President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]

**spursncowboys** · 12-03-2011

• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government

• First President to Violate the War Powers Act

• First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels

• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

• First President to Defy a Federal Judge's Court Order to Cease Implementing the 'Health Care Reform' Law

• First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party

• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs

• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters

• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat

• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases

• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler

• First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions"

• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees

• First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space.

• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places

• First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present"

• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Uncons utional and Refuse to Enforce It

• First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory

• First President to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena.

• First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)

• First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago

• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case

• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts

• First President to allow Mexican police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil

• First President to Golf 80 or More Times in His First Two-and-a-Half Years in Office

But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.

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**leemajors** · 12-03-2011

Begun during President George W. Bush’s term and continued during the Obama administration, Fast and Furious was an attempt to get guns into the hands of Mexican drug lords so the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) could build cases against high-level drug criminals rather than their lower-level workers. Instead, at least 2,000 guns were lost and the weapons have been traced to the deaths of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata, and dozens of Mexican civilians.

**ChumpDumper** · 12-03-2011

lol auto-pen

**clambake** · 12-03-2011

he got bin ladin. you didn't.

**baseline bum** · 12-03-2011

Originally Posted by clambake

he got bin ladin. you didn't.

To be fair, he was also the first president to go after Osama.

**clambake** · 12-03-2011

true

**Leetonidas** · 12-03-2011

First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party

Socialism!!

**greyforest** · 12-03-2011

Originally Posted by Leetonidas

Socialism!!

no. fascism.

**DMC** · 12-03-2011

The first President to grab his nuts after hitting a three. (first to hit a 3 actually)

**spursncowboys** · 12-03-2011

Originally Posted by baseline bum

To be fair, he was also the first president to go after Osama.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42863247.../#.TtrCWs3U-WA

http://www.cnbc.com/id/42871400/Enha...n_Kill_Senator

http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/04...ama-bin-laden/

**spursncowboys** · 12-03-2011

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/03/torturous-evasions/

**ChumpDumper** · 12-03-2011

So they lied about how many people they waterboarded?

OK.

Videos or it didn't happen.

**spursncowboys** · 12-03-2011

On Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams asked Panetta, “I'd like to ask you about the sourcing on the intel that ultimately led to this successful attack. Can you confirm that it was as a result of waterboarding that we learned what we needed to learn to go after bin Laden?”

Panetta said the U.S. intelligence community works “from a lot of sources of information,” and added, “Clearly, some of it came from detainees and the interrogation of detainees. But we also had information from other sources as well.”

Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va., on Feb. 25, 2009. (AP File Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Williams then asked, “Turned around the other way, are you denying that waterboarding was in part among the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to this successful mission?
Panetta responded, “No.”

“I think some of the detainees clearly were, you know, they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of these detainees,” he said. “But I’m also saying that, you know, the debate about whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always going to be an open question.”

Williams later asked Panetta, “So finer point, one final time, enhanced interrogation techniques -- which has always been kind of a handy euphemism in these post-9/11 years -- that includes waterboarding?”

Panetta said, “That's correct.”

**spursncowboys** · 12-03-2011

Good one Chump. Earn that Mod check.

**Wild Cobra** · 12-03-2011

Don't forget that Barack Obama was the first to leak the super secret classified information that we have 57 states.

**ChumpDumper** · 12-03-2011

It's torture.

You like torture.

Good for you.

**ChumpDumper** · 12-03-2011

Originally Posted by Wild Cobra

Don't forget that Barack Obama was the first to leak the super secret classified information that we have 57 states.

Never funny.

**Wild Cobra** · 12-03-2011

Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

Never funny.

Why, because it hurts you so much that your hero can make blunders worse than Bush?

**spursncowboys** · 12-03-2011

Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

It's torture.

You like torture.

Good for you.

torture...like making someone stand for more than an hour?

Regardless, it led to obama getting osama, which means if he was president when bush was-not only would the deficit be as bad if not worse but obl would still be alive. and there would have been a higher likely hood of la being attacked in 09.