The Obama legacy, failed healthcare, mountains of debt, black racism, monuments to faggots.

[*Social Justice*]

President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national
monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a
sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich
Village neighborhood as the birthplace of America’s modern gay
liberation movement.

While most national monuments have highlighted iconic wild
landscapes or historic sites from centuries ago, this reflects
the country’s diversity of terrain and peoples in a different
vein: It would be the first national monument anchored by a dive
bar and surrounded by a warren of narrow streets that long has
been regarded the historic center of gay cultural life in New
York City.

Federal officials, including Interior Secretary Sally Jewell,
National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis and Rep.
Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), will hold a listening session on May 9
to solicit feedback on the proposal. Barring a last-minute
complication — city officials are still investigating the
history of the land title — Obama is prepared to designate the
area part of the National Park Service as soon as next month,
which commemorates gay pride.

What a fucking disgrace.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-poised-to-
create-first-monument-to-gay-rights/2016/05/03/0811810e-1154-
11e6-93ae-50921721165d_story.html
 

[Mr. B1ack]

Obama may be remembered as the "first 'black' president"
but beyond that he's been uninspired and uninspirational ...
pretty much a dud pushing ill-conceived crap that SOUNDS
good until you look into the details.

[Milton Keynes]

Obama may be remembered as the "first 'black' president" but beyond that
he's been uninspired and uninspirational ... pretty much a dud pushing
ill-conceived crap that SOUNDS good until you look into the details.

I suppose doubling the stock market in seven years after the GOP crashed the
financial system of the world, rescuing the US auto industry (which Romney
wanted to dump off to China), providing SEVENTY-FIVE consecutive months of
non-government job growth following America's fourth GOP-caused depression,
rescuing the USD from the Cheney devaluation and cleaning up the US Army's
Medical Corps would make President Obama a dud...

...and may all our future presidents be as much a dud as Obama.

Sure, there were bad choices like failing to take advantage of a Democratic
House and a filibuster-proof Senate to provide us with an infrastructure
rebuilding plan but compared to the options available -- McCain wanting to
solve every problem with a war and Romney wanting to move US industry to
China -- Obama was the right choice for America as shown by his being the
first president in a half century to win by a majority of voters TWICE.

[Mr. B1ack]

Post by Milton Keynes

Obama may be remembered as the "first 'black' president" but beyond that
he's been uninspired and uninspirational ... pretty much a dud pushing
ill-conceived crap that SOUNDS good until you look into the details.

I suppose doubling the stock market in seven years

That happened IN *SPITE* of our Fearless Leader, not
because of him.

Actually in a global-scale biz market individual govt leaders
really don't have much effect. The global marketplace is
an ever-evolving organism, not a static target you can
tweak with a few edicts and programs.

Post by Milton Keynes
after the GOP crashed the
financial system of the world, rescuing the US auto industry (which Romney
wanted to dump off to China), providing SEVENTY-FIVE consecutive months of
non-government job growth following America's fourth GOP-caused depression,
rescuing the USD from the Cheney devaluation and cleaning up the US Army's
Medical Corps would make President Obama a dud...
...and may all our future presidents be as much a dud as Obama.

Our next one won't be a dud ... he'll be very interesting :-)

Post by Milton Keynes
Sure, there were bad choices like failing to take advantage of a Democratic
House and a filibuster-proof Senate to provide us with an infrastructure
rebuilding plan but compared to the options available -- McCain wanting to
solve every problem with a war and Romney wanting to move US industry to
China -- Obama was the right choice for America as shown by his being the
first president in a half century to win by a majority of voters TWICE.

I do not have great confidence in either the Dem notion
of doing business OR the GOPs version. Both will fuck
us over. The most successful line of action is to try and
keep the pols OUT of the markets as much as possible.

[Milton Keynes]

Post by Milton Keynes
I suppose doubling the stock market in seven years
That happened IN *SPITE* of our Fearless Leader, not because of him.
Actually in a global-scale biz market individual govt leaders really don't
have much effect. The global marketplace is an ever-evolving organism, not
a static target you cam tweak with a few edicts and programs.

Total nonsense because history says so. In EVERY case since the Civil War
the situation has always been the same. The GOP crashes the stock market
every twenty years and it recovers under a Democratic administration.

The reason is rather simple because it is always the same. The goal of the
GOP since its founding by New England mill owners finding labor in the south
(i.e., slaves) that was cheaper than Irish immigrants, has been cheap labor
and wealth transfer to wealthiest. Such monetary manipulations has led to
one thing and that's a stock market crash followed by a depression.

No need to go over the GOP caused depressions prior to the New Deal. The
reforms by the New Deal prevented the usual cycle of a GOP depression every
20 years until Reagan and Bush 41 removed the regulations that prevented
future crashes and guess what happened when the controls were lifted?

Yep, another stock market crash in 2008 and a subsequent depression for a
Democrat to fix.

So, yes, I give Obama credit for doubling the stock market because the
Republican trickle down bullshit (Kudlow, the drug addict, calls it "supply
side")would only make things worse.

As for me, I'm preparing for a Trump possibility. I'm not selling any stock
right now but I'm writing deep in the money October and November calls on
everything I own.