You mean the ones Bush initiated and the Obama administration merely oversaw? I don't get the problem with the unsuccesful attempt to save jobs though, what in particular do you think would've been a better option? Considering Trump's policies are to try and get these jobs back by creating (Economically impossible) cuts to tax, i'd wager that it would've been better to have not done them at all, but that would only have lowered confidence in the government for passively letting these jobs go (Could Obama have even stopped them if Bush initiated them? I'm not particularly sure)
Bailed out banks. Banks failed to repay the American populace, no plans were put in place for preventing this.
I'm not aware of what "repaying" the populace would entail, and what exactly for, but it seems like from my research that a bailout of the banks was necessary at the time, but the profits and bonuses made back when they rebounded were pretty extravagant and should've been curbed
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...rescue-stabilized-economy-at-a-political-cost
Lack of clear administration. Most sneaky-sneaky administration in history, denying more freedom of information requests than any other administration in history by about 100%
77% is the number i've come up with, and that that's a record, but not that it's "100%" ever in history. That 77% is made up of denials of requests and accepted requests that have no new information that's not available to the public, as well as accepted requests that don't have any documents to release period.
I'd actually like to look into this more and see the average number of requests each year to see if there's some kind of outside circumstances that saw an upturn in them that'd account for the increase, because the idea that suddenly Obama doesn't want you to know... anything seems suspect
Whistle blowers on torture and wrongdoing are sent on the lam, despite initial wants for transparency.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-.../426/increase-protections-for-whistleblowers/
I'll concede Snowden is a sad exmaple of why law on leakers of classified information are outdated, but that's hardly Obama's fault himself or with his administration. The information leaked was valuable to the public, but the laws weren't changed specifically to persecute him and he knew what they were fully before committing to doing a crime
Nobel peace prize winner. Wanted to start another war in the Middle East. Placated by an ex-KGB operative. Event avoided due to Russian intervention.
I've got no idea what you mean beyond that Obama received a nobel peace prize he said he didn't think he deserved, the rest of it i can't really comprehend. Something about a middle east war and being talked out of it by ex-KGB, and russia stopping it? That... doesn't sound right, to say the least
This is a prime example of how campaign promises mean jack ****. I've never particularly believed campaign promises because I'm a realist and the house and senate like to stall.
...What is a prime example?
Campaign promises mean a lot because they're almost always at least attempted to follow through on, and exactly what is said there tells you about a candidate's plan for the white house- when Trump makes an outlandish and impossible or abhorrent election promise that shows his character and what he'd do with the power he wants regardless of if it's possible for him to personally kick every elderly hispanic woman in florida's shins or not
But anyway, here's a list of Obama's election promises (27 pages of them, over both elections i assume) and to what exetent he achieved them.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/browse/?page=3
60+ of Assad's troops killed in US airstrike. Claims to want to work with Russia. Excuse: "We thought it was controlled by ISIS" it is now. Russia wants more communication, the US denies it.
I guess we're back on clinton now, but I think it's very clear Russia does not want more communication considering both are fighting ISIS, but Russia is doing so to keep their ally Assad safe, while America is doing it to protect their own interests (And they don't like Assad, because he's a tryant, and probably a couple more self serving reasons. But the public one is the "not liking his tyranny" one)
Increase in unemployment due to failure of policies and bad ideas (i.e. bailout)
https://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/obamas-numbers-january-2016-update/
Nope! Decrease in unemployment under Obama
Ca$h for Clunkers program. Costly. Prices of used cars went up.
Back to obama? Ok
"Costly" is fairly meaningless in this circumstance, but you're right that it didn't earn back the amount it spent (Although i don't think that was ever the intention) and most of the non-environmental effects were pretty lackluster to what was predicted.
The environmental effects were pretty good though, with a good net increase in fuel efficiency of vehicles nationwide due to the program
"Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." - Obama, 2008
This was a poor promise to make, but i'd be interested to know what changes he made to go back on that later, as i haven't been able to read up on the specific demographics and the taxes under obama that've changed for them
Increased the National debt by 7 trillion dollars. More than all other presidents in history combined.
This is fairly complicated to answer, because you're right- infact under that metric you're using it was actually 9 trillion ,to 19 from the 10 he inherited, (Unless you mean by the metric in which he added 6.3 trillion, i can't imagine you mean the one that's 983 billion though)) but actually how quantifiable that is, and how much gross debt like that even matters is a pretty complicated economical journey
https://www.thebalance.com/the-u-s-debt-and-how-it-got-so-big-3305778
https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt-under-obama-3306293
NSA Spies on the American populace under the administration.
And under the administration before that, and i'm fairly sure in the one before that in the "modern" incarnation that i assume you mean, but i'm pretty sure the NSA has near always spied on the american population through some means or another.
Whether this is a needed/good thing or not can be debated but kicking the can of blame down the road onto obama isn't really much of anything
The CIA, the foreign intelligence division, spies on congress under the administration.
See above
Solyndra. That's $535 million dollars we're never going to see again. Tacked onto the national debt (i.e. taxpayers)
It's not really the fault of the administration if a company they give money to fails, there's merit in reflectively looking back at the information available at the time on if it was a good idea to invest or not, but it's not really something that retroactive blame can be applied to
Misuse of the IRS under the administration. Actions are suspicious and highly illegal. "Not even a smidgen of corruption [IRS]".IRS released the names of over 400 companies it maliciously targeted.
You mean the charity exemption thing? That wasn't companies targeted that was organisations with certain phrases or political messages being scrutinised more heavily than others, in a way that was deemed not illegal but not impartial as it should've been
I'm still waiting on my VA care. Despite promises to speed the process, the process has actually slowed.
That seems kind of anecdotal, and i can't find anything backing the claim that it's actually slowed
Obama care. Estimated to save $2500 a year for each family. Lie.
Is it? All i can find is that health care spending has slowed since it's implementation, which isn't effectively the same thing but it's implicative of something similar
obamacare.gov was down for months when introduced. Obama: "... Had no idea ..."
That's not true? It had problems with the amount of traffic it was getting for the first few months but it wasn't
down for months at a time? And i'm pretty sure Obama didn't have "no idea" that it was down, but i doubt he knew each and every downing
Retrieving funds to the tune of $700 Billion from Medicare to inject into Obama care.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-...are-robbed-medicare-700-billion-says-huckabe/
No?
Judged police actions before investigation was complete, calling them anything from despicable behaviour to incompetent.
I don't think this is true at all and can't find anything on it, but i assume you're talking about something related to the shooting of unarmed african americans
The DOJ did not pursue several black on white criminality cases under the administration.
....? I'd like some sources on this because this seems like complete nonsense, and doesn't seem to involve Obama personally at all
Still golfing, despite mocking Bush for doing the same thing even though he [Bush] quit.
How dare he play sports...?
Says marriage is between a man and woman in '08.
Which he very obviously evolved on, considering the historic significance of his presidency to both LGBT rights at large and the issue of marriage equality
DOJ against voter ID. Obamacare requires ID.
This is true, Obamacare requires personal identification and that identification is generally needed to be things considered for voter ID just by virtue of state operated identification
Common Core education programs. Things are getting worse.
Things being what, public education or the programs themselves? They seem pretty innocuous, and considering the state of education in some US states, especially sience and physical education (sex ed being a big one) a larger scale and more encompassing common curriculum would do wonders
Greatest economic meltdown since the Great Depression, albeit sans dust bowls.
You mean the GFC?? That's just an event that occured during his presidency. You can't really blame every hurricane on him too
NASA. Want to be an astronaut? Try the Cosmonaut program instead, you might have better luck.
Yep, NASA funding has more or less tanked to feed the overbloated federal defence budget, something America as a whole needs to stop doing but probably won't
Failure of foreign relations and policies. Many world leaders do not respect the man and as a result, may have damaged views of the country itself (the reason why you have a leader is to lead and represent you)
Uh? I don't think this is true at all, Obama is looked on pretty favourably internationally, i don't know what source you're getting this from
Denied Major Nidal as a terrorist incident.
The army concluded he wasn't, if you're going to complain he talked about a crime before the investigation was finished earlier and you're also going to complain he agreed with the investigation's verdict here it seems like a double standard
Benghazi, along with Clinton.
Benghazi is another thing you keep saying is cut and dry despite being anything but
The assassination of Gaddafi. Gaddafi actually wasn't that bad. Libya is now a war strewn mess and not sanctioned by congress i.e. other US citizens. The rebels in Libya refused and have said on multiple occasions they want no military assistance from the US.
This is true
Negotiation with terrorists. Released 5 terrorists for 1 man that didn't seem too keen on going home to begin with.
Not really
https://time.com/2809612/bowe-bergdahl-obama-taliban/
But there's merit in arguing the deal wasn't optimal for America
Slowdown of the deportation processes. visa expirations and illegal immigrants remain without fear of deportation. Attempted to use executive power to legalize all illegal immigrants. He does not have this power. Failed to reform immigration and to mitigate the problem of drug cartels across the border coming under/over the border.
Obama has deported more people than any other president. The only "slowdown" so far has been from his own top speed. His attempts at programs and amnesty to constructively allow illegal immigrants ways to stay in the country legally and allowing families to stay together better are fairly admirable things, especially considering the complete backslide of illegal immigration into the US under his administration (But like most things, not a direct result of his administration)
Financial reform failure. Promises to undue previous administration's mistakes. Failed. More debt, more problems.
Nope, more gross debt (which was inevitable) but less "problems" assuming you mean "problems" to be any of these, i.e cutting deficit
https://www.snopes.com/barack-obama-accomplishments/
Promised stimulus package failed. Billions of dollars lost in effort to stimulate economy (seperate monies from bank and car bailouts). Failed. No influx of jobs, bubble burst, stimulas package didn't pan out.
Yes influx of jobs as previously states, stimulus packages did work but not to the degree predicted
"The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back." - Obama 2012, regarding Russia as a potential opponent to American interests. Crimea called, they would like to know where they can send their surplus of borsch.
To be fair this was before they stole part of a country and started their current big "we can do what we want" push
"Keeping this facility open is contrary to our values," Obama said. "It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law." - Obama in regards to closing down Gitmo. Still open.
Despite his attempts to close it down numerous times, with constant attempts to the best of his ability only to be stopped by a republican controlled senate ect
Disrespected the goddamn Queen of England, by not knowing the British national anthem. I guess we're just allowed to talk through the star spangled banner, huh? I'd underline it twice if I could.
A single political gaff that no one actually minded is hardly anything
Failure for other avenues of going green. Carbon emissions bill struck down by the supreme court didn't help him.
Green energy has only surged under Obama, and his attempts at going green being stopped by a largely climate denialist republican party hardly helps
The Iranian Nuclear deal. A country that continued to clamour own about weapons and rockets and nuclear armaments.
Uh? The iranian nuclear deal was a huge success?
Accepting Syrian refugees. Despite more than a handful of European countries being attacked by individuals going through the system. Brussels was attacked. Brussels! Result of the power vacuum created by mas withdrawal of troops in both Iran and Iraq.
Accepting refugees?! what an awful man! And... no, i'm fairly sure that most notable terrorist attacks in the EU were perpetuated by citizens, not refugees.
Also.... syrian destabilisation is not really a result of the power vaccum in iran/iraq, ISIS existed before that and tangentially benefited from that
Promised to curb the influence of lobbyists. Appoints more lobbyists.
What? There's an executive order restricting lobbyists from working in the white house
Failed gun policy, despite continued promises to do so. Promises to use executive action to go against congress to enact forms of control.
"Promises to do something but is stopped at every step by a hostile senate" isn't really a strike against him, and i'm fairly sure he never claimed he'd force gun legislation through
Received more money from Wall Street collectively than any candidate in the last 20 years. Supported occupy Wall Street.
And yet he introduced big wall street reform. I don't really get why supporting occupy wall street is a bad thing when it's the antithesis of the concept you're trying to put across here, that obama against all evidence to the contrary is corrupt
Continuing the war on drugs... against
marijuana. The only president to attack it so vehemently, even more so than the accursed
Reagan administration. He promised the exact opposite.
Uh? I don't think this is true considering Obama has been doing the opposite and moving towards criminal justice reform- especially towards drug related offences. Over the last few months he's been personally commuting sentences of people charged with drug offences and given mandatory minimum sentences no longer under effect
Used executive orders to expand faith based programs. Those programs people attacked Bush for? The same ones.
Sort of, he reformed and cleaned it all up though, creating an inter-faith advisory body to give advice on how to best allocate resources ect ect and generally attempted to make it a more effective and efficient set of programs through new rules and regulations.
Renewed the Patriot act. Said before I didn't approve of it.
Renewed some of the parts set to expire, not all of it (As it as a whole, didn't expire, only certain parts did)
Signed indefinite detention bill into law.
Did he put it forward? I couldn't find that, only that senate upheld it. Either way it's a negative
Promised to prosecute Wall Street executives. Did not.
Not personally, but he signed the power to the DOJ to be able to do so, and they didn't prioritise the specific situation in which he said they'd be able to and thus no cases led to prosecution there
Took 1,000 jobs away from Boeing. Told to shut down the factory for being non-union.
Again i'm fairly sure this wasn't Obama personally or even his administration, but Boeing was sued for breaking the law and since they lost(?) the jobs they promised there didn't materialise
Operation Fast and Furious. Released 2,000 firearms to criminal hands. Recovered 710 of the weapons.
Weapons were used to kill civilians in Mexico. What's worse? Build a wall? Or give weapons to their cartels so that they can be used against them?
