# Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 15, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463 "2016-06-15T21:02:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/161 "2016-06-16T19:04:54Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I just want to add that the OP appears to be obtuse. He/She certainly isn’t acute. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/162 "2016-06-16T19:08:05Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > He/She certainly isn’t acute. Right. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/163 "2016-06-16T19:22:32Z")
President Obama ended two wars, and tried to make healthcare more affordable and accessible for his fellow Americans. That _monster_. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/164 "2016-06-16T19:26:06Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > He/She certainly isn’t acute. A cute what? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/165 "2016-06-16T19:29:28Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > President Obama ended two wars, and tried to make healthcare more affordable and accessible for his fellow Americans. That _monster_. Plus he got Bin Laden, after saying he would make it a priority. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/166 "2016-06-16T19:31:03Z")
Oh, and by the way, for those who whine about Obama increasing the deficit, well part of that increase is because in 2009 he refused to play the shell games that Bush had played that hid 2.7 trillion dollars in costs: > **[Obama Bans Gimmicks, and Deficit Will Rise (Published 2009)](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20budget.html)** > > By stopping accounting gimmicks that make deficit projections look smaller, the budget will appear $2.7 trillion deeper in debt over the next decade, according to administration officials. Natch the ODS sufferers weaponized this. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/167 "2016-06-16T19:39:09Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Only a fruitcake gunsmith from Birmingham, England, would think up something that weird. Or a fruitsmith guncake. > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > A cute what? A cute appendicitis, of course. Not as cute as mine, though… ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/168 "2016-06-16T19:44:04Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Or a fruitsmith guncake. > > A cute appendicitis, of course. Not as cute as mine, though… Now cut that out! ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/169 "2016-06-16T20:09:35Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Oh, and by the way, for those who whine about Obama increasing the deficit, well part of that increase is because in 2009 he refused to play the shell games that Bush had played that hid 2.7 trillion dollars in costs: > > [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20budget.html](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20budget.html) > > Natch the ODS sufferers weaponized this. I reject your use of the New York Times as a source. As everyone knows, the NYTimes has a well-known liberal bias. For example, they use FACTS. Unacceptable. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/170 "2016-06-16T20:14:05Z")
> [@IBuildEm](#): > > … because i did the math… I find that…unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/171 "2016-06-16T20:17:26Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > So a cycle, with a motor? You know, that’s so crazy, it just might work! [There is actually a company](http://www.bikeengines.com/) that specializes in gasoline motors for bicycles. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/172 "2016-06-16T20:30:55Z")
Don’t they have to check competition bicycles now for illicit motors? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/173 "2016-06-16T20:31:13Z")
Ended wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Oil and Gas well below when he came into office. Oil imports cut in half as we now produce more than ever. Health care law Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repealed and gays able to serve openly. Military did not collapse, nor did the professionals leave. No one was forced to be gay to be in the military. Gay marriage now the law of the land. We still have our guns. There’s still no Sharia Law and no one is being forced to be a Muslim. We are now at theoretical ‘Full Employment’ Inflation is pretty much non-existent. Minimum wage is being increased. All of this despite entrenched opposition refusing to cooperate on any issue. Too bad I can’t post the Willy Wonka picture asking how this man is a failure as President. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/174 "2016-06-16T21:03:30Z")
Remember when Obama let ebola turn us all into plague zombies? That was pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/175 "2016-06-16T21:16:27Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > President Obama ended two wars, and tried to make healthcare more affordable and accessible for his fellow Americans. That _monster_. [All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian) ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/176 "2016-06-16T21:16:45Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Not the first time I’ve seen a RW do that, either. > > Some even dismiss Wikipedia. I had a co-worker argue with me quite vehemently that Wikipedia ought to be SHUT DOWN, because her kids weren’t allowed to use it as a source for homework. I tried to explain the ideas of reputable cites, and that her kids could follow the little links in well cited articles to other, more academically-friendly sources, but she was having none of it. That website should be SHUT DOWN. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/177 "2016-06-16T21:50:19Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Remember when Obama let ebola turn us all into plague zombies? That was pretty bad. That’s right. Altogether, [by the governments own admission](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm), almost 19 million Americans have already died on Obama’s watch. Sure, some of them may have died of natural causes, but even if President Hussein Obama deliberately killed only 18 million of them, we can all agree that this Teleprompter Monster ranks up there with Pol Pot and Jack the Ripper as one of the worst murderers in history. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/178 "2016-06-16T21:50:45Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Remember when Obama let ebola turn us all into plague zombies? That was pretty bad. I kind of enjoyed it, actually. But that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/179 "2016-06-16T22:16:37Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Correctly spelled words are just a lame attempt to distract the sheeple from the TRUTH!!! Shouldn’t that be “TROOF”? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/180 "2016-06-16T22:36:34Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Ended wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But started military action against ISIS and the Gaddafi regime. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463.md?page=10)