What accomplishments has obama made during his time in office?

[thraashman]

The first instance of a credit rating downgrade below AAA.
An exponential increase in our debt.

Um ... while Obama was President when this happened absolutely everyone, even you, knows this was directly the fault of the Tea Party's actions.

Also you apparently don't know what the term "exponential" means.

 

[boomerang]

Um ... while Obama was President when this happened absolutely everyone, even you, knows this was directly the fault of the Tea Party's actions.

That totally sync's with the narrative that Obama is blameless. You've done well, you're a good little pro-Obama warrior. :facepalm:

Also you apparently don't know what the term "exponential" means.

Here, let me help you to understand. Is someone nearby to help you with the bigger words?

expressible or approximately expressible by an exponential function; especially : characterized by or being an extremely rapid increase (as in size or extent) <an exponential growth rate>

 

[Newell Steamer]

He has put away quite a few delicious beers as well!

http://becuo.com/obama-drinking-beer

Some are photoshopped, but Obama clearly loves beer.

 

[dank69]

That totally sync's with the narrative that Obama is blameless. You've done well, you're a good little pro-Obama warrior. :facepalm:

Here, let me help you to understand. Is someone nearby to help you with the bigger words?

Please approximately express the increase with an exponential function.

 

[rudder]

It also works in Econ 101 land.

I mean did you not notice the endless litany of conservatives who kept predicting things about the economy that ended up being hilariously wrong?

If there is one thing this economic crisis showed from an economic theory perspective it is that the dominant conservative understanding of how economics works was really, really wrong. People interested in understanding will accept that, people interested in ideology will find a way to avoid it.

It's sad that Obama saved the U.S. from the stupidity of euro style austerity but the conservatives that desperately wanted it will only hate him for saving them from their own foolishness.

When you have a smaller tax base and 20% of the people work in the public sector (Greece) sure there will be some pain with austerity measures. But when you can't sell bonds what to do what to do. Anyway, sequestration here in the U.S. has not resulted in doom and gloom... which was a pittance of a cut anyway.

Your rose colored economic philosophy is flawed. Project out 10, 20, or 30 years and tell me the out of control government spending is not a problem. In thirty years how much of the federal budget will be consumed by medicare, medicaid, and social security?

 

[thraashman]

That totally sync's with the narrative that Obama is blameless. You've done well, you're a good little pro-Obama warrior. :facepalm:

Here, let me help you to understand. Is someone nearby to help you with the bigger words?

Jeez you're retarded. Trying to blame the credit downgrade on Obama is like trying to blame the economic downturn on Obama. Everyone knows who's actually at fault. Even someone as remarkably, completely, fucktardedly dumb as you knows it was due to Tea Party holding the debt payment defaults hostage.

I'm shocked you haven't started blaming Obama for Hitler invading Poland or for the 80's AIDS crisis or 9/11. You're the type of raging moron who blames him for everything regardless, why not shit like this? Do me a favor, see if you can get someone to crack open your skull with a sledge hammer, I'm curious if there's anything inside other than creamy Cadbury Egg filling.

 

[NeoV]

made it easier to pick out the racist dip-shits on the other side of the political fence who literally oppose everything he has ever done because he's black with a funny name

 

[fskimospy]

When you have a smaller tax base and 20% of the people work in the public sector (Greece) sure there will be some pain with austerity measures. But when you can't sell bonds what to do what to do. Anyway, sequestration here in the U.S. has not resulted in doom and gloom... which was a pittance of a cut anyway.

The economics literature on the subject shows damage to the economy regardless of whether it was Greece implementing austerity or any other country.

Saying that sequestration didn't cause as much damage as some people said it would doesn't change the fact that it damaged our economy. It was a needless, self inflicted wound.

Your rose colored economic philosophy is flawed. Project out 10, 20, or 30 years and tell me the out of control government spending is not a problem. In thirty years how much of the federal budget will be consumed by medicare, medicaid, and social security?

Out of control government spending is not the problem, health care cost inflation is, and that's something that affects the entire economy. Slow the rate of health care cost inflation considerably and all those dire predictions suddenly melt away. There's evidence that this is happening too. How fun for us!

As for my philosophy, it's actually the opposite of rose colored. For years I've been saying that the economy was/is much worse than conservatives wanted to believe, and additional intervention was required. That's why at every not-terrible jobs report conservatives have always been saying "things look good! Time to cut spending!" despite low inflation and low wage growth. If anyone's wearing rose colored classes it's conservatives.

Then again, the mantra in good times is "times are good, so cut government because it's holding the free market back!" and in bad times is "times are bad, so cut government because we can't afford it!" When the conclusion is always the same regardless of circumstances it makes me think that it is not being arrived at in a thoughtful manner.

 

[SMOGZINN]

20. Never once wore a stupid cowboy hat.

While I have to agree with most of your post, I had to take exception here.

Edit:
Oh nose!

 

[trenchfoot]

Yeh, I really do feel the pain Repubs and conservatives in general are experiencing knowing full well that under Bush and Cheney's management, the economy took a nosedive into financial ruin while, after a short period needed to stop the Repub sponsored train wreck, under Obama's watch the economy is now steadily improving.

I understand how hard it is to explain why that's a really bad thing to happen. I also understand how extremely difficult it is to explain why 47 idiotic Repub congress persons decided to send a letter to Iran to school them on American style politics. I also understand why it's so hard for the Repubs to explain why it's near impossible to find a decent presidential candidate to go up against Bill Clinton's wife when it should be sooooooooooooooooooooooooo easy to do, seeing as if their proven ideology is superior to the Dems as far as making the rich richer while with hatchet and torch in hand, they're going after every federal program that assists the middle class and the poor.

Poor poor Repubs. lol

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

you're not going to believe anything that anyone posts about what Obama has accomplished in office, why bother asking, unless... well, this is just another trolling post to bash Obama.
What are the chances of that?

 

[Rakehellion]

This came up in another thread and I think it deserves its own. Lets list the things Obama has accomplished while in office:

Record number of people not working.
Record number of people on welfare.
Record number of American killed by their government without trial.
Record high health insurance costs.
Worst international relations in history.


Feel free to add some positive ones. I'm sure there has to be at least one?

Thanks, Obama!

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

While I have to agree with most of your post, I had to take exception here.

Edit:
Oh nose!

TECHNICALLY, that middle hat is more of an Indy Jones hat, however the other two

WTF... specifically the rwb one.

Kinda looks like Lisa Bonet's hat in High Fidelity

 

[Rakehellion]

you're not going to believe anything that anyone posts about what Obama has accomplished in office, why bother asking, unless... well, this is just another trolling post to bash Obama.
What are the chances of that?

He created the thread and then abandoned it.

 

[Mai72]

Obama's greatest accomplishment is exactly how much he was able to butthurt all the conservatives by simply being president.

Bwaha. so true.

 

[Mai72]

He has put away quite a few delicious beers as well!

http://becuo.com/obama-drinking-beer

Some are photoshopped, but Obama clearly loves beer.

Guy was a drunk. Prolly slurring his words in those pics.

 

[SMOGZINN]

TECHNICALLY, that middle hat is more of an Indy Jones hat, however the other two

WTF... specifically the rwb one.

Kinda looks like Lisa Bonet's hat in High Fidelity

The fedora like Indy wore comes to a point in the front, and has a smaller brim. That hat has a cattleman's crease making it a cowboy hat.

 

[Zaap]

1. being prez when OBL was taken out.
2. Keeping all the little dumbshit pretend-anti-war nutjobs pacified and out of the streets pretending they give a shit about protesting wars, and wars for oil and all the other horseshit that's only really reserved for R's.

3. ...

Can't think of a third. That's about it.

And to all of his diehard asslickers: this really only makes him about the average politician. Not that much worse, but certainly no better than most of the others.

 

[senseamp]

Angry Republicans are angry.

 

[Sonikku]

Worst international relations in history.

What would that even be based on?

47 Senators.

 

[thraashman]

47 Senators.

And the same crowd is at it again. This time trying to damage a UN Treaty.

 

[finglobes]

Should have mentioned that Obama also ruined the Dem party as Victor Davis Hanson touched on this week:

"In brilliantly diabolical fashion, the president of the United States has all but ruined the Democratic party in Congress and the state legislatures, but has also confounded his Republican opponents by not caring a whit about his own nihilism &#8212; as if he is supposed to worry about ending the congressional careers of his supposed allies?"


Obama&#8217;s Chicago Presidency
What you can do if you don&#8217;t care what anybody says.
http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=8320

 

[Lash444]

I think his greatest accomplishment, is that even taking over for a colossal failure of a presidency, he has managed to go through 1 and a half terms and the truly diehard conservative posters of this forum STILL can't come up with noteworthy failures on his part without posting complete and utter bullshit.

The best President who never left the golf course.

 

[trenchfoot]

And the same crowd is at it again. This time trying to damage a UN Treaty.

Seeing as if they're absolute failures at running the legislature while in control of it, they're now trying to run the executive branch FROM the legislative side to try to make Obama look as bad as they do.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Rude, you were a bit early for April Fools, no? You don't actually believe those claims do you?

Im not saying you have to like the guy, but seriously?

Record number of people not working.... How can Obama take credit for this? What actions of his caused this? Did he tell all the fortune 500 companies that they should lay people off, even when they are very profitable, in order to cause wage deflation, and crash the economy?

Record number of people on welfare. I think there may be record number of people getting food stamp and medicaid benefits, but I believe "welfare" numbers are down.

Record number of American killed by their government without trial.
Pretty sure Lincoln has a LOT more...


Record high health insurance costs.
Yes, but health insurance costs have been skyrocketing for 3 or 4 decades, every president for the last 10 presidents has broken the record. health insurance cost increases have slowwed down, for some people, and for me, at least over the last 2 years, they have decreased.

Worst international relations in history.
Our international relations are actually generally quite good right now. Reagan with his hundred and one secret wars and infiltrations probably made us the most enemies, but he happened to be president when the Soviet Union ran out of steam, so he gets credit for tearing down the wall.

Anyhow, the drone strikes are a huge problem, and lack of repeal of patriot act and all the spying and lack of transparency is really really horrible. Obama is far to conservative, I really wish we had a proper liberal progressive, not a moderate posing as a liberal .....

So, I like the guy, but, he seems like he doesn't stick to his guns as much as he should, he concedes too much.