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To be fair and not partisan, I will give the President credit for his policy in Afghanistan. I personally would have preferred if we withdrew troops but his foreign policy has thus far been pretty strong and our strategy there seems to be working with the increased troop burdens just as the policy succeeded under Bush in Iraq with the increased troop burdens.
Nonetheless, he has done a poor job overall and has many more failures. His approval rating continues to fall and he botched healthcare by initially demanding an unrealistic and impractical universal healthcare only to temper those goals too late. If he had started this process back in March and started with a more realistic goal of reforms instead of a European universal healthcare model, healthcare reform may have been possible. The President gambled and failed. He asked for something ridiculous (universal coverage) assuming he could achieve some compromise later. All that did was create hysteria and opposition early on which strengthened the opposition and stalled the Democrats' efforts.
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To be fair and not partisan, I will give the President credit for his policy in Afghanistan. I personally would have preferred if we withdrew troops but his foreign policy has thus far been pretty strong and our strategy there seems to be working with the increased troop burdens just as the policy succeeded under Bush in Iraq with the increased troop burdens.
Nonetheless, he has done a poor job overall and has many more failures. His approval rating continues to fall and he botched healthcare by initially demanding an unrealistic and impractical unversal healthcare only to temper those goals too late.
He did NOT demand universal health care. That is what he should have demanded. If they passed a UHC program that covered every American for a reasonable price, he would be a shoo in for a 2nd term.
He did NOT demand universal health care. That is what he should have demanded. If they passed a UHC program that covered every American for a reasonable price, he would be a shoo in for a 2nd term.
That is not accurate. When Obama campaigned for the Presidency, he was shrewd enough to not ask for universal healthcare knowing that was too controversial and too risky. Instead, he proposed a more reasonable option of having required coverage that employers would be required to pay or else pay a fine. After he got elected, Obama announced his true aspiration of desiring universal healthcare. He was asked about it in the Spring of 2009 and claimed he wanted a European model which greatly differed from the model he campaigned under. During the summer, he realized that a universal healthcare model was impractical and then started proposing a public option. Since the public option has now been killed, he is simply asking for any type of reform he can get.
And you haven't been paying attention because a lot of Americans don't want a UHC program because that means lower quality, less coverage, longer lines and more red tape. That is what the town halls were about. Whether or not you believe that about UHC, that is the perception most Americans received and it's the primary reason the Democrats haven't been able to pass anything because they were sticking to the Public Option and conservative Democrats were not willing to go along with that because many of the conservative Democratic base were opposed to it.
To be fair and not partisan, I will give the President credit for his policy in Afghanistan. I personally would have preferred if we withdrew troops but his foreign policy has thus far been pretty strong and our strategy there seems to be working with the increased troop burdens just as the policy succeeded under Bush in Iraq with the increased troop burdens.
I might agree if his Afghanistan policy was to give his generals the troops and equipment they told him they needed to win in Afghanistan. But he gave his generals 60% of the bare minimum of troops they requested, did not describe the goals or mission objective, and then said he would pull the troops back out in 18 months.
1. He called Kanye West a jackass
2. Passed legislation preventing defense contractors from extorting money for projects that were way past their deadline and way over budget
3. Oversight committees for bailouts
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