There, as Jim suggests, all sorts of reasons to take fair shots.
Let’s review the most recent:
More than 46 million on food stamps.
Nearly 1,000 executive orders.
The number of Americans age 16 or older who decided not to work or even to seek a job increased by 8,332,000 to a record 88,839,000 in President Obama’s first term -Bureau of Labor Statistics.
14% true unemployment rate.
A shambles of a foreign policy.
Economic stagnation.
The Iran nuclear negotiation fiasco.
The Obamacare roll-out fiasco and Obama’s lies to the American public.
-If you like your plan, you can keep it.
-You can keep your doctor
-Obamacare will save the average family $2,500 per year
-Obamacare will not raise taxes
-His campaign pledge of no tax increases
Other than these few things, he's the best president EVER!
How many were on food stamps during Gee-DUB's "reign"?
All presidents use executive orders...not the first, won't be the last. The real issue is WHY he had to resort to that number of EO's...and we can give that prize to John Boehner and the Republican controlled House of Representatives and their cry-baby, tantrum throwing TEA Party contingent. He had to do SOMETHING, considering that the Repubs were voting the party line EVERY time and holding things up...he did what he had to do and without those EO's I can't imagine what a mess our contry would be in now.
The most recent unemployment data I have seen shows that the unemployment rate is at it's lowest for the past 5 years...seems Bee-OH has made progress over what Gee-DUB left him. Teenagers are at 20%...but if a job is available, who would rather a teenager get that job over an "adult" trying to support a family???
Many of us feel Bee-OH's foreign policy is MUCH preferable to that of the most recent Republican POTUS...the highly "revered???" Gee-DUB. Remember his "Mission Accomplished" speech on the deck of the aircraft carrier? Ha...ha...ha...ho-hum.
Seems the stock market is back up and now at record highs...Good news for the rich (the most recent reports stated that the top 1% are the only ones who have benefitted from the recent upswing in the economy, though...but, then, that's the way it always goes.)
Sounds to me like we as a
multi-national negotiation team have almost tied Iran's hands on the issue...thanks to the leadership of Bee-0H!
The ACA website roll-out was not Bee-OH's "work", but he took the blame for the difficulties and did what it took to get it up and running. Hard to dislike a guy who can get things like that done in only a month, considering the magnitude of the screw-ups the programmers left intact.
-Still to be determined...but Bee-OH is promoting a change to the law to make that reality...
IF (and that is a big
IF) he can get Boehner and his band of cronies to allow him to make the change without insisting on attaching many of their nit-picking demands, thanks to the TEA party contingent's coercion)
-Still to be determined...Bee-OH cannot be held responsible for the number of doctors who don't want to accept the fees allowable under the ACA and decide to take their toys and play elsewhere...not much sympathy here for a doctor who makes $1,000/hour and wants to throw a temper tantrum about having to take less.
-Still to be determined, too...I hear horror stories, and I hear stories of successes. IMHO it probably is a function of how hard the person searches and what kind of policy they want.
-Still to be determined, too...more Chicken Little angst from the right, IMHO.
-IIRC, that was the first Bush POTUS who said "Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES" and then welched. Sets a nice precedent, don't you think?
Probably not the best president ever, but IMHO and in the HO of a majority of citizens of our great country, not the worst ever, either. His approval rate is at it's lowest and still seems to be miles ahead of the approval rate of his politically adverserial Republican politicians...whom the country's majority seems to hold responsible for the gridlock in Washington and the reputation of this congress as the LEAST PRODUCTIVE in 40 years.
Considering the TARP fiasco he was handed when Gee-DUB left office, and all the things he had to "fix", IMHO he's done an admirable job, and particularly when you take into account the number of campaign promises he carried through on. I hate to think where our country would be if Romney had been elected!
YOMV, and obviously does.
Cheers!
Doug
