What has Obama done that has been Successful as President compared to Palin so far?

[US Army Retired]

From what I gather he hasn't been successful at anything. Why is he self destructing where she has not?

Obama = FAIL........Sarah Palin = I Told You So

OBAMA:

Campaign in NJ = FAIL
Campaign in VA = FAIL
Campaign in MA = FAIL
Stimulus bill = FAIL
Cap & Tax = FAIL
Health Care =FAIL
Unemployment = FAIL
Copenhagen = FAIL
Olympics = FAIL
Approval rating 42% = FAIL
Economic Grade F = FAIL
Lost 8.4 million jobs = FAIL
Bow like Peasant to Jap Emperor = (Jap Press IDIOT) FAIL
Bows to Saudi King=Fail=Insults Americans
China Trip Zero results = FAIL
Germany Trip = (Germany Press WIMP) FAIL
France Trip=Zero Results = FAIL
Picks Colts = Doom Colts= FAIL

SARAH PALIN
$8 million book deal = SUCCESSFUL
4 million books sold = SUCCESSFUL
$ 100,000 each appearance on Fox = SUCCESSFUL
$100,000 to $250,000 each speech = SUCCESSFUL
21 speeches 1st 1/2 of 2010 = SUCCESSFUL
Daily Bitch Slap of Obama =(Makes Administration go into Damage Control)= SUCCESSFUL

Drive Media Loopy = SUCCESSFUL
Shut Down Obama-Care = (Death Panels from Facebook) SUCCESSFUL
Alaska Governor = SUCCESSFUL
Removed Alaskan Corruption in Government=SUCCESSFUL
Alaska Governor High Approval Ratings as Executive Office Holder=SUCCESSFUL
Mayor = SUCCESSFUL
Being a mom of 5 = SUCCESSFUL
Running Small Commercial Family Salmon Fishing Business=SUCCESSFUL
Oil & Gas Commissioner = SUCCESSFUL
Record as Governor = SUCCESSFUL
Massive following = SUCCESSFUL
Alaska Economy = SUCCESSFUL
ALaska Oil & Gas Pipeline = SUCCESS and a go as of last month
Jobs Creator=SUCCESS

 

[Luissa]

He didn't quit on the people who elected him for more money.

 

[Stephanie]

He didn't quit on the people who elected him for more money.

did he finish his full term as a Junior Senator for the people of Illinois.?

 

[Luissa]

He didn't quit on the people who elected him for more money.

did he finish his full term as a Junior Senator for the people of Illinois.?

Is he still serving the people of Illinios, as their President?

 

[Rinata]

He didn't quit on the people who elected him for more money.

did he finish his full term as a Junior Senator for the people of Illinois.?

Hello!!!! When a senator wins the presidential election he usually leaves the senate seat and it's filled by someone else. Because he goes to the White House. Are you kidding with this???

 

[Stephanie]

He didn't quit on the people who elected him for more money.

did he finish his full term as a Junior Senator for the people of Illinois.?

Is he still serving the people of Illinios, as their President?

So he did quit, but it's ok because he was running for President?

 

[Luissa]

did he finish his full term as a Junior Senator for the people of Illinois.?

Is he still serving the people of Illinios, as their President?

So he did quit, but it's ok because he was running for President?

He is still serving them, isn't he? He got a promotion!
Palin quit, and sold out to the highest bidder.

 

[Political Junky]

did he finish his full term as a Junior Senator for the people of Illinois.?

Is he still serving the people of Illinios, as their President?

So he did quit, but it's ok because he was running for President?

Yes

 

[Rudy]

did he finish his full term as a Junior Senator for the people of Illinois.?

Is he still serving the people of Illinios, as their President?

So he did quit, but it's ok because he was running for President?

Yes. As it always is. The bitch from Alaska abandoned her post so she could make $100,000 each event.

 

[elvis]

Is he still serving the people of Illinios, as their President?

So he did quit, but it's ok because he was running for President?

He is still serving them, isn't he? He got a promotion!
Palin quit, and sold out to the highest bidder.

I think David S was the highest bidder.

 

[Rinata]

Many of his detractors, and even some of his wavering supporters, will be surprised to learn that in his first year, Barack Obama has already fulfilled at least 79 campaign promises. This is one of the most accomplished records of any first year in office, and it has come with considerable difficulty in working with and around a Congress fraught with obstructionism and distracted by its own mythology regarding specific points of policy, and in the face of the most uniform and inflexible opposition any president in recent decades has faced.

The 79 promises kept, as fact-checked and reported by PolitiFact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking service of the St. Petersburg Times, are as follows:

•No. 6: Create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes
•No. 15: Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners
•No. 16: Increase minority access to capital
•No. 33: Establish a credit card bill of rights
•No. 36: Expand loan programs for small businesses
•No. 40: Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch
•No. 50: Expand the Senior Corps volunteer program
•No. 58: Expand eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
•No. 76: Expand funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners
•No. 77: Increase funding to expand community based prevention programs
•No. 88: Sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
•No. 110: Assure that the Veterans Administration budget is prepared as 'must-pass' legislation
•No. 119: Appoint a special adviser to the president on violence against women
•No. 125: Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
•No. 132: No permanent bases in Iraq
•No. 134: Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan
•No. 154: Strengthen and expand military exchange programs with other countries
•No. 167: Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
•No. 174: Give a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration
•No. 182: Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk
•No. 184: Create a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan
•No. 200: Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security
•No. 208: Improve relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds
•No. 212: Launch an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)
•No. 215: Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies
•No. 222: Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
•No. 224: Restore funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program
•No. 225: Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas
•No. 239: Release presidential records
•No. 241: Require new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
•No. 247: Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession
•No. 266: Encourage water-conservation efforts in the West
•No. 269: Increase funding for national parks and forests
•No. 270: Increase funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
•No. 272: Encourage farmers to use more renewable energy and be more energy efficient
•No. 277: Pursue a wildfire prevention and management plan
•No. 278: Remove more brush, small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires
•No. 284: Expand access to places to hunt and fish
•No. 290: Push for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
•No. 300: Reform mandatory minimum sentences
•No. 307: Create a White
•No. 325: Create an artist corps for schools
•No. 326: Champion the importance of arts education
•No. 327: Support increased funding for the NEA
•No. 332: Add another Space Shuttle flight
•No. 334: Use the private sector to improve spaceflight
•No. 336: Partner to enhance the potential of the International Space Station
•No. 337: Use the International Space Station for fundamental biological and physical research
•No. 338: Explore whether International Space Station can operate after 2016
•No. 342: Work toward deploying a global climate change research and monitoring system
•No. 345: Enhance earth mapping
•No. 346: Appoint an assistant to the president for science and technology policy
•No. 356: Establish special crime programs for the New Orleans area
•No. 359: Rebuild schools in New Orleans
•No. 371: Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps
•No. 380: Bolster the military's ability to speak different languages
•No. 391: Appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer
•No. 394: Provide grants to early-career researchers
•No. 411: Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
•No. 420: Create a national declassification center
•No. 421: Appoint an American Indian policy adviser
•No. 427: Ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees
•No. 435: Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud
•No. 452: Weatherize 1 million homes per year
•No. 458: Invest in all types of alternative energy
•No. 459: Enact tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars
•No. 460: Ask people and businesses to conserve electricity
•No. 475: Require states to provide incentives for utilities to reduce energy consumption
•No. 480: Unprecedented expansion of funding for regional high-speed rail
•No. 483: Invest in public transportation
•No. 484: Equalize tax breaks for driving and public transit
•No. 494: Share enviromental technology with other countries
•No. 498: Provide grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes
•No. 500: Increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency
•No. 502: Get his daughters a puppy
•No. 503: Appoint at least one Republican to the cabinet
•No. 506: Raise the small business investment expensing limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009
•No. 507: Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits
•No. 513: Reverse restrictions on stem cell research

Most of these items are complex campaign pledges that Pres. Obama has been able to follow through on. Some just show he's a man who follows through on his word, something the media should take more note of. But PolitiFact's research shows a long list of serious political accomplishments, many of historic import, yet the mainstream media continues to report on the delays seen in enacting the most complex and comprehensive reforms undertaken in a generation, many of which —like healthcare reform, energy policy reform, terror prosecutions and financial regulatory reform— are actually moving forward at a historically meaningful pace, and will likely be achieved in the first half of 2010.

Obama's First Year: a Long List of Underreported Successes - J.E. Robertson - Open Salon

 

[Stephanie]

The only thing I see in the above, is the fool LOVES to spend our money, and poke his nose into things that doesn't have a damn thing to do with the Federal Government.

 

[Rinata]

I think the president has done a lot more than Sarah Gump this year. I don't know what she has done besides running around the country selling her book and making speeches with no substance whatsoever. That cow does not even understand the issues. But I still say:

PALIN IN 2012

 

[Rinata]

The only thing I see in the above, is the fool LOVES to spend our money, and poke his nose into things that doesn't have a damn thing to do with the Federal Government.

I'm sure that's what you THINK you see. It would make all of the negative attacks and lies so much easier, wouldn't it??

 

[US Army Retired]

Many of his detractors, and even some of his wavering supporters, will be surprised to learn that in his first year, Barack Obama has already fulfilled at least 79 campaign promises. This is one of the most accomplished records of any first year in office, and it has come with considerable difficulty in working with and around a Congress fraught with obstructionism and distracted by its own mythology regarding specific points of policy, and in the face of the most uniform and inflexible opposition any president in recent decades has faced.

The 79 promises kept, as fact-checked and reported by PolitiFact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking service of the St. Petersburg Times, are as follows:

•No. 6: Create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes
•No. 15: Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners
•No. 16: Increase minority access to capital
•No. 33: Establish a credit card bill of rights
•No. 36: Expand loan programs for small businesses
•No. 40: Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch
•No. 50: Expand the Senior Corps volunteer program
•No. 58: Expand eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
•No. 76: Expand funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners
•No. 77: Increase funding to expand community based prevention programs
•No. 88: Sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
•No. 110: Assure that the Veterans Administration budget is prepared as 'must-pass' legislation
•No. 119: Appoint a special adviser to the president on violence against women
•No. 125: Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
•No. 132: No permanent bases in Iraq
•No. 134: Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan
•No. 154: Strengthen and expand military exchange programs with other countries
•No. 167: Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
•No. 174: Give a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration
•No. 182: Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk
•No. 184: Create a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan
•No. 200: Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security
•No. 208: Improve relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds
•No. 212: Launch an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)
•No. 215: Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies
•No. 222: Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
•No. 224: Restore funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program
•No. 225: Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas
•No. 239: Release presidential records
•No. 241: Require new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
•No. 247: Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession
•No. 266: Encourage water-conservation efforts in the West
•No. 269: Increase funding for national parks and forests
•No. 270: Increase funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
•No. 272: Encourage farmers to use more renewable energy and be more energy efficient
•No. 277: Pursue a wildfire prevention and management plan
•No. 278: Remove more brush, small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires
•No. 284: Expand access to places to hunt and fish
•No. 290: Push for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
•No. 300: Reform mandatory minimum sentences
•No. 307: Create a White
•No. 325: Create an artist corps for schools
•No. 326: Champion the importance of arts education
•No. 327: Support increased funding for the NEA
•No. 332: Add another Space Shuttle flight
•No. 334: Use the private sector to improve spaceflight
•No. 336: Partner to enhance the potential of the International Space Station
•No. 337: Use the International Space Station for fundamental biological and physical research
•No. 338: Explore whether International Space Station can operate after 2016
•No. 342: Work toward deploying a global climate change research and monitoring system
•No. 345: Enhance earth mapping
•No. 346: Appoint an assistant to the president for science and technology policy
•No. 356: Establish special crime programs for the New Orleans area
•No. 359: Rebuild schools in New Orleans
•No. 371: Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps
•No. 380: Bolster the military's ability to speak different languages
•No. 391: Appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer
•No. 394: Provide grants to early-career researchers
•No. 411: Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
•No. 420: Create a national declassification center
•No. 421: Appoint an American Indian policy adviser
•No. 427: Ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees
•No. 435: Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud
•No. 452: Weatherize 1 million homes per year
•No. 458: Invest in all types of alternative energy
•No. 459: Enact tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars
•No. 460: Ask people and businesses to conserve electricity
•No. 475: Require states to provide incentives for utilities to reduce energy consumption
•No. 480: Unprecedented expansion of funding for regional high-speed rail
•No. 483: Invest in public transportation
•No. 484: Equalize tax breaks for driving and public transit
•No. 494: Share enviromental technology with other countries
•No. 498: Provide grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes
•No. 500: Increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency
•No. 502: Get his daughters a puppy
•No. 503: Appoint at least one Republican to the cabinet
•No. 506: Raise the small business investment expensing limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009
•No. 507: Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits
•No. 513: Reverse restrictions on stem cell research

Most of these items are complex campaign pledges that Pres. Obama has been able to follow through on. Some just show he's a man who follows through on his word, something the media should take more note of. But PolitiFact's research shows a long list of serious political accomplishments, many of historic import, yet the mainstream media continues to report on the delays seen in enacting the most complex and comprehensive reforms undertaken in a generation, many of which —like healthcare reform, energy policy reform, terror prosecutions and financial regulatory reform— are actually moving forward at a historically meaningful pace, and will likely be achieved in the first half of 2010.

Obama's First Year: a Long List of Underreported Successes - J.E. Robertson - Open Salon

This coming from Politifact organized by the St Petersburg Times who endorsed Obama for President.
They are not neutral. They are just as bad as the Annenberg Foundations Factcheck Website during Obamas campaign who were in the tank for him.

Sunday, January 20, 2008
St. Petersburg Times endorses Barack Obama
Although the Democratic candidates are not campaigning in Florida, Sen. Barack Obama got the endorsement of the St. Petersburg Times along with the Pensacola News Journal, Daytona Beach News Journal, Bradenton Herald and Tampa Tribune.

Here is the St. Petersburg Times endorsement:

Obama for Democrats
A Times Editorial
Published January 20, 2008

After Florida’s shabby treatment by the Democratic presidential candidates, you could not blame voters if they decided to sit out the state’s Jan. 29 primary. However, this contest is too important to pass on. Florida Democrats face a historic choice, one they will tell their children and grandchildren about some day. Even though the national party has stripped the state of its delegates as punishment for moving up its primary, our votes cannot be denied. They will help determine whether the 2008 Democratic nominee will be an African-American or a woman. Either would be a first.

No wonder many voters are torn, wishing they didn’t have to choose one over the other. It is a close call, but as much as we admire Hillary Clinton, we recommend Barack Obama for president in this primary vote.


October 24, 2008 at 4:56 pm

The Times also recognizes this coming landmark of diversity:

A generation ago, the nomination of an African-American for president would have been unimaginable. Now Obama stands on the brink of history, and his election would send a powerful message to the world about how far Americans have come on issues of equality and opportunity. But voters should look beyond skin color in selecting the next president. They should look for the candidate who best represents their hopes and aspirations, who can meet the nation’s difficult challenges with sophisticated responses, who can inspire us and unite this country as he turns the page and leads America in a new direction.

For president of the United States, the Times recommends Barack Obama.

 

[The Rabbi]

From what I gather he hasn't been successful at anything. Why is he self destructing where she has not?

Obama = FAIL........Sarah Palin = I Told You So

He was sworn in as president. She was not. That makes him succesful at getting elected.
Palin resigned her position. While I like what she says, she is nothing more than a media personality. A nice looking Ann Coulter. Her resignation speech was bizarre. Even though I've been a Reagan Republican since 1980 I could never support her for elected office.

As far as you list, I've been much more successful:
The Rabbi:
Got up every single morning=Successful
Ate breakfast every day=Successful
Went to work every work day=Succesful
Avoided auto accidents=Successful
etc.

 

[Munin]

How many nobel prizes has palin won?

face it: you won't win this debate, you already lost when she quit

 

[RetiredGySgt]

He didn't quit on the people who elected him for more money.

did he finish his full term as a Junior Senator for the people of Illinois.?

Is he still serving the people of Illinios, as their President?

No he is not. He is the President and represents no single State. Or rather isn't supposed to.

 

[Munin]

did he finish his full term as a Junior Senator for the people of Illinois.?

Is he still serving the people of Illinios, as their President?

No he is not. He is the President and represents no single State. Or rather isn't supposed to.

Yep, still serving his full term as senator for the people of illinois

Rio de Janeiro to Host Olympics 2016, Chicago Loses Despite Obama Pitch - ABC News

 

[DiamondDave]

Is he still serving the people of Illinios, as their President?

So he did quit, but it's ok because he was running for President?

He is still serving them, isn't he? He got a promotion!
Palin quit, and sold out to the highest bidder.

Didn't know he actually DID anything for them.. almost immediately after election, he began running for President