Wow Obama is something special

Should Obama Have ended the Wet Foot Dry Foot Policy?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 71.4%

  • No

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • Total voters
    7
UncleBuck said:
i just explained. allow me to explain it to you at your age level, which i am guessing is about 12-14 years old.

clinton leave surplus. bush take surplus, leave massive deficit. obama lower deficit, but still stuck with bush incompetence. debt pile up because bush leave big deficit.



that was bush.
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Okay, that was your original explanation, but saying that doesn't make it correct. Holder could have prosecuted Goldman, HSBC, Lehman, JP Morgan, Citi, etc. His refusal to do so might have had something to do with Obama appointing his cabinet based on a list provided by Citigroup. That was not Bush's fault. And you cannot address the consumer debt pileup. Healthcare premiums, housing costs, tuition rates, and consumer interest rates have all exploded under Obama, he has offered no relief to those who aren't in the FIRE sector.

Bush leaving a large deficit is an oversimplification. There was unchecked banking malfeasance going on under Bush, true, Obama did absolutely nothing to stop them. He then went on to bail them out, no relief to the people that were scammed by them, and then let them manipulate commodities markets without any penalty. Then he hands insurance companies an effective bailout, knowing that his funny money ZIRP economy fundamentally cannot support enough yield for the insurance industry to pay claims. All the while, consumers are burdened with gouge-flation in tuition (brought about through destruction of lending practices via making student loans an entitlement), housing costs rising from more renters (destroyed the mortgage market by not prosecuting cut-and-dry fraud), and healthcare costs (destroyed competition). Also, no more interest on savings.

And on top of that, part time and contracting work is the standard, as many immigrants have come to the united states as the number of new jobs created, and we can't hit inflation targets because the new jobs are low wage and service sector. None of that being Bush's fault.

Public debt in the US is almost irrelevant, let's talk about private/household debt, which actually affects the situation on the ground, which has absolutely exploded under Obama. I could get into how primary dealers from the Fed are destroying investment too, the Obama administration is possibly the most corrupt in history.

Obama is a bankster/MIC goon with a pretty smile. You are not a liberal, FYI.
 
UncleBuck said:
also known as a fact.



the bailout was bush, dipshit.
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The sub prime crisis was under Holder, who did nothing, that precipitated the bailout. Obama was appointed by Citigroup, you're gullible, and a faux liberal identitarian. Also, lowering the interest rates to zero and refusing to prosecute LIBOR manipulators was an eight year long bailout. 23 primary dealers were given massive amounts of money by the Fed, to "distribute" back into the economy as stimulus. Where did that money wind up? M&A deals that destroyed competition in every sector, bonuses (I thought Holder said no bonuses, hmmm, must have been golfing), and manipulating commodities exchanges.

We have been at war for almost 16 years, Obama's done nothing but create more failed states and give Al Nusra and Ahrar al Sham more Toyotas and weapons to continue destabilizing the region.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/home-ownership-dips-lowest-level-almost-50-years-n399671

anything that is inconvenient to your world view is a lie.
Private debt higher than 2008, your boy was a shit president.
 
Milliardo Peacecraft said:
Okay, that was your original explanation, but saying that doesn't make it correct. Holder could have prosecuted Goldman, HSBC, Lehman, JP Morgan, Citi, etc. His refusal to do so might have had something to do with Obama appointing his cabinet based on a list provided by Citigroup. That was not Bush's fault. And you cannot address the consumer debt pileup. Healthcare premiums, housing costs, tuition rates, and consumer interest rates have all exploded under Obama, he has offered no relief to those who aren't in the FIRE sector.

Bush leaving a large deficit is an oversimplification. There was unchecked banking malfeasance going on under Bush, true, Obama did absolutely nothing to stop them. He then went on to bail them out, no relief to the people that were scammed by them, and then let them manipulate commodities markets without any penalty. Then he hands insurance companies an effective bailout, knowing that his funny money ZIRP economy fundamentally cannot support enough yield for the insurance industry to pay claims. All the while, consumers are burdened with gouge-flation in tuition (brought about through destruction of lending practices via making student loans an entitlement), housing costs rising from more renters (destroyed the mortgage market by not prosecuting cut-and-dry fraud), and healthcare costs (destroyed competition). Also, no more interest on savings.

And on top of that, part time and contracting work is the standard, as many immigrants have come to the united states as the number of new jobs created, and we can't hit inflation targets because the new jobs are low wage and service sector. None of that being Bush's fault.

Public debt in the US is almost irrelevant, let's talk about private/household debt, which actually affects the situation on the ground, which has absolutely exploded under Obama. I could get into how primary dealers from the Fed are destroying investment too, the Obama administration is possibly the most corrupt in history.

Obama is a bankster/MIC goon with a pretty smile. You are not a liberal, FYI.
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Milliardo Peacecraft said:
The sub prime crisis was under Holder, who did nothing, that precipitated the bailout. Obama was appointed by Citigroup, you're gullible, and a faux liberal identitarian. Also, lowering the interest rates to zero and refusing to prosecute LIBOR manipulators was an eight year long bailout. 23 primary dealers were given massive amounts of money by the Fed, to "distribute" back into the economy as stimulus. Where did that money wind up? M&A deals that destroyed competition in every sector, bonuses (I thought Holder said no bonuses, hmmm, must have been golfing), and manipulating commodities exchanges.

We have been at war for almost 16 years, Obama's done nothing but create more failed states and give Al Nusra and Ahrar al Sham more Toyotas and weapons to continue destabilizing the region.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/home-ownership-dips-lowest-level-almost-50-years-n399671

anything that is inconvenient to your world view is a lie.
Private debt higher than 2008, your boy was a shit president.
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I've got very large balls. Nearly the size of tennis balls. Heavily veined and hairy, as well.
 
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary-2017/obamas-top-50-accomplishments-revisited/
(Top 10)
1. Passed Health Care Reform
After five presidents over the course of a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010. More than twenty million Americans have gained coverage since the passage of the law, which provides subsidies for Americans to buy coverage, expands Medicaid eligibility, and prohibits insurers from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions. The uninsured rate has dropped from 16 percent in 2010 to 9 percent in 2015. The law also mandates free preventive care, allows young people to stay on their parents’ policies up to age twenty-six, and imposes a ban on annual and lifetime caps on benefits.

2. Rescued the Economy
Signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid the most severe downturn since the Great Depression. As of October 2016, the economy had added 15.5 million new jobs since early 2010 and set a record with seventy-three straight months of private-sector job growth. The unemployment rate, which hit a sustained peak of about 10 percent in 2009, has dropped to 4.6 percent as of November 2016.

3. Passed Wall Street Reform
Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010 to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, allows the government to take them into receivership if they pose a threat to the economy, and limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit. Dodd-Frank also created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to crack down on abusive lending and financial services. By the end of fiscal year 2016, the CFPB had handled nearly one million consumer complaints and taken actions that resulted in $11.7 billion in relief for more than twenty-seven million consumers.

4. Negotiated a Deal to Block A Nuclear Iran
Led six nations in reaching an agreement with Iran that requires the country to end its nuclear weapons program and submit to a rigorous International Atomic Energy Agency inspections regime in exchange for lifting global sanctions. The deal—which resulted from first toughening sanctions against Iran—also blocked Iran’s pathways to building a bomb, slowing down the development time for a weapon from three months to one year if Iran were to break its commitments.

5. Secured U.S. Commitment to a Global Agreement on Climate Change
Provided key leadership to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which produced the
2015 Paris Agreement, a commitment by 197 nations to reduce global carbon emissions and limit the global rise in temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius.

6. Eliminated Osama bin Laden
In 2011, ordered the Special Forces raid of the secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was retained.

7. Ended U.S. Combat Missions in Iraq and Afghanistan
After an initial troop surge in Afghanistan, brought home 90 percent of the nearly 180,000 troops who were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan when he took office, leaving only a small contingent of forces to assist the Iraqi and Afghani militaries against insurgents and the Taliban. The withdrawal from Iraq created the vacuum that ISIS has filled. But, recently, without redeploying ground troops, the U.S. has helped the Iraqi military in reversing ISIS’s gains.

8. Turned Around the U.S. Auto Industry
In 2009, injected $62 billion (on top of the $13.4 billion in loans from the George W. Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. By December 2014, the car companies had repaid $70.4 billion of the funds, and the Center for Automotive Research estimated that 2.5 million jobs were saved.

9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’’
Ended the 1990s-era restriction and formalized a new policy allowing gays and lesbians to sersve openly in the military for the first time.

10. Supported Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages
Decided in 2011 that the federal government would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which restricted federal marriage recognition to opposite-sex couples. In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key portions of the law as unconstitutional, allowing married same-sex couples to finally receive federal protections like Social Security and veteran benefits.

 
HAF2 said:
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary-2017/obamas-top-50-accomplishments-revisited/
(Top 10)
1. Passed Health Care Reform
After five presidents over the course of a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010. More than twenty million Americans have gained coverage since the passage of the law, which provides subsidies for Americans to buy coverage, expands Medicaid eligibility, and prohibits insurers from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions. The uninsured rate has dropped from 16 percent in 2010 to 9 percent in 2015. The law also mandates free preventive care, allows young people to stay on their parents’ policies up to age twenty-six, and imposes a ban on annual and lifetime caps on benefits.

2. Rescued the Economy
Signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid the most severe downturn since the Great Depression. As of October 2016, the economy had added 15.5 million new jobs since early 2010 and set a record with seventy-three straight months of private-sector job growth. The unemployment rate, which hit a sustained peak of about 10 percent in 2009, has dropped to 4.6 percent as of November 2016.

3. Passed Wall Street Reform
Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010 to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, allows the government to take them into receivership if they pose a threat to the economy, and limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit. Dodd-Frank also created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to crack down on abusive lending and financial services. By the end of fiscal year 2016, the CFPB had handled nearly one million consumer complaints and taken actions that resulted in $11.7 billion in relief for more than twenty-seven million consumers.

4. Negotiated a Deal to Block A Nuclear Iran
Led six nations in reaching an agreement with Iran that requires the country to end its nuclear weapons program and submit to a rigorous International Atomic Energy Agency inspections regime in exchange for lifting global sanctions. The deal—which resulted from first toughening sanctions against Iran—also blocked Iran’s pathways to building a bomb, slowing down the development time for a weapon from three months to one year if Iran were to break its commitments.

5. Secured U.S. Commitment to a Global Agreement on Climate Change
Provided key leadership to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which produced the
2015 Paris Agreement, a commitment by 197 nations to reduce global carbon emissions and limit the global rise in temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius.

6. Eliminated Osama bin Laden
In 2011, ordered the Special Forces raid of the secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was retained.

7. Ended U.S. Combat Missions in Iraq and Afghanistan
After an initial troop surge in Afghanistan, brought home 90 percent of the nearly 180,000 troops who were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan when he took office, leaving only a small contingent of forces to assist the Iraqi and Afghani militaries against insurgents and the Taliban. The withdrawal from Iraq created the vacuum that ISIS has filled. But, recently, without redeploying ground troops, the U.S. has helped the Iraqi military in reversing ISIS’s gains.

8. Turned Around the U.S. Auto Industry
In 2009, injected $62 billion (on top of the $13.4 billion in loans from the George W. Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. By December 2014, the car companies had repaid $70.4 billion of the funds, and the Center for Automotive Research estimated that 2.5 million jobs were saved.

9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’’
Ended the 1990s-era restriction and formalized a new policy allowing gays and lesbians to sersve openly in the military for the first time.

10. Supported Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages
Decided in 2011 that the federal government would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which restricted federal marriage recognition to opposite-sex couples. In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key portions of the law as unconstitutional, allowing married same-sex couples to finally receive federal protections like Social Security and veteran benefits.
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Apart from number 6
Did he do any good things?
 
HAF2 said:
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary-2017/obamas-top-50-accomplishments-revisited/
(Top 10)
1. Passed Health Care Reform
After five presidents over the course of a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010. More than twenty million Americans have gained coverage since the passage of the law, which provides subsidies for Americans to buy coverage, expands Medicaid eligibility, and prohibits insurers from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions. The uninsured rate has dropped from 16 percent in 2010 to 9 percent in 2015. The law also mandates free preventive care, allows young people to stay on their parents’ policies up to age twenty-six, and imposes a ban on annual and lifetime caps on benefits.

2. Rescued the Economy
Signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid the most severe downturn since the Great Depression. As of October 2016, the economy had added 15.5 million new jobs since early 2010 and set a record with seventy-three straight months of private-sector job growth. The unemployment rate, which hit a sustained peak of about 10 percent in 2009, has dropped to 4.6 percent as of November 2016.

3. Passed Wall Street Reform
Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010 to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, allows the government to take them into receivership if they pose a threat to the economy, and limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit. Dodd-Frank also created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to crack down on abusive lending and financial services. By the end of fiscal year 2016, the CFPB had handled nearly one million consumer complaints and taken actions that resulted in $11.7 billion in relief for more than twenty-seven million consumers.

4. Negotiated a Deal to Block A Nuclear Iran
Led six nations in reaching an agreement with Iran that requires the country to end its nuclear weapons program and submit to a rigorous International Atomic Energy Agency inspections regime in exchange for lifting global sanctions. The deal—which resulted from first toughening sanctions against Iran—also blocked Iran’s pathways to building a bomb, slowing down the development time for a weapon from three months to one year if Iran were to break its commitments.

5. Secured U.S. Commitment to a Global Agreement on Climate Change
Provided key leadership to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which produced the
2015 Paris Agreement, a commitment by 197 nations to reduce global carbon emissions and limit the global rise in temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius.

6. Eliminated Osama bin Laden
In 2011, ordered the Special Forces raid of the secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was retained.

7. Ended U.S. Combat Missions in Iraq and Afghanistan
After an initial troop surge in Afghanistan, brought home 90 percent of the nearly 180,000 troops who were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan when he took office, leaving only a small contingent of forces to assist the Iraqi and Afghani militaries against insurgents and the Taliban. The withdrawal from Iraq created the vacuum that ISIS has filled. But, recently, without redeploying ground troops, the U.S. has helped the Iraqi military in reversing ISIS’s gains.

8. Turned Around the U.S. Auto Industry
In 2009, injected $62 billion (on top of the $13.4 billion in loans from the George W. Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. By December 2014, the car companies had repaid $70.4 billion of the funds, and the Center for Automotive Research estimated that 2.5 million jobs were saved.

9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’’
Ended the 1990s-era restriction and formalized a new policy allowing gays and lesbians to sersve openly in the military for the first time.

10. Supported Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages
Decided in 2011 that the federal government would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which restricted federal marriage recognition to opposite-sex couples. In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key portions of the law as unconstitutional, allowing married same-sex couples to finally receive federal protections like Social Security and veteran benefits.
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Certainly the finest and most productive president of my lifetime. (If @tangerinegreen555 wants to chime in, I'm assuming he'd go with JFK.) What a MESS the poor bastard was left to clean! I was a baby/kid during Ford and Carter, thankfully we had Uncle Bill to break up years of republican orgies....
 
HAF2 said:
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary-2017/obamas-top-50-accomplishments-revisited/
(Top 10)
1. Passed Health Care Reform
After five presidents over the course of a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010. More than twenty million Americans have gained coverage since the passage of the law, which provides subsidies for Americans to buy coverage, expands Medicaid eligibility, and prohibits insurers from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions. The uninsured rate has dropped from 16 percent in 2010 to 9 percent in 2015. The law also mandates free preventive care, allows young people to stay on their parents’ policies up to age twenty-six, and imposes a ban on annual and lifetime caps on benefits.

2. Rescued the Economy
Signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid the most severe downturn since the Great Depression. As of October 2016, the economy had added 15.5 million new jobs since early 2010 and set a record with seventy-three straight months of private-sector job growth. The unemployment rate, which hit a sustained peak of about 10 percent in 2009, has dropped to 4.6 percent as of November 2016.

3. Passed Wall Street Reform
Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010 to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, allows the government to take them into receivership if they pose a threat to the economy, and limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit. Dodd-Frank also created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to crack down on abusive lending and financial services. By the end of fiscal year 2016, the CFPB had handled nearly one million consumer complaints and taken actions that resulted in $11.7 billion in relief for more than twenty-seven million consumers.

4. Negotiated a Deal to Block A Nuclear Iran
Led six nations in reaching an agreement with Iran that requires the country to end its nuclear weapons program and submit to a rigorous International Atomic Energy Agency inspections regime in exchange for lifting global sanctions. The deal—which resulted from first toughening sanctions against Iran—also blocked Iran’s pathways to building a bomb, slowing down the development time for a weapon from three months to one year if Iran were to break its commitments.

5. Secured U.S. Commitment to a Global Agreement on Climate Change
Provided key leadership to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which produced the
2015 Paris Agreement, a commitment by 197 nations to reduce global carbon emissions and limit the global rise in temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius.

6. Eliminated Osama bin Laden
In 2011, ordered the Special Forces raid of the secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was retained.

7. Ended U.S. Combat Missions in Iraq and Afghanistan
After an initial troop surge in Afghanistan, brought home 90 percent of the nearly 180,000 troops who were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan when he took office, leaving only a small contingent of forces to assist the Iraqi and Afghani militaries against insurgents and the Taliban. The withdrawal from Iraq created the vacuum that ISIS has filled. But, recently, without redeploying ground troops, the U.S. has helped the Iraqi military in reversing ISIS’s gains.

8. Turned Around the U.S. Auto Industry
In 2009, injected $62 billion (on top of the $13.4 billion in loans from the George W. Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. By December 2014, the car companies had repaid $70.4 billion of the funds, and the Center for Automotive Research estimated that 2.5 million jobs were saved.

9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’’
Ended the 1990s-era restriction and formalized a new policy allowing gays and lesbians to sersve openly in the military for the first time.

10. Supported Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages
Decided in 2011 that the federal government would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which restricted federal marriage recognition to opposite-sex couples. In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key portions of the law as unconstitutional, allowing married same-sex couples to finally receive federal protections like Social Security and veteran benefits.
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1.Health care premiums and deductibles have inflated by an average of 30% since last year, how much have your wages inflated? whoops, he fucked it.

2.Higher consumer debt than 2008, no interest on savings, stagnant wages, and look at all these new jobs:http://www.politifact.com/punditfac...ist-immigrants-have-taken-all-new-jobs-creat/

3.Dodd Frank was toothless, and by imposing capital restrictions on banks, he meant giving banks primary dealer status from the Fed, handing them free money every month, and allowing it to vanish into bonuses.

4.Iran wasn't building a nuke, Netanyahu has been saying that "three months" line for twenty years. Not a terrible negotiation though, one of the better things Obama's done in all honesty. Republicans have said some really uninformed things regarding the terms of the deal, Trump included. I'll give Obama a nod on this.

5.Negotiated a deal that didn't involve China, making the US industrial sector even less competitive

6.Why hasn't he ended aid to nuclear Pakistan that was concealing his whereabouts a few miles away from a military base?

7.And created ISIS, then armed them with support for "moderate rebels" like Ahrar al Sham and AQI (Al-Qaeda of Iraq) http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...ntel-chief-obama-gave-willful-aid-to-al-qaeda

8.GM and Chrysler were failing for a reason, they make shit cars and still do. Stop propping up monoliths and bad actors and let free markets decide what to do with companies that kill 30+ people with bargain bin ignition switches.

9&10. Supreme Court's decision.
 
1. Passed Health Care Reform You know even if the GOP does nothing it will become insolvent on its own within the year right FAIL #1
After five presidents over the course of a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010. More than twenty million Americans have gained coverage since the passage of the law, which provides subsidies for Americans to buy coverage, expands Medicaid eligibility, and prohibits insurers from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions. The uninsured rate has dropped from 16 percent in 2010 to 9 percent in 2015. The law also mandates free preventive care, allows young people to stay on their parents’ policies up to age twenty-six, and imposes a ban on annual and lifetime caps on benefits.

2. Rescued the Economy 1% GDP for 8 years with record number out of the labor force real unemployment is around 20% FAIL#2
Signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid the most severe downturn since the Great Depression. As of October 2016, the economy had added 15.5 million new jobs since early 2010 and set a record with seventy-three straight months of private-sector job growth. The unemployment rate, which hit a sustained peak of about 10 percent in 2009, has dropped to 4.6 percent as of November 2016.

3. Passed Wall Street Reform Passed so many regulations it makes it impossible to start a small bussiness. Thanks. dodd-Frank is holding the economy back. FAIL#3
Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010 to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, allows the government to take them into receivership if they pose a threat to the economy, and limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit. Dodd-Frank also created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to crack down on abusive lending and financial services. By the end of fiscal year 2016, the CFPB had handled nearly one million consumer complaints and taken actions that resulted in $11.7 billion in relief for more than twenty-seven million consumers.

4. Negotiated a Deal to Block A Nuclear Iran If you believe this was a good deal just slap yourself Fail #4
Led six nations in reaching an agreement with Iran that requires the country to end its nuclear weapons program and submit to a rigorous International Atomic Energy Agency inspections regime in exchange for lifting global sanctions. The deal—which resulted from first toughening sanctions against Iran—also blocked Iran’s pathways to building a bomb, slowing down the development time for a weapon from three months to one year if Iran were to break its commitments.

5. Secured U.S. Commitment to a Global Agreement on Climate Change LOL Kerry tried to say Air Conditioners are a bigger threat to the world than ISIS And he went around Congress this agreement is a valauable as toliet paper Fail #5
Provided key leadership to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which produced the
2015 Paris Agreement, a commitment by 197 nations to reduce global carbon emissions and limit the global rise in temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius.

6. Eliminated Osama bin Laden Right on! Win #1
In 2011, ordered the Special Forces raid of the secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was retained.

7. Ended U.S. Combat Missions in Iraq and Afghanistan Are You kidding this is what created ISIS HUGGGGGGE FAIL X2
After an initial troop surge in Afghanistan, brought home 90 percent of the nearly 180,000 troops who were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan when he took office, leaving only a small contingent of forces to assist the Iraqi and Afghani militaries against insurgents and the Taliban. The withdrawal from Iraq created the vacuum that ISIS has filled. But, recently, without redeploying ground troops, the U.S. has helped the Iraqi military in reversing ISIS’s gains.

8. Turned Around the U.S. Auto Industry Cut deals that made it so expensive that most of them started moving to Mexico. Trump is trying to stop that FaIL #8
In 2009, injected $62 billion (on top of the $13.4 billion in loans from the George W. Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. By December 2014, the car companies had repaid $70.4 billion of the funds, and the Center for Automotive Research estimated that 2.5 million jobs were saved.

9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’’ Saw this first hand 8 years of social engineering in the military has made us much weaker where people believe it is OK to challenge authority and to disobey orders. Way to go! Fail Fail Fail
Ended the 1990s-era restriction and formalized a new policy allowing gays and lesbians to sersve openly in the military for the first time.

10. Supported Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages. I am am divided on this one while i support marrige equality i believe the court overstepped its authority on this one it is their job to interpret law not to make it. Win for LGBT loss for the constitution.
Decided in 2011 that the federal government would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which restricted federal marriage recognition to opposite-sex couples. In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key portions of the law as unconstitutional, allowing married same-sex couples to finally receive federal protections like Social Security and veteran benefits.

I actually voted for Obama 8 years ago and I am still waiting for this hope and change. I guess it was only for Hollywood and the Washington elites.
 
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