From 60 minutes interview.
KROFT: Tell me, what do you consider your major accomplishments? If this is your last speech. What have you accomplished?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, we're not done yet. I've got five more years of stuff to do. But not only saving this country from a great depression. Not only saving the auto industry. But putting in place a system in which we're gonna start lowering health care costs and you're never gonna go bankrupt because you get sick or somebody in your family gets sick. Making sure that we have reformed the financial system, so we never again have taxpayer-funded bailouts, and the system is more stable and secure. Making sure that we've got millions of kids out here who are able to go to college because we've expanded student loans and made college more affordable. Ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Decimating al Qaeda, including Bin Laden being taken off the field. Restoring America's respect around the world.
The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Probably.
You didn't expect him to come out and say "Dumb question Mr. Kroft, because I'm one of the worst Presidents in history!" did you?
All human beings tend to have an inflated sense of self, especially ones who get elected President of the United States.
wow
dude is seriously delusional.
Or worse, thinks we are.
Actually, this isn't a completely far-off statement. He has accomplished quite a bit in both legislative and foreign policy terms. Whether or not you think those accomplishments are good or bad, is another question.I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history.
In any event, he is also campaigning for the job of POTUS.
Ding...ding...ding....that was my point in my post - Obama, the most historic President in Modern times.....wingnuts may not agree with his policies...they never were going to anyway, but Obama has done more in his first term, as far as historic legislation, than any other President in Modern history - or at lease since FDR
Like it or not, the health care legislation alone could put it up there tbh.
He's ended a war..
He has secured sweeping financial reforms that elevate the rights of consumers over Wall Street bankers and give regulators powerful new tools to prevent another collapse. And most important of all, he has achieved all of this while moving boldly toward off another Great Depression and put the country back on a halting path to recovery.
He delivered record tax cuts to the middle class and slashed nearly $200 billion in corporate welfare — reinvesting that money to make college more accessible and Medicare more solvent.
He prevented the collapse of the Big Three automakers — saving more than 1 million jobs — and brought Big Tobacco under the yoke of federal regulation.
He has fought to constrain carbon pollution by executive fiat and to invest $200 billion in clean energy — an initiative bigger than John F. Kennedy's moonshot and one that's on track to double America's capacity to generate renewable energy by the end of Obama's first term.
He has improved pay parity for women and hate-crime protections for gays and lesbians, including repealing DADT
He has installed two young, female justices on the Supreme Court
As far as the economy, the numbers speak for themselves...
Just imagine how that chart would look without Republican obstruction.
FDR never experience a single filibuster.
The most historic Presidents were also the most hated Presidents by their opposition...Lincoln, FDR, even Johnson to some degree because of his Great Society social engineering...all despised by political opponents...enough to try to assassinate them...lucky it hasn't come to that with Obama
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/04/23/wh...umroll-please/President Barack Obama is still the world's most respected leader, according to a new six-country poll.
Released today by France 24 and Radio France Internationale, the Harris Interactive Poll asked 6,135 adults between the ages of 16 and 64 who live in the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Germany or Spain to name their favorite world leaders.
Seventy-seven percent of those surveyed chose Obama, which is one percentage point higher than when Harris Interactive asked the same question in November.
Close on his heels is the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, who was mentioned by 75 percent of those polled. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came in third at 62 percent, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel was mentioned by 54 percent of respondents, good enough for fourth place.
Or...
He has all the electronic voting machines set to be rigged.
Yes...
he increased the national debt by so much more than any other president!
Bull .
He was in the right place at the right time, and participated aided the assassination of Libya.
etc.
etc.
etc...
Dan...
You're just full of that must have been building up for some time.
Did you take some Ex-Lax or something?
If you loved Bush, how can you object to Barack Obama, Mr. Continuity?
Can you show me an indication where I appeared to "love Bush?" I think the best you will fond me is agreeing with some of his actions. Most certainly not all if you look. I knew little of him in 2000, but didn't like the democrat. I think i spoiled my vote that year to a third party. Don't really remember. 2004 I voted for him because I agreed on his stance with Iraq and terrorism, among other things like taxes. SKerry was skerry.
um, I was using the impersonal you, not making a specific imputation
guilty minded?
Not guilty about anything. I guess I am so used to people misunderstanding my words. Liberals may see Obama and Bush-43 JR. but that's only because he reigned on his war stances. It doesn't mean he is Mr. continuity, that is if you meant him.
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