10 Reasons Obama’s Presidency Will Go Down In History: Some of the biggest accomplishments

In a few short weeks, President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House will officially come to an end and Donald Trump will begin his terrifying reign as the leader of the free world. For many, this is a very scary reality, one that I’m still grappling to come to terms with myself. Nevertheless, as we prepare for Obama’s exit, let’s remember what his administration as president has done for the American people.

One of Obama’s primary goals as president was to tackle the country’s broken healthcare system. Although we still have a long way to go in order to achieve this goal, Obama set the foundation by passing the historic Affordable Care Act. Because of his signature healthcare law, 20 million more uninsured Americans currently have health insurance today.

Obama, who made history in 2008 by becoming the first African American man to be elected as Commander-in-Chief, has left a legacy marked by civil rights victories and progressive legislation. For one, he overturned the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Act, allowing Americans from the LGBTQ community to openly serve in our armed forces. On top of that, he also extended federal benefits to same-sex partners of government workers and beat the record of appointing more openly gay U.S. officials than any other president.

Obama’s leadership helped bring our economy out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. He also revived the auto industry, which, in turn, helped Chrysler and GM create 250,000 more jobs. Plus, he passed the Dodd-Frank Act to hold Wall Street accountable and prevent another financial meltdown. In addition, he signed the Recovery Act, which cut taxes and saved millions of jobs.

No one can forget the wave of patriotism that flooded our country when the president announced in 2011 that Osama Bin Laden was dead.

“Last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action and authorized an operation to get Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice,” said the president. The notorious terrorist—believed to be responsible for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the attacks on 9/11 attacks—had been on the FBI’s “most wanted” list for more than a decade.

In order to directly help young people of color, the White House sponsored My Brother’s Keeper Challenge, a public-private partnership that provides young men of color with mentorship and life intervention that aims to address their challenges and racial injustice.

After decades of tension, Obama worked with Cuban President Raul Castro to reverse broken relations between the U.S. and Cuba and restore diplomatic ties.

In 2013, the president called for states to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Since then, 18 states, plus Washington, D.C. have raised their wages.

President Obama played an instrumental role in creating the Paris Agreement, which created a comprehensive framework to reduce global climate change.

Obama touts an impressive record of 73 consecutive months of overall job growth as of October 2016.

In March 2009, the Obama administration created the White House Council on Women and Girls to address women’s needs and concerns. The Council also launched a specific work initiative called Advancing Equity that ensure that policies and programs in the federal government take into account the unique obstacles faced by women and girls of color.

Giving Obama’s 10 so-called accomplishments a quick look, and with all due respect to Obama’s supporters, his low-information supporters evidently do not understand that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific powers to take action on the indicated issues.

1. Health insurance for millions
2. Gay rights
7. Pushed to Raise the Minimum Wage
8. Climate Change
10. Equity for women and girls of color

In other words, Obama wrongly stole state powers to take action on the indicated issues.

And Obama is not the main problem imo. More specifically, the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification, state sovereignty-ignoring Congress wrongly let Obama get away with stealing state powers and use those powers to oppress the states and their citizens.

Patriots need to support Trump in draining the federal swamp.

1. Health insurance for millions
Passed the misnamed “Affordable Care Act”. True more people have insurance today. But premiums are soaring out of site. And if you don’t buy, you get hit with a penalty. And it was passed in the most undemocratic way with a party line vote, in which the democrats had to bribe their own members to vote for it, and they wouldn’t even let them read it first.

2. Gay rights
Instead of all the important things that needed to be done, Obama focused on gay and transgendered rights. 8 years of Obama and we don’t even know what bathroom to use. Worse, he pushed gay rights on other nations.

3. Economic Recovery
He wasted the $700 billion stimulus package on bundlers schemes and bloating government expense. He rolled the war costs which Bush had kept separate into the budget, and then included the “one-time” stimulus package into the budget as well, bloating the government. He increased national debt from $4 trillion to $20 trillion.
He promoted so-called free trade deals which have robbed the US of our industries. More people are on food stamps than ever. The percent of working age people with jobs is low. He forced many people into part time jobs because of the impact of Obamacare. This was the worst economic recovery ever. And Obama did much to make it worse and little to help it.

4.Bin Laden
Well it did happen on his shift so he took credit for it. But he also oversaw the destabilization of the middle east and the rise of ISIS. And it’s yet to be determined just how much he directly funded terrorists like ISIS.

5. My Brother’s Keeper Initiative
I’m not familiar with this, but it sounds like it might actually be an good accomplishment. But I’m skeptical because of the accomplishments that I am familiar with. Accomplishments like promoting racial divide in the Travon and Ferguson cases. Promoting civil discord and distruction and murder with the occupy and BLM movements.

6. Restoring Diplomatic Ties Between the U.S. and Cuba.
We have had the best relations with despots and communists since the start of the cold war. While our relationships with our friends have suffered.

7. Pushed to Raise the Minimum Wage
Raising the minimum wage while we have high unemployment and there are already incentives to off shore is doubling down on crazy (or treason).

8. Climate Change
He’s promoted this hoax. He’s used it to hurt the US energy sector, which hurts all sectors.

9. Job Growth
The job growth is low quality and part time jobs. Offshoring continues and Obama has done nothing to stop it. That the economy adjusts and tries to put labor to use even under conditions that existed under Obama is a testament to the strength of a free market economy and not thanks to anything Obama has done.

10. Equity for women and girls of color
Another program I’m not familiar with. But what women of color need are jobs and men of color with jobs. The best thing Obama could do to help them is to help the US economy and he failed miserably at that. Jobs not special programs is what is needed.

Health insurance unaffordable for millions.

Destroyed the definition of Marriage

Economic recovery....you’re cracking me up.

Where’s the body?

My Brother’s Keeper....racist.

Hobnobbing with brutal dictators

Destroying entry level jobs...but a boon for the automation industry.

Finally figured out how to tax the air we breathe.

Job growth... Jobless growth 92-94 million without jobs.

Solved a non-existent problem to curry favor with racists

1. Ruined the best health care system in the world

2. Doubled the national debt

3. Caused the first bond downgrade in US history

4. Set the Middle East on fire

5. Set race relations back fifty years

6. Made the US an embarrassment on the world stage.

7. Destroyed relationships with our closest allies.

8. Emboldened China, Russia and Iran

I'm sure I've left a few things out.

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