Do you think Obama should win an award for most average President?

@hippyjoe1955: OK. Are you anti-war?

I am a pragmatist that believes you should avoid war as much as possible but not fear going to war if need be.

@Burnley123: Correction: war-loving neocons have been calling Obama weak for not committing more to war. True conservatives do not want war, which entails a bigger budget for military purposes. We want a [i]smaller[/i] government!

LOL

In the plus column there is Obamacare and the stimulus package. In the minus there is foreign policy and lack of banking reform.

Better than any Republican of course but he was a centrist for the wrong time. Its always gonna be a debate on the left as to how much Obama would have done without Republican blocking and I am of the opinion that he would have done only a bit more.

@Burnley123: Pssshhh... 😉

Seriously though, there's no debate as far as I'm concerned. Obama had a petulant and hostile Republican-dominated Congress sabotaging him at every turn. The Republicans, while in the throes of the worst economy in a hundred years, declared that their number one goal was, not to help bring about economic growth, but to make President Obama a failed president. And by extension make America fail. Given how supremely uncooperative Congress had been, what do you expect? Obama inherited a mess. Yet, against all odds, against a Republican party that was actively seeking to sabotage the economy, the economy grew up to +4% under Obama. Show me another president who created an economy that grew by a net +14%. I give credit to Obama for keeping us safe, getting us out of a recession/depression, repealing DADA, creating the Affordable Care Act, helping with the appeal of DOMA by urging the Supreme Court to do so, being the first sitting President to come out in support of same-sex marriage, for this and so much more. Clearly, Obama will never be judged objectively. If he were, he would certainly go down as America's most accomplished modern-day president. 😜

It is not the wars that he found the US involved in when he took office that galls me. It is the wars he started on his own with no real objective in mind. Kinda like peeing in someones corn flakes just because you can.

And then he sends billions to Iran and other nations that want nothing more than to see Americans die. He couldn't be more obvious at how hard he's trying to set up Trump for a forced war.

He was cool. Politics didn't quite live up to it but hey.

@Burnley123: No his foreign policy was the worst of any president so far even exceeding the disaster that was Jimmy Carter.

@Cierzo: Reagan was an enigma. He started the star wars program but then signed the non-proliferation treaty, for which he deserves tremendous credit.

@Burnley123: Star wars as it was commonly known was a defensive system. In and of itself it could do no harm to an enemy.

@Burnley123: I appreciate questions like this. The replies let me know what racist pieces of crap still lurk on the site.

@LvChris: I'd never heard of that poster before. So now I don't need to know anything else about him, either. 😒