions of uninsured, so it failed at its stated objectives. Failure in spirit, failure in letter.
Republicans are hypocrites as they oppose any increase of government funding in healthcare sector, but didn't give a damn when billions of dollars worth of taxpayer money was used to bailout failing private banks and institutions (their friends at the Wall Street).
Republicans
opposed the bailout. Historical revisionism doesn't work on me, you should know that by now.
How is this historic nuclear deal with Iran a "treason"? Stop watching Fox News and stop reading Conservative propaganda News outlets only to get your facts right!
Because it aids an enemy that has been killing Americans for years from Beirut to Iraq, and
gets nothing in return. The media you read doesn't even report the news anymore, and instead writes Obama hagiographies, so it's not a surprise that you're confused about just how bad this deal is.
GOP for the past many years Obama has been in power opposed everything he came up with. From Obamacare to Iran deal. They made a big fool out of "mighty" USA when some of their representatives took the initiative to warn Iran on their own, bypassing authority of their elected President:
Obama 'Embarrassed' For Republicans Who Wrote Iran Letter : It's All Politics : NPR
So the collective Republican policy of GOP has been to malign, defame, embarrass and hate Obama, no matter what he does, good or bad because they wanna play political rivals instead of working together for their country's progress!
This has been the only way to oppose a president with a taste for tyranny. And it was all done through democratic mechanisms. Would you prefer an armed uprising? We don't believe that what Obama is trying to accomplish is "progress," we believe it is destructive.
What debacle? I don't see any debacle in providing universal healthcare. It has been a norm in developed world for decades!
Healthcare provision is not a legitimate function of government. And the US was formed specifically to escape the failures of the old world, so we are unmoved by what the rest of the developed world does. Europe is not a good model to the US for leadership in any sphere, let alone economics. We are simply superior in all aspects, from economics, to diplomacy, to culture, to assimilation. Europe has nothing to teach us.
Since when did a Whistle-blower become a debacle? There will always be whistleblowers as long your government and state institutions remain corrupt to their core!
I will admit that I have been shaken at some of the revelations, but the act of a true patriot in whistle-blowing is accepting the consequences. Instead, Snowden went to China and then Russia to seek asylum--what does that tell you? In addition, he didn't just reveal programs that were directed against Americans, but also against non-Americans, which is pure treason.
Hahaha. Do you actually believe that?
Here are some of Bush's "competent" team's achievements:
* Failure to prevent the largest terror attack in US history despite warnings.
* Failure to justify Iraq war despite internal contradictions.
* Failure to win war on terror despite trillions of dollars spent on defense.
* Failure to prevent largest financial crises in US history to date.
Need more accomplishments?
Pinning 9/11 on Bush is mendacious, since it happened less than a year into his term, and after serious blunders on the part of the Clinton administration after years of warnings. The failure to act after the USS Cole bombing should tell you everything you need to know (I wonder if your media even reported it, given your track record).
I have already called Bush's vision twisted, but at least when he committed, he put all the resources in that were necessary to win. Actually winning is different from putting in the resources to win (one is military, the other is civilian). And since this is a new kind of war, and since your great friend
Iran was busy fighting the US by proxy, I doubt anyone could have done a better job.
As far as the financial crisis, I discussed the causes of that in another thread. It was a perfect storm, and could not have been prevented in a market economy.
Politicians do not manage economy anymore. Central planners at the Federal Reserve do
. I thought you knew about it as an expert in finance
There is monetary policy, and there is fiscal policy. Obama controls the latter--if he were a competent politician, he would have worked with Republicans to cut taxes significantly to bolster demand during the downturn, but his ideological leanings prevented him from doing the right thing. However, his regulatory overreach not only extended the recession longer than was necessary, but will have devastating consequences well after he's gone (Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, EPA).
Obama brought peace between US and other nations, especially Islamic ones. During Obama's reign, US Defense Establishment could not lobby successfully for a great war against Iran on Israel's behest. If that alone is not a success, I don't know what a success is!
Are you talking about the Russian reset? Or perhaps you mean the Arab Spring and the rise of ISIS? Or maybe the growing antagonism between the US and China? What peace are you talking about?
So why do you Conservatives still hate Carter now? Because of Iranian Hostage Crisis?
Yes, that was the icing on the cake after four years of trying to destroy America economically.
Iranian Islamic Revolution is built-upon anti-Americanism, very much like Pakistan was built-up anti-Indianism.
You take american hatred out of Iran, and you have have no Islamic regime. You take anti-Indianism out of Pakistan, and you have no Islamic Republic
That is for Iran to solve, not America. It was Iran that drew first blood with the hostage crisis, nearly the first foreign policy act it carried out under its new regime. It is for Iran to heal those wounds by reaching out to us, not the other way around.
Conclusion: Obama is a disaster on all fronts.
, Iraq, Syria, Isis, ....PEACE! 
