(08-14-2012 08:39 AM)Rebel Wrote: (08-13-2012 09:44 PM)smn1256 Wrote: (08-13-2012 09:20 PM)Max Power Wrote: Well I think Obama is just great.
great at what? Please list his accomplishments, his transparency, his reaching across the aisle, etc. and playing golf with a republican doesn't count.
Bump.
Then again, blind loyalty by the useful idiots is what despots really appreciate.
Killed bin Laden
Saved American auto industry
Gaddafi's toppled with no American casualties
We've gone from losing 800k jobs/month to gaining 150k/month (average this year)
We've created nearly 5 million jobs the last 3 years
We've gone from negative 8 percent GDP growth to positive 2 percent
Repealed DADT
Universal health care to cover 30 million so that no longer will 3 people die prematurely every hour
Insurance companies can't discriminate against people with pre existing conditions
Rebates for policyholders if the insurance company doesn't spend 80% of premiums on healthcare
Equal pay for women
Ended Iraq War, set end date for Afghanistan War
Ended torture
Student loan reform to allow borrowers to refinance
Race to the Top
Increased Head Start funding
Restored our international standing and credibility
Nuclear non proliferation and arms reduction treaties with Russia
Closed Medicare prescription donut hole
Slows the growth of Medicare costs over the next 10 years by $700B, created a board to find more ways to cut costs without affecting quality of care
Removed restrictions on promising embryonic stem cell research, renewed funding
Closed offshore tax havens
Dow Jones has doubled
But yea, aside from that you can say he has no accomplishments.
As for working with the GOP, it's pretty hard to do so when every one of their presidential candidates rejected $10 in spending cuts for $1 in new revenues. They're completely unreasonable. Let's be serious.