016 Presidential Election
06-09-2014, 11:18 PM
Quote: (06-09-2014 07:37 PM)xpatplayer Wrote:
History will remember Obama as a President with one too many scandals under his belt.
Reagan had Iran-Contra (14 people got convicted on that one), debategate, and grant rigging.
Don't forget Clinton with draft dodging, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Whitewater, Lewinsky, Mogadishu, Kosovo...
Bush had invading Iraq, "the coalition of the willing", WMDs, whatever the fuck happened with him in ROTC, Guantanamo, failing to get bin Laden, 9/11 and the million conspiracies that people have tagged along with it, Katrina, DC madam scandal, Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, the Axis of Evil, Mission Accomplished, NSA wiretapping, Wolfowitz and the World Bank, etc...
Obama has Benghazi, IRS targetting anti-tax groups, actually killing bin Laden, Guantanamo, not quite full withdrawal from Afghanistan, Obamacare, the VA, Fast & Furious, rescuing a POW, NSA wiretapping getting revealed, and
Joe Biden being a big fucking deal.
The championship still goes to Richard Milhouse Nixon who first got accused of taking inappropriate funds and told everyone the only thing he took was a puppy for his kids and he wasn't giving it back. He was shady as fuck but people wrote it off until Watergate, where 69 government officials were charged and 48 were found guilty, with Nixon himself needing to get pardoned by Ford, and releasing his autobiography to raise funds to cover his remaining legal fees.
What you guys need to be asking yourself is,
how will the trends in American politics impact your life, and how can they optimally benefit you? Government is expanding? Go get a government job (sorry, back breaking labor in the Dakotas isn't for everyone). Get your damn FAFSA filled out to get financial aid for school. Can't get experience in your field? Get a government internship, or utilize one of their work training programs. Get a goddamn Fulbright to subsidize your life abroad.
Stop sitting around complaining about how politics makes your life miserable, and get to work making the best out of the situation. If you still feel the need to complain, write your congressman - seriously, if they're wavering on an issue and didn't co-sponsor a bill, they might be persuaded to vote for/against it if a certain amount of constituents contacts their office (which was the drop of water that caused the flood?).