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In reply to the discussion: Obama And The Crumbling Of A Liberal Fantasy Hero [View all]SleeplessinSoCal
(10,425 posts)If they aren't yours is it that our priorities are very different? The Bush Tax Cuts were a disaster along with so many other "accomplishments" of the Bush Administration. Obama finally accomplished ending them even after the House was disastrously lost. Had Obama lost to Romney, the tax cuts would have not only been extended, but expanded to all but the working class. The Stimulus package has done so much more good than we ever read or hear about.
The Missing Stimulus
Why isnt anyone in Charlotte talking about one of Obamas biggest accomplishments?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/09/dnc_the_stimulus_was_one_of_barack_obama_s_big_accomplishments_but_no_one_in_charlotte_is_talking_about_it_.html
Obama, with Speaker Pelosi, and our filibuster proof Senate accomplished a tremendous amount - even with a thriving K Street.
Public Laws passed by the 111th Congress
http://www.congress-summary.com/A-111th-Congress/Laws_Passed_111th_Congress_Seq.html
National Security is always complicated by changing players around the world. Benjamin Netanyahu was elected in March 2009, were that hawk not in office, how different would our Middle East policy be today? Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a 2nd term in the summer of 2009. Had Bush not put Iran in the "Axis of Evil", who knows how that would have played out. The Arab Spring was either to be stifled as conservatives love their dictators, or given a chance to know democracy - as we preached at the world in 2001-2006 before seeing how disastrously Neoconservatives spent our treasure, wasted offered good will from around the world in 2001, all while turning us into monsters in Iraq.
As for social issues, the two parties aren't even close.
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican
Seems sort of silly to post all this, but you never know who just doesn't know.