What exactly has Obama accomplished in eight months?

Cas for Clunkers? Big deal, car dealerships have been doing that for year its called push, pull or tow it in and well give you Blah Blah Blah.

What has Obama done to benefit our country?What exactly has Obama accomplished in eight months?anything good? NO nothing at all..



but bad? oh TONS:



huge debt we will never climb out of

pushing us tword Communism

destroying the memory of 9/11/2001

pisssing of our strongest alli

and much much more|||how about getting the stock market rising by twenty percent since he took office . does avoiding a depression count for anything in your book. he helped get six million more needy children health care. passed a gi bill that mccain benefited from but wouldnt give to the vets. passed the stem cell bill which scientists think will lead to a cure for parkinsons. he also has not acted like a tyrant even when the republicans have not cooperated at all. i mean when they vote unanamous its obviously political. you cant get over one hundred people unanamous on anything. im not crazy about all the gun legislation but the nra should be. i heard the news say that he has protected gun rights more than any other dem. i think the main thing is he is practicing christian principles by trying to help the less fortunate. this type of thing always pays benefits. medicare and social security are so popular that no republican will vote against themWhat exactly has Obama accomplished in eight months?this is from his first 6 months..not up to date



Civil Rights

Jan. 29 2009 – Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Reducing discrimination based on gender, age, religion, or race. (source)



Environmental

Feb. 21 2009 – Obama signs a mercury reduction pact with 140 other nations. The policy reverses roles with George Bush and sets mandatory requirements by the United States. (source)



Mar. 30 2009 – Obama signs the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009, which serves to protect two million acres of land and creates a new system of land conservation for the Bureau of Land Management. (source)



May 19 2009 – Obama teams up with the auto industry to raise the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to an average of 35.5 mpg by 2016. The program is reported to save up to 1.8 billion barrels of oil or 900 million tons of greenhouse gases. (source)



Foreign Policy



April 2 2009 – Obama helps form a compromise between Presidents of France (Sarkozy) and China (Jintao) over making tax havens more transparent. The two Presidents were in a “heated” argument previous to Obama’s intervention. (source)



Government Reform

Jan. 27 2009 – Administration tells Citigroup bank it is “unacceptable” to pay for a $42 million dollar luxury jet when they have received $45 billion in bailouts from taxpayers. (source)



Feb. 19 2009 – Bans the exception of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars from accounting the deficit. This results in a 2.5 trillion dollar increase in calculated deficit to the United States. (source)



Feb. 23 2009 – Announces Earl Devaney to oversee the oversight of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Mr. Devaney worked as a Secret Service agent who exposed lobbyist corruption in the Department of the Interior. (source)



Mar. 9 2009 – Lifts ban on embryonic stem cell research. A major move in changing the politics of research and science in the United States. (source)



May 22, 2009 – Creates a credit card bill of rights. Limits unwarranted spending and gives consumers more options to pay their bills on time. It has been debated if this will negatively affect the industry. (source)



May 22, 2009 – Tries to curb wasteful spending by the Pentagon on the defense budget by signing the Weapons System Acquisition Reform Act. Intended to price contracts and budgets lower; may potentially save billions of dollars in defense. (source)



June 22, 2009 – Allows the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have authority over the tobacco industry. (source)



Humanitarian



Jan. 23 2009 – Obama orders the close of Guantanamo Bay facility (source)

http://www.knowtheblog.org/blog/archives|||n February 17, 2009, Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a $787 billion economic stimulus package aimed at helping the economy recover from the deepening worldwide recession.



Cash for Clunkers

. In his first few days in office Obama issued executive orders and presidential memoranda directing the U.S. military to develop plans to withdraw troops from Iraq,[129] and ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp "as soon as practicable and no later than" January 2010.[130] Obama also reduced the secrecy given to presidential records[131] and changed procedures to promote disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.[132] The president also reversed George W. Bush's ban on federal funding to foreign establishments that allow abortions (known as the Mexico City Policy and referred to by critics as the "Global Gag Rule").What exactly has Obama accomplished in eight months?Saved the banking and mortage industries from imminent collapse. Steered the auto companies through bankruptcy. Then there is the fact that he's saved the home building industry. Plus, the stock market is up almost 50% since March. Most Presidents couldn't accomplish all that in one term, let alone 7 months.|||Destroyed the economy

$800 billion in pork filled political payback

$4 trillion budget, 4 x Bush's deficit

$10 trillion in multigenerational debt

Crap and Tax - $2 trillion

0bamacare - God knows!

Blew his own unemployment forecast

Misestimated the deficit by $2 TRILLION!



World Apology Tour

Rolled by the Euros, Latins,

Made a fool by N. Korea, Iran and Scotland|||Well, he's thrown away nearly 4,000,000 American jobs. I'd say that's a pretty big accomplishment. Oops, you said to benefit our country? Well, in that case, I'm at a complete loss.|||This Pulitzer Prize winning link clearly answers your question:



http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/prom…|||9 Trillion Deficit and America on the brink of Bankruptcy.



Pretty good job of Knocking America for a loop from someone who professes to love America (not hate it, like Reverend Wright or Bill Ayers).|||Try giving the stock market a 20% increase...



You seem to have forgotten the Dow was under 6,000 it's almost 10K.



Silly Rabbit tricks are for kids.|||Absolutely nothin'.|||for those who care to accept reality, he has clearly shown the cancerous nature of marxism and what it can do if left unchecked.|||What did Georgie Bush accomplish in eight months? Besides not reading the memos on the terrorist he was warned about.|||He did a lot of speeches where he talked real good and he looked great on the last World Apology Tour including that great from the waist bow to Saudi Royalty. Other than that not much.|||More than Bush accomplished in 8 years. Check FactCheck and you'll see what I mean.|||more then your pansy little *** has accomplished in your lifetime|||Bankrupting America|||he made his golf handicap better by two strokes. That will show those terrorist dogs.|||He killed a fly better than I could anyday.|||blah, blah... ask the teleprompter....|||EXTREME debt|||nothing|||What dealership pays 4500 for a hunk of junk? Are you sure you know what you are talking about?