esquire.com — A blow-by-blow breakdown of the president's first year reveals that today's frustration stems not from a lack of policy so much as a lack of common ground. The state of the American center may not be strong, but Obama's record sure is.
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maestrohNov 4, 2009
Foreign aid consists of the US shipping products (not money) overseas. These products are purchased from, you guessed it, american companies.So really foreign aid is just a form of corporate welfare.What else positive did GW do?
Closed AccountNov 4, 2009
The people living in a dream world are the Obama fanboys who defend the nonsensical status quo and believe good things are happening. Comedy.
Closed AccountNov 11, 2009
Obama's Iraq withdrawl plan is likely to have most US troops leaving Iraq by mid-2010. This is slightly later than the 16-month withdrawal plan his presidential campaign had promised. Why? Because he gave into the military officials wanting a slower pull-out.Typical Obama supporters:<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI&amp;fea ...</a>
antitwitteriteNov 12, 2009
To duke_nate and the other exceedingly naive fools that blame Obama for the value of the U.S. dollar. You are clueless on so many levels! Before writing your nonsense, go back to school and study economics, political science, constitutional law, and logic theory.BTW, the U.S. dollar was much lower during the Bush era... and even lower, for a period, during the Carter era. As a hint, there is a LOT more behind this reason than simply what president is elected.Finally, all these comments about how different the U.S. would be under Ron Paul are the epitome of naivety (if I was less generous, I would use the word stupidity). You people cannot seriously think Ron Paul could accomplish all that you claim in a year... or even in four years? If you do, see my first paragraph, seriously, you really know far less than you think you do!
neoconbluesNov 13, 2009
Neocon BS
brobill1956Nov 14, 2009
Many of the items listed aren't accomplishments. They are wishes that haven't gone anywhere. Get over yourselves.
Closed AccountNov 20, 2009
>> The man has done a good job for us, I honestly think we couldn't have it any better. <<I need to change my name from LOLatOBAMABOTS to ROFLMAOatOBAMABOTS.Great to see how well the brainwashing of the Obama State Media is working on your malleable little minds.
buddywlkr3Nov 21, 2009
The REAL accomplishments of Obama:1. The virtual bankruptcy of our economy. The deficit is at $2 trillion and rising with the overwhelming majority of the money spent to grow the federal government. The national debt is over $12 trillion, half of which was spent by Obama, and will rise to $17 trillion in 2 years.2. Established government control over the auto industry, financial industry, and much of the health industry, with attempts being made to control production of energy. If Obama gets his way, more industry will be socialized in the US than in most "socialist" nations.3. Sent unemployment to 10.2%, with little chance of reducing it below double digits for the next five years,. With the phenomenal growth in government, the producers of real jobs - private industry - have been robbed of financial incentives and operating capital to expand.4. Crippled our intelligence capabilities by pursuing a "war" on former CIA employees acting under legal directives.5. Diminished our defense capabilities by granting "criminal constitutional rights" to our enemies, acting against the advice of the military and placing more emphasis on "diversity" and gay rights in the military than military readiness.6. Completely politicized the Justice Department by placing political appointees opinions over skilled Justice department prosecutors.
kristophrrNov 23, 2009
The author of this article is in total denial, this is nothing but a list of half finished projects and failures. You naive Americans were promised the world and you ate it up. Reality bites:Bank Bailout: complete travesty, billion dollar bonuses, Obama was schooled. Fail.Close Guantanamo: Complete fail!! What world is this author living in??Funding to "family planning": Trivial, every president switches this. On their second day, usually.Stimulus bill: now you're past 10% unemployment. Fail.Iraq Withdrawal: Not done yet! He also voted to send them there in the first place.Stem cells: Look into this first. "The so-called Presidential lines aren’t suitable for actual medical application". Fail.Reset our tone with Arab world: You think that one single speech can fix this? Obama has completely mishandled Iran, fixing relations is nowhere near accomplished, in any way!Cash for clunkers: great, he artificially propped up car sales, watch them crash now. Soon to fail.Health care reform: This is FAR from accomplished. You just can't put this on a list of things he's "completed".It's very hard to find any concrete, completed promises in that article. There's no way Obama has lived up to expectations, America would be much better off with Clinton in charge right now.
spoomeisterNov 23, 2009
I'm coming back to this comment just to remark on its irony, now that Obama *has* won the Nobel Peace Prize...