Why didn't Obama try to emulate Clinton's successes?

[JS80]

Clinton is a genius and a politician - Obama is average intelligence and an ideologue. Clinton was smart enough to know that you get elected pandering to the masses with promises of socialism, but that the best way to run the country is with capitalistic ideals. Obama on the other hand believes the shit he spews and is too dumb to know that socialism kills economies.

 

[QuantumPion]

This is simply factually false. First of all, spending cuts are always referenced in regards to the baseline numbers. There's no other rational way to do it. When Republicans talk about spending cuts, including the spending cuts they were fighting for in the debt ceiling debate, they were doing the exact same 'fake spending decreases'. The idea that they would reject something because Obama was using math in an identical way to them is baffling.

Regardless of the spending issue, Obama signed the debt increase bill with no revenue increases at all, clearly not what he wanted. You wanted an example of compromise, you got it. Will you admit it?

No. The republicans are the ones who compromsied by signing a debt increase bill with no spending cuts in it. It only had that dumb super-committee which accomplished nothing. So Obama got his debt increase with no spending cuts. That is 75% of what he wanted. Republicans got nothing. That. Is. Not. Compromise. You not getting 100% of what you want does not mean you compromised.

 

[waggy]

right after the cubs win the world series in four games.

this is the year! Go cubbies!

 

[shortylickens]

You mean, the blowjobs?