Thank you President Obama - Obama's Top 50 Accomplishments

[underpants]

Obama’s Top 50 Accomplishments

1. Passed Health Care Reform - After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010).

2. Passed the Stimulus - creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.

3. Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010)

4. Ended the War in Iraq

5. Began Drawdown of War in Afghanistan

6. Eliminated Osama bin laden

7. Turned Around U.S. Auto Industry

8. Recapitalized Banks

9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

10. Toppled Moammar Gaddafi. No American lives were lost.

11. Told Mubarak to Go

12. Reversed Bush Torture Policies

13. Improved America’s Image Abroad

14. Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program, Expanded Pell Grant Program

15. Created Race to the Top

16. Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards: Released new fuel efficiency standards in 2011 that will nearly double the fuel economy for cars and trucks by 2025.

17. Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis

18. Passed Mini Stimuli

19. Began Asia “Pivot"

20. Increased Support for Veterans

21. Tightened Sanctions on Iran

22. Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants

23. Passed Credit Card Reforms

24. Eliminated Catch-22 in Pay Equality Laws

25. Protected Two Liberal Seats on the U.S. Supreme Court

26. Improved Food Safety System

27. Achieved New START Treaty

28. Expanded National Service

29. Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection

30. Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco

31. Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders

32. Passed Fair Sentencing Act

33. Trimmed and Reoriented Missile Defense

34. Began Post-Post-9/11 Military Builddown

35. Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Misssion

36. Invested Heavily in Renewable Technology

37. Crafting Next-Generation School Tests

38. Cracked Down on Bad For-Profit Colleges

39. Improved School Nutrition

40. Expanded Hate Crimes Protections

41. Avoided Scandal

42. Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill

43. Created Recovery.gov

44. Pushed Broadband Coverage

45. Expanded Health Coverage for Children

46. Recognized the Dangers of Carbon Dioxide

47. Expanded Stem Cell Research

48. Provided Payment to Wronged Minority Farmers

49. Helped South Sudan Declare Independence

50. Killed the F-22

http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchapril-2012/obamas-top-50-accomplishments/

[mcar]

1. Best President of my lifetime

History will be kind to this amazing man!

[underpants]

3. Welcome to DU

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. and you may be the most lost new DUer in some time!

[Cha]

4. Oh boo hoo.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Enjoy your brief stay.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. I give you about 10 more seconds....the verdict should be in!

[panader0]

9. You are lost in the wrong site.

Bye.
On edit: That's the first time I've seen the comments by "name removed".
You gotta be quick!

[Cha]

10. And, that's 2012.. There's been a few more since then.. 400 Obama Accomplishments so far, With

Citations



http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-accomplishments/

[underpants]

12. Damn that was just first term.

I honestly didn't even notice the date.

My thumb is sore from backspacing.

[Cha]

14. Can't wait until he's out on the scene working for us

as a private citizen from his office in the World Wildlife Building in DC.

Obama's new office

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. Thanks Cha!

❤

[Cha]

23. You're

, Blanche~ ❤

[BlancheSplanchnik]

26. Yay!

❤

[panader0]

11. Let;s not forget his first act: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act-Jan 2009

What a great way to start your Presidency.

[underpants]

13. That's #24

24. Eliminated Catch-22 in Pay Equality Laws: Signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, giving women who are paid less than men for the same work the right to sue their employers after they find out about the discrimination, even if that discrimination happened years ago. Under previous law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the statute of limitations on such suits ran out 180 days after the alleged discrimination occurred, even if the victims never knew about it.

[panader0]

15. Oops. My bad.

[Talk Is Cheap]

16. 35. Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Misssion

I don't consider letting these programs die is a 'good thing'....

We need to be able to go the moon and back easily to be able to then to go to Mars and beyond.

NASA needs to regain it's dominance in space travel.

[underpants]

17. Ok. Welcome to DU

[Talk Is Cheap]

25. Thanks!....

I never understood why some NASA programs were 'quietly discontinued'...

[fleabiscuit]

18. Every time the shuttle flew there was a 1 in 9 chance of catastrophic failure. nt

[Talk Is Cheap]

22. Where did you get the 1 in 9 figure?

There were 135 shuttle missions and there were 2 complete mission failures. I was
present for the 'o-ring' failure in Florida. It was unusually cold that day.

So, do you scrap a program because of these failures? Obviously they did.

But, what about fixing what is broken? What about modernizing the shuttle? What about
American ingenuity?

I prefer that the USA produces the new technologies to send men and women into space - Mars and beyond... But, it doesn't mean that Mr. Musk can't kick ass with his and his company's contributions...

Asking/begging Russia to send Americans up into space is unacceptable...

[fleabiscuit]

32. Those figures come from NASA. There's no hurry.

"Then you don’t remember a world without robots. There was a time when humanity faced the universe alone and without a friend. Now he has creatures to help him; stronger creatures than himself, more faithful, more useful, and absolutely devoted to him. Mankind is no longer alone. Have you ever thought of it that way?"

[ailsagirl]

19. Another welcome to DU!!

[Jamaal510]

20. K&R

[karynnj]

24. Note that this list is from March 2012 -- meaning MANY of his biggest accomplishments are not there

I would put the Paris Climate Accord very high on a list -- up there with ACA. It could end up being the point where the world really started to work to prevent catastrophe.

[MyOwnPeace]

27. Can't have everything..........

Loved the guy - perhaps the best in my lifetime.

BUT, you can't have everything you want.

15. Created Race to the Top

Sorry, this was the wrong way to go about improving schools, but the largest fault of his "education program" was his appointed leader, Sec. Arne Duncan.

And by the way, Der Drumpf has started off even worse!!!!!!

[hibbing]

28. #7

Saw a story yesterday that car sales set another record in 2016.

Peace

[Doreen]

29. In 2007 Lewis County Washington

had a really bad flood and Bush tried to not give us any assistance but ended up giving us only half of what we needed and only gve money to Walmart, K-mart, Sears, and a couple of big businesses. He had done a motorcade down our freeway and saw all of the people now with no homes and would not help them...ASSHOLE. The day after Obama came into office he gave the remaining amount of money needed by the people to get on their feet. I knew some people who were forced to live with people who could not afford to have others live with them and it was sad. The only reason we got help for the businesses is because Gregoire got into Bushes face. It sucks living in a county that is not rated important. But Obama rescued us as much as he could. I was happy for that and he is a good man.

[underpants]

31. Great story.

Thanks

[Scurrilous]

30. K & R