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« Last post by Kenny on Today at 02:53:19 PM »
Off the top of my head, Monticello, Northfield, Batavia, Hoosier, Saratoga.
Is the handle greater purses or is the takeout greater than the purses at those tracks? Northfield makes sense. The rest are questionable.
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« Last post by getreal on Today at 02:35:41 PM »
As far as pure talent goes I think Denny and Dave are similar. Dave was Dangerous, Denny wasn't, noone can argue that.
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Without taking sides, you know yourself whenever the opposing party takes over the White House, they blame everything on the outgoing party whether it's true or not.
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« Last post by andrew on Today at 02:32:43 PM »
There were many more options to pick from when creating this list. These five are the biggest ones, in my opinion, that have negatively impacted the country, the world, and Obama’s party. Most of these failures could have been avoided had Obama lived up to his own promises of being a post-partisan president. Instead, he governed as the most Left-wing president we’d had until that point (now, Biden has surpassed Obama).
The crises we are living with today are, in many cases, the result of failures and excesses that former President Obama engaged in while he was in office. Historians will remember him as being the first African-American president. As for being a great president, if they’re being honest, they will remember him as the beginning of the end of America as a superpower.
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« Last post by getreal on Today at 02:32:30 PM »
You cant blame Denny for Dave's dangerous drive. Someone could've been severely injured. Im with self, count me in for a Beer. I hope the penalty is a send a message type.
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« Last post by andrew on Today at 02:30:59 PM »
empowering iran
If the passage of the ACA in Obama’s first term was his to be the forty-fourth president’s greatest domestic policy achievement (it wasn’t), then the Iran nuclear agreement in President Obama’s second term was to be his foreign policy masterstroke (like the ACA, it wasn’t).
Obama was operating on the naïve assumption that the Iranian regime, despite its public appearance of being led by millenarian religious zealots, was a rational actor seeking normalization in a world that had isolated them.
Part of Obama’s goal was to distance the United States from the Middle East after more than a decade of being bogged down there. Unfortunately for Obama, carefully laid plans, or perfect academic theories on how humans should act rarely translate well in the real world. The Iranian regime could not be trusted.
What’s more, entrusting Iran with nuclear weapons was the work of a madman. After all, Iran was one of the world’s leading state sponsors of global terrorism.
Obama believed that if he allowed for the Shiite Muslim-dominated Iran to acquire nukes, with the predominantly Jewish democracy of Israel long having possessed nuclear weapons, and a Sunni Islamic world nominally led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that was opposed to Iran, a balance of power that would lead to long-term peace would be at hand.
Any attempt by the United States to normalize relations with Iran and allow for the peaceful march toward Iranian nuclear weapons capabilities would only militate Tehran further against the West, believing the Western powers were weak and could be toppled.
President Obama even partnered with the Islamic Republic of Iran to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an organization that was itself birthed because of shabby Obama foreign policy when he decided to sloppily withdraw US forces from Iraq. Because of that short-sighted decision, Iran was given carte blanche to expand into Iraq and connect its power base with that of Lebanon, thereby threatening Israel.
Today, Iran is one of the world’s leading forces of instability. Their growing nuclear weapons capability as well as their newfound alliance with China and Russia, could lead to the breakout of the third world war—something that Obama’s hairbrained scheme in 2015 was supposed to avert.
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« Last post by andrew on Today at 02:26:58 PM »
The next greatest failure of the Obama Administration was the failure to rein in government spending and to winnow down America’s onerous debt. When he inherited the White House from George W. Bush, Obama did have a gigantic mess to clean.
Obama’s solution was not to buckle down and deal with the crises he was dealt. Instead, his solution was to ignore the tragic reality he and the country faced and to pretend as if the debt was meaningless—by tacking on loads more debt, to spend money on Democratic Party wish lists.
And while Obama could make the claim that he was simply continuing those responses to deal with the ongoing emergencies, there was so much other spending that occurred that did not to happen it begs the question: just what was Obama thinking?
Obama spent more tax dollars than all 43 presidents who came before him. This was born out of the Keynesian belief that one can spend their way out of economic decline. You cannot. All that does is weaken the economy, reduce your currency’s standing in the world, and set yourself up for the mother-of-all bankruptcies.
It’s easier to paint Republicans as a bunch of miserly racists intent on throwing grandma off the cliff and making the rich wealthier. Rather than work to create a “Grand Bargain” that would have made America a stronger, more prosperous, freer nation in the long-run, Obama refused to negotiate; he scuttled his talks with Boehner and doubled-down on the excessive spending.
The major economic crisis that the United States is speeding towards today is the direct result of Obama’s failure—his willing refusal—to address the emergency when it could have been contained and resolved before becoming the crisis we’re heading into today.
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« Last post by andrew on Today at 02:24:01 PM »
The Liberal commentator, Bill Press, wrote an interesting book at the end of Obama’s presidency in 2016, in which he criticized Obama from the Left. According to Press, Obama failed as the transformative president he vowed to be because he did not outright nationalize the American healthcare system when he had the chance to do so.
But Press was correct in highlighting Obama’s passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as being one of his biggest failures as president.
The problem for Obama and the Democrats was that the bill was totally insufficient to their goal of making health insurance more affordable. Plus, Obama failed to get a single Republican vote in the Senate, for example, they created an atmosphere of ill-will in Washington that plagued the Obama Administration until its final days in office.
Access to affordable healthcare was a leading contributor to personal bankruptcies. Getting sick in America was truly a death sentence for many—if not literally then certainly financially.
Yet, Obama’s solution didn’t make sense. The problem with America’s healthcare system is primarily the health insurance market. The way it is structured and managed creates cost overruns and harms the American people.
Simple solutions to making health insurance more affordable, like allowing for Americans to window shop for the best priced policies by going outside their states were completely ignored in favor of a policy that forced millions of Americans to pay higher premiums and possibly lose access to their preferred physicians.
Next, think about the way in which Obama forced the policy through. Rather than rolling up his sleeves and midwifing a truly bipartisan bill—something that was possible, given how many years Republican groups, like the Heritage Foundation had worked on various proposals for healthcare reform—Obama decided to work only with his own party to pass the bill.
The fight over Obamacare, by the way, not only solidified the dividing lines in Washington, D.C., but it also led to the radicalization of the Right that the Left has spent the last decade whinging about (as if the Left played no role at all).
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« Last post by andrew on Today at 02:19:06 PM »
Sadly, those Americans who believed that the future would be bleaker for their children than it was for them and their parents, were right. Obama failed to deliver. His supporters claim that he cleaned up an epic mess inherited from George W. Bush and his Republican Party.
Of course, that’s just a convenient excuse that the Left uses to cover up for the fact that Obama did not live up to his promise.
Sure, the Democrats blame the Republicans for Obama’s failures. But that’s not why he failed. Obama’s presidency failed because the forty-fourth president was, first, in-over-his-head.
Second, Obama was as partisan—if not more—than his Republican opposition was.
Just look at his five biggest mistakes as president. You’ll see that every misstep he made was the result of Obama behaving as a radical Leftist rather than bipartisan moderate that he claimed he was during the 2008 General Election (of course, remember, most of Obama’s career before then and his campaign for the Democratic Party primary in 2008, Obama ran as a Hard Leftist).
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