The truth is that this President has done a good job in what has been one of the most difficult periods of modern history. He saved the economy from ruin (until the Tea Party took over Congress) with a stimulus that was as large as possible given the political realities; presided over a stock market that fairly quickly recouped many of its losses; presided over many consecutive monthly increases in private sector job growth (including last month’s 124,000 jobs) (unfortunately reports of late of monthly decreases in public sector jobs which I attribute to the GOP further starving government); enacted the only meaningful healthcare reform EVER in our history; passed financial reform; Saved the auto industry (which Romney is on record opposing); fired the first salvo of the Arab Spring with his address in Cairo no less; drawn down our footprint in Iraq in a responsible way (and shortly-total withdrawal); stopped numerous terrorist attacks in this country; stopped torture as policy; repealed DADT; joined the international community in a measured and responsible way to bring down an odious tyrant in Qaddafi, and killed a whole generation of al Qaeda leaders. Taking out Osama bin Laden the way he did will go down as one of the bravest military actions in American history. Redefined the way future wars will be fought by working with United Nations against Libya and not putting any American soldiers on the ground.
Whenever you anyone casually regurgitates this idea that this President somehow “lacks leadership,” you may regard it as a total hyperbolic partisanship and an obvious fantasy, deliberately and aggressively staged by Fox N Friends on the Right.
Jo Ann Brown
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