What was Obama's greatest achievement?
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Who would make such dumb rule that assigns the 1st year to activity to the previous president? Why would such even be suggested? Would you help with a little explanation that that would even be given consideration?You clearly don't understand facts.
Well, he made elderly nuns pay for contraception, but he might get a lil' push back on that one.
You clearly don't understand facts.
Has to be a Marshall grad. No way that is a product of WVU.
The only thing I can think of is the 2009 budget passed in early 2008. But the reality is that spending changed dramatically under Obama, particularly his stimulus, which was enormous. To put that spending under Bush is insane but it does make Obama's hideous spending record look slightly better.
Bush submitted budget in Feb 2008 as required. It had a deficit of high$400 billion. Nancy & Harry took that budget and failed to act. They kept gov open by passing a couple CRs. The 2009 budget was finally signed by Obama in March 2009. It had a trillion more in spending than did the 2009 budget offered by Bush. Sep 30, 2009 closed with actual trillion dollar added spending reflected in final deficit for FY 2009 at $1.4 trillion.
Subsequent years kept the trillion dollar added spending in them and another budget did not pass for several years as they desired to operate on continuing the CRs using 2009 base year with a trillion dollars added. Subsequent actual spending resulted in actual deficits that exceeded a trillion dollars. Republicans were too cowardly to allow government to shut down, and allowed the EXTRA trillion to pass the CRs , AND THE EXCESSIVE SPENDING CONTINUED.
Pretty cute trick until Tea Party raised enough hell and heat to cut spending or SHUT IT DOWN.
Brilliant research on your part. I knew Bush's budget had a deficit of $400 as submitted and that Nancy said it was DOA. I did not know that Obama signed the budget in March 2009 with a trillion more in spending. It takes special guts to blame that spending on Bush.
So his big achievement is telling the soldiers that they could go ahead and kill bin Laden? Is that all you got? And the Democrat constituency is made up of minorities that are extremely far to the left.
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So, you are saying that his giving the OK wasn't a big deal? The decision to go in to a country, without their permission, and risk a LOT of foreign diplomacy problems to kill our #1 enemy.....doesn't deserve credit? How many presidents chose NOT to do something as risky as this????
I can only name one president that had the chance to take out bin Laden and would not and that was Bill Clinton. I know I cannot think of a single president in our past except for maybe Jimmy Carter that would not of taken this opportunity to kill bin Laden. In fact, the presidents that I recall would've chased bin laden to the ends of the world to destroy him, including Democrats like at LBJ and JFK. Not to mention harry Truman.
You are exemplifying what the Democratic Party has become. Extremely weak and subjecting ourselves to the will of others even if that will is evil.
My opinion, the military never moved in benGhazi was because we were afraid of offending the Libyan government.
Amazing how you ONLY attack Democrats in that little sentence, but praise Republicans......funny.....
....and pretty sure if you talk to military people when the war began following the Afghanistan invasion, they were frustrated as they told their commanders they had the location of Bin Laden in the Tora Bora region, but instead the focus shifted to Iraq and Saddam. Hmm.......
You lost your argument so you deflect. Can you name one president other than perhaps Jimmy Carter that would not have ordered the killing of bin Laden. Get serious.
Again, your claim is opinion and NOT fact......we do NOT know who would or would not. How can you say no to Carter? Did he not attempt a rescue operation (although it failed) for the hostages in Iran? So why would you assume he WOULD NOT? Because, you are right-wing blinded with hatred towards the left.
I'm not deflecting....I provided evidence to show that our military had Bin Laden targeted, cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora......and were told to "stand down" and then the invasion of Iraq began......that is a FACT...not deflection.
You claim that Obama allowing the troops to kill bin Laden was an accomplishment, Presumably because other presidents would not have done the same. Obama did not shoot him directly. He ordered his death. I cannot think of a single president that would not have ordered his death. Except for maybe Jimmy Carter.
That is an opinion. My claim that almost all of the presidents would've done the same is likewise an opinion. That is not an accomplishment. That is an order carried out by the troops. And again I can't think of another president except for maybe Carter that would not of done the same.
If this was his big accomplishment while in office, then you've got a very pitiful argument.
By the way, I referenced three Democrat presidents that would've also made the same order, LBJ, JFK and Truman. Carter is and was a wimp.
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