your words have some meaning, we could have had John Kerry doing the same things right now... but, as they say, the captain goes down with the ship... if obarry cannot control the people in congress, then it's his fault... if they don't respect him enough to help out, then they should all be replaced, maybe with some trained monkeys?

not the Job of POTUS to "Control" Congress!
He needs to control the Gang in his own Branch,the Executive one,not meddle in the Legislative one!

i meant if they respected him or his opinion, or if they didn't have their own agenda, then things would be running much better and smoother... but since everyone in washington is there for the wrong reasons, which is not for the benefit of the people, then the government won't function as a team... thats the presidents fault, no matter who it is...

http://m.townhall.com/columnists/erickerickson/2015/08/07/no-longer-a-conspiracy-n2035734/
Erick Erickson

No Longer a Conspiracy
Aug. 07, 2015

If I had told you in 2008 that Barack Obama would negotiate a deal that he acknowledges will fund terrorism, you'd have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

Just this past week, Obama admitted that money flowing to Iran from his negotiated deal will be used by Iran to fund terrorism. Consider that for a minute. More and more, we are encountering "lone wolves" in the United States. In Chattanooga, one killed several soldiers and sailors. Europe and Asia are still seeing Islamic terror attacks. The president of the United States just acknowledged that his deal with Iran will fund more terrorism.


If I had told you in 2008 that Obama's administration would preside over the largest hack of personnel records, and the families of American soldiers would have Muslim men show up at their homes in the United States to intimidate them, you'd have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning of several incidents in the western United States. In one, Middle Eastern men got out of a car and approached the wife of a solider. They informed her that her husband had participated in interrogations of terrorists. She denied it. They insisted he had. Then they got back in the car and drove away. Their car had been seen several times in the neighborhood.

If I had told you in 2008 that Obama would publicly release classified details about Israel's nuclear capabilities, you'd have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

After Israel's prime minister vocally criticized Obama's deal with Iran, the United States "accidentally" released its records on Israel's nuclear program. Iran now knows what weapons Israel has and does not have. The world now knows the extent of Israel's nuclear program.


If I had told you in 2008 that Obama would release a traitor who leaked our secrets to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, you'd have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

Obama is releasing Jonathan Pollard. Pollard was a spy on behalf of Israel who leaked U.S. classified material to Israel. But Pollard also ensured it got into the hands of the Soviet Union at the time Ronald Reagan was intent on collapsing the Soviet regime. Pollard was tried, found guilty and thrown in jail. Obama is going to release him.

If I had told you in 2008 that Obama would lecture Christians on the crusades and call a growing army of Islamic radicals "junior varsity," you'd have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

Time and time again, Obama has sought to lecture Christians on their history. Never mind that he has gotten the basics of that history wrong. He has downplayed the rise of ISIS. He has refused to call ISIS "Islamic radicals." He has denied they have anything to do with Islam despite even Middle Eastern scholars admitting ISIS is fundamentally Islamic.

If I had told you in 2008 that Obama would argue before the Supreme Court that there is no ministerial exception in the First Amendment, you'd have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

Obama's administration argued that churches and church-related institutions have no exception for their ministers from the demands of the state. It was a position the Supreme Court rejected in a 9-0 opinion. It put the Obama administration to the left of the American Civil Liberties Union.

If I had told you in 2008 that Obama's administration would suggest before the Supreme Court that they might take away the tax-exempt status of churches and religious institutions that do not support gay marriage, you'd have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

Obama's solicitor general did just that in the past year. The administration said they would have to look at church tax-exempt status if preachers and churches refused to perform gay marriages. They will also examine Christian institutions that have a tax-exempt status, such as seminaries.

If I had told you any of these things would happen back in 2008, you would have thought me a conspiracy theorist or crazy. But here we are in 2015, and all these things have happened. This is Obama's fundamental transformation of America.

if Erick said it,, it must be true,,,,

not for nothing, but I sure wish these pundits would link their lists with actual back up resources to prove them as they list them,,,

Blah blah blah. This is classic manipulation of facts, to turn them into self-righteous nonsense.

Anyone remember when Ronald Reagan traded arms for hostages? Anyone genuinely believe that Reagan didn't know that Iran would use those weapons to support their anti-American agendas? Anyone genuinely believe that Reagan purposely gave arms to Iran because he WANTED to help them attack us?

This is political BS, over and over again. People who want to find fault with someone else, and are willing to ignore half or more of the real world in order to do so, will always be able to work up a list of "sins" to complain about.

so whats the real world? that we were at WAR with Iran when Reagan did this? your just trying to bring up this dimocratic dribble to make yourself and dims look good, and it doesn't work. and it still seems like your trying to make two wrongs look right to justify your opinion, and that doesn't work either... fact is, obarry is a bad president, and all your twisting of words will never change that fact...

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Barry golfs while America goes to blazes. Same difference.

Bush got more done in that cabin than you think. But then again Libs don't want to admit it.

Typical liberalism

yea, and he had to leave a day early for his latest lavish vacation... those vacations can't wait...

No sir they can't by God

You clearly have serious spelling problems as well as other cognizance difficulties. I have neither attempted, nor done anything you accuse me of. It is assumptions such as you have made about me, which cause you to be unable to reason logically about ANY of this.

let me ask YOU some questions, since you are making unfounded and unsupportable accusations against me:

1. " that we were at WAR with Iran when Reagan did this? "

What does this sentence fragment mean? We were not then, nor are we now, at war with Iran. So your unintelligible question has nothing to address. Why did you ask it?

2. "trying to make two wrongs look right to justify your opinion..."

Okay, first of all, you have no idea what my opinion even IS, clearly. Second, this statement of yours, suggests that you already believe that Reagan was wrong to do as he did. Can you confirm that please, for the sake of figuring out what YOU actually believe about all this?

3. You have yet to have publicly retracted your lie that the current President was even remotely responsible for the lowered credit rating you attributed to him. The question is, are you incapable of correcting your blatantly false accusations, or are you simply unwilling to do so?

Come on Dodo, you can do it. Dodo?......David?

man, you sure are smart... is that why you keep trying to turn the topic in spelling and grammar errors? if you can't just answer the topics questions, then quit and go teach English somewhere, this post isn't about grammar errors and spelling mistakes, it's about obarry being a bad president... do you have anything to say about obarry being a bad president? if not, go away...

Still refusing to deal with facts, I see.

No reason to continue this as long as you aren't even trying to do what you pretend. "obarry" doesn't exust, so no one has to talk to you about that fantasy. Your posted list contains lies which you keep ignoring even when they are carefully detailed for you. Until you are willing to specifically and directly address YOUR OWN CONTENTIONS, I think it's you who need to sit down.

what facts would you be talking about?

At least he admitted to inhaling.........

Donald didn't destroy a nation, jumpstart an arms race and a nuclear race in the Middle East and didn't create the biggest terrorist organization in the world.