Who do you want as the USA president in 2013?

[lordmandeep]

"Anyway, Barack Obama. He did in his first three years more then Bush did in his entire 8. Passed Health Care Reform, Lily Ledbetter, ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, passed Financial Reform and created the Consumer Protection Bureau, the Credit Card Acountability Act (ended retroactive rate increases, mandated 45 day notice before rate increases, and more), ended the federal ban on stem cell research, passed the Stimulus package which according to the non partisan CBO saved and created millions of jobs and kept the recession from getting much worse, he got Osama Bin Laden and ended the war in Iraq."

He did more then Bush but what is he compared to Clinton and Reagan or the FDR of our generation lol!

- Health Care reform were not complete and will likely be curtailed in the future by either courts or future Republican Presidents.
- The Fin reforms are a joke compared to what he wanted. Its like he wanted to get regulation and in the end got industry guidelines.
- The stuff about credit cards is good, but nothing is being done on many different things going wrong in the fin services industry.
- The stimulus plan did save jobs but that is about it. Overall it was a huge failure as govt stimilus plans are not only suppose to save some jobs. They are suppose to restart an entire economy and this did not happen and this is a something Obama believes in when almost every world leader has now abadoned. He pretty much championed a Keynesian economics revival and killed in within a few years lol.

I agree on Iraq, Osama, Don't Ask and Stem Cell Research.

However his achievements are nothing special. With two years of total domination of the House and Senate, he should have been able to do much more. He was not able to do so, as he had no executive experience. When he started to get the hang of things, he lost control of congress.

He has not been able to become the better man over the infighting in Washington and it appears rather then being concerned about Americans, wants to exploit the infighting for his 2012 campaign. Sure, the republicans are stonewalling, but Obama has made it clear that he blames everything that is wrong now with congress and he should assume no responsibility.

He is a weak leader and is not a special person or a great President in any sense. I would say he is mediocre at best.

Even so, the Republican field is not very strong either. So he will likely get 4 more years, but if things stay the same for Obama, he will be seen as a big disappointment in history.