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1. Killing Osama Bin Laden, Author of the worst foreign terrorist attack on the American Homeland....the CIA and military did it, asswipe.2. Killing Mommar Gaddafi Author of numerous terrorist attacks against Americans..including Lockerbie....helped set up the Libya massacre.3. Passing the ACA (ObamaCare). Got done what a century's worth of Presidents have been trying to do.....time bomb for the economy.4. Saved the United States from the Second Great Depression....nice lie.5. Saved the United States Auto Industry.....uh, GM hasn't recovered, dumbfuck.6. Saved the United States Banking Industry.....lol.7. Saved the United States Financial Industry....lol.8. Granted Equal rights for Gays serving in the Military.....1 step in gutting the military.9. Passed the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act....women already made per capita more than men.10. Won the Noble Peace Prize.....by doing what?11. First Black American President.....that was Bill Clinton.
That's the short list.
Then why is it Obama is not running his campaign on those alleged accomplishments?1. Killing Osama Bin Laden, Author of the worst foreign terrorist attack on the American Homeland.
2. Killing Mommar Gaddafi Author of numerous terrorist attacks against Americans..including Lockerbie.
3. Passing the ACA (ObamaCare). Got done what a century's worth of Presidents have been trying to do.
4. Saved the United States from the Second Great Depression.
5. Saved the United States Auto Industry.
6. Saved the United States Banking Industry.
7. Saved the United States Financial Industry.
8. Granted Equal rights for Gays serving in the Military.
9. Passed the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act.
10. Won the Noble Peace Prize.
11. First Black American President.
That's the short list.
1) 4 years of Oblaming Bush.
2) Over 5.3 trillion added to the national debt..
3) very angry and confused Democrats
Not to bad more in term 2
The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - Obamas Top 50 Accomplishments
March/ April 2012
Obamas Top 50 Accomplishments
By Paul Glastris, Ryan Cooper, and Siyu Hu
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(Also check out the main article, The Incomplete Greatness of Barack Obama, and the issues Editors Note.)
1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of Americas long-term fiscal problems.
2. Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.
3. Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The new law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, requires derivatives to be sold on clearinghouses and exchanges, mandates that large banks provide living wills to avoid chaotic bankruptcies, limits their ability to trade with customers money for their own profit, and creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (now headed by Richard Cordray) to crack down on abusive lending products and companies.
4. Ended the War in Iraq: Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.
5. Began Drawdown of War in Afghanistan: From a peak of 101,000 troops in June 2011, U.S. forces are now down to 91,000, with 23,000 slated to leave by the end of summer 2012. According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the combat mission there will be over by next year.
6. Eliminated Osama bin laden: In 2011, ordered special forces raid of secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was discovered.
7. Turned Around U.S. Auto Industry: In 2009, injected $62 billion in federal money (on top of $13.4 billion in loans from the Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. Since bottoming out in 2009, the auto industry has added more than 100,000 jobs. In 2011, the Big Three automakers all gained market share for the first time in two decades. The government expects to lose $16 billion of its investment, less if the price of the GM stock it still owns increases.
8. Recapitalized Banks: In the midst of financial crisis, approved controversial Treasury Department plan to lure private capital into the countrys largest banks via stress tests of their balance sheets and a public-private fund to buy their toxic assets. Got banks back on their feet at essentially zero cost to the government.
9. Repealed Dont Ask, Dont Tell: Ended 1990s-era restriction and formalized new policy allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time.
10. Toppled Moammar Gaddafi: In March 2011, joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troops. Gaddafis forty-two-year rule ended when the dictator was overthrown and killed by rebels on October 20, 2011. No American lives were lost.
11. Told Mubarak to Go: On February 1, 2011, publicly called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to accept reform or step down, thus weakening the dictators position and putting America on the right side of the Arab Spring. Mubarak ended thirty-year rule when overthrown on February 11.
12. Reversed Bush Torture Policies: Two days after taking office, nullified Bush-era rulings that had allowed detainees in U.S. custody to undergo certain enhanced interrogation techniques considered inhumane under the Geneva Conventions. Also released the secret Bush legal rulings supporting the use of these techniques.
13. Improved Americas Image Abroad: With new policies, diplomacy, and rhetoric, reversed a sharp decline in world opinion toward the U.S. (and the corresponding loss of soft power) during the Bush years. From 2008 to 2011, favorable opinion toward the United States rose in ten of fifteen countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, with an average increase of 26 percent.
14. Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program, Expanded Pell Grant Spending: As part of the 2010 health care reform bill, signed measure ending the wasteful decades-old practice of subsidizing banks to provide college loans. Starting July 2010 all students began getting their federal student loans directly from the federal government. Treasury will save $67 billion over ten years, $36 billion of which will go to expanding Pell Grants to lower-income students.
15. Created Race to the Top: With funds from stimulus, started $4.35 billion program of competitive grants to encourage and reward states for education reform.
16. Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards: Released new fuel efficiency standards in 2011 that will nearly double the fuel economy for cars and trucks by 2025.
17. Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis: To keep world economy out of recession in 2009 and 2010, helped secure from G-20 nations more than $500 billion for the IMF to provide lines of credit and other support to emerging market countries, which kept them liquid and avoided crises with their currencies.
18. Passed Mini Stimuli: To help families hurt by the recession and spur the economy as stimulus spending declined, signed series of measures (July 22, 2010; December 17, 2010; December 23, 2011) to extend unemployment insurance and cut payroll taxes.
19. Began Asia Pivot: In 2011, reoriented American military and diplomatic priorities and focus from the Middle East and Europe to the Asian-Pacific region. Executed multipronged strategy of positively engaging China while reasserting U.S. leadership in the region by increasing American military presence and crafting new commercial, diplomatic, and military alliances with neighboring countries made uncomfortable by recent Chinese behavior.
20. Increased Support for Veterans: With so many soldiers coming home from Iraq and Iran with serious physical and mental health problems, yet facing long waits for services, increased 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs budget by 16 percent and 2011 budget by 10 percent. Also signed new GI bill offering $78 billion in tuition assistance over a decade, and provided multiple tax credits to encourage businesses to hire veterans.
21. Tightened Sanctions on Iran: In effort to deter Irans nuclear program, signed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (2010) to punish firms and individuals who aid Irans petroleum sector. In late 2011 and early 2012, coordinated with other major Western powers to impose sanctions aimed at Irans banks and with Japan, South Korea, and China to shift their oil purchases away from Iran.
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Paul Glastris, Ryan Cooper, and Siyu Hu collaborated on this article. Glastris is the editor in chief of the Washington Monthly. Cooper and Hu are interns at the magazine.
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1) 4 years of Oblaming Bush.
2) Over 5.3 trillion added to the national debt..
3) very angry and confused Democrats
Is that a Screech Owl in your Avatar?
It's a Enggano Scops Owl...as far as I know...
1) 4 years of Oblaming Bush.
2) Over 5.3 trillion added to the national debt..
3) very angry and confused Democrats
Is that a Screech Owl in your Avatar?
It's a Enggano Scops Owl...as far as I know...
Pretty cool looking bird. I wonder if they make good pets?
LOL!
1. Killing Osama Bin Laden, Author of the worst foreign terrorist attack on the American Homeland.
2. Killing Mommar Gaddafi Author of numerous terrorist attacks against Americans..including Lockerbie.
3. Passing the ACA (ObamaCare). Got done what a century's worth of Presidents have been trying to do.
4. Saved the United States from the Second Great Depression.
5. Saved the United States Auto Industry.
6. Saved the United States Banking Industry.
7. Saved the United States Financial Industry.
8. Granted Equal rights for Gays serving in the Military.
9. Passed the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act.
10. Won the Noble Peace Prize.
11. First Black American President.
That's the short list.