Obama's top 50 accomplishments since entering office. (illegal, Dodd, March, insurance)
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I don't "trash" President Obama - and whenever I refer to him - I give him the respect he is due and call him "President Obama" - not "Obama". I do disagree with his policies. I voted for Harry Browne in 2000 - too bad he didn't win - he was better then both Bush and Gore.
Well, then you really are an anomaly. Harry Browne? OK then.
And you'd be wrong all night. Do you realize Bush ran the deficit up 1.8 trillion dollars in tax cuts for the rich? That was more than he wasted on the invasion of Iraq. And Obama had to SPEND the way out of a looming Depression due to the person YOU voted for. TWICE.
As are you. Democrats crafted the major crash and Obama tried to spend his way out of it. Now he is trying to do it again.
And we are in a doulbe dip recession thanks to your job-killing hero.
4. Ended the War in Iraq: Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.
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Updated: April 23, 2012
Even after the formal withdrawal, the military still has two bases in Iraq and roughly 4,000 troops. At the height of the war in 2007, there were 505 bases and more than 170,000 troops. More than one million service members served in Iraq during the course of the conflict.
Even as the military reduces its troop strength in Iraq, the C.I.A. will continue to have a major presence in the country, as will security contractors working for the State Department.
5. Began Drawdown of War in Afghanistan: From a peak of 101,000 troops in June 2011, U.S. forces are now down to 91,000, with 23,000 slated to leave by the end of summer 2012. According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the combat mission there will be over by next year.
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Updated: May 7, 2012
For the president, facing a re-election battle in which his conduct of the war is likely to be debated into November, the visit is laden with political significance. Senior officials said the agreement showcased Mr. Obama’s determination to end the war responsibly, even as they conceded that the country that American troops leave behind will be a messy, violent place, where the Taliban will keep a foothold.
Still, the agreement, a senior administration official told reporters traveling on Air Force One, will give the United States “the capacity to carry out the counterterrorism operations that are necessary for Al Qaeda not to resettle,” and help ensure “a regional equilibrium that serves our national security interest — and that’s ultimately why we went in there in the first place.”
All the rest of that nonsense is a GD lie too. You remember:
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, in order to effect the appropriate
disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense
at the Guanta´namo Bay Naval Base (Guanta´namo) and promptly to close
detention facilities at Guanta´namo, consistent with the national security
and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice,
When are you folks going to get it through your skulls that Obama is Bush is Clinton is Bush Sr. is the U.S. global geopolitical strategy and it makes not one difference who the CIC is?
You're being disingenuous as usual. He's the POTUS and he made the call, which most of his cabinet disagreed with, including many military leaders.
Many of his cabinet? It was 50/50 as reported by the administration in its expose` of The War Room.
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His call = his accomplishment.
He had contingency plans in place in case it failed to push all of the blame onto McRaven.
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Several US Navy SEALs spoke out to MailOnline approaching the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death, saying that it was a group effort and that Mr Obama is using the killing to springboard his re-election campaign.
One currently-serving SEAL said: ‘Obama wasn’t in the field, at risk,carrying a gun. As president, at every turn, he should be thanking the guys who put their lives on the line to do this.’
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'The decision is to proceed with the assault.
‘The timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven’s hands.
'The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President.
‘Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration. The direction is to go in and get bin Laden and if he is not there, to get out. Those instructions were conveyed to Admiral McRaven at approximately 10:45am.’
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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Tripled the debt in one year, more than Bush did in eight years.
Passed the monstrosity called Obamacare. Will triple the debt even more and ration health care.
Over regulated everything he possibly could driving down foreign investment.
Killed jobs left and right re Keystone and stopped drilling where he could to make expensive alternatives more palatable, threw money at failing industries re Solyndra.
I could go on all night.
Would you rather have rationed health care .. or no health care?
And you'd be wrong all night. Do you realize Bush ran the deficit up 1.8 trillion dollars in tax cuts for the rich? That was more than he wasted on the invasion of Iraq. And Obama had to SPEND the way out of a looming Depression due to the person YOU voted for. TWICE.
Actually, it was tax cuts for everyone who pays taxes (and even for some who didn't). It wasn't just for "the rich."
Also tax cuts don't cause a deficit; overspending does.
Hell, I'm just happy to have a President that could put a grammatically correct sentence together. The bar was set pretty low in the prior administration.
G.W. Bush knows how to pronounce the word "Corpsman."
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