I could name hundreds of things you could not dispute...but let's just take one obvious one...the increase in the National Debt during his terms....that's just ONE.
Yep. And that is one that is mostly due to
the worst economic downturn since the 1930s and Bush 43 policies, which the Republican Congress utterly refused to change.
Surely you've seen this before?
Obama is the first President since the Revolution to get any sort of diplomatic traction in public whatsoever with Iran. Unless you consider Reagan selling weapons to Iran, in an explicit (albeit secret) swap for hostages, to be the paragon of international relations.
Are you even aware of his efforts to support Morsi and the Muslim Brohood against the will of the majority of Egyptians in Egypt several years back?
Yes, it was much better when American foreign policy supported cruel dictators like Mubarak.
P.S. spare us the fact-deprived conspiracy theories (e.g.
U.S. Senate candidate Barry Hinckley says Obama administration gave $1.5 billion to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood | PolitiFact Rhode Island)
And let's talk about some of the positive things.
- A key figure in preventing the global economy from spiraling into another Great Depression
- Prevented the decimation of the US auto industry
- Was able to get unemployment under control, it is now back to full employment
- Paved the way for health insurance coverage for millions of Americans, reducing years of trends in the opposite direction
- Passed financial sector reform and a major consumer protection bill
- Terminated Osama Bin Laden
- Allowed gays to serve openly in the military
- Publicly called on Mubarak to resign
- Race to the Top
- Improved fuel efficiency standards
- Improved food safety standards / FDA inspections
- New START treaty
- Expanded wilderness under federal protection
- Cracked down on poorly performing for-profit colleges
- Pushed for numerous federal investigations of abusive police departments
To name a few.
The reality is that many of the more serious issues during his term are long-term (as in multi-decade) issues, such as:
- Americans are getting older, which puts pressure on Social Security and Medicare expenditures
- Income inequality has been on the rise since the Reagan years, and at least some of that is due to associative pairing (which no President can or should control)
- LFPR started declining in 2001
- Highest income earners (mostly financial types and business execs) started grabbing all the income gains in the 1970s
- Automation and the transition to a service economy is a decades-old trend
Overall, he's slightly above average as far as Presidents go. His performance is substantially better than at a minimum Bush 43, Carter, Ford and Nixon.
Sorry not sorry, but if anyone is "brainwashed" here, it is the hysterical contingent of his detractors who are incapable of poking their heads out of their precious echo chamber for more than 30 seconds, and screech that "he's the Worst Ever!!!"
