Is Hillary Getting Desperate?

[BFritz21]

(02-29-2016, 12:16 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Not sure what you are trying to say here, but during the Obama administration the middle class has seen the value of their homes rise dramatically and their stock market saving accounts double in value.

Maybe iof you could give me a few more details I can give a more detailed response.

** 1 in 2 working Americans make less than $30,000 a year.

** More Children Live in Poverty Today Than During 2008 Recession
** Worst Labor Force Participation Rate Since 1977
** More Young Adults Live at Home Than in 2009
** One in Five US Families Not Working
** Real Hourly Income Down 10% Under Obama
** 11.4 Million Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office
** Typical US Household Worth One-Third Less Than Under Bush
** One-Fifth of Middle Class Falls into Poverty



There's a few.

(02-29-2016, 12:16 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 1.  Everyone with a brain knows we are still the superpower of the world.  Our GDP is still way over double the next country on Earth (China).  Our economy drives the entire worlds economy.  We still control almost 40% of all the military spending on earth.  Our military presence acts as security for international trade all around the globe.

2.  Apologizing is part of a thing called "diplomacy".  That is a thing civilized people use to shape foreign policy instead of just threats to "BOMB 'EM BACK TO THE STONE AGE!" 

Now if Obama had went to these countries grovelling and begging for something then I would agree with you that these apologies could be seen as "kissing ass".  But Obama was not begging or asking for anything.  All he was trying to do was re-establish diplomatic ties.  He was not apologizing from a position of weakness or because he was forced to.  Instead he was doing what real men do.  He was admitting mistakes had been made and owning up to them.   

Clearly something you will never understand.

Ha!


Apologizing is part of diplomacy for being wrong, but when we have done nothing wrong, it only makes us look weak.  He has called America arrogant and said that we've been wrong in being so decisive and going at things full-force and not caring about what other countries think, but guess what, that's what a leader does!  I'm not saying that we need to piss off other countries, but we lead, we don't follow, which Obama is a follower.

It's hilarious how you claim that I'm the one who doesn't understand about owning up to mistakes.

(02-29-2016, 12:27 PM)fredtoast Wrote: If the reasoning behind the Vietnam War was correct and we lost then why didn't Communism continue to spread?

Because the war stopped the North from invading the South and other countries for years, at least slowing it and not allowing it to spread to more of Asia.