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President Obama's accomplishments...

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President Obama's accomplishments...

Positive accomplishments. Things he and his supporters can look back on and say "I/he did that. :thumbs:"

1) Affordable Care Act
2) Approving the killing of bin Laden
3) aaaaand... :shrug:
 
President Obama's accomplishments...

Positive accomplishments. Things he and his supporters can look back on and say "I/he did that. :thumbs:"

1) Affordable Care Act
2) Approving the killing of bin Laden
3) aaaaand... :shrug:

By his constantly politically correct behavior, giving us Donald J. Trump.
 
He was really good on "Between the Ferns"
 
President Obama's accomplishments...

Positive accomplishments. Things he and his supporters can look back on and say "I/he did that. :thumbs:"

1) Affordable Care Act
2) Approving the killing of bin Laden
3) aaaaand... :shrug:

Gun Sales are through the roof.
 
President Obama's accomplishments...

Positive accomplishments. Things he and his supporters can look back on and say "I/he did that. :thumbs:"

1) Affordable Care Act
2) Approving the killing of bin Laden
3) aaaaand... :shrug:



Consider, at the end of his term, corporate profits were at historically record highs, compared to the beginning of his term when they were in the greatest recession in our nation's history, the country's was adding 200,000 jobs per month, for a total of over 15 million new jobs during his tenure, unemployment below 5%, wages rising, the U.S. gross national product growth the best of all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries on the planet.

The dollar was at its strongest levels in years, the stock market at near record highs, gasoline prices falling, no inflation, interest rates the lowest in 30 years, U.S. oil imports declining, U.S. oil production rapidly increasing, the deficit rapidly declining, and the wealthy still making astonishing amounts of money.

America leading the world once again and respected internationally — in sharp contrast to the Bush years.

All this with a congress whose sole declared mission was to obstruct and make him look bad. In the depths of the recession, when he was pleading with congress to invest in infrastructure jobs, they said this was government overreach, unconstitutional, and Marxist tyranny. Now they can't fall over each other fast enough to invest in infrastructure. Too little, too late, guys. We fixed it without you (or, in fact, in spite of you).

This was the "disaster of the Obama economy". And now Trump wants to fix it? LOL.

Here's more, if you're interested:
Obama’s Legacy: Nearly 450 Accomplishments, With Citations
 
Consider, at the end of his term, corporate profits were at historically record highs, compared to the beginning of his term when they were in the greatest recession in our nation's history, the country's was adding 200,000 jobs per month, for a total of over 15 million new jobs during his tenure, unemployment below 5%, wages rising, the U.S. gross national product growth the best of all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries on the planet.

The dollar was at its strongest levels in years, the stock market at near record highs, gasoline prices falling, no inflation, interest rates the lowest in 30 years, U.S. oil imports declining, U.S. oil production rapidly increasing, the deficit rapidly declining, and the wealthy still making astonishing amounts of money.

America leading the world once again and respected internationally — in sharp contrast to the Bush years.

All this with a congress whose sole declared mission was to obstruct and make him look bad. In the depths of the recession, when he was pleading with congress to invest in infrastructure jobs, they said this was government overreach, unconstitutional, and Marxist tyranny. Now they can't fall over each other fast enough to invest in infrastructure. Too little, too late, guys. We fixed it without you (or, in fact, in spite of you).

This was the "disaster of the Obama economy". And now Trump wants to fix it? LOL.

Here's more, if you're interested:
Obama’s Legacy: Nearly 450 Accomplishments, With Citations
Almost all of that is stuff the Office of President has no direct influence. They shouldn't be getting credit (or blame, as appropriate) for them, even though we like to do so.
 
Consider, at the end of his term, corporate profits were at historically record highs, compared to the beginning of his term when they were in the greatest recession in our nation's history, the country's was adding 200,000 jobs per month, for a total of over 15 million new jobs during his tenure, unemployment below 5%, wages rising, the U.S. gross national product growth the best of all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries on the planet.

The dollar was at its strongest levels in years, the stock market at near record highs, gasoline prices falling, no inflation, interest rates the lowest in 30 years, U.S. oil imports declining, U.S. oil production rapidly increasing, the deficit rapidly declining, and the wealthy still making astonishing amounts of money.

America leading the world once again and respected internationally — in sharp contrast to the Bush years.

All this with a congress whose sole declared mission was to obstruct and make him look bad. In the depths of the recession, when he was pleading with congress to invest in infrastructure jobs, they said this was government overreach, unconstitutional, and Marxist tyranny. Now they can't fall over each other fast enough to invest in infrastructure. Too little, too late, guys. We fixed it without you (or, in fact, in spite of you).

This was the "disaster of the Obama economy". And now Trump wants to fix it? LOL.

Here's more, if you're interested:
Obama’s Legacy: Nearly 450 Accomplishments, With Citations

Yes. Prosperity that only lifted some boats. Mostlly rich liberals, elites, and illegals while driving the middle class down also creating a historically high part time workforce.
 
President Obama's accomplishments...

Positive accomplishments. Things he and his supporters can look back on and say "I/he did that. :thumbs:"

1) Affordable Care Act
2) Approving the killing of bin Laden
3) aaaaand... :shrug:


some times it is important to observe & to be thankful for what a president didn't accomplish

Obama did not entangle the US in a war of choice in Iraq which resulted in (see below)
1. over 5,000 US troops killed
2. over $2 trillion in treasure wasted
3. over 500,000 Iraqis died
4. a complete destabilization of the broader Middle East

actually, I would look at that as an accomplishment on the part of Obama ........
 
President Obama's accomplishments...

Positive accomplishments. Things he and his supporters can look back on and say "I/he did that. :thumbs:"

1) Affordable Care Act
2) Approving the killing of bin Laden
3) aaaaand... :shrug:

off the top of my head, add:

DACA
Killed Osama bin Laden
Repealed don't ask, don't tell
 
Yes. Prosperity that only lifted some boats. Mostlly rich liberals, elites, and illegals while driving the middle class down also creating a historically high part time workforce.

Perhaps initially, although we were seeing this trickling down to the rest of the economy toward the end of his term: with wage growth among the middle and lower classes toward the end of his term.

Regardless, as Trump talks of the "disaster of the Obama economy" which only he knows how to fix, the rest of us are left scratching our heads. What exactly is he trying to fix?
 
President Obama's accomplishments...

Positive accomplishments. Things he and his supporters can look back on and say "I/he did that. :thumbs:"

1) Affordable Care Act
2) Approving the killing of bin Laden
3) aaaaand... :shrug:

The aca is meh.

I give him full credit for giving the go-ahead to kill bin Laden. His foreign policy was about to turn into a major success but then he started listening to the establishment bureaucrats and then hs FP turned to ****. He gets half credit for taking out Gaddaffi. Gaddaffi was an asshole who needed to pay for what happened at Lockerbie. Obama's Libya planning was bungled so hardcore and was an albatross around his admin's neck. Obama also unnecessarily decided to approve of trying to overthrow Assad. In addition to having no economic or strategic interests, it also emboldened terrorists and we in fact armed and trained terrorists. It took our eye off the prize on defeating ISIS.

This is why I find it so bizarre that Obama is currently being rated highly by historians. He doesn't have much in the way of successes he can point to, and his potential successes were bungled because he listened to establishment bureaucrats. It's almost sad.

I'm having so much trouble coming up with successes. His domestic agenda was mediocre and his foreign policy overall was terrible. I'll have to look up his wiki because I want to be fair.
 
off the top of my head, add:

DACA
Killed Osama bin Laden
Repealed don't ask, don't tell

I don't approve of DACA.

bin Laden was my #2

Good call on repealing DADT. That was dumb to begin with, but I suppose it had to be a natural step to get it eventually done.
 
Obama was able to:

1. Loose track of guns he sold to Mexican drug cartels.
2. Be the first sitting president that received the Nobel Peace prize to bomb another Peace Prize winner.
3.He got to go on ESPN and explain his NCAA March madness brackets
4. He was able to get caught spying in citizens and heads of state we called allies.
5. Took classless selfless at a memorial service.
6. Presided over one of the worst ecological disasters to hapoen in the Mexican gulf.
 
Yes. Prosperity that only lifted some boats. Mostlly rich liberals, elites, and illegals while driving the middle class down also creating a historically high part time workforce.

Perhaps the middle class you are talking about should have worked harder to find better jobs, instead of being lazy and playing on twitter or facebook
 
The aca is meh.

I give him full credit for giving the go-ahead to kill bin Laden. His foreign policy was about to turn into a major success but then he started listening to the establishment bureaucrats and then hs FP turned to ****. He gets half credit for taking out Gaddaffi. Gaddaffi was an asshole who needed to pay for what happened at Lockerbie. Obama's Libya planning was bungled so hardcore and was an albatross around his admin's neck. Obama also unnecessarily decided to approve of trying to overthrow Assad. In addition to having no economic or strategic interests, it also emboldened terrorists and we in fact armed and trained terrorists. It took our eye off the prize on defeating ISIS.

This is why I find it so bizarre that Obama is currently being rated highly by historians. He doesn't have much in the way of successes he can point to, and his potential successes were bungled because he listened to establishment bureaucrats. It's almost sad.

I'm having so much trouble coming up with successes. His domestic agenda was mediocre and his foreign policy overall was terrible. I'll have to look up his wiki because I want to be fair.

Libya was idiotic, so was Syria. FP wise Obama was ahead of Bush in that he did not actually invade any new country but still a mess.

Domestically he was ok, no real screw ups, ACA was flawed but probably the best that could get passed at the time
 
I don't approve of DACA.

bin Laden was my #2

Good call on repealing DADT. That was dumb to begin with, but I suppose it had to be a natural step to get it eventually done.


haha, my bad. I had actually had added the credit card reform Obama did and I noticed I repeated Bin Laden and I meant to erase that one but erased the other one instead and didn't even check it. I am working ass backwards today!
 
Consider, at the end of his term, corporate profits were at historically record highs, compared to the beginning of his term when they were in the greatest recession in our nation's history, the country's was adding 200,000 jobs per month, for a total of over 15 million new jobs during his tenure, unemployment below 5%, wages rising, the U.S. gross national product growth the best of all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries on the planet.

The dollar was at its strongest levels in years, the stock market at near record highs, gasoline prices falling, no inflation, interest rates the lowest in 30 years, U.S. oil imports declining, U.S. oil production rapidly increasing, the deficit rapidly declining, and the wealthy still making astonishing amounts of money.

America leading the world once again and respected internationally — in sharp contrast to the Bush years.

All this with a congress whose sole declared mission was to obstruct and make him look bad. In the depths of the recession, when he was pleading with congress to invest in infrastructure jobs, they said this was government overreach, unconstitutional, and Marxist tyranny. Now they can't fall over each other fast enough to invest in infrastructure. Too little, too late, guys. We fixed it without you (or, in fact, in spite of you).

This was the "disaster of the Obama economy". And now Trump wants to fix it? LOL.

Here's more, if you're interested:
Obama’s Legacy: Nearly 450 Accomplishments, With Citations

Yeah, all those "shovel ready jobs" did wonders. LMAO
 
President Obama's accomplishments...

Positive accomplishments. Things he and his supporters can look back on and say "I/he did that. :thumbs:"

1) Affordable Care Act
2) Approving the killing of bin Laden
3) aaaaand... :shrug:

You pretty much covered it. Thanks.
 
Yeah, all those "shovel ready jobs" did wonders. LMAO

It got you out of the greatest recession in your country's history. Did you every write to thank him for all he did for you? Or you still make fun of something he said off the cuff?
 
President Obama's accomplishments...

Positive accomplishments. Things he and his supporters can look back on and say "I/he did that. :thumbs:"

1) Affordable Care Act
2) Approving the killing of bin Laden
3) aaaaand... :shrug:

Some of his supporters would probably add these:

1. Dodd-Frank
2. Setting up the CFPB
(I don't like the above two myself)
3. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
4. The stimulus
5. Bringing the stock market back to where it was, and then beyond
6. Decreasing unemployment
(I don't give him credit for 5 and 6 but he was the President at that time, so....)
7. Extending the Bush tax cuts
8. Programs to stop the foreclosures
9. New GI bill
 
Consider, at the end of his term, corporate profits were at historically record highs, compared to the beginning of his term when they were in the greatest recession in our nation's history, the country's was adding 200,000 jobs per month, for a total of over 15 million new jobs during his tenure, unemployment below 5%, wages rising, the U.S. gross national product growth the best of all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries on the planet.

The dollar was at its strongest levels in years, the stock market at near record highs, gasoline prices falling, no inflation, interest rates the lowest in 30 years, U.S. oil imports declining, U.S. oil production rapidly increasing, the deficit rapidly declining, and the wealthy still making astonishing amounts of money.

America leading the world once again and respected internationally — in sharp contrast to the Bush years.

All this with a congress whose sole declared mission was to obstruct and make him look bad. In the depths of the recession, when he was pleading with congress to invest in infrastructure jobs, they said this was government overreach, unconstitutional, and Marxist tyranny. Now they can't fall over each other fast enough to invest in infrastructure. Too little, too late, guys. We fixed it without you (or, in fact, in spite of you).

This was the "disaster of the Obama economy". And now Trump wants to fix it? LOL.

Here's more, if you're interested:
Obama’s Legacy: Nearly 450 Accomplishments, With Citations

I will never understand why an educated, polished and well behaved black man frightened so many conservatives. He performed the job with dignity (unlike the circus clown that they now love so much). His morality and character are so far above Trumps that it cant even be measured, yet to the right wingers, he is the devil re-incarnated.
It couldn't be a race issue because as one conservative poster already told me, we don't have any race issues in this country. Those stories are just more "fake news".
 
I will never understand why an educated, polished and well behaved black man frightened so many conservatives. He performed the job with dignity (unlike the circus clown that they now love so much). His morality and character are so far above Trumps that it cant even be measured, yet to the right wingers, he is the devil re-incarnated.
It couldn't be a race issue because as one poster already told me, race had absolutely nothing to do with it. We don't have any race issues in this country.

Race is simply not a factor. Its just a coincidence that conservatives no longer care about debt, deficits, cost of presidential vacations, subsidies for healthcare and acting presidential. If only they went back to not caring about mandates, republicans could come up with an Obamacare replacement.
 
Race is simply not a factor. Its just a coincidence that conservatives no longer care about debt, deficits, cost of presidential vacations, subsidies for healthcare and acting presidential. If only they went back to not caring about mandates, republicans could come up with an Obamacare replacement.

Yes, it couldn't be race. How unrealistic for me to suggest such a thing. I will take the yapping "left" over the hypocrisy of the "right" any day of the week.

I cant help but chuckle when the conservatives go "nuts" when current FLOTUS gets unflattering comments about her plagiarism and thick accent. Yet, these same folks though it funny that former FLOTUS was referred to as "an ape in heels".
 
Yes, it couldn't be race. How unrealistic for me to suggest such a thing. I will take the yapping "left" over the hypocrisy of the "right" any day of the week.

I cant help but chuckle when the conservatives go "nuts" when current FLOTUS gets unflattering comments about her plagiarism and thick accent. Yet, these same folks though it funny that former FLOTUS was referred to as "an ape in heels".

and don't forget conservatives would refer to her as a man but I think that was just wishful thinking.

Frazier Glenn Cross, the former KKK grand dragon accused of killing three people outside a Jewish community center and a retirement community in Kansas City, Kansas, was once busted with a black transvestite prostitute, according to a new report.

REPORT: Man Accused In Jewish Center Shootings Arrested With Black Transvestite Prostitute | The Huffington Post
 
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