Whaddaya Mean Obama Hasn't Done Anything? (From Esquire)

[Ian David]

A blow-by-blow breakdown of the young president's first year reveals that today's frustration stems not from a lack of policy so much as a lack of common ground. The myth of the American center looms in this, the second part of a week-long series on our country since the 2008 election.

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Here's the conventional wisdom in a single paragraph: Three hundred and sixty-four days after he was elected president, Obama is still stuck in Iraq, hasn't closed Guantánamo, is getting deeper into Afghanistan, hasn't accomplished health-care reform or slowed the rise in unemployment. His promises of bipartisanship are a punch line (see above). And there's still no peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What a failure! What a splash of cold water in the face of all our bold hopes!

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Two days after he was sworn in, Obama banned the use of "harsh interrogation" and ordered the closing of Guantánamo.

A day later, Obama reversed George W. Bush's funding cutoff to overseas family planning organizations — saving millions of lives with the stroke of a pen.

More:
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/obama...

[Bitwit1234]

1. One thing that hinders Obama getting credit

Is the fact that a lot of Americans don't know a darn thing about a lot of it. The MSM refuses to carry his accomplishments. All the do is post and post again what he hasn't gotten congress to do...that's the shame.

And we know why. Since seven out of eight of the big publishing and news companies are republican owned they are sneakily keeping it out of the news. Most that know about it are ones who read the liberal spots on the internet.

[dionysus]

2. shit, there's a bunch of DUers that refuse to give him credit for ANYTHING.

[Peacetrain]

3. +1