Failed Presidency? How?

I have ONE Republican friend left.  And when ever I point out that some of the spew that comes from him, always, via, "Faux News" is wrong, he launches into calling the President, "a  p.o.s.", a, "Marxist/Socialist who is driving the country into the ground",  and tonight, "a failure".

By what standard it President Obama a failure?  Or for that matter, a Marxist, or a Socialist?

His signature legislation, "Obama care" passed.  Bin Laden is dead, and GM is still alive.  The economic recovery is slower than we want, but it is recovering.  And might have done even better, if he hadn't been stopped in everything he's tried to do, by the Republicans in Congress who are determined to keep him from having ANY success at all.

I'm pretty sure that this guy couldn't define a, "Marxist".  Well, unless he really studied the history of the LDS Church, and the, "collectives" they tried to establish when they illegally immigrated to Mexico in 1847, while trying to establish, "The Kingdom Of Zion" and fleeing the rule of The United States.

And as for being a, "Socialist"?  I know I am.  And so are you.  Whether you believe it or not.  If you get your water, sewer, police and fire protection, garbage pick up, street repair and plowing from your city?  You're a Socialist.  And you have to admit we live in a democratic, socialist country.  To deny it is shear folly.

And this guy, like me, lives in Murray City.  We even get our POWER from our city.  Imagine that.  A publicly owned, power company that doesn't put any money in the pockets of the Koch Brothers, and provides power to the people of the city at the lowest possible rate, because it doesn't have to make a profit for share holders!  Communism!

I'm surprised my friend hasn't moved out of Murray in protest.

Every four years, in this country, we have a change in government.  It's peaceful.  Not a shot is fired.  So if you don't like the guy that got elected?  Stick around for a while.  If he does a bad job, sometimes, we get rid of him.  If he does a really, really bad job, like, "Shrub"?  Sometimes we screw up, and keep him.  But it's only another four years.  The country will survive even an idiot like HIM.
I just spent a week in probably the most poorly run country on the planet, Cuba.  THEY will tell you they are a shining example of the triumph of, "Socialism".  But they are full of shit.  They are a Communist country in every way shape and form.  I've been to the beach country clubs, seen the Yacht Club on Cenfuigo Bay.  I know that the people in charge are very, very comfortable.  They drive the Jaguars, and Audi's.

Everyone else is poor, and has to buy their food from a ration book every month.

The Cubans will tell you that the ration book is the reason, "No one goes hungry in Cuba".  I will tell you bullshit.  Why not take that argument to it's logical extension?  Because of the ration book?  We have no obesity problem in Cuba!  That's bullshit too.  There are no fat people there, that part is true.  Weight control isn't the problem.  Hunger is.

This is what the, "Socialism" the R's want you to believe President Obama is bringing, looks like.

And as much as IS screwed up in Cuba?  There is one thing they got right.  Their national health care system.  Anyone in Cuba can see a doctor any time, for what ever ails them.

Yeah, I can hear the Faux News bullshit now.  "They have death panels!"  "They have waiting lists!"  "You could die before you get treated!"  All bullshit.  Same arguments are made about Canada and it's just as big a lie about that country as it is about Cuba.  You will see just as many Canadians as Cubans in OUR doctors offices.  And the Canadians COULD come here if they wanted to.  They don't want to.

A lady in our tour group fell one day.  Turns out she broke her foot.  The tour guide took her to the emergency room.  They xray'd her foot, set it, put her in a cast.  No charge.  The only money she owed was a $10 fee for an English translation of her records to take home to her doctor in this country.  See if you can get that kind of care at that price here next time you break something.

Yeah, I know.  ER's are required to treat the indigent in this country.  And they do.  But go to IMC here in Murray, or any other facility operated by IHC and don't pay that bill and see what happens to you.  They will sue you for the money.  Non profit my ass.

But I digress.  Obama is not a commie/socialist/Marxist.  He is not a failure.  He's not running the country into the ground.  Bush did that.  Obama is trying to back the country out of the ditch, with a Congress determined to not let him.

So, if you hate this President, you might have to really reexamine the reasons why.  Might be because you don't look like him?  Cause if you're not really rich, and you still want to vote for Mitt?  That might be the reason.