Wow.... just wow.

That's certainly one point of view......smh

raydawg wrote on 02/02/17 at 12:30:09:


Oh boy... well, it's not all wrong, but a lot if it is... let's start from the top:

"Soon, the border effectively was left open. Pen-and-phone executive orders offered immigrant amnesties. "

Just not true.  Yes, he did execute an EO that allowed a path for illegals with kids, but it was not amnesty.

"Political correctness under the Obama administration led to euphemisms that no longer reflected reality."

One man's opinion

"Poorly conceived reset policy with Russia and a pivot to Asia both failed. The Middle East was aflame."

The reset with Russia was 1 - never more than symbolic and 2 - spit on by putin.  Medvedev wasn't around long enough (again, thanks vlad).
As for the "pivot" to Asia - the Middle East took care of that.  While it was an admirable attempt, the focus on the ME was just too great.  Now the TPP is all but dead (seemingly good, but we'll see...)

The Middle East was aflame long before Obama - nice try.  Yes, the administration should have done more.

"The Iran deal was sold through an echo chamber of deliberate misrepresentations."

Huh?  The only way you can claim it was "misrepresented" is if you didn't understand it.  

"Overregulation, higher taxes, near-zero interest rates and the scapegoating of big businesses slowed economic recovery"

Yes, too much regulation (to a degree).  Taxes - well, the only one that affected some of the middle class was ACA.  All the rest went where they should - corporations and those making more than $250K.
The scapegoating of big businesses?  LOL, hardly - they've been pulling in record profits for well over a decade - they've barely done any reinvesting.  That's on them, not Obama

"A revolutionary federal absorption of health care failed to fulfill Obama's promises and soon proved unviable."

More than viable - in fact, it didn't go far enough.  The cost increases are the fault of the big insurance companies.  Yeah, ACA is flawed, but far from unviable.

"Culturally, the iconic symbols of the Obama revolution were the "you didn't build that" approach to businesses and an assumption that race/class/gender would forever drive American politics, favorably so for the Democrats."

LOL - this statement is nothing but conjecture from the author.  Further, the whole "you didn't build that" is so tired and out of context it's not even funny anymore.

"In an age of anti-Western terrorism, placing temporary holds on would-be immigrants from war-torn zones until they can be vetted is hardly radical."

Tell that to the green-card holders that were detained illegally....

"Using the term "radical Islamic terror" in place of "workplace violence" or "man-caused disasters" is sensible, not subversive."

Not at all the point... totally out in left field.  Nowhere did that EVER get used.  A terrorist is a terrorist.  Funny how no one wants to call the guy who shot up a Quebec City mosque a "radical Christian terrorist".  See how that works?

"Unapologetically siding with Israel, the only free and democratic country in the Middle East, used to be standard U.S. policy until Obama was elected."

So we should all be zionists?  Nope.  Even the Jews in the US don't want to us doing that.


So there's the critique as requested.  Not all of what he wrote was wrong, but even you have to see that it was written by a guy who was heavily "right handed".