I think he's better than Bush, but party tensions are worse than ever and he is partly to blame for it. So some bad, some good.

I'm not American and thus haven't had the same opportunity to follow what's going on out there, but judging by what I've heard, he's done decently. I don't think I've heard him do anything terrible, and he hasn't been that controversial. And the country is still doing relatively strong, so yeah, I suppose he's done his job well enough. In that sense, his presidency seems to have been a success. Of course if anything besides phenomenal is considered a failure, then his presidency has been a failure.

I believe he's made a beneficial difference, but I think his Presidency has also revealed how deeply racial prejudice is still ingrained in America and how certain factions that have large enough numbers to sway elections can be manipulated by things that shouldn't be allowed to play such a large role in an intelligent society at this point in human history i.e. religion or at least the Christian Fundamentalist version of it.

I think that if Obama had been a white man named Smith or Jones with basically the same ideas that the vocal Right Wingers would not have been able to influence America as they have over the last eight years and that many elections that Democrats lost during the past six years would have gone the other way, and I believe America would be even better for it.

You liberals are fuckin retarded..isis is not on the run for one genius..therprobably coming over the border like the mexicans do..our image is def not better..idk what world you live in..and you give credit to obama for the economy but blame bush for you being a jobless bitch..and obomacare..have you seen the $5000 deductible for that shit..not to mention our govt is making people buy something or you get fined..yea were so much better off with him

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Obama has done nothing has had much of an effect, other internal and external things that having nothing to do with him are why the economy got better

naturally whenever there are recessions eventually they end

Barack has done an OKAI job, I emphasize the word OKAI (I like to spell it that way). I think he's tried but there is literally nothing noteworthy about laws he has helped get passed or things he has lobbied for
and let's be honest- he has made the USA appear weaker on a world stage with pretty mediocre policy and behavior there

5/10. he will not be remembered as the worst nor as a good President. I think over time Bush will appear better than he does now... some things he did actually weren't that adverse to our national success as some think

the real problem with Obama are that some of his policies are so flawed in their logic- forced universal healthcare absolutely damages people as a whole; employers hiring more part time workers to avoid the 30+ hour required healthcare, and frankly it just is not a particularly democratic thing to push

I think the biggest issue with Obama is that when you think if 'what is a list of his accomplishments' the mind sort of draws a blank
he hasn't really accomplished anything (unless you really car that much about the troop removal in Iraq/Afghan, which already was a plan in effect before he was in office)

He's done a decent job hasn't made anything worse, cut the deficient in half, The Free Healthcare act helped my family out. Really Bush had left him with all the problems we have now and it is impossible for him to fix it in 2 terms, he did all he could given the situation Congress put him in.

Many uneducated people are going to cry and call him a socialist or a communist or whatever Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'reilly call him this week. Obama is a conservative through and through. Obama was a better president than Bush in pretty much every way, but that's not saying much.

He took the troops out of Iraq, but Bush already set that up. He implemented Obamacare which, while it isn't good enough, it's better than the stone age health care system you had before. He began legalizing gay marriage which is good.

However, he's pretty much a fiscal conservative in every way. Taxes are the lowest they've been in a century, he still drops to his knees when the corporations come running, he's mostly continued Bush's foreign policy. He also didn't shut down Guantanimo Bay. Which is just ridiculous. He also had Bin Laden killed, which is good in theory, but I don't think you can call yourself a country that promotes freedom and justice if you have an unarmed man, no matter how evil, shot dead in his house.

However, no matter how lukewarm Obama's presidency may have been, the Republicans have just shown how petty, evil, and childish they really are these past two terms.

Socially he was a good president. Fiscally? He was just like all the others, a neoliberal corporate puppet.

I am pretty indifferent about Obama. I don't dislike him but i'm not a fan either. Still better than bush.

I'm not too into politics but Bin Laden's dead. +1 for Obama and the team that went in after him.

Bush drove the car into a ditch. Obama took that car and then drove it off the cliff.