Last summer, we had a look (www.dailykos.com/...) at the various ways President Obama has been ruining our country over the past eight years, illustrated by graphs. This accumulation of grim facts was found to be so compelling by readers that it was shared over 50,000 times.
Within one column it wasn’t possible to include every place he has led us wrong. As we now careen toward the end of his presidency, it’s time to add to the story.
Let’s start with world events. We know that it’s important for America’s leader to browbeat wrongdoers until they come into line, but we’ve seen precious little of that kind of leadership in the past few years.
As shown in the title graph, in the past eight years Obama has been a total patsy for Europe. Do the “right thing” — yeah, right. That means a gullible USA that does bidding of those Frenchy euros, things they should grow up and take care of, like protecting themselves from Russia.
While the Obama administration has been sucking up to the euros, it has been asleep at the switch protecting our brave diplomatic personnel, as shown in the graph below from Mother Jones.
The graph clearly shows that the historical accumulative total of all attacks on U.S diplomatic personnel continued to go up during the Obama years.
Speaking of Russia, we need to point out that Obama’s weakness as a leader and abject failure to reach across the aisle has caused him to be outpolled among Republicans by, of all people, Vladimir Putin. See the chart below — Putin is running -9 among Republicans while at the same time Obama is running -75.
Just think, you have to be a pretty bad President if an entire politcal party, representing somewhat less than half the electorate, rates you 66 percentage points below a vicious thug who murders political enemies without hesitation, destroys dissent, invades other countries, and directs countless operations to destroy democracy around the world.
There’s no other possible explanation for this. It’s totally because of how bad a President Obama has been. What else could it be?
Moving to the domestic front, let’s look at the environment. In a striking and dismaying graph we see that production of CO2, a key nutrient that is required by plants to grow, is now shrinking. If continued, this trend will soon endanger our forests which could suffocate due to lack of the precious and beneficial gas. Fortunately, it appears that help will be on the way soon, and our trees will be able to breathe easily in abundant CO2 once again.
In our economy, for evidence of malaise due to Obama, we need look no farther than the struggling auto industry, where production levels remain below those of the 1990’s.
But now we have to address the elephant in the room, and take on the truly insidious and devious nature of the Obama Presidency. It’s the kind of 11-dimensional chess we have been warning about - clearly designed to make Real Americans look bad when they take control of the government.
The trap the Obama Administration has laid — directly for the purpose of derailing and delegitimizing those working in the new Administration — is that for a few trivial and unimportant measures they recorded so-called improvements. That way, if any of these (more or less meaningless) measures dip slightly under the new Administration, they will be able to howl with dismay, and use those results to stop the workers in the new administration from making any progress on urgently needed goals for freedom in America.
We’re talking about them trying to stop critically important goals like:
- Preventing people with the wrong-sounding names from voting
- Deporting millions of people
- Stopping gay people from getting married
- Well-deserved tax cuts for high financial achievers
- Most importantly, cultivating softly sensual relations with our natural ally, Russia.
So don’t be deceived if, in the future months and years, you hear the talking heads in the dishonest media blathering on about any of these imaginary measures:
Never Mind These
Measure |
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RESULT |
Unemployment RAte |
Down From 8% to 4.9% (via a peak of 10% from Great Recession) |
Stock marketS |
S&P 500: Increase from 850 to 2274, up 167% |
uninsured RATE |
Down from 16% of US population to 8.6% |
Police KILLED in LINE of Duty |
Historic low 10-yr avg, 50/year in 2015 |
Violent CRIME RATE |
Historic low 375 per 100,000 in 2014 |
Federal Annual Deficit |
From 1.2 Trillion (FY 2009, signed by Bush) to $441 Billion in FY 2017. |
All that numeric stuff above — it’s pure distraction. Pay no attention to any of it.
At this point there’s only one thing left to say, just one more time.
Thanks, Obama.
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James Wells is the author of The Great Symmetry, a science fiction novel that celebrates the freedom of ideas. www.thegreatsymmetry.com (eBook on Amazon)
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My social media director (i.e. daughter) says the series needs a hashtag for sharing, so here it is: #ObamasFaultInGraphs