What good things has Obama had since he is elected ?

[Malok]

I'm not a fan of politicians in general (for me, I think if someone WANTS to be in politics...then they probably should NOT be).   Anyway, I think that Obama will best be known for Obamacare as the years/decades roll past.  I just don't think that the next generation will give 2 hoots that someone called Bin Laden was killed during his presidency.

[Benjig]

1. Obama Care
2. Economy (it is improving despite Republican obstructionism)
3. Libya (ousting of Qadafy)
5. stopping the Keystone pipeline (at least so far)
6. ending don't ask don't tell
7. ending the Bush tax cuts for high earners
8. ending the stupid Bush policy on restricting stem cell research
9. Improved America's standing in the world community

[acs267]

Well, there were more than ten scandals going on while he's in office.

That's true, along with Obama Care, the DAT act, and other things, I guess.

[bryant.coleman]

9. Improved America's standing in the world community

Explain this. How did Obama improved America's standing in the world community? If anything to go by, I would say that the standing of the US has gone down with the international community. 

[Watermelondea]

Retarded question alert!! (im not from the US)

So i see people making fun/trolling/complaining about Obamacare everywhere on the internet.
Whats the issue with it?

[Benjig]

9. Improved America's standing in the world community

Explain this. How did Obama improved America's standing in the world community? If anything to go by, I would say that the standing of the US has gone down with the international community. 

The image of the United States has improved markedly in most parts of the world,In many countries opinions of the United States are now about as positive as they were at the beginning of the decade before George W. Bush took office.Signs of improvement in views of America are seen even in some predominantly Muslim countries that held overwhelmingly negative views of the United States in the Bush years.

[bryant.coleman]

The image of the United States has improved markedly in most parts of the world,In many countries opinions of the United States are now about as positive as they were at the beginning of the decade before George W. Bush took office.Signs of improvement in views of America are seen even in some predominantly Muslim countries that held overwhelmingly negative views of the United States in the Bush years.

Obama has supported toppling the secular governments in the Middle East and North Africa, and replacing them with the hard-line Islamist governments. So it does not surprise me that the standing of America has improved in the Muslim world.

[tvbcof]

Obama has done plenty of great things, if you're a Marxist.   

Pffft!  I'm a 'Marxist' by the definition of most mouth-breathing fox news watchers and he hasn't done squat for 'us'.

I have put some thought into this question and I really cannot think of anything.  Then, idea!  I'm a lib/progressive type, so if I think of a point where I dis-agree with most of my fellow progressives then maybe I'll spot something.  Sure enough.  I'm a 2nd amendment supporter and Obama hasn't done dick about the 'scourge of gun violence.'  So he's taken no action on an issue which ends up being for the better.  I guess that could qualify as 'doing.'

Not that he hasn't talked about dealing with 'the gun problem.'  So what?  He talks about all kinds of stuff in eloquent prose.  He just doesn't actually do jack shit.

[tvbcof]

Thanks for finding some stuff.

1. Obama Care

Worse than nothing.  Condemns us to another decade or two of disfunctional malaise.  Insurance companies (totally parasitic) are thriving though.

2. Economy (it is improving despite Republican obstructionism)

There has not been another 2008 in spite of the underlying problems getting even more tightly wound.  We'll see if he gives his sponsors in the financial industry a payout in his last year as did the last POTUS.

3. Libya (ousting of Qadafy)

More war.  Great.  Popularized social media PSYOPS targeting Americans.  Continued same old 'color revolutions' with an even higher reliance on out-of-country mercenaries often enough with radical religion mixed in.  Populations suffered accordingly.  Worked in Libya, not so much in Syria.  It's not without a risk of blow-back.  Might be what we're seeing in Iraq now.  New saying two years after Gaddafi: "Before we only had one Gaddafi, but now we have hundreds.”

5. stopping the Keystone pipeline (at least so far)

Oddly, I've never been strongly against pipelines (unless they are the basis for wars to control territory.)  My liberal peers seem to get bent out of shape for silly reasons about them.  Not sure why.  If eminent domain is abused that is a different story in my mind, but I rarely see that as a complaint.

6. ending don't ask don't tell
7. ending the Bush tax cuts for high earners
8. ending the stupid Bush policy on restricting stem cell research

Agree, but I'm not terribly impressed with his performance on 7.  It is true that I had to pay more than 0% on my long-term capital gains from Bitcoin this year due to a tiny change to the tax code which took 'him' five shorty years to implement.  Boo-hoo for trust-fund brats (and successful Bitcoin long-term speculators.)

9. Improved America's standing in the world community

Debatable.  No particular reason for it in the minds of anyone paying much attention.  The U.S. found someone who could complete a sentence to lead the country.  We rock!

[counter]

After thinking for a while, I came up with one good thing which was done by Obama:

1. He didn't initiated a nuclear war with Russia, over the Ukraine crisis. Had it been Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney, half the world would have been already converted to radio-active wasteland. 

Amen to that!  I do appreciate that there isn't a nuclear war taking place at the moment but I think that is setting the standards bar a little low, haha.

I once asked a Obama supporter what he's done really and didn't get much of a reply but this was a couple years ago now.  Thing is the answer I here commonly these days is he's trying but the republicans are stopping him.  That is no excuse, what was expected when he took office I wonder?

[sana8410]

Barack Obama has executed a whole lot of tasks.. However, the best of the lot is the killing of terrorist Osama Bin Laden and the end of war in Iraq.

That’s not true , he didn’t kill Osama Bin Laden , SWAT and FBI team did that , but yes that happened when he came to the office . But what you think about starting this war with Libya ? Is it the same like with Iraq just few miles difference same goal same oil same shits happening .

If you don’t know much about Obama that’s not the reason to make him look bad . He did some good things really take a look . and then judge ! But if you are president some people are going to like you some are not . That’s normal fact !

Proof you can please only some people some of times .

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/15/...citations/

[Swordsoffreedom]

If someone can tell me what good and meaningful successes has President Obama had since being elected ... what Democrats can call as one success ?

I’m not judging Obama only want to summarize ...

Obamacare I mean healthcare for all citizens and a nice payday for the insurance companies
Well the good thing about it is that it was universal coverage no one could be turned down the bad thing about it was that some of the cheaper more efficient plans were moved up and inflated.
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/11/01/our-new-237-per-month-health-insurance-plan/
Still it is a start to universal healthcare.

But the website crashing so epicly means it wasn't really a complete success

Also finding Bin Laden COUGH they so knew where he was just waited for the right time to get him (not during bush years) During Obamas term.

The rest is negligible
Could say he lost iraq already given the news and used a far to small army to begin with
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/kerry-says-us-will-act-soon-on-iraq-but-at-request-of-baghdad-government/2014/06/13/53ddc5f0-f2f9-11e3-9ebc-2ee6f81ed217_story.html

[noviapriani]

Barack Obama has executed a whole lot of tasks.. However, the best of the lot is the killing of terrorist Osama Bin Laden and the end of war in Iraq.

That’s not true , he didn’t kill Osama Bin Laden , SWAT and FBI team did that , but yes that happened when he came to the office . But what you think about starting this war with Libya ? Is it the same like with Iraq just few miles difference same goal same oil same shits happening .

If you don’t know much about Obama that’s not the reason to make him look bad . He did some good things really take a look . and then judge ! But if you are president some people are going to like you some are not . That’s normal fact !

Proof you can please only some people some of times .

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/15/...citations/

I didn’t say only bad things . I would give him credits for that Improving the Economy, Preventing Depression and in fields of Wall Street reforms that he made . I can agree on that civil rights and anti-discrimination improvements that he made .

But as you said you can please only some people some of times . I don’t like Obama that's my opinion

[Rigon]

Barack Obama has executed a whole lot of tasks.. However, the best of the lot is the killing of terrorist Osama Bin Laden and the end of war in Iraq.

That’s not true , he didn’t kill Osama Bin Laden , SWAT and FBI team did that , but yes that happened when he came to the office . But what you think about starting this war with Libya ? Is it the same like with Iraq just few miles difference same goal same oil same shits happening .

If you don’t know much about Obama that’s not the reason to make him look bad . He did some good things really take a look . and then judge ! But if you are president some people are going to like you some are not . That’s normal fact !

Proof you can please only some people some of times .

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/15/...citations/

I didn’t say only bad things . I would give him credits for that Improving the Economy, Preventing Depression and in fields of Wall Street reforms that he made . I can agree on that civil rights and anti-discrimination improvements that he made .

But as you said you can please only some people some of times . I don’t like Obama that's my opinion

According to a 2012 poll conducted by Gallup, a company famous for the integrity of their public opinion polls, 54% of Libyans approve of U.S. leadership, compared to only 22% and 19% respective approval for China and Russia's, and 75% of Libyans say they approved of NATO's military intervention in the civil war.

Well, what did you expect? Gaddafi was brutally oppressing his own citizens and killing the rebels and anyone who dares to speak against him en mass. His was an authoritarian dictatorship where ordinary citizens like you and I do not have a voice in what happens to us, our family and our neighbors.

Are you saying that such a leader should not be overthrown?

[bitsmichel]

9. Improved America's standing in the world community

I think this did not increase, on the contrary. Dragnet surveillance, financial crisis, guantanamo, secret wars, attack on journalists (whistleblowers) etc
The standing worsened;

[Nik1ab]

US is shitty as always. I think almost every presidential candidate would have done the same thing.

[Beans]

The fact that he basically ended our ability to purchase healthcare makes everything else pretty insignificant. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Many people don't seem to realize what we've actually lost because they don't purchase healthcare. I used to pay $215 a month and my visits and meds were all covered with $15 co pays. Now I pay $300 month for insurance and $1200 a month for visits and meds. I'm only 30, most people my age would be struggling with this. The only reason I'm not is because I'm a early btc investor.

So with the new healthcare, your either poor and get your healthcare for free or middle class and made to be poor. Now that premiums are way up and health insurance is only allowed to cover catastrophic events you would think it would at least do a good job of that. The reality is they hardly cover any more in those situations then past insurance plans. All the extra money is just going towards handouts for people who don't care about getting jobs and why should they. Who doesn't like handouts, I wish I could stay at home and play all day.

Giving credit for capturing Osama is ridiculous. All he did was approve the mission. How could he not?


More recently, he's empowered terrorists by doing open trades. He also removed the need for congress on these issues.


He also ended NASA. A socialist County does not need the kind of innovation and sights on the future that NASA brings to the table.


Obama's goal is to removed the middle class and get everyone relying on the government. I think he's actually made a pretty impressive amount of progress towards that goal.


His wife is a real god send too. “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country …"  

As in, now that Obama's socialist liberal pro muslim agenda is moving forward.

[Wilikon]

Retarded question alert!! (im not from the US)

So i see people making fun/trolling/complaining about Obamacare everywhere on the internet.
Whats the issue with it?

First. Tell us how much you know about obamacare and what the law is about.

[niothor]

Retarded question alert!! (im not from the US)

So i see people making fun/trolling/complaining about Obamacare everywhere on the internet.
Whats the issue with it?

First. Tell us how much you know about obamacare and what the law is about.

I really think that before answering to the main question in this thread everyone should post
I am / I am not from the us.

I find it weird that so many people here seems to know exactly how life is there and how things are going  in the US based only on the news and forum talks.
I know a certain guy who's never been there and has sworn to never set foot in the states but it's one of the most active persons in threads related to...

[Spendulus]

...the answer I here commonly these days is he's trying but the republicans are stopping him.  That is no excuse, what was expected when he took office I wonder?

Look, everything was Bush's fault UNTIL the Republicans started stopping him from accomplishing anything.