Why?
Libya -- Genocide about to happen. Warhawks want war (Yeah, Bloodshed!). The opposite end of the spectrum demands complete neutrality (Yeah, Genocide!). Obama uses the least amount of power to depose a dictator and stop the imminent Genocide. International terrorist BFF and snappy dresser Gaddafi no longer abides. (Estimated Lives Saved: Tens of Thousands to Hundreds of Thousands)
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Iran -- Nuclear weapons grade material in 3-2-1. Israel threatening to bomb any fucking minute. Warhawks call for immediate acts of war directed at Iran. The other end of the teeter-totter prophesy full-scale war with Iran. Obama brokers deal that still has everyone saying, "OhShutTheFuckUpNoWay." (Estimated Lives Saved: 1,000 to Millions)
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American Automotive Industry -- Face it. We were unloading crap-ugly bad steel for decades. Romney derides President Obama's assistance plan! Others say we're bailing out corpsters again. Obama sticks his neck out. American automakers and parts manufacturers get their shit together after tough-love intervention from Mr. Change. American cars now suck at or below the level of their European and Asian counterparts for the first time in like forever. Romney claims it was his idea! (Estimated Lives Saved: Zero to Hundreds)
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Somalia -- Kidnappers kidnapping. Pirates pirating. Somali pirate and kidnapper investment-to-earnings ratio is mind-bogglingly awesome. (I consider getting in the game.) Then they hijack an American ship and kidnap Americans. Oops! (Estimated Lives Saved: Two to Hundreds)
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ObamaCare -- How many times did you hear from the top of the pincer movement: It will never pass? It will be repealed? It's unconstitutional? How many times from the bottom jaws of the pincer movement did you hear that it was an abomination and not single payer? Instead, President Obama covered millions with insurance or Medicaid. By the way, if my analysis on a subject that fucking important was that fucking wrong, I would never show my face on TV or the internet again. (Estimated Lives Saved: Minimum of 25,000 in first year)
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Syria -- Use of chemical weapons. Genocide. The End Times: US v. Russia. No-win situation like a Star Trek game scenario. Ying wants war but won't vote on it. Yang again claims it's all a ruse to get us into full-scale war. Obama 11th-dimensionally-chesses Assad out of his chemical weapons. (Estimated Lives Saved: Thousands to Millions)
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Osama bin Laden -- Dude cannot be found for a decade! No wonder, Osama's in a secret house in the middle of bum-fuck Nebraskastan and won't even come out in disguise during the day. Not even for the Taliban's annual Kill-A-Woman-Who's-Learning Day Feast and Cake Walk. Bush gives up. President Barack Obama doesn't. World's most sophisticated game of hide-and-seek ends with clear winner. (Estimated Lives Saved: Zero to Thousands)
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al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- You know, the guys who actually did 9/11? Beaten down badly. More Taste ignores it. Less Filling: Dronez! (Estimated Lives Saved: Thousands to Tens of Thousands)
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The Economy -- "We're in a double-dip!" "This economy will never turn around!" Tweedle-dee complains about too many regulations and too much bail out money. Tweedle-dum complains about too little of both. An economy that was as radioactive as the crater left by a nuclear bomb is now almost safe for humans. (Estimated Lives Saved: Zero to Thousands)
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Unemployment -- What? Did you say something? Never heard of it. That was never a thing. There's an opposite of employment? (Estimated Lives Saved: Zero to Thousands)
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ISIS -- Poised to slaughter thousands of civilians. Obama uses a couple of aeroplanes and hobby kit whirly-gigs to stop them. Warhawks angry! Droners angry! LOL @ both of them. And thank fucking Allah for President Obama. (Estimated Lives Saved: 10,000 to 50,000)
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*All estimates based on What God Said to Me in a Vision Last Night.
That's why. Moreover, I'm always suspicious about foreign or domestic policy speculation based almost entirely upon an irrational hatred of the President, lacking the courage or the wisdom to provide a single feasible alternative. When somebody finally, finally offers a Plan "B," of course it's Bill O'Reilly suggesting that we send in The "A" Team to conquer "Objective C," which in this case is a large chunk of the Middle East. (Bill, I pity your viewers.)
What I love about our President is the following: He has a pattern and habit of finding out everything he can about a problem, using that information to make the best possible decision under the circumstances, while, at the same time, using the least amount of power. It doesn't work out every time, but I'll take that every day over same-note armchair quarterbacks who crashed a ridiculously significant number of planes they ever flew or who think that they can govern a nation just because their Farm grows and prospers on the internet.
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