President Obama is good for the US

==================== Contention 1: Opportunity Cost ==================== My opponent clearly believes McCain would be a better president. As of 12/6/09, my opponent's preferred president is John McCain. [1] I agree that McCain would make a better president than Obama. ================== Contention 2: Dependability ================== Good: -Possessing the quality of being dependable; financially sound; "A good investment" [2] Barack Obama has not been dependable. As Pro admits, he has shifted his policy on the War on Terror. While he was campaigning for Pres, he was against the war, wanting to pull our troops out. He has contradicted this multiple times... Jan 12: http://www.washingtonpost.com... Mar 26: http://www.cnn.com... Sep 11: http://www.huffingtonpost.com... Nov 30: http://www.cbsnews.com... ====================== Contention 3: Performance in Bed ====================== Good: -Modestly expceptional in bed; "Da*n! you were so good..." [3] Obama is not good because he clearly can't perform in bed: http://comixed.com... ================ Contention 4: Marijuana ================ Good: -Slang used when talking to your pot dealer. Instead of asking if he has marijuana, you ask if he's good. Keeps your dealer under the radar, and he would appreciate it. [4] Obama has made it clear that he smoked pot as a child, but has since quit the habit: http://www.nytimes.com... Thus, he is not good enough for the US to purchase even a dime bag from. =============== Contention 5: extinction =============== Obama is not a good president because his proposal of a healthcare has inevitably lead us to extinction. All sources for this contention found here: http://debatecoaches.org... unless otherwise noted +++++++++++++++++ Possibility 1: Bill Passes +++++++++++++++++ Social services bring conservatives to Obama's side raising his political capital Gerson 2009 (Michael Gerson, op-ed columnist and senior fellow at the Councin on Foreign Relations and senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006 for President Bush, Washington Post, 7-4-09, http://www.washingtonpost.com...) If I may be permitted a moment...figure in the first place. --- And, Obama will use his capital to create a successful G20 Summit Pettifor 9-9(Ann, http://www.huffingtonpost.com...) So what should the president...become its servant. --- A successful Summit causes dollar dumping McLeod 2009 (Judi, Former Columnist for the Toronto Star, 3-24, "No cheerleader for propping up greenback at G20 summit", http://canadafreepress.com...) Is the table being ...of President Barack Obama. --- This hurts the European economy Palley 2003 (Thomas, Director of the Globalization Reform Project @ Open Society Institute, "The over-valued dollar and the U.S. Slump", October, in "Dollar Overvaluation and the World Economy", Ed. Bergsten and Williamson, http://www.thomaspalley.com...) A first cost comes from...the European economy. --- European Economy key to EU diplomatic influence Zakaria 2006 (Fareed, Washington Post, "The Decline And Fall of Europe", 2-14, http://www.washingtonpost.com...) What does all...something with nothing. --- This causes Extinction Bruton 2001 (John, EU Ambassador to the US, October, http://www.irlgov.ie...) As the Laeken ...many individual states. +++++++++++++++ Possibility 2: Bill Fails +++++++++++++++ Obama's domestic political capital is key to a successful Peace Process – failure means escalating Mid-East conflict Giacaman 9-15 (professor at Birzeit University, contributes political analysis to Arab and international media George Giacaman, Last chance for a two-state solution, http://www.bitterlemons.org...) bitterlemons: If Palestinian-Israeli negotiations ...10 or 15 years for negotiations. This is it. --- We are on the brink of conflict Voices of America on April 4th ["New Report Says Sudan Peace Agreement at Risk" Voices of America. 04 April 2009] The latest report...People's Liberation Movement. From: http://circuitdebater.wikispaces.com... (includes uncut citation) --- Middle East conflict leads to full scale Nuke War Palm Beach Post 2006 (2/1, lexis) Is anyone really surprised at Hamas' ...they will be sadly mistaken. Jeffrey Deutsch [Rabid Tiger Project founder, professor of political science at New World University, November 18, 2002, The Rabid Tiger Newsletter, Vol. II, No. 9, http://www.rabidtigers.com...] The Rabid Tiger...to go fishing. 2nd Source from: http://circuitdebater.wikispaces.com... (includes uncut citation) +++++++++++++++++ Possibility 3: Either Way +++++++++++++++++ Simply the act of the plan being proposed has caused extreme partisanship in the government, leading to extinction: The plan creates partisan waves and will cause battles – forcing reconciliation SOJO 3 (Christian Newspaper, 11/5, "Partisan fighting or fighting poverty?", http://www.sojo.net..., Aly) After nearly two years..needs of poor people. --- Reconciliation will destroy the climate legislation Pew Center 10-1(Pew Center on Climate Change, http://www.egovmonitor.com...) The bottom line is that...that much harder. --- US action on climate key to a global solution – domestic political atmosphere key FREEDLAND 9- 15 - 09 (Guardian UK Staff, http://www.guardian.co.uk...) Anyone who cares about the survival ... will do the right thing. --- Extinction Tickell, 8-11-2008 (Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Gaurdian, "On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction", http://www.guardian.co.uk...) Anyone who cares about the...date is just too late. --- Obama's healthcare bill has pretty much doomed the human race. I'm not sure it gets much worse than that. [1] http://www.debate.org... [2] http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu... [3] http://www.urbandictionary.com... [4] http://www.urbandictionary.com...