Despite early Hate, do you now believe that Obama's Presidency has been a success?

[Jon-Erich]

spurgeonryan said:

Troops out of Iraq, Troop deaths down compared to other years.

I believe the Defense spending is down.

 

Jobless rates are down.

Stock Market has hit record levels and if you bought SPider Index stock back when the Market was super low you could have a lot of money right now!

Economy is doing well thanks to his Stimulous Package.

Didn't we have some sort of old car turn in? Well that got rid of a lot of junkers and helped the environment.

Universal insurance! Despite what a lot of you rich users think, many did not have insurance and suffered for years. Thank Obama!

Our global image is on the mend because of him.

ISIS is on the run, and we have the leaders Wife and Child I am told.

 

Life seems better to me. I have a job and did not when Bitch Bush was President. So maybe I am biased?

 

Opinions?

No.....no. See, most of this would have happened no matter who the President was. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 had very little to do with any actual economic recovery. The market simply worked itself out of the recession. As for everything else, the national debt has increased by trillions, the dollar has further decreased in value, the Middle East is in worse shape than it was a decade ago, ISIS acually grew into a real organization under Obama's watch, the Patriot Act is still in effect, Obama was supportive of the NSA spying that Edward Snowden exposed. Also, our gloabal image may have improved but not by much, and the improvement comes mostly from the fact that Russia is making us look good, not because we're actually getting better.

Based on my personal experience, I don't think Obama was any better than Bush. Our politicins are more corrupt than ever and no single President is going to change that. Also, I actually had a job almost every year under the Bush Administration and didn't lose it until after Obama was elected. I'm not saying it was Obama's fault, but the fact remains that President alone has very little control over things like that. There's something else I noticed over the past decade. I made less at my fast food job I had in the 2000's, yet it seems like I was able to do a lot more with the money I had. This isn't just a feeling. I actually thought very hard about what I spent my money on back then vs. now and yeah. Money had more value back then. Not only that, but the overall cost of living has increased. So in some cases, things got worse over the last decade.