President Obama's Accomplishments!

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Every now and again, the other side likes to claim President Obama doesn't have a record to run on. They're wrong. Here's a taste of why:

(Just a couple of) the Obama Administration's accomplishments:

1. The first bill President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to help women fight back when they don't get equal pay for equal work.

Damn right! How dare the private market decide how to pay employees!!!!!

2. His Recovery Act supported millions of jobs and helped to stave off a second Great Depression.

Little do people know we basically just gave a blank check to the Federal Reserve and this really didn't help anyone. All of those 'shovel ready' projects already had funds coming!

3. He pushed for and won middle-class tax cuts that benefitted every American worker, and saved the typical family $3,600 in taxes over the last four years.

Hey, Obama took credit for something BUSH did! Great! I guess Obama thinks Bush's ideas were successful!

4. President Obama rescued the auto industry, and now GM and Chrysler are healthier than they've ever been. The American auto industry has added nearly a quarter of a million jobs since June 2009 -- and they most likely wouldn't exist right now without President Obama's leadership.

Hey, another BUSH accomplishment Obama is taking credit for!!!!

5. He doubled funding for Pell Grants, helping to make college more affordable for nearly 10 million families.

Government cheese! Who doesn't like Free ####### at the expense of others!!!!

6. His student loan reform ended billions in subsidies to banks serving as middlemen and reinvested those savings directly into students.

The government in our lives even more! The little lie of permanent low interest rates, but who keeps up with government lies? It's only those EVIL banks who are EVIL!!!!!

7. The President established the American Opportunity Tax Credit, worth up to $10,000 over four years of college.

Wow, more government handouts!!! WOOOOOOO!!!

8. His Race to the Top Initiative helped spur nearly every state to raise academic standards.

Meanwhile more students are failing or having GPS units placed on them to be forced to stay in school!

9. His tax cuts, social-welfare programs, and economic policies lifted nearly 7 million Americans above the federal poverty line in 2010.

Government cheese at the expense of those who work hard for a living! Welfare queens rejoice!!! You da bomb ladies!!!!

10. President Obama has signed 18 tax cuts for small businesses since taking office.

Funny, those small businesses must be campaign donors, as we don't see jack around here!

11. We've seen 5.2 million new private-sector jobs over the last 31 months.

Obama creates jobs? Oh that's right! You didn't build that! He did!!!!

12. The unemployment rate is at the lowest level since President Obama took office.

23 million not employed or under-employed, but who's counting right?

13. Health care reform -- passed after decades of failed attempts by every previous President -- provides affordable health coverage to every American and will lower premiums by an average of $2,000 per family by 2019.

Premiums actually have gone up and will continue to go up, not to mention the communist/socialist BS of the individual mandate handing America over to corporation. Yet the left cheers this? Ironic really.

14. Obamacare expanded access to lifesaving preventive care such as cancer screenings and immunizations with no out-of-pocket costs for 54 million Americans.

No out of pocket costs? Except for those higher premiums.....

15. Obamacare ends insurance discrimination against the 129 million Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Being a dictator is applauded these days? Amazing! Discrimination against bad business practice... Obviously this guy never ran a business in his life!

16. Because of Obamacare, over 3 million more young adults have health insurance today than would if the new law hadn't passed.

So cradle to grave dependency? Age 26 to stay on health plans? Please. This is NOT an accomplihment. It's a travesty!

17. The parents of over 17 million children with pre-existing conditions no longer have to worry that their children will be denied coverage.

Again, DICTATING to private businesses who they must serve against their best interest. Only a left-wing nutbar could agree with this!

18. President Obama has ordered the overhaul of federal government regulations to make them smarter, practical, and more efficient. Just a fraction of these commonsense initiatives will help save businesses $10 billion in the next five years alone.

So made up voodoo BS that hasn't saved anyone money? Lovely.... The regulations are a pain in the butt still!

19. His historic investments in clean energy have helped more than double the amount of electricity we obtain from wind and solar sources and helped increase biofuel production to its highest level in history.

One word: Solyndra

20. President Obama is doubling fuel efficiency standards, which will save drivers more than $8,000 at the gas pump, not to mention lessen the impact of automobiles on our environment.

Gas prices have almost tripled at times since Obama has taken office!!! He's not saving anyone money! Higher fuel standards also = higher vehicle prices!! Delusional left-wing propoganda here!

21. President Obama has taken unprecedented action to address climate change, reaching historic international agreements to curb carbon emissions, and taking action here at home to reduce carbon pollution from our vehicles and promote clean energy production.

So Obama believes in junk science? So much for having an educated leader of the free world....

22. He has taken historic action to protect our environment -- signing one of the largest expansions of protected wilderness in a generation and putting in place standards to reduce toxic air pollution that will save thousands of lives.

Meanwhile, China is drilling right off our shore in areas we can't drill thanks to the left! GJ!!! Way to support China's growth Mr. President!

23. President Obama fought for and won landmark Wall Street reform that reins in the abuses that led to the financial crisis and ends the era of taxpayer bailouts and "too big to fail."

So he bailed out private companies, banks, etc... has new reforms,but doesn't address the root cause of the problem (the underground derivatives market) and he's cheering himself? Pathetic!

24. Wall Street reform created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the nation's first federal agency focused solely on consumer financial protection -- and the Bureau is already protecting families from unfair and abusive financial practices from Wall Street banks and shadowy corners of the financial industry.

Abuse hasn't changed or stopped. Banks just tell you they are doing to rob you first now!

25. As part of President Obama's commitment to transparency, the White House has posted its visitor records online for the first time ever.

Visitor records maybe... but this has actually been the LEAST transparent administration in recent President's. Another campaign promise not kept!

26. President Obama's all-of-the-above approach to energy has helped cut the United States' dependence on foreign oil to its lowest level in 20 years.

PRIVATE industry has grown oil... FEDERAL oil production has gone DOWN!!! More LIES from this President!

27. President Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq.

More lies! More money being spent there than ever. Military replaced with private security firms! The defense industry has grown HUGE under Obama!

28. He announced a plan to end the war in Afghanistan and transition security responsibility to the Afghan people.

See previous comment. Applies the same!

29. President Obama sent the largest security assistance package to Israel in history and funded the Iron Dome system, which is protecting Israeli homes and schools from rocket attacks.

Obama does all this alone. Man, what a guy!

30. President Obama rallied the international community to implement the toughest sanctions on Iran in history.

Toughest in history?

31. Through the President's historic increases in Veterans Affairs funding, he has expanded and improved healthcare and job training access for our returning veterans.

Ask almost ANY veteran, they will disagree with this wholeheartedly. VA healthcare is still #######!

32. President Obama negotiated the New START Treaty with Russia to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in both countries. At the same time, he also secured commitments from dozens of other countries to lock down nuclear materials.

Obama, taking down America's defenses. What a leader!

33. His administration naturalized 11,146 military service members as U.S. citizens in 2010; more than in any year since 1955.

Maybe a good accomplishment, but this is nothing new!

34. President Obama set a bold new plan for the future of NASA space exploration, using the skill and ability of the private sector for short trips to the International Space Station, while building a new vehicle for exploration of distant space, and doing everything in his power to support the economy on Florida's Space Coast.

Yup, we've gutted NASA, but who really cares about that!

35. President Obama recognizes that tourism is one of America's largest economic engines; he's worked to encourage international visitors to come here, maintaining our security while keeping millions of Americans in good, paying jobs.

Gotta invite those chinese investors in here to take a look around!

36. He has affirmed his personal support of marriage equality, directed the Justice Department to stop defending DOMA in federal courts, and took the practical and compassionate step of extending hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners.

He violated the law by not defending the law! Truly a great guy!

37. He fought for and won the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, allowing gay and lesbian members of the military to serve openly for the first time in history.

Helloooo, we're here and we're...... not really impressed!

38. When Congress failed to fix our broken immigration system, his administration did everything in its power to improve it, streamlining the legal immigration process and announcing a policy that lifts the shadow of deportation from hard working young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Obama: "It's ok to be an illegal! I got your back! Srew America!"

39. Oh, and he gave the order to send troops in after Osama Bin Laden -- and has decimated al-Qaeda's senior leadership.

Obama! Did it all by himself!! Of course he won't produce any real evidence of Osama's death, but hey, he's trust worthy, right? right?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Well this seems like a lovely, unbiased list.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

3. He pushed for and won middle-class tax cuts that benefitted every American worker, and saved the typical family $3,600 in taxes over the last four years.

Hey, Obama took credit for something BUSH did! Great! I guess Obama thinks Bush's ideas were successful!

Paul, you're uninformed and that is your God given right. But the middle class tax relief that Obama is taking credit for is the "Making Work Pay" tax credit ($800.00 in 2009 and 2010 = $1,600.00 for the average family) and the payroll tax holiday which provided an average benefit of $1,000.00 each in 2011 and 2012 = $2,000.00. Taken together, these two middle class tax relief measures saved the typical American family $3,600.00 over the last 4 years.

This concludes the lesson. No charge. You're welcome!

[Teddy B 17,252]

1. The first bill President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to help women fight back when they don't get equal pay for equal work.

Damn right! How dare the private market decide how to pay employees!!!!!

[Karee 4,190]

I'm starting to think Steven and Paul are actually the same person. Some kind of Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde experiment gone wrong.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Right? The first one on the list too. Hard to take it seriously after that.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Right? The first one on the list too. Hard to take it seriously after that.

Was my thought exactly. But I will give him an A for effort, at least he followed it all the way through the full 39 on the list.

I'm starting to think Steven and Paul are actually the same person. Some kind of Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde experiment gone wrong.

You just might be on to something.

[sly_wolf 199]

Lol, thats right! How dare that they not be allowed to take advantage of people!

[JohnR! 5,495]

1. The first bill President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to help women fight back when they don't get equal pay for equal work.

Damn right! How dare the private market decide how to pay employees!!!!!

I am afraid next, women will begin entertaining the notion they should vote and - perish the thought - become machinists and delve into the real of driving motor cars! You are much safer in your Victorian environment!!!

Edited November 1, 2012 by Gegel

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Wait a second, how did this computer get in my kitchen?!

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I know, it's terrible right? People thinking and acting for themselves without government telling them waht to do.

Government should support equal opportunity in the private sector, but not force equal opportunity in the private sector.

After all, what's to stop a female led business from discriminating against male employees. I see no problem with this at all.

Again though, that would require the American left to think for themselves and be innovative, work hard, etc... We all know those things aren't likely to happen. Instead it's much easier to DICTATE to others what they should and should not do in the business that they built.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I know, it's terrible right? People thinking and acting for themselves without government telling them waht to do.

Government should support equal opportunity in the private sector, but not force equal opportunity in the private sector.

After all, what's to stop a female led business from discriminating against male employees. I see no problem with this at all.

Again though, that would require the American left to think for themselves and be innovative, work hard, etc... We all know those things aren't likely to happen. Instead it's much easier to DICTATE to others what they should and should not do in the business that they built.

What year do you live in?

Businesses should not be allowed to discriminate against people. If a woman is doing the same job as a man, their pay should be the same. End of story.

Edited November 1, 2012 by Evylin

[JohnR! 5,495]

After all, what's to stop a female led business from discriminating against male employees. I see no problem with this at all.

That ship has sailed with the Civil Rights Act.

After all, what were to stop a white led business from discriminating against black employees?

After all, what were to stop an American led business from discriminating against immigrants?

Most Americans see that as a problem.

[sly_wolf 199]

What year do you live in?

Businesses should not be allowed to discriminate against people. If a woman is doing the same job as a man, their pay should be the same. End of story.

Oh, wait till the wife hears him talk like that.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Paul, you're uninformed and that is your God given right. But the middle class tax relief that Obama is taking credit for is the "Making Work Pay" tax credit ($800.00 in 2009 and 2010 = $1,600.00 for the average family) and the payroll tax holiday which provided an average benefit of $1,000.00 each in 2011 and 2012 = $2,000.00. Taken together, these two middle class tax relief measures saved the typical American family $3,600.00 over the last 4 years.

This concludes the lesson. No charge. You're welcome!

Payroll tax holiday. I must have missed that one. As for the Tax Credit. Not sure how you think paying in almost zero in income tax every year and getting back checks for 6 and 7 grand is a great accomplishment. However all the used car lots, Lotto stores and the Polo shop at Macy's appreciate it .