What has Obama done for our country?

Well speaking as a Brit, he’s certainly stopped us laughing at your president. Now that may seem insignificant, but that’s only because it is! It’s a start at least.

Stopping another great depression for starters.

Agree with @Judi. Stood in any bread lines lately?

Made a start at healthcare reform, is working on improving education, prevented the recession from sliding further down, ameliorated many environmental issues, raised the United States’ diplomatic standing. More to do, more to do….

The fact we are NOT seeing soup lines. Employment is up. Home values have stopped their drop.

@ucme (laughing at our previous president? I thought he speechified most exellantally)

@Austinlad Back in the days of the bread lines we didn’t have food stamps which is why we are not seeing these bread lines today. Our supplemental nutritional assistance program as it is affectionately known, as of late November 2009, one in eight Americans and one in four children are using food stamps and the program rate is growing at 20,000 people a day. That would otherwise be one very long bread line.

He nationalized the banks,student loan programs,car companies and has taken over the health insurance industry,while driving us 1.7 trillion dollars deeper in debt to China…and had gutted NASA…that’s all I got for now as I haven’t had my coffee yet. ;)

TARP, the economic bailout, was a success in stopping the recession and turning the unemployment ship around. 187 billion of the money has been paid back with interest. The remainder is expected to be paid back providing a 20 billion profit for the government.
Houston Chronicle

Obama’s health care initiative is going to have major effects in stopping private insurers from dropping people whose care gets costly and in caring fro pre-existing conditions and in providing health care coverage to those who don’t have it.

Obama’s administration is responsible for passing the most legislation of any administration at least since 1965 and maybe 1933.

Sugar-coated an already existing economic nightmare for our country.

@lucillelucillelucille, what banks did he nationalize?

What do you mean by “taken over the health insurance industry”?

Can you please support your 1.7 trillion debt figure?

Maybe you should have your coffee before you answer.

This may sound like a small thing, but it’s actually pretty huge: he has created an administration that will give him dissenting opinions.

Bush fired people that didn’t tell him what he wanted to hear, so he got an administration of yes-men which resulted in a war in Iraq that should never have happened and some completely asinine economic decisions that launched us on a trajectory that Obama’s is working his ass off to fix. That’s what happens when America votes in an incompetent red-neck who tells them what they want to hear and ignores the facts.

@filmfann I kinda miss Bush….as the celibate said to the monkey!

Thanks for the history lesson, @Cruiser. Actually, I was making the point metaphorically that we’re not in a another Great Depression, though it certainly must feel like it to many, many people—and for them, I’m truly sorry. But I do believe we’d be in far better shape if the Obama administration hadn’t acted as boldly as it did. There was no precedent in recent decades to the economic mess his new administration faced, and I give him and his team high marks for taking bold (if in some cases, mistakened and misguided) steps. And on that note, I’ll gently slip out of this thread.

@Austinlad Metaphorically speaking you are in denial as what we have and are going through is as bad and in many cases worse that the great Depression. We are writing history as we speak.

@Cruiser it’s so bad you and @lucillelucillelucille will have to shoot your supper, just to survive, i hope you are crack shots :)

If you had a sick child who previously could not get health care, now he can—that is one of the many things Obama has done in the face of a tsunami tide of opposition and obstreperousness from Republicans. You might also notice that we are not in a huge Depression, and that the banks are repaying the emergency loans given to them—also thanks to Obama. Just hope that he is willing to stick with this job for four more years.

What does any president do for our country, seriously, except do the bidding of the powerful who got him elected and yank the ‘strings’ of their puppet? Aside from that? He’s given us a spokesperson to the world who’s well spoken and nice looking. Since we’ve been getting it up the a** for a very long time now, might as well be a handsome, articulate man to represent it as opposed to snide and priviliedged idiots. It’s the small things afterall:).

isn’t it funny how an attractive, articulate, dignified Afro-American male in the top job, brings out the most outlandishly bratish, foot stomping behaviour from the sore losers – `wahhh, IT’S NOT FAIR….fuck democracy, let’s shoot everyone! wahhh, boo—hooo hoo! i want my W back and Aunty Palin, coz they were real FUN!’

Absolutely fucking pitiful.

@Qingu -These examples I’ve given really don’t require explanation nor should I have to do your homework for you especially since this is all anyone is discussing, whether it be the halls of Congress or the local ballgame.

“The record for the first two years of President Obama’s economic policies is pretty dismal: National debt up $2.9 trillion; unemployment rate holding at a lofty 9.6 percent; and Obama’s personal metric—the Obama jobs deficit—up to 7.6 million workers”.~ October 8, 2010 by J.D. Foster, Ph.D.-Heritage
Maybe I underestimated a little bit but these numbers are rising by the day! ;)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123871911466984927.html

And where have you been? Haven’t you ever heard of the Obama bank bailout?
Do you remember the 700 biliion $ Wall Street banking bailout where you fire the CEO’s who you think are troublemakers or are politically expedient and begin to dictate fiscal policy to private institutions? Following this the 814$ Bil stimulus package and the other 200$Bil proposed discretionary spending? Yeah… I thought you might. remember .http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Issues/TheEconomy/2010/10/04/AP-Business-Groups-Turn-on-Allies.aspx

@mammal -So you vote for people based on how they look or because of the color of their skin and not whether they are remotely qualified for the job,??? Holy shit. Obama is NOT qualified. No matter what room he is in,he is the most unqualified person in it, Especially if he forgot to bring his teleprompter.

And yes “f%*K democracy”(as you say). This is not a Democracy! How politically illiterate can you be to think the USA is a Democracy!??
No one’s rights/life is safe in a Democracy because they/it can be voted away! If 9 cannibals vote to eat the 10th, it’s ok because they voted on it
This is a Constitutionally Limited Republic, where the right of the individual is paramount.
If I must continually explain thing like this to you, (as if I was teaching you Govt.101 course) I am going to want to get extra pay for teaching you. ;)

@mammal I am and she is and I will even share my supper with you as Obama would want it that way!

@lucillelucillelucille whatever…

Na Na!

Brought it to the brink of total collapse.

@lucillelucillelucille if that is you in your avatar pic you look quite hot, but i will have to spank you if you persist down this line.

I truly believe that Barak Hussein Obama will go down in history as the worst President in US history.

@CaptainHarley along with Franklin D. Roosevelt i assume…

Not really. Franklin D. actually had the best interests of the Country at heart, unlike the current inhabitant of the White House.

@CaptainHarley you liked bush too didnt you? He had americas best interests at heart….. LOL

As a matter of fact, I didn’t vote for Bush. I didn’t even vote at all that election, except for local office.

@mammal FDR was a master at managing his public image, and he was very loose with the purse strings, but that’s not what ended the Great Depression. Instead, the catalyst was the Second World War. With most of the workforce being sent out to fight and the defense industries booming, there were plenty of good jobs and lots of money that, because of rationing, people couldn’t spend.

@mammal -It’s me and I’ll kick your @$$ ;)

Making 5 billion people on our planet respect the United States government again.

@mattbrowne

Well hardly.

@lucillelucillelucille, you said Obama nationalized the banks. Why do you believe he nationalized banks? (He didn’t.)

I also asked you to explain waht you mean by “taken over the health care industry.”

I ask these questions because you seem to have very strong opinions on these subjects despite being completely ignorant about them. For example, you referred to Obama’s bank bailouts. But the TARP bill was passed before Obama came into office. This is pretty basic knowledge. Maybe you should educate yourself before you form such strong opinions?

@Qingu it’s like 95% of the Republicans I run across are suffering from the Dunning–Kruger effect. The rest are just greedy cold-hearted bastards that could care less if Republicans totally fuck up the country as long as they’re making more money in the short run. After all, who needs facts, when you’ve got Fox news to tell you exactly what you want to hear, regardless of how true it is?

@Qingu

Did a Republican steal your lollipop when you were little, or maybe molest you somehow? Jeeze!

@CaptainHarley, they created a financial crisis which led to both my fiancée and my best friend being unemployed for a long period of time.

That’s just on a personal level. It also of course ruined the financial security of millions of other people, and continues to do so.

The Republicans also manipulated the public into supporting a war that should not have happened, a war that ended up causing the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, many of them innocent civilians.

The Republicans were able to do both of these things by appealing to the sheer ignorance, gullibility, and selfishness of their “base,” who frothingly regurgitate the propaganda talking points spoon-fed to them by the party’s media apparatus.

I think it’s important to keep in mind—when discussing the accomplishments or failures of the Obama administration—what the alternative actually is.

@Qingu @lucillelucillelucille‘s concerns are not wholly unfounded; the idea was floated early in Barry’s term.

The financial crisis was set a-rolling by Clinton’s enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act, which forced the banks to accept riskier loans.

@Nullo, I wasn’t responding to her concerns. I was responding to her claim that Obama nationalized the banks. He didn’t. The fact that some people in the administration floated idea doesn’t change reality or make her statement any less blatantly wrong.

Your interpretation of the financial crisis predictably follows conservative propaganda. It’s actually thinly veiled racism. Blame the financial crisis on the inner-city minorities taking risky loans. Not on the incredible amount of corruption and malfeasance in the financial sector, or in the massive deregulation (under Clinton and Bush—though Clinton had to deal with a Republican congress) that enabled such malfeasance.