What Obama's Second Term Could Look Like

The New Yorker:

In November, 1984, President Ronald Reagan was reëlected in a landslide victory over Walter Mondale, taking forty-nine states and fifty-nine per cent of the popular vote.

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Comments

[zmanusmc]

01:38 PM on 06/12/2012

Greece, only bigger.

[mphmb]

06:36 AM on 06/12/2012

Yeah, we know what the USA will look like too. More third world!

[hellothereandhere]

07:06 PM on 06/11/2012

Obama will get more free in his second term to do what he really thinks is right and what is best for the entire American people, since he won't have to work for a 3rd term.
Hopefully Obama wants to go in History with some good historical deeds accomplished. He will have only 4 years for that.

[mphmb]

07:18 AM on 06/12/2012

He had that in his first two years, and the result was a backlash against Obama by CHANGING 63 seats from the DEMs to the GOP in 2010. The resulting failed legislation of the Health Care Disaster Bill, the Stimulas and the Frank Dodd financial reform bills caused that to happen. This nation has seen what Barry would do if he had the chance and want no part of it. Also, just look at the polls about the direction of the country. About 2/3 believe Barry is taking us in the WRONG direction.

[zmanusmc]

01:39 PM on 06/12/2012

very astute.

[Chris1962]

07:22 AM on 06/12/2012

I don't think a guy with +8% unemployment, 1.7% growth, a $15.6T national debt, an historic downgrade, and his "flagship" down the constitutional crapper is gonna be getting a second term. Something tells me Jimmy Carter will be moving up in the history books.

[zmanusmc]

01:41 PM on 06/12/2012

be careful ... when half of the voters don't pay taxes are voting to raise taxes on the other half of hard working taxpayers, we will be right behind Greece if Obama is reelected.

[Blackspeare]

06:10 PM on 06/11/2012

Obama wants to be the president who resolves the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. If I were a Jew who was concerned about Israel I certainly wouldn't vote for him because he is going to force Israel into concessions that will put Israel into future jeopardy. The surrounding Arab states always said time was on their side. Time for the Arabs to grow stronger; time for Israel's allies to withdraw. Israel has existed for a little over 60 years will it make it for another sixty? A famous historian predicted in 1948, that Israel would last 50 years----perhaps he was only off by 50 years! And to think of the irony that Israel could be done in by a US president with a middle name of "Hussein."

[lipps]

06:03 PM on 06/11/2012

Look no further than Detriot. Only on a nation wide scale.

[mphmb]

05:34 PM on 06/11/2012

I read this article and it made he sick. It harded my belief that Obama must go. I think it was all wrong too. They paint Obama as being pragmatic and adjusting his policy. So, he changes direction when it suits him and takes half measures to get what he wanted in the end thru failure.

The statement that really angered me was ...

"Obama spent his first years fighting his generals, who sought to maneuver him into sending more troops and prolonging the nation’s commitment there. He eventually gained the upper hand and won the policy he wanted: withdrawal"

So, Obama agrees to a partial surge to play politics to get what he wanted in the end of withdrawal? That is sick since it clearly says Obama used our troops for his end political end which first set them up for failure, and killed so many for his political goals of withdrawal.

What we see is a liberal attempting to justify Obama's failures, and in the end, she shows a calculating politican that will do and say anything for his political goals. I thought Obama was suppose to be different. What he has turned out to be is the worst politican we have seen.

[GravitonX]

04:54 PM on 06/11/2012

Victory.

[joeisright]

04:48 PM on 06/11/2012

What Obama's Second Term Could Look Like?.......A bearing wasteland.

[GravitonX]

04:52 PM on 06/11/2012

Work on your spelling. Funny how President Obama's worst critics are nearly illiterate.

[Tess41]

04:08 PM on 06/11/2012

...folks screaming and running for the border?

[beadyi]

04:07 PM on 06/11/2012

OK. Now we know what Obama's second term would look like.
What would Romney's first (only) term look like?

Happen to see the movie "THE ROAD?"

[Smaiyna]

04:06 PM on 06/11/2012

First, with President Obama's Stella record on foreign policy and fight on terror his Administration does not need to leak anything to make him look good on foreign policy. The Obama haters are so unhappy and disappointed the President never gave them the "I TOLD YOU SO" they were banking on.
Just a reminder of some of his foreign policy achievements:
>He kept Americans safe, no 911 style attack on American soil under his watch.
>Brought back respectability and admiration to America, after Bush's years.
>Kept terrorists on the run and hiding like never before, and killed America's #1 terrorist OBL.
>Topple a dictator without a single American life lost and at a very far less cost, and paid for.
ETC..

[44 Mag]

04:12 PM on 06/11/2012

Who's "Stella"?

[Smaiyna]

05:00 PM on 06/11/2012

stellar!=brilliant....lol.

[zooks1]

04:24 PM on 06/11/2012

You are a prime example of why medicine cabinets should be locked.

[Smaiyna]

05:02 PM on 06/11/2012

Really!...I challenge you to dispute any of the points i made or are you going Pawlenty as usual?

[Preserveourrepublic]

04:05 PM on 06/11/2012

God forbid! However, if God does allow this to happen as our punishment, here's what I see:

Higher income taxes on everyone making more than $50,000
Continued class warfare (for the sake of the 99%)
Government will grow in size and cost by 50%
Deficits will go from $1.4 Trillion a year to $3 Trillion a year
U.S. dollar devalued to that of Peso
Hyper inflation
Meats banned for consumption
Sugar banned in soft drinks
Obesity fines of $100 annually per pound over ideal weight
Marajuana legalized, heavily taxed; available only from government owned pot shops
Cap-n-Trade taxes assessed
All autos to be either Smart cars or plug-in electrics
Air conditioning outlawed during summer
Heat outlawed during winter
Backyard grilling outlawed (what's the point without meat?)
Health care rationing; elder care cut
Mandatory sterilization of women after 2nd child
Mandatory abortion of any child conceived after 2nd live birth
Home schooling outlawed; parents of home school children imprisoned
Catholic Church banished to the catacombs, Catholic hospitals, Catholic schools surrendered to government control
Protestant ministers forced to perform same-sex marriages
Muslims given government provided prayer mats, feet washing basins, and halal meals free of charge for life

And that's just in his first year of a second term.

Stop the ship. I want to get off!

[oncegreatcountry]

04:38 PM on 06/11/2012

Gheeze! The worst part of reading your post is - I believe it all!

[JustMeinNJ]

04:54 PM on 06/11/2012

f&f

[GravitonX]

04:53 PM on 06/11/2012

You left out: The sky falling.

[hp44o]

04:02 PM on 06/11/2012

This President is content with selling Americans into slavery. Inslaved to depend on the goverment to make all our choices for us from the cars we drive and the gods we worship.

[billydkidd]

04:13 PM on 06/11/2012

I agree he has not been doing enough to stop the radical Republican obstructionist.

[zooks1]

04:29 PM on 06/11/2012

Like we obstructed the healthcare act, cash for clunkers, 2 failed stimulus bills a failed shovel ready infrastructure bill, cllosing nasa down. How did that republican obstruction go? i wont even mention the debt and defict spending he caused a downgrade over. democrats are having a really hard time coping with the fact most americans do not support their svengali leader. next they will blame the American people, no one else is left to blame. Considering republicans have not been in charge almost 6 years it will interesting to see how they act when republicans do take control.

[44 Mag]

04:00 PM on 06/11/2012

What would it look like? Beirut Lebanon...

[amendingangel]

03:58 PM on 06/11/2012

Along with an Obama second term must come a cooperative gov't. There's only one way to accomplish this: vote out the obstructionists.