What Did He Do that is so Bad?

It seems like the closer we get to the mid term elections, the more radical the charges against the Democratic Party, and our current sitting president become. I have heard attacks come from some of the most absurd places. All of you tea baggers, and right wing conservatives, claim that he (Obama) is ruining the country, how? What has this man done that is so terrible? And if you forget, it’s not like this country was in such good shape when he was elected. But really, what has he done that is so terrible. Let see, he:




1. Passing the "largest" economic stimulus bill in American history.

2. Ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay military detention facility and abolishing "enhanced interrogation techniques (Torture)

3. Setting a fixed timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq, and followed thru with it.

4. Ordering 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and enlisting, with modest new assistance, European allies in a new multi-layered strategy there and in Pakistan, and setting a timetable for a draw down of our troops.

5. "Returning science to its rightful place" by lifting the Bush restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research(although a federal judge ruled against it, that is still a ongoing fight)

6. Signing laws to expand children's health insurance (financed by a 61-cent per pack increase in the federal cigarette tax the adviser did not tout).

7. Signing a law meant to improve the ability of women who allege pay discrimination to sue their employer.

8. Lifting travel and remittance restrictions for Cuban Americans who seek to travel more frequently to the island and send more US currency to their immediate family.

9. Appointed the first Latina to the US Supreme Court

10. Signed a law supporting increased financial aid to severely injured war veterans, and their caretakers.

11. Banned offshore drilling until parameters for deep well safety procedures are clarified.

12. Put a hold on Arctic oil exploratory digging until environmental impacts are clear.

13. Passed health care reform.

14. Signed a hate crime bill.

Compared to G.W. Bush Who:

* Attacked and took over two countries. Based on lies

• Iraq worked with Al Quadia- Lie
• Iraq had WMDS-------------Lie

* Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.

* Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.

* Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.

* Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.

* First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.

* First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.

* After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.

* Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.

* In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.

*Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.

* Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.

* Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.

* Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.

* Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

* Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.

* Cut health care benefits for war veterans.

* Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

* Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.

* His presidency was the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.

* First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.

* Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.

* First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.

* Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. The Dept of   Homeland Security

* Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.

* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.

* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.

* Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

* Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.

* Withdrew from the World Court of Law.

* Refused to allow inspector’s access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
* All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

* His biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

* Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.

* First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations, The American People, and the world community.

* First US president to establish a secret shadow government.

* Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

* With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

* First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) viewed his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

* Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

* Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.

* Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
* In the 18 months following the 911 attacks he has successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

* Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.

* In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.

* Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

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After looking at this, it seems to me that we are comparing apples to oranges. President Obama has accomplished a lot.  And he did this all, in his first term in office which isn’t near completion. I mean, If you preferred how things were before under the previous administration, than I can see why you feel the way that you do, (don’t understand it, but I see it).But if you wanted a president that actually did something  positive for the American people, That is trying to live up to most of his campaign promises,( granted not everything is going to be done, nor should they) Then you should be very happy with who we have  in the oval office. He is nowhere near perfect, But at least that man is trying.  So I ask you once again? Let get real OK?  What did President Obama do, or is doing that is so terrible, besides be a Democrat in office? (I think I know, but I don’t want to be accused of  using  the “Race Card").