Thread: 2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President

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Subject: 2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President

Introduction:

Welcome to Toastmasters, June 13, 2033. That's right: 2033.

Today Rick Campbell, one of our senior members at age 87, is here to
reminisce a bit and give us a history lesson. He says he is so old that
he learned to drive an internal combustion engine car (remember those)
with a manual transmission. He once owned a typewriter. He remembers when
bicycles had one speed, phones had two-party lines, and cameras had
something called film. As incredible as this may seem, he says that when
he was young, it was common for people to smoke in restaurants and public
places. He is from a different time; almost a different world.

I'm sure all of us are far too familiar with the tragic events of
2010, so Rick is not going to plow that fertile field again. Instead, he
is going to give us a personal look back at the conditions which led up
to that fateful year, in a speech titled "2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be
President."

"2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President"

Yes, 2010 was long ago and far away.

As we look back on history, it appears that some Presidents had an
easy ride- times of growth and stability. Teddy Roosevelt, Warren G.
Harding, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton come to mind. Those were good
years to be President.

Others were elected just when the Republic was facing terrible
crises: Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, George W.
Bush. They rose to the occasion, even though they were controversial and
widely hated while in office. Not such good years to be President.

Just a few years prior, in 2008, the country began foundering. We
were in the sixth year of the Iraqi Occupation, and the economy was flat.
The mainstream press clearly wanted a Democrat elected.

Although we didn't know it until some years later, oil producing
nations had colluded to secretly buy their own oil on the open market,
driving oil prices to shocking levels above the true demand price-
reaching a high of $162 a barrel in October, 2008, just before the
general elections.

Their purpose was simple: to effect regime change in the United States.

And of course, the U.S. economy was already in a real estate slump
and also suffering the curse of stagflation; slow growth and high inflation.

There were a million home foreclosures.

Independent truckers went under by the thousands.

Airlines failed. Airlines with names now long-forgotten: United,
Delta, Northwestern, American. All now merged, of course, into the one
lone U.S. carrier we love so much: Southwest.

Against this backdrop of weariness of the war on terror, and economic
distress, the American people were ripe for a demagogue, and they
certainly got one in Barack Hussein Obama.

He and his running mate Kathlene Sibelius inspired them with vague
notions of hope and change; of a world in which diplomacy settled all
international problems, of free universal health care, of abundant
alternative energy, of peace and love.

It was a vision too good to resist.

The Republican nominee, a name you probably haven't heard in years
anyone? Yes, it was John McCain, an obscure Senator from Arizona had no
clue how to run a national campaign, and a platform nearly as liberal as
Obama's.

The selection of Condoleeza Rice as his running mate looked brilliant
at first. Unfortunately, black voters viewed her as white, and women
voters viewed her as one of the guys.

Even so, the McCain/Rice ticket would hav e won the election if it
weren't for the fact that 16 percent of conservative Republicans voted
for anyone remember? That's right, Bob Barr, another name that's a
footnote in history.

After Obama's narrow win, thanks to recounts in Broward County,
Florida, the country was positively giddy. A Democrat House, Senate, and
President. At last an end to gridlock in Washington. Camelot!

When Congress convened in January, 2009, the 44th President of the
United States did something unique in history: he made good on his
campaign promises.

Certainly most Americans never really thought he was serious during
the campaign. But whether because of inexperience, idealism, or simply
incompetence, he followed through.

In Obama's first One Hundred Days, the Congress passed his
initiatives, and he signed them into law as he said he would.

He repealed the Bush tax cuts, and increased capital gains taxes.

He enacted a windfall profits tax, and instituted price controls on
gasoline and diesel fuel.

He passed universal health care, which added an additional 10 percent
tax increase on all working Americans.

He signed the Immigrant Amnesty bill which created 12 million new
citizens instantly, each with entitlements.

He closed the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and summarily
released all the detainees.

He repealed the Patriot Act, and cut funding for espionage, and
eliminated all terrorist listening and wiretaps.

Most important, he began the complete and immediate withdrawal of all
American troops from Iraq.

He ignored the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who wanted to
retain bases in Kuwait and Qatar. Instead, he went with the
recommendation of Secretary of Defense Dennis Kucinich, and ordered all
troops back to U.S. soil.

Viola! In One Hundred Days, by May of 2009, it was all done, and the
v ision was complete. He did exactly what he said he would do.

And so it was in the summer of 2009 that things began to unravel for
Obama.

Of course, the economy needed a tax cut, not an increase, and
unemployment quickly rose to 12 percent. Even attorneys and economists
were put in the bread lines. Hard times.

Price controls on gasoline immediately led to shortages and gas lines.

The global cooling trend we have seen for the past 25 years first
became obvious in 2009, exposing the CO2 global warming fraud. People
were justifiably angry.

Federal deficits increased massively because thousands of baby
boomers, facing job loss and much higher taxes, simply gave up and took
social security.

Although the superb U.S. health care system was thrown into disarray,
the bright spot was the creation of the Federal Department of Health
care, and the immediate hiring of 250,000 administrators, inspectors and
au ditors, the only job growth in any economic sector in 2009.

By February 2010, the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq was
complete. It was a very expensive undertaking.

And then in March, the gradual Shiite insurgencies from Iran turned
into a true Iraqi civil war. In May, Iranian tanks crossed the border and
quickly took Baghdad. Although the exact number is not know, at least
230,000 Sunni Iraqis died as we stood by.

Iran also quickly moved into undefended Kuwait.

President Obama did exactly what he said he would. He sent Secretary
of State Maria Cantwell to Tehran to meet with Iranian President
Ahmadinejad.

After two weeks of high level talks, the United States agreed to
allow Iran to retain Iraq and Kuwait to create stability in the middle
east, with the understanding that Israel would not be disturbed.

Cantwell returned to Washington, and explained the agreement in her
famous speech, in which sh e proudly noted that the Obama administration
had finally achieved "peace in our time" in the Middle East.

So there was some surprise at the rocket attacks on Tel Aviv on
August 14th.

President Obama said, "This is not the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I knew."

The Obama administration decided it would be de-stabilizing to take
sides in the conflict, and approximately 29,000 Israeli civilians died
during the summer and fall.

American Jews were appalled at the inaction. Yes, in 2010 most
American Jews were Democrats, but because of 2010, they are solid
Republicans today.

As awkward as it was, everything might have turned out all right for
the Obama administration going into the fall mid-term elections of 2010,
if it hadn't been for the dirty bomb in the Port of Long Beach.

The administration had cut funding for the inspection of containers,
because they felt it showed a "lack of trust" in the international
trading community.

It wasn't really a very big bomb, and thank goodness, not a real
nuclear device, but nonetheless it contaminated some expensive real
estate- Newport Beach, Palos Verdes Estates- and ultimately caused the
death of 14,000 Americans. People were especially annoyed that
Disneyland had to be closed for decontamination.

And so, in the midterm elections, Republicans regained control of
both the House and Senate, and the rest is history.

The impeachment proceedings against President Obama for "failure to
protect and defend" were swift and nearly unanimous. Vice President
Sibelius resigned. Newly-elected Speaker of the House, J.C. Watts, became
the 45th President of the United States.

But you know the rest of the story well.

Republicans finished the war on Islamic fundamentalists, largely by
aiming ICBM's at Mecca and Medina.

No Democrat has been elected President since.

Republicans have held both Houses of Congress.

History of Western Civilization and Economics are now taught in all
public schools, and in English only.

Marriage is defined as one man and one woman.

And there are border fences, north and south.

We old codgers remember the ancient Confucian curse: "May you live in
interesting times."

Well, 2010 was an interesting year, but it was not a good year to be
President."

Interesting BB. LOL

Republicans finished the war on Islamic fundamentalists, largely by
aiming ICBM's at Mecca and Medina.

No Democrat has been elected President since.

Republicans have held both Houses of Congress.

History of Western Civilization and Economics are now taught in all
public schools, and in English only.

Marriage is defined as one man and one woman.

And there are border fences, north and south.

Sigh...I wish!

WOW , LOL

Yikes!

In Obama's first One Hundred Days, the Congress passed his
initiatives, and he signed them into law as he said he would.

He repealed the Bush tax cuts, and increased capital gains taxes.

He enacted a windfall profits tax, and instituted price controls on
gasoline and diesel fuel.

He passed universal health care, which added an additional 10 percent
tax increase on all working Americans.

He signed the Immigrant Amnesty bill which created 12 million new
citizens instantly, each with entitlements.

He closed the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and summarily
released all the detainees.

He repealed the Patriot Act, and cut funding for espionage, and
eliminated all terrorist listening and wiretaps.

Most important, he began the complete and immediate withdrawal of all
American troops from Iraq.

He ignored the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who wanted to
retain bases in Kuwait and Qatar. Instead, he went with the
recommendation of Secretary of Defense Dennis Kucinich, and ordered all
troops back to U.S. soil.

Viola! In One Hundred Days, by May of 2009, it was all done, and the
v ision was complete. He did exactly what he said he would do.

And so it was in the summer of 2009 that things began to unravel for
Obama.

Of course, the economy needed a tax cut, not an increase, and
unemployment quickly rose to 12 percent. Even attorneys and economists
were put in the bread lines. Hard times.

Price controls on gasoline immediately led to shortages and gas lines.

The global cooling trend we have seen for the past 25 years first
became obvious in 2009, exposing the CO2 global warming fraud. People
were justifiably angry.

Federal deficits increased massively because thousands of baby
boomers, facing job loss and much higher taxes, simply gave up and took
social security.

Although the superb U.S. health care system was thrown into disarray,
the bright spot was the creation of the Federal Department of Health
care, and the immediate hiring of 250,000 administrators, inspectors and
au ditors, the only job growth in any economic sector in 2009.

By February 2010, the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq was
complete. It was a very expensive undertaking.

And then in March, the gradual Shiite insurgencies from Iran turned
into a true Iraqi civil war. In May, Iranian tanks crossed the border and
quickly took Baghdad. Although the exact number is not know, at least
230,000 Sunni Iraqis died as we stood by.

Iran also quickly moved into undefended Kuwait.

President Obama did exactly what he said he would. He sent Secretary
of State Maria Cantwell to Tehran to meet with Iranian President
Ahmadinejad.

After two weeks of high level talks, the United States agreed to
allow Iran to retain Iraq and Kuwait to create stability in the middle
east, with the understanding that Israel would not be disturbed.

Cantwell returned to Washington, and explained the agreement in her
famous speech, in which sh e proudly noted that the Obama administration
had finally achieved "peace in our time" in the Middle East.

So there was some surprise at the rocket attacks on Tel Aviv on
August 14th.

President Obama said, "This is not the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I knew."

The Obama administration decided it would be de-stabilizing to take
sides in the conflict, and approximately 29,000 Israeli civilians died
during the summer and fall.

American Jews were appalled at the inaction. Yes, in 2010 most
American Jews were Democrats, but because of 2010, they are solid
Republicans today.

As awkward as it was, everything might have turned out all right for
the Obama administration going into the fall mid-term elections of 2010,
if it hadn't been for the dirty bomb in the Port of Long Beach.

The administration had cut funding for the inspection of containers,
because they felt it showed a "lack of trust" in the international
trading community.

It wasn't really a very big bomb, and thank goodness, not a real
nuclear device, but nonetheless it contaminated some expensive real
estate- Newport Beach, Palos Verdes Estates- and ultimately caused the
death of 14,000 Americans. People were especially annoyed that
Disneyland had to be closed for decontamination.

Not so far fetched as some Democrats may think.