Oh really? What about Obama care? What about tripling the national debt? (Does Fiscal cliff ring a bell?); what about his failed Anti Terrorism policy....Al - Qaeda on the run? The endless apologizing for America, his weakness over Syria, over Ukraine and NATO is in danger of splintering under his watch - Putin will likely move on the Baltic states & the anointed one, will wimp out! His illegal executive orders are unprecedented in living memory and his impotence over the recent racial flare ups in Missouri and New York beggars belief; so yes you are right about Obama having failed to live up to the promise of 2008, even being America's first black President doesn't have the same cachet it did 7 years ago. The list I'm sure will and can be revised. But Obama is certainly not what he's cracked up to be.
I have a list of revisions I'd make to ObamaCare, but it's not a bad law at all and I'm not in favor of repealing it.
Obama has not tripled the debt. It was about 10 Trillion on Inaugration day 2009, and it's at $18 Trillion now. Sure, it's not a good thing to see it rise $8 Trillion in 6 years, but it does not even represent a doubling of the debt during Obama's tenure.
Furthermore, the debt going up so much was more Bush's fault than Obama's. Granted, Obama put too much focus on wall street when he was implementing his stimulus plan and the recovery has been too sluggish, but it was the truth right from the beginning that Obama would probably see the debt rise by more during his eight years than Bush saw during his, because Obama inherited a $1.3 Trillion deficit and the deepest recession since the great depression, and those things take years to resolve. Now, the fact that we're still in double-digit
underemployment after 6+ years of Obama, that's not acceptable, and it's one of the major reasons I disapprove of his tenure. But an ideal stimulus plan would have still likely taken 3-4 years to get
underemployment back to single digits, because that's just how deep the recession Obama inherited happened to be.
Apologizing for America is a talking point that has no basis in reality. And aside from maybe a few short missions here and there, we should leave the middle east/ukraine/syria/russia to their own devices. We were never any help in Iraq and Afganhistan, so there's little reason why another 10+ year ordeal in ___________ would actually help anything in the end. The military budget needs massive cuts anyways.
