"Can We Agree Obama Failed?"
Of course not.
Anyone who makes such an ‘argument’ is either an idiot or a lying rightwing partisan hack.
An accurate, objective, and factual analysis of any president can be made only decades after he’s left office; any such attempt during a president’s term is subjective foolishness and nonsense.
During his presidency Truman was very unpopular and perceived to be a ‘failure,’ so much so that he decided to not run for a second term, after losing the New Hampshire primary.
Today he’s considered to be among our greatest presidents.
Please name one succesful program or policy he enacted.
The GOP’s entire identity is based on a lie: How the Obama presidency exposed Republican deficit delusions
How exactly did Obama manage to slash the deficit so drastically? It’s true that Republicans have controlled the House of Representatives since January 2011 (along with the Senate this term) and those years have been marked by aggressive GOP attempts to roll back the welfare state, punctuated by episodes of legislative brinksmanship that ultimately resulted in the dreaded sequester. But that only tells a part of the story.
Nearly every bill signed by the president has included offsets to make the spending deficit neutral. Why? Because it’s been the law of the land ever since
President Obama signed the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act in February 2010, which mandates that new spending be offset with spending cuts or new revenue. Yes, a
Democratic president and a
Democratic Congress passed this legislation. Guess how many congressional Republicans voted for the law.
Zero.
Not one.
Consequently, the president is responsible for the lowest government spending growth in 60 years. Once again, let’s reference
Market Watch:
I can name two Democratic presidents who’ve cut the deficit through the duration of their presidencies: Clinton and Obama. And what about Republican presidents? Bush 43? He turned a $200 billion
surplus into a $400 billion deficit by the end of his first term, and a $1.2 trillion deficit by the end of his second term. Bush 41? Nope. Reagan? No. Ford? No. Nixon? No. The last Republican president who cut the deficit was Eisenhower. Along those lines, the recently introduced tax plan of the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, would explode the deficit by as much as
$10 trillion over a decade. Tell me again: Which is the party of fiscal responsibility?