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Eight years later: What's Obama accomplished
CNN ^ | Feb. 10, 2015 | Stephen Collinson

Posted on 02/10/2015 8:54:53 PM PST by PROCON

Washington (CNN)—It all started eight years ago Tuesday, near the spot where Abraham Lincoln once warned that America's divides could tear it apart.

In Springfield, Illinois, Barack Obama flashed a smile, bounded on stage in a long dark coat, and vowed, like his political hero, to "transform a nation" and unleash a wave of hope and change.

He looked as fresh as the frigid air in which thousands had gathered, wrapped up in scarves and winter coats, to witness the launch of a campaign that, improbably, would end in the White House.

Eight years later, the end of Obama's grueling, crisis-addled administration is in sight and his supporters have learned by experience how much harder it is to be President than to run for the office. Dreams of a new bipartisan era have given way to constant confrontations with a Congress that is now completely controlled by Republicans, many of whom are on a mission to dismantle much of Obama's agenda. The situation isn't much better on the global front, where Obama continues to grapple with all-too-familiar foreign policy challenges in Iraq and Afghanistan along with new threats from Russia.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; crime; obama
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What has he accomplished?

Unfortunately he has transformed our once, great Nation into a combination of a turd world nation, Sodom and Gomorrah, and a place where our freedom is slowly being replaced by way too many government regulations.

We need another American Revolution or we are doomed as a Country.

1 posted on 02/10/2015 8:54:53 PM PST by PROCON
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What's Obama accomplished

From his point of view, a lot.

2 posted on 02/10/2015 8:56:07 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: PROCON

Besides flushing the US down the toilet ... nothing.


3 posted on 02/10/2015 9:00:40 PM PST by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: PROCON
foreign policy challenges

aka "foreign policy failures"

... that's Obama's legacy


4 posted on 02/10/2015 9:02:52 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: PROCON

I think his biggest accomplishment is the complete infiltration in US Government by those who would harm us. While the take over began long ago, it went full throttle under Obama. From replacing warriors in the Armed Services with leftists, to giving Islam a shield to protect them before they are ready to slaughter us, hussein has done much to dismantle the Union created by our forefathers. Cancelled deportations, normalizing relations with Cuba with no concessions, forsaking Israel to appease Iran, and making a laughingstock of America were just a few of the many plans this man had for us. We’ll be lucky to survive it..


5 posted on 02/10/2015 9:05:51 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: PROCON
Dunno - but after he's out of office he'll have a new job.

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6 posted on 02/10/2015 9:09:47 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: PROCON

That was Obama's claim to executive experience: he ran his presidential campaign in 2008.


7 posted on 02/10/2015 9:13:17 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: PROCON

The only thing he has accomplished is being the most bombastic president in history. Other than that, everything he touches turns to $hit.


8 posted on 02/10/2015 9:13:48 PM PST by Bullish (Not even a smidgeon of integrity or sanity in this whitehouse.)
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To: PROCON
Michelle Obama
Speech in San Juan Puerto Rico
May 14, 2008

"Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we are going to have to change our traditions, our history.

We're going to have to move into a different place as a nation to provide the kind of future we all want desperately for our children."

Well, we have been forced to make sacrifices for him.

Our conversation has indeed changed.

He and the mrs, have changed our traditions.

And our history.

All because he and she want to see us enter into the marxist utopia they have planned for us.

Question is -- are we going to let them push us into it?

9 posted on 02/10/2015 9:14:46 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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What has he accomplished?

Obama has united us in hatred and suspicion of our government and each other. Everyone is pissed off. Everyone is worse off. Everyone thinks someone else is out to take what they have. Obama, the great uniter. Someday his supporters will erect statues of him, and I'll be able to piss on that statue while thinking of his accomplishments.

10 posted on 02/10/2015 9:15:59 PM PST by roadcat
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11 posted on 02/10/2015 9:19:13 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Absolutely NOTHING ...good for US.....

I’m sure there are a great many people that have gotten great wealth from his Presidency, especially when Peloser was in charge of the Congress.

What is so hilarious is how he claims to be all about helping the “middle class”! LOL He hasn’t done the first dammed thing for the ‘middle class’, except for HARMING them! This asshole is a national embarrassment.

If I was a Black person, I’d refuse to acknowledge him as the “first Black president”, because he IS half White. Of course, I’d hate for my race(white) to be associated with him as well.

No matter what, the little bitch of a man-child can’t be gone soon enough.....


12 posted on 02/10/2015 9:23:06 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: PROCON

He’s got the GOPe’s licking his boots.


13 posted on 02/10/2015 9:24:30 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: PROCON

Right now I wish we had the Roman Emperor reward system in place.


14 posted on 02/10/2015 9:24:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Obama is one of the most successful presidents in the history of this nation because of his powerful demeanor and Congress’ weak-kneed response.

Sometimes it seems that he knows every skeleton and closet of every congress critter.


15 posted on 02/10/2015 9:28:43 PM PST by 353FMG
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What has he accomplished?

Astronomical debt
Demoralized our troops
Lost Iraq and Afghanistan
Created millions of newly poor
Changed the healthcare insurance landscape from poor to miserable
Restarted the cold war with Russia
Screwed up Egypt, Libya, Yemen, etc.
Helped Iran go from the 20 yard line to the 1 yard line
Implemented wide array of business-strangling regulations
Fostered an environment in which radical Islam can grow and thrive
Corrupted the NSA and the IRS
Got our credit rating downgraded

Just a few off the top of my head.

Disclaimer: if any of the above backfire, then it shall be the fault of the Republicans.

16 posted on 02/10/2015 9:34:48 PM PST by Cementjungle
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17 posted on 02/10/2015 9:56:20 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Cementjungle

But that he is an enemy islamist himself.


18 posted on 02/10/2015 9:57:12 PM PST by onedoug
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To: PROCON
“Eight years later: What's Obama accomplished"


19 posted on 02/10/2015 9:57:46 PM PST by clearcarbon
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“Sometimes it seems that he knows every skeleton and closet of every congress critter.”

Such would infer that congress critters are not what they portray themselves to be to the public. Imagine that!


20 posted on 02/10/2015 10:11:52 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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