Best/Worst Presidents

[Mr Khan]

Marks said:
Obama will go down as one of the worst later on. He contributed more debt than all previous presidents combined, launched more invasions than Bush, failed to get the troops out of the middle east (which was a pre-election promise), bailed out big corporations, and much more.

And no, it isn't Bush's fault that Obama had to do all of that. I hate how people blame the previous president for a bad current president. Ron Paul would cut $1 trillion spending in his first year, he wouldn't just continue on spending and blame Obama.

Launched more invasions than Bush? I count 3, and that's only with a broad definition of "invasion:" Intervention in the fight against Al-Shebab in Somalia, sending advisors into East Africa to aid in the capture of Joseph Kony, and intervening to destroy the Libyan regime's war capacity to allow the pro-democracy rebels to triumph. Obama did end significant operations in Iraq (in what we can say pretty objectively was a victory), and has laid a withdrawal plan for Afghanistan (which may or may not be a defeat yet). Libya involved no boots on the ground, a neater operation even than the 1999 bombardment of Yugoslavia.

In Bush's era, we have: Iraq, Afghanistan, the operation to capture Charles Taylor in Liberia, and intervention in Haiti's 2004 revolution.

And the Obama administration was heavily signaling their distaste with SOPA/PIPA. We can't know what would have gone down, but they at least played a role in stalling the legislation from being railroaded through congress. As far as those events transpired, the Obama Administration was friend to all Americans except the media whores.