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8 years Later: What Obama “Unaccomplished”?

Claude Nelson by Claude Nelson
February 11, 2015
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1. He withdrew prematurely from Iraq

And some even say that he is responsible for the formation of the Islamic State.

Obama was so eager to materialize his Nobel Prize that he pulled all of our troops out of Iraq as soon as possible, and then totally ignored the country. For most of the time, he foolishly downplayed the rise of the Islamic State. Even as Kurds and the Iraqi government issued increasingly panicked warnings, and the Islamic State took over more and more territory, he let the problem get worse for months.

Bush went into Iraq with multiple UN resolutions, congressional approval, a broad “coalition of the willing,” and the resolve to use whatever means were necessary to prevent a terrorist state from establishing itself there. Obama is going back into Iraq with none of that.

2. He made America less of a Global Power

Obama’s failures result from taking no stand and just letting events drift. Certainly, in a lot of these cases, Obama has given speeches or press conference to announce his enlightened intentions, then done nothing to plan for how to actually achieve his goals.

But if he is irrelevant, that makes America irrelevant. We can look back at the Arab Spring, at Ukraine, and at Iraq

3. He campaigned on the promise that America would be more respected in the world, but did exactly the opposite.

Make no mistake, I am proud to be an American. But Americans no longer think President Obama commands respect on the world stage. According to a recent poll, a majority of Americans (53 percent) don’t think the president is respected by other countries.

To quote the Judge Jeanine Pirro:

“There was a time when the United States was both respected and feared. “Today however in the eyes of the world, we are neither respected nor feared. And it’s Obama’s feckless foreign policy that’s diminished our stature on the world stage. That policy mimics a paper tiger. Seemingly dangerous, but in truth, timid and weak.” (Source)

4. Obama failed to reform immigration

This is where the respect and fear should come into the equation. If Mexico and the Central American countries from whence most of these illegal immigrants are coming from respected our borders, they would do something about this. Instead, they act as if it is our fault and that we have an obligation to their people to let them across the border. Never mind that they are breaking our laws when they do so. I would point out that Americans can’t even cross into Mexico accidentally without the fear of imprisonment for an unspecified amount of time. I’ve never been able to figure out why this doesn’t go both ways.

If America was still feared, the illegal immigrants coming across our border would not be so willing to come up to the Border Patrol agents, turning themselves in and demanding medical treatment.

We have a crisis at our Southern border that stems from the White House. I am not naive enough to believe other administrations were not at fault for our lax immigration policies, but it has gotten much worse since President Obama took over.

5. ObamaCare

The disastrous launch of ObamaCare was a reminder of everything that’s wrong with big government. It turns out that when we warned health insurance would be run as well as the Department of Motor Vehicles, we were too optimistic. And no one was ever held accountable for that fiasco.

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When ObamaCare was passed, we were assured that it would provide insurance for 32 million people who didn’t have any coverage. Four years later, it looks like ObamaCare has covered far fewer new people, between 10% and 20% of what was promised, and about half of those were through an expansion of Medicaid which is a burden that will eventually bankrupt the states, rather than through ObamaCare’s insurance exchanges.

Most of the people buying insurance through the exchanges are those who were kicked out of their previous health insurance plans by new regulations. It turns out that if we liked our health insurance, we couldn’t keep it. For some of us, this will be bad. For others, it’s much worse.

6. Financial reform that failed to reform

The Dodd-Frank financial reforms didn’t really reform anything. They created a couple thousand pages of new legislation and many, many more new executive-branch regulations, which have helped to muddle the rules rather than clarify them. But these regulations have never really resolved any of the pre-crisis problems.

The old system in which a handful of giant financial institutions were considered “too big to fail” and thus could depend on the rest of us to bail them out? That system is alive and well.

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Comments 6

  1. IQ145 says:
    7 years ago

    This article is purely based on emotional conjecture and not fact! The FACT is that millions of Americans are not dying as a result of not being able to afford healthcare! That’s what the AFFORDABLE CARE ACT is all about. To fight against this is UNAMERICAN! If you’re not on the side of Americans getting and staying healthy, then YOU’RE the enemy!!!!

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    • Archer says:
      6 years ago

      Even it’s name is a lie, “Affordable”. I know people that can’t afford the “affordable” insurance and are fined by the government each year at tax time. What do YOU tell them? What do YOU tell the people that COULDN’T keep their doctors like Obama said they could. What do YOU tell all these people. If this “act” is so good, then why are all government employees and their families exempt from using it? IF this act is so good, then why does the government FORCE it on people or pay high fines at tax time?

      It is true that the medical system needs work, BUT the “affordable” care act is NOT the answer.

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    • MacroEconomist says:
      6 years ago

      You are one of the type of people this article is all about. Ignorant of reality and head in the sand, the truth is a collapse is coming. The actions of the last 8 years were simply props and economically have to be paid for. Good luck with your sarcasm, it won’t feed you when the dollars are gone and inflation is rampant.

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      • Anonymous says:
        3 months ago

        MacroEconomist? Sure, Whatever.. The MIT economist, Jonathan Gruber tge ACA architect let it slip out that the passing of the ACA relied heavily on the stupidity of American voters. He was talking about you and millions of Democrat voters.

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    • Tex says:
      5 years ago

      Seems to me you’ve let that supposed big IQ of yours get in the way of common sense. When your online handle is “IQ145” you infer your intellectual superiority over the rest of us. Yours is a typical lefty post that is supposed to impress us with your monumental intelligence. Yawn………

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  2. IQ145 says:
    7 years ago

    And American has a LONG way to go to not be a superpower! If it were true that we’re not a superpower anymore, ISIS wouldn’t give to flying felts about us!! However, that’s not the case. We’re still viewed as “The Big, Bad Wolf” in the eyes of the rest of the world. So relax. Your guns aren’t going anywhere anytime soon and neither are your freedoms to spout about having a healthier, more affordable life!

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