Here is a list I wanted to contribute,, dont ask for references or any factual documentation though,,lol

jk,,,if you ask, and are specific, I Will try to VERIFY with facts...

Many Americans take it for granted that President Obama has been one of the most effective Presidents since FDR. It’s important to remember just how bad things were when he took office and how much he’s accomplished since he’s been in office.

We were hemorrhaging jobs when this President took office and now we’ve gone from 10% unemployment down to around 8.5%. If the recovery continues on this path, we’ll be back to around 5% unemployment by 2016.

It’s not just about jobs though, President Obama has also worked to restore America’s image around the world. When President Bush was in office we were invading countries for no reason, now we’ve left Iraq and are in the process of leaving Afghanistan.

In case you needed a few other examples of what President Obama has accomplished I put together a list below:

1.Extended child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes
2.Created an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes
3.Required economic justification for tax changes
4.Implemented “Women Owned Business” contracting program
5.Changed standards for determining broadband access
6.Established a credit card bill of rights
7.Expanded loan programs for small businesses
8.Extended the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes
9.Extended the 2007 Alternative MinimumTax patch
10.Closed the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plan
11.Expanded the Senior Corps volunteer program
12.Required insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
13.Gave tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums
14.Required large employers to contribute to a national health plan
15.Required children to have health insurance coverage
16.Expanded eligibility for Medicaid
17.Expanded eligibility for State Children’s Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
18.Required health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care
19.Established an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information
20.In non-competitive markets, forced insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care
21.Eliminated the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans
22.Expanded funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners
23.Increased funding to expand community based prevention programs
24.Reinstated executive order to hire an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years.
25.Increased the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals
26.Expanded the Veterans Administration’s number of “centers of excellence” in specialty care
27.Appointed a special adviser to the president on violence against women
28.Fully funded the Violence Against Women Act
29.Directed military leaders to end war in Iraq
30.Began removing combat brigades from Iraq
31.Created a military families advisory board
32.Ended the abuse of supplemental budgets for war
33.Made U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
34.Opened “America Houses” in Islamic cities around the globe
35.Allocated Homeland Security funding according to risk
36.Created a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan
37.Increased funding for local emergency planning
38.Extended monitoring and verification provisions of the START I Treaty
39.Appointed a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security
40.Initiated a grant and training program for law enforcement to deter cyber crime
41.Improved relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds
42.Launched an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)
43.Created a rapid response fund for emerging democracies
44.Granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
45.Restored funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program
46.Established an Energy Partnership for the Americas
47.Expanded the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers
48.Required new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
49.Provided affordable, high-quality child care
50.Recruited math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession
51.Reduced subsidies to private student lenders and protect student borrowers
52.Encouraged water-conservation efforts in the West
53.Increased funding for national parks and forests
54.Increased funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
55.Encouraged farmers to use more renewable energy and be more energy efficient
56.Expanded Pell grants for low-income students
57.Pursued a wildfire management plan
58.Removed more brush, small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires
59.Expanded access to places to hunt and fish
60.Pushed for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
61.Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy
62.Restored funding to the EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
63.Reformed mandatory minimum sentences
64.Created a White House Office on Urban Policy
65.Fully funded the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
66.Established program to convert manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders
67.Established ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ for areas of concentrated poverty
68.Worked toward deploying a global climate change research and monitoring system
69.Funded a major expansion of AmeriCorps
70.Created a Social Investment Fund Network
71.Bolstered the military’s ability to speak differentlanguages
72.Appointed the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer
73.Provided grants to early-career researchers
74.Worked to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
75.Created a national declassification center
76.Appointed an American Indian policy adviser
77.Created new financial regulations
78.Increased funding for land-grant colleges
79.Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees
80.Signed a “universal” health care bill
81.Created new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud
82.Required 10 percent renewable energy by 2012
83.Released oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve
84.Raised fuel economy standards
85.Invested in all types of alternative energy
86.Enacted tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars
87.Asked people and businesses to conserve electricity
88.Required more energy-efficient appliances
89.Created a ‘Green Vet Initiative’ to promote environmental jobs for veterans
90.Created job training programs for clean technologies
91.Required states to provide incentives for utilities to reduce energy consumption
92.Supported high-speed rail
93.Supported airline service in small towns
94.Invested in public transportation
95.Equalized tax breaks for driving and public transit
96.Considered “smart growth” in transportation funding
97.Shared environmental technology with other countries
98.Doubled federal spending for research on clean fuels
99.Provided grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes
100.Increased funding for the Environmental Protection Agency
101.Raised the small business investment expensing limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009
102.Extended unemployment insurance benefits and
103.temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits
104.Supported network neutrality on the Internet
105.Reversed restrictions on stem cell research
106.Killed Osama bin Laden


you can read the other 112 reasons here

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/02/24/what-do-americans-think-of-obamas-performance-as-a-president/

Stop the presses!



You quote in verbatim the writing of political consultant Chris Weigl, and yet you do not say that you are quoting him.

its a three part post, the citation is at the end of the three posts,,,

He sure has done a lot of extending and expanding.
I wont ask for references or any factual documentation though.

most of is list is more and more government...President Reagan once said..."Government isn't the solution...Government is the problem"...he also said..."The nine most terrifying words in the English language are...I’m from the government and I’m here to help"

Obama's first 100 days in office add up to 100 mistakes...

VALUES:
1. Calling for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act on the White House website. 2. Listing on the White House website a call for the expansion of federal hate crimes to include homosexual behavior. 3. Calling on the White House website for policies like the “Fairness Doctrine” that could silence conservative and Christian talk radio. 4. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding of human embryonic stem cell research. 5. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding of abortions overseas. 6. Pledging $50 million to the United Nation’s Population Fund, which supports China’s draconian one- child policy. 7. Proposing new rules to gut conscience clause protections for pro-life doctors and other medical personnel who don’t want to be forced to perform abortions or other procedures that violate their values. 8. Proposing increased funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. 9. Calling on the White House website for “a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year,” (mandatory volunteerism). 10. Inviting homosexual families to the White House Easter Egg Roll. 11. Allowing his attorney general to call for the reinstatement of Clinton-era restrictions on the Second Amendment. 12. Breaking his promise not to appoint lobbyists to his administration. He hired 17 in his first two weeks. 13. Breaking his promise to sign legislation only after a five-day period of public comments. 14. Asking that the monogram for Jesus Christ be covered up during a televised speech at a Catholic university in which Obama quotes the Sermon on the Mount.

NATIONAL SECURITY:
15. Apologizing for America in Europe and Latin America. 16. Bowing before the Muslim king of Saudi Arabia. 17. Pledging to base America’s foreign policy toward Iran on “mutual respect” in a video to the Iranian people and Iran’s Holocaust-denying dictator. 18. Returning the bust of Winston Churchill given to George Bush after 9/11 by our British allies. 19. Giving British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the leader of America’s most loyal ally, a box of DVDs that don’t work in British DVD players. 20. Ordering Guantanamo Bay closed without any idea of where to send the terrorist suspects held there. 21. Suggesting that some of those terrorists now at GITMO may kill again, but may also be released onto U.S. soil and set up with welfare benefits. 22. Caving to communist Cuba by relaxing travel restrictions and remittances for Cuban Americans before any Cuban political prisoners have been released. 23. Shaking hands with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. 24. Sitting silently though a 50-minute anti-American diatribe by Nicaragua’s communist president, Daniel Ortega. 25. Releasing Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the suspected mastermind of the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. 26. Releasing classified CIA memos outlining our interrogation techniques. 27. Telling our CIA agents not to be discouraged when he acknowledges their “mistakes.” 28. Declaring a new openness to “truth commissions” and prosecuting intelligence officials involved in enhanced interrogations of terrorists. 29. Proposing to send a $900 million foreign aid package to Palestinians in Gaza. 30. Asking Congress to relax the law so that some of that money could go to the terrorist organization Hamas. 31. Calling for the U.S. to eliminate its nuclear weapons. 32. Telling Russian President Demitri Medvedev that America’s commitment to missile defense is negotiable. 33. Dropping the term “enemy combatants” for GITMO detainees. 34. Dropping the term “terrorism” for “man-made disaster.” 35. Dropping the term “Global War on Terror” for “overseas contingency operations.” 36. Giving his first interview as president to the Arab language network Al-Arabiya. 37. Telling the Muslim world that his “job” was to communicate “that the Americans are not your enemy,” when it’s Muslim extremists who have declared war on us. 38. Proposing that military veterans use private insurance for the cost of a service-related injury before they would be eligible for coverage through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

FREE ENTERPRISE:
39. Signing the trillion-dollar plus so-called “stimulus” bill, which the Congressional Budget Office said would actually hurt long-term economic growth. 40. Saying Caterpillar wouldn’t lay off workers if his trillion-dollar stimulus bill passed Congress. Obama signed the bill on Feb. 17th. On March 17th, Caterpillar laid off nearly 2,500 workers.
41. Hosting a “Fiscal Responsibility Summit” one week after signing the trillion-dollar “stimulus” bill. 42. Railing against “outrageous recklessness and greed” of AIG bonuses that were legally protected in the so-called “stimulus” bill he signed four days after it passed, not five as he promised. 43. Breaking his promise on earmark reform by signing the $410 billion “omnibus” spending bill with billions in earmarks. 44. Proposing a $3.6 trillion budget that doubles the national debt in five years and triples it in ten years. 45. Proposing a “carbon cap and trade” scheme that will raise energy taxes by hundreds of billions, even trillions, of dollars. 46. Burning more than 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to fly to Iowa for Earth Day to promote “wind power.” 47. Proposing $634 billion in higher taxes for socialized health care. 48. Proposing to raise taxes on small business owners. 49. Saying the White House is open to the idea of taxing employer-sponsored health care benefits as income. 50. Signing a massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, calling it “a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American.” 51. Establishing the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research to give bureaucrats the power to ration health care and tell your doctors what care you can and cannot have. 52. Signing the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which the Sierra Club praised specifically because it “will safeguard millions of acres ... from oil and gas leasing.” 53. Suggesting he has found $1.5 trillion in bogus “savings” by not spending money in Iraq that we were not planning to spend years from now. 54. Ordering his Cabinet to “cut” $100 million in spending in 90 days, after proposing nearly $5 trillion in spending in his first 90 days. 55. Proposing to limit tax deductions for home mortgage interest. 56. Proposing to limit tax deductions for charitable donations. 57. Refusing to allow banks to repay TARP money. 58. Bailing out AMTRAK with a 10% increase in its taxpayer subsidies. 59. Bailing out the United Auto Workers Union with billions of taxpayer dollars to GM and Chrysler. 60. Bailing out the United Auto Workers by giving it a majority ownership stake in Chrysler. Yes, the union will own the company. 61. Bailing out Big Labor by issuing an executive order mandating that infrastructure projects paid for with “stimulus” funds must use union labor, guaranteeing higher costs for the taxpayer. 62. Bailing out Big Labor again by repealing regulations requiring the disclosure of how union dues are spent. So much for “transparency.” 63. Saying, “The United States government has no interest in running GM,” then vowing that the government will back auto warranties. 64. Saying, “The United States government has no interest in running GM,” then firing the CEO of General Motors. 65. Allowing states to set their own fuel efficiency and emissions standards, making it harder for struggling auto makers to compete.

PERSONNEL POLICY:
66. Nominating Timothy “The Turbo Tax Evader” Geithner as Treasury Secretary to oversee the IRS. 67. Nominating as attorney general Eric Holder, who urged Bill Clinton to pardon tax evader Marc Rich and 8 FALN terrorists. 68. Nominating David Ogden, a prominent attorney for the pornography industry, to be Deputy Attorney General.
69. Nominating Tom Daschle, who owed more than $140,000 in back taxes, as Health and Human Services Secretary. 70. Nominating Kathleen Sebelius, who is ardently pro-abortion and owed $8,000 in back taxes, to be HHS Secretary.
71. Nominating Janet Napolitano, who said, “crossing the border is not a crime per se,” as Homeland Security Secretary. 72. Nominating Steven Chu as Energy Secretary. Last September, Chu said, “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” which at that time were roughly $8.00 a gallon.
73. Nominating Ron Kirk, who owed more than $6,000 in back taxes, as Trade Representative. 74. Nominating Bill Richardson, who was embroiled in an ethics scandal, as Secretary of Commerce. 75. Nominating Nancy Killefer, who also owed back taxes, to be the government’s “Efficiency Czar.” 76. Nominating Rosa Brooks, a leftwing acolyte of George Soros, as an advisor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. 77. Nominating Harold Koh, an ardent supporter of using international law in the interpretation of our Constitution, to be the top legal advisor to the State Department. 78. Nominating Carol Browner, who was a member of the Socialist International, to be “Climate and Energy Czar.” 79. Nominating John Holdren, an environmental extremist and advocate of population control, as the White House Science Advisor. 80. Nominating Dawn Johnsen, who is so pro-abortion she once compared pregnancy to slavery, to direct the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department. 81. Nominating Charles Freeman, an anti-Israel, pro-Arab apologist, to be head of the National Intelligence Council. 82. Nominating Tony West, who represented American Taliban John Walker Lindh and exposed the Bush Administration’s terrorist surveillance program, to the Justice Department’s Civil Division. 83. Nominating Annette Nazareth to be Deputy Treasury Secretary, who withdrew after a month-long probe into her taxes. 84. Trying to nominate pro-abortion Catholics to be ambassador to the Vatican, a move even John Kerry opposed. 85. Appointing Ellen Moran of the pro-abortion group Emily’s List as his White House communications director. 86. Appointing Melody Barnes, a board member of Emily’s List and Planned Parenthood, as his director of the Domestic Policy Council. 87. Appointing Harry Knox of the Human Rights Campaign (the largest homosexual rights lobbying group) to the White House’s Faith Based Advisory Council.
88. Appointing Adolfo Carrion as Director of White House Office of Urban Affairs, even though he is under investigation for kickbacks in a scandal nearly identical to one that cost GOP Senator Ted Stevens his election. 89. Nominating David Hamilton as his first appointment to a federal appeals court. Judge Hamilton has issued a number of controversial rulings, including prohibiting the Indiana House of Representatives from opening sessions with prayers in the name of Jesus.

AND FINALLY MISCELLANEOUS:
90. Telling congressional Republicans to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. 91. Coordinating attacks on Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer out of the White House. 92. Hosting weekly parties at the White House, serving up $100-a-pound Waygu beef during what Obama called, “the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” 93. Laughing it up on 60 Minutes as the country is mired in a recession. 94. Allowing Air Force One to buzz the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan, creating panic in New York City. 95. Disparaging Special Olympians on the Tonight Show. 96. Allowing his Department of Homeland Security to issue a report accusing pro-life, smaller government conservatives and returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans of being “rightwing extremists.” 97. Promising to push for comprehensive immigration reform, i.e., amnesty. 98. Killing the school voucher program in the District of Columbia, while sending his two daughters to an elite private school, rather than D.C.’s public schools. 99. Moving the Census out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House. 100. Relying too much on his teleprompter.

http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/files/100%20days.pdf

lol, that was kind of my point,, how useless long random allegations or statements of 'fact' are,,,,,

My point was to reiterate what a terrible president Obama is and how fast he proved it....

Cheers

while indirectly proving my point about useless lists of statements and claims,,,,

If "only" one person reads my list and "only" one thing on my list resonates with them, it could change their mind about who to vote for this year....

Thanks for starting this thread Harmony!!

you really think lists like these 'change' peoples minds?

its possible, I guess


I see a list, and if its nothing but ONE sided and longer than ten statements, I usually dont put much stock in it, because there is another list somewhere of one sided statements implying the OPPOSITE about a candidate

I prefer to look up things too, which many dont seem to do anymore either, just seeing it in print (from ANY source) is proof enough,, which scares me

and I read CAREFULLY to discern verifiable fact from subjective opinion, which seems to be another diminishing skill

but I Think thats logic, and I sadly see less and less of amongst the voting constituency.....


but here is to all the simplistic people who will decide their vote off of our lists

Absolutely....Many people do not become interested in politics until something sparks that interest...That "something" could be stumbled upon while reading a post on an internet dating site....Many people still vote a party.....Some vote a race....Some vote a campaign promise (just one)...Surely you realize this Harmony!...Didn't you say one of your jobs involves working at the polls?..

Yes, information changes minds...and everything on my list can easily be checked once it RESONATES with someone and they begin to think about it...

Maybe the reason YOU don't put stock in certain long lists is because you are not open minded about certain subjects...You have already made your determination...

And I think your last statement is rude....but hey, it's your thread....

106,Wow I didn't know Obama was overseas and shot Osama. When did that happen?

nope, the opposite, I dont put much stock in them because the WRITERS are not open minded,, obviously, if ALL they can see is one side

its a no brainer everything on the list will re iterate that one opinion as opposed to giving helpful and BALANCED facts,,,

I like the INFORMATION that supports peoples statements and opinions as opposed to just automatically jumping on their face value


I stand by my last post, rude or not, as truth

its not directed at anyone specifically, unless they are gauging their decision about a candidate on some random statement in a social networking thread


and its all of our thread, I just started it

lol, exactly

good for the goose and all



I didnt know a president could pass bills alone, but we have no issue pointing the finger when one passes we dont approve of through CONGRESS


I didnt know he could travel to millions of hr offices firing or hiring people, but we have no issue pointing the finger at a president when people are unemployed



IM sure everyone involved in these 'debates' and smash sessions understands a President doesnt have to PHYSICALLY have done something themself to be held responsible for what happened.......

seems like alot of obama fans use this statement , but when bush was in office, it didn't apply then... why is that?

I actually wasnt here when Bush was in


and I personally never made claims that he was ruining the country , or a facsist, traitor,,etc,,, when he was in

I thought he was embarassing as a representative to the world of the USA, when most leaders are well educated and poised

I thought he wasnt actually running things and that his behavior was often too REACTIONARY for my taste, reminded me more like a spoiled child than a diplomatic leader

but that was the extent of my criticism for him, never did I believe or imply that he WANTED to destroy america or any such nonsense or that he was UNIQUELY awful in any particular flaw or uniquely responsible for any of the national issues we dealt with,,,

Bias...