I have woefully not kept up with today in Obama's term as President. I'm really sorry I have not it has been an exciting year.
Well it is one year down three to go. That is 1091 days remaining. We are on day 370 of the new term. It seems so much longer, but I am certainly more up beat than a year ago. With midterm elections are just around the corner, there is a small chance that the senate could turn Republican and we would not live under the fear of his presidency as much.
This year brought a number of defeats for Obama. His gun control measures he proposed went no where. Some ammunition has returned to the shelves of Walmart. His roll out of Obamacare was a disaster, this leading to a more watchful eye by the press. Some dents in his armor are appearing in the press. Something I thought I would never see.
With the IRS targeting conservatives, tea party groups and a conservative film maker, I was having visions of Richard Nixon.
The revelations on the NSA spying have a number of liberals actually questioning him. And finally everything being George W's fault have finally disappeared.
What I find most interesting is that my very liberal friends are not posting everyday about his accomplishments in glowing terms. There seems to be a malaise about Obama and what a great president he has been.
Being in Texas we are isolated from the economy to some extent. His green energy policies only help our economy by keeping oil prices and employment high. In the rest of the country, higher taxes, few jobs and a sour economy probably are starting to annoy people especially when his Obamacare and objection to the Keystone pipeline do nothing, but restrict job growth.
If he is lucky the Japanese and Chinese will continue to buy our debt and interest rates on federal bonds will continue to remain low during his presidency. Should that day come, look out. It will not be good for Republican or Democrat alike.
Other peoples views below:
Here is a long list of Obama's accomplishments if your a fan of Obama.
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Here is the same from a different not sure which side point of view:
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These are clearly from the "not a fan" point of view:
List of Firsts by Red Flag News of Obama's accomplishments:
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.
First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last
Records set during Obama's Presidency:
US sovereign debt downgrade
Federal spending highest since World War II as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product 25%
Budget deficite highest since World War II as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product 10%
Federal debt highest since just after World War II as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product 67%
Employment of population working lowest since 1983 58.1%
Long term unemployment highest since 1930's 45.9%
Increase in nonfarm payroll employment at .5% is the slowest job growth 26 months after a recession ended since World War II
Homeownership rate is the lowest since 1965
Percentage of taxpayer paying incometax is the lowest in the modern era 49%
Government dependency is the highest in American history 47% (defined by persons receiving one or more federal benefit payments)
Highest stock market level (not adjusted for inflation)
Lowest interest payments payed on bank deposits in the modern era.
wore to uphold the constituation..he has a funny way of going about that.