What Has President Obama Done That Is Worthwhile????

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  1. resisting arrest

    resisting arrest Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What has Obama done that will be remembered 10,000 years from now???? Any Lincolnesque moments??? Any FDR moments???? The man is an absolute travesty!!!! In 2008/2009 many good-intentioned Americans were falling over backwards in an ecstacy of onanistic asphyxiation over Obama and for what??? It's a big joke.
     
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  2. Brewskier

    Brewskier Well-Known Member

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    It's like Michael Moore said:

    "First black President"

    That's it. Anything else is just fanboyism.

    Personally, I think Obama was the lubrication stage before the country really gets screwed. Hillary will see to that.
     
  3. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't 10,000 years from now very few if any presidents will be remembered.

    But a lot of god things have happened while Obama has been president:

    o Economy that was tanking at a -9% rate and shedding 700,000+ jobs a month turned around
    o a record 64 straight months of private sector employment growth.
    o 125% increase in the stock markets since taking office
    o More than halved the deficit in 4 years.
    o Got Osama bin Laden.
    o Saved 2-3 million jobs with stimulus package
    o First decrease in spending in a year in decades - 3 times.
    o Stock markets up 170% since bottom of the recession in 2009
    o Over 11 million additional private sector jobs created since Jan 2010
    o Oil production increasing for the first time in decades.
    o Ousted Muamar Kadaffi at 1/1000 the cost of the Iraq war
    o Deficit reduced by a then record $212 billion, down 16%, in 2012.
    o Deficit reduced by a new record $408 billion, down 37%, in 2013
    o Record corporate profits
    o Passed health care reform that is providing coverage to tens of millions of Americans
    o 5 straight years of GDP growth
    o Unemployment rate dropped from 10% to 5.5%
    o U.S. becomes world's top petroleum and energy producer
    o Passed financial regulation reform to prevent another housing bubble fiasco.
    o Diplomatically coerced Syria to give up WMD without war or loss of single American life.
    o Recovered all jobs lost in the worst recession in 80 years
    o Lowest rate of spending increases of any president in modern history
    o On-budget deficit has decreased every full fiscal year he's been in office.
    o Average initial jobless claims drops to levels last seen when Clinton was president.
    o US domestic oil use decreasing
    o Net creation of millions of people employed despite inheriting a economy losing 700,000+ jobs a month
    o Lowest level of initial unemployment claims in four decades.

    If Obama were a white Republican, conservatives would be hailing him as a savior.
     
  4. Lee S

    Lee S Moderator Staff Member Past Donor

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    MOD EDIT - Rule 2 This list was debunked and eviserated a dozen times by Bluesguy and I debunk one item on this cut and paste waste of everybodies time. So which item shall we debunk today? How about "Record Corporate Profits"?

    Barack Obama is anti-corporatist, so if the corporations are making a lot of money then to me and every other discerning soul out there, this would be a failure item on Obama's list. And what did Obama do to increase corporate profits that he actually intended to do? Nothing. So how does he get credit for this?

    Corporate profits are going up because Obama screwed small businesses so completely and thoroughly. Obama willfully set about to increase government regulations and the increase in regulation adversely affects small businesses disproportionately. Small businesses simply do not have the resources to comply with the paperwork burden of government regulation. Large corporations simply hire another compliance officer which is amortized over the entirety of the companies profit scheme. Regulation is a way of taking market share away from small business and handing it over to large businesses.

    The second reason large corporations are flourishing at the expense of small businesses under Obama is the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act killed the ability of smaller companies to have access to capital by killing commercial credit through regulation. If a small business wanted to expand they had to have cash on hand (no small businesses have cash on hand after six years of Obama as President) or they needed to wade through onerous bank credit process which takes months, instead of days before Dodd Frank was passed, and then more than likely, they would be rejected. The market share that small business lost was scooped up by big corporations.

    This is not an accomplishment. This is a failure by Obama, furthermore, Obama is so naive and ignorant of economic realities, that he doesn't even realize what a mess he created.

    No, you list is a list of failures. Obama did manage to weaponize the Federal bureaucracy. That is probably going to be his greatest legacy.
     
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    The greatest thing he has done is destroy the democrats.
     
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    It's like he just figured make the list of b.s. so long no one will want to take all that time to go through each item and point out why It's b.s.
     
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    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Nothing on it was ever "debunked" once.

    Sure.

    Stock market rally is supported by record corporate profits
    https://www.aei.org/publication/stock-market-rally-is-supported-by-record-corporate-profits/

    US Corporate Profits at All-Time High
    http://www.economonitor.com/dolanec...time-high-as-gdp-growth-holds-at-2-5-percent/

    U.S. corporationsÂ’ after-tax profits have grown by 171 percent under Obama, more than under any president since World War II, and are now at their highest level relative to the size of the economy since the government began keeping records in 1947, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...rofits-soar-as-executives-attack-obama-policy

    What another record year of corporate profits means for the US economy

    http://qz.com/192725/what-another-record-year-of-corporate-profits-means-for-the-us-economy/

    Any other items on my list you want to "debunk" today? LOL

    Thanks for sharing your baseless and opinionated tirade. You've mimicked the RW propaganda line you've been fed pretty well.

    But it doesn't "debunk" my fact one iota.

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    Typical of conservatives to make baseless opinionated claims without one iota of fact.

    If the list is too long for you to comprehend, feel free to pick out even one fact you claim is "b.s." and tell us why.
     
  8. little voice

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    I hope you realize he has accomplished the things listed in spite of the fact

    The republicans have tried to obstruct any progress that would benefit the country
     
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    pick 2
     
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    Pardy Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Guiding the nation out of the worst economic position in 70 years is very impressive. Getting his healthcare plan, one of the largest pieces of legislation in American history, passed is also impressive.

    When Obama steps down, Americans will be healthier and richer, and Republicans can't spin this way.
     
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    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Looks like he couldn't even come up with one from the whole list he called b.s.

    SSDD
     
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    yeah, and republicans will make him a one term President too... oops
     
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    stepped_in_it Banned at Members Request

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    "What Has President Obama Done That Is Worthwhile????"

    EVER????
    Or, just this term?
    I think he had a boy named Trayvon!
     
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    Handing over America to the Illegal Aliens?

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    Like his second term worked out any better.
     
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    what did you want him to do that he has not done?

    couple on my list would be, but interested to hear your list

    address foreign outsourcing of American jobs by Corps

    end prohibition of marijuana

    .
     
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    Professor Peabody Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Secure the border and NOT make millions of illegals legal.

    The problem with illegal immigration is they take the place of Americans in low skilled jobs, driving wages down. So the Americans go back to school and get a two year degree with some large student loans, now the job market for folks with 2 year degrees become flooded and pays the same as unskilled jobs used to pay. The difference is they have large student loans to pay back. So in order to try to get a better paying job, they again go back to school and incur more student loans to get a Bachelor's degree which now pay what a 2 year degree used to pay.......and so on.
     
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    I'm going to say "opened travel to Cuba"
    ..and that's it.
    for good things Obama has done.
     
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    Youre right. When Obama leaves everything will get better. Too bad that day is so far away right now.
     
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    i have one of those pesky little things called a job, for you libs its one of them things wut where you leave the house, go outside and do work for money.
    obama didnt "oust Muammar Gaddafi, (you spelled it wrong) Libyan rebels did.
    unemployment claims are lower because its harder to collect unemployment now than it was before obama and long term unemployment has doubled since he took office. its why his "unemployment rate" could be so low when the participation rate is the lowest the country has seen since 1977.
     
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    Taking power in a coup d'etat, he ruled as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the "Brotherly Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011, when he was ousted in the Libyan Civil War.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi

    Anything else you want to claim is bs?

    1) Utter nonsense.
    2) Does not rebut my fact in the least.
     
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    ousted by lybians, not by the us army or obama

    ditto
     
  22. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The US under Obama supported the Libyan rebels which led to his ouster.
    I never claimed Obama did everything on his own.

    Not in the least. I've demonstrated the factual accuracy of my claims.
     
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    no they weren't, and actually you did.

    ok ill dumb it down for you. unemployment benefits go bye bye for millions, millions no more get unemployment benefits, millions no more counted as unemployed. potato. understand?
     
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    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Please link and quote my statement where I claimed Obama did everything on his own on the list. Thanks.

    You've certainly dumbed it down to a level exhibiting your ignorance on the subject. Let me guess ... RW propaganda?
     
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    dont need to, i already proved he had nothing to do with ousting "Kadaffi" as you spelled it.

    cutting people off of unemployment that would have been still on it under previous administrations makes unemployment drop because fewer people will be counted. that's not "RW propaganda" thats fact.
     

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