"Obama is the best president of my lifetime."

[Motown_Johnny]

18. Welcome to DU, I know you are new here

but when stating opinions as fact it helps to have some facts to back up your opinion. The OP is all opinion and makes that very clear.


You are going to address things like the fact that we now have air pollution limits on Mercury that we never had before (being compared to removing lead from gasoline) before you can just claim that everything has been downhill.

I'm going to post my very old copy and paste response to this type of argument. I could update it but right now it doesn't seem worth the effort.



Two great choices for Supreme Court.

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

The Matthew Shepard Hates Crimes Prevention Act (which they said could not be done)

Children's Health Insurance

Tobacco Regulation

Credit Card Reform

Student Loan Reform

The Stimulus (including the largest tax cut ever, the largest investment in clean energy ever, the single largest investment in education in our country ever)

Health Reform

Wall Street Reform

The New G.I. Bill

The Food Safety Modernization Act (the most expansive food reform bill since the 1930s)

The Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal

The New Start Treaty (even when the (R)s said he would never be able to get it passed)

Locking up over half the loose nuclear material in the world in less than half of his first term, something most (R)s thought impossible.




Most of that list is from The Rachel Maddow Show and is included in this clip
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#4077 ...

In that clip she also estimates that ~85% of what President Obama said he wanted to accomplish in his first term had been accomplished in the first half of his first term.




Have we gotten everything we want? Oh Hell No! But the idea that this guy isn't worth reelecting is simply ridiculous from my point of view.