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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-11 07:33 PM
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15. President Obama
Edited on Sat Jun-18-11 07:35 PM by ProSense
has done more than most Presidents on many issues, but evidently more isn't good enough. In fact, doing more means he's "right wing."

He's got all of Bush's policies to reverse, and some of them are going to be harder to do than others.

Going back to the Clinton years, Obama has reversed or is making progress toward reversing/improving 1990s policies, including DOMA, DADT, Glass-Steagall repeal (implemenatation of the Volcker Rule), trade and more.

Obama doesn't get credit for delivering health care reform, Wall Street reform, which included the first ever CFPB. Obama doesn't get credit for appointing Elizabeth Warren to set up the CFPB, but he gets criticized for not yet making her permanent to an agency that wouldn't exist if not for him.

UN backs gay rights for first time ever

He keeps going, trying to fix what other Presidents screwed up.



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