The Argument for Barack Obama: the Greatest President of the Last 40 Years
In 1944 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated, “People who are hungry, people who are out of a job are the stuff dictatorships are made of.” With this being said people have spoken during the 2012 presidential elections, and they have re-elected Barack Obama as President of the United States of America. During President Obama’s first term there were a number of accomplishments that one should make note. Both locally and nationwide, the argument can be made that no president has accomplished more in their first term since Franklin Roosevelt. On the eve of Obama’s inauguration the economy was in shambles. Osama bin-Laden was still a wanted man. The American car industry was about to go bankrupt. The tax code favored the richest Americans. Healthcare costs were rising at astronomical rates. Illegal Immigration had become a central issue. Foreign Oil costs were killing the wallets of Americans at the gas pumps.
President Obama, in four years, has either reversed these issues or has accomplished more by passing laws to help the everyday American, than any President in modern history.
In November of 2008 President Obama was elected President of the United States. No president had inherited an economy as bad as Obama had from President George W. Bush, as Franklin Roosevelt had inherited from Herbert Hoover in 1932. During Roosevelt’s presidency we see that the first 100 days were very crucial. During this time he began to stabilize the economy with laws being passed and introduced the idea of universal healthcare, as did his distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt in 1901, which failed until January 2010, and Social Security. Roosevelt would go on to pass the New Deal and lead the United States through World War II, keeping us out of the war until the attacks on Pearl Harbor. Obama has passed a stimulus act that began the job recovery and has spurred on a 33 month increase in job growth.
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President Obama, in four years, has either reversed these issues or has accomplished more by passing laws to help the everyday American, than any President in modern history.
In November of 2008 President Obama was elected President of the United States. No president had inherited an economy as bad as Obama had from President George W. Bush, as Franklin Roosevelt had inherited from Herbert Hoover in 1932. During Roosevelt’s presidency we see that the first 100 days were very crucial. During this time he began to stabilize the economy with laws being passed and introduced the idea of universal healthcare, as did his distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt in 1901, which failed until January 2010, and Social Security. Roosevelt would go on to pass the New Deal and lead the United States through World War II, keeping us out of the war until the attacks on Pearl Harbor. Obama has passed a stimulus act that began the job recovery and has spurred on a 33 month increase in job growth.
As with any national leader that is losing jobs and revenue President Obama, in