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In reply to the discussion: "Obama and the End of Greatness" [View all]awake
(3,226 posts)Frist he save the U.S. auto industry and stop the Bush great recession form becoming the 2nd great depression. He started America on the path to universal health care by getting the affordable health care act passed some thing that many Presidents could not accomplish for nearly 100 years. He authorized the raid that got Osama bin Laden the man responsible for the largest attack on the United States since Pear Harbor some thing that Bush was unable to accomplish. He accomplished the destruction of Syria's chemical stock pile with out firing a shoot. Stuck with 2 botch wars he removed ground troops from Iraq and oversaw the winding down of the war in Afghanistan handing over the defense of that country to Afghanis while continuing to offer help to insure that the radical elements of al-Qaeda do not regain control of Afghanistan. Obama managed to accomplish this along with countless other policy changes with a congress bent of stoping him at every turn and little or no help from his own party who seem afraid to stand behind their own president.