What has Obama done?

I often hear people going, "Obama has been a horrible president. He hasn't done anything except make America weak and vulnerable, and destroy our morals!" And it makes me so incredibly angry that these people are such idiots. Many of these people, I know from personal experience, are hardcore conservative Republicans who aren't going to accept that Obama has been a great president even if they were handed all his accomplishments on a silver platter. This post isn't for them, because they won't change their minds anyway. This is for the more moderate-minded people, who simply thin he is a bad president because that's all they hear. Let's go ahead and give a very brief summary of his accomplishments over the past few years, shall we?

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Within days of taking office, he signed an executive order ordering audits of government contracts, and fighting waste and abuse.

On his first full day, he froze White House salaries. "Families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington," Obama said.

He released the Bush torture memos. On his second day in office, he signed a detailed Executive Order that banned torture, reversed all Bush torture policies, and put the United States in compliance with the Geneva Convention.

He signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as “the stimulus package.” In addition, he launched recovery.gov, so taxpayers could track spending from the ARRA. Transparency, anyone? The ARRA also cut taxes for 95% of America's working families.

Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with over $1.4 billion to improve services aimed at America's Veterans.

Established Credit Card Bill of Rights, stopping credit card companies from pushing arbitrary rate increases on customers

Health Care Reform Bill, stopping insurance companies from denying insurance because of a pre-existing condition

Required health insurance plans to disclose how much of premiums actually goes toward patient care

Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage

Greatly increased Pell grants, which help lower-income students pay for college

Expanded the US’ hate crime law to include sexual orientation through the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Cut prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients by 50%

Extended Benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees

Created more private sector jobs in 2010 than during entire Bush years

Voluntary disclosure of White House visitors for the first time in US history

Signed New START Treaty - nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia

He signed the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, expanding on the Making Home Affordable Program to help millions of Americans avoid preventable foreclosures. The bill also provided $2.2 billion to help combat homelessness, and to stabilize the housing market.

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he saved at least 300,000 education jobs, such as teachers, principals, librarians, and counselors that would have otherwise been lost.

He visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any previous president during his first six months in office.

He put an end to the Bush-era stop-loss policy that kept soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan beyond their enlistment date.

He cracked down on companies that were previously denying sick pay, vacation and health insurance, and Social Security and Medicare tax payments through abuse of the employee classification of independent contractor.

He loosened the rules and allowed the 14 states that legalized medical marijuana to regulate themselves without federal interference.

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He's basically done everything right. Yet some people still won't accept that. For whatever reason, be it simple politico tactics, racism, or sheer stupidity, they vehemently testify that he hasn't done diddly squat and is bringing the country crashing down. Help me help them see that they are being biased idiots. If we want a good, noble, honest, hard-working President for another four years, we need to make sure this man retains the title of President, instead of handing it over to the flip-flopping, over-indulged brat that is Mitt Romney.