Which Barack Obama accomplishment is your favorite? (user search)
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
June 01, 2024, 02:40:21 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  Individual Politics (Moderator: The Dowager Mod)
  Which Barack Obama accomplishment is your favorite? (search mode)
Pages: [1]
Poll
Question: Favorite Barack Obama accomplishment?
#1
Becoming the first African American president of the United States
 
#2
Spearheading Obamacare, giving millions health insurance
 
#3
Ending the war in Iraq
 
#4
Ending the war in Afghanistan
 
#5
Sucessfully intervening in Libya and overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi
 
#6
Killing Osama bin Laden
 
#7
Droning and killing many top Al-Qaeda officials
 
#8
Launching sucessful strikes against ISIS, pushing them back
 
#9
Owning Vladmir Putin by crashing his economy via sanctions and other international maneuvering
 
#10
Reversing Bush/Cheney torture policies
 
#11
Restoring relations with Cuba
 
#12
Improving America's image overseas
 
#13
Signing an executive order limiting the power of the NSA
 
#14
Saving net neutrality
 
#15
Signing on executive order for basic gun restrictions
 
#16
Responding in splendid fashion to hurricane Sandy
 
#17
Signing an executive order protecting millions from deportation ("Amnesty")
 
#18
Reversing Bush/Cheney ban on stem cell research
 
#19
Allowing several states to legalize marijuana unchallenged
 
#20
Signing multiple executive orders on climate change
 
#21
Being a great advocate for gay rights (supporting SSM, repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell etc)
 
#22
Clobbering John McCain and the Republicans in the 2008 elections
 
#23
Clobbering Mitt Romney and the Republicans in the 2012 elections
 
#24
Embarassing the Republicans with the debt ceiling crisis, forcing them to cave
 
#25
Owning the Republicans via the Supreme Court ruling Obamacare constitutional
 
#26
Brutally zinging the Republicans at the 2015 State of the Union address
 
#27
Passing the stimulus to help end the recession
 
#28
Knocking the banks out of the federal student loan program
 
#29
Saving the auto industry from complete collapse
 
#30
Reducing unemployment from over 10% to under 6%
 
#31
Reducing federal deficit from 9.8% of GDP (in 2009) to 2.8% of GDP (in 2014)
 
#32
Overseeing an economy where the GDP is booming
 
#33
Reducing gas prices by nearly half to about 2 dollars a gallon
 
#34
Increasing the Dow Jones from under 8,000 to over 16,000
 
#35
Successfully implementing “cash for clunkers”
 
#36
Reducing birth control costs from an annual of $600 to $0
 
#37
Protecting two liberal seats on the Supreme Court
 
#38
Avoiding any serious scandal
 
#39
Winning the Nobel Peace Prize
 
#40
Being overall “cool” and involved in 21st century media, pop culture etc
 
#41
Other
 
#42
I can't decide! They're all so good!
 
Show Pie Chart
Partisan results

Total Voters: 114

Author Topic: Which Barack Obama accomplishment is your favorite?  (Read 7220 times)
Rockefeller GOP
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 2,936
United States


« on: January 26, 2015, 07:39:08 PM »

Difficult list to compile, since he has so many. I'm sure I missed a few.

Are you King's kindred spirit "Republican"? Wink

As for this list, I question how many accomplishments are to be attributed to him specifically, even the one I'm about to choose: killing bin Laden.
Logged
Rockefeller GOP
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 2,936
United States


« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2015, 08:12:01 PM »

I really don't understand how people are arguing that killing OBL can't be attributed to Obama. Unless your argument is that the only person it can be attributed to is the guy who literally pulled the trigger, but that's obviously a nonsense definition of "accomplishment."

I'm not *not* attributing it to him, just pointing out that obviously the military commanders, troops on the ground and even the past efforts of the Bush administration are all part of the equation.
Logged
Rockefeller GOP
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 2,936
United States


« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2015, 02:09:21 PM »

7. Wasting billions of "stimulus" dollars on unnecessary porkbarrel projects
Most economists agree that government investments are necessary to effectively combat a recession. Would you have preferred Obama follow the "Herbert Hoover Guide To Ending Depressions" instead?

Actually, Obama pretty much did follow the "Herbert Hoover Guide To Ending Depressions".  The only significant difference was that Obama was willing to engage in deficit spending, but to be fair both major parties in the 1930s had a strong abhorrence of deficit spending.

The myth that Hoover let the Great Depression get worse by not being interventionist is a truly odd creation of history...
Logged
Pages: [1]  
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.031 seconds with 11 queries.