As a U.S. citizen (and a visitor to AB) I see a lot of misinformation posted on this and other sites referencing this election. So much so (it's like an American making a snap judgement on a UK election based on a few newspaper articles) that it's hard to know just where to begin. But, for the sake of brevity can anyone tell me exactly what it is that Obama has accomplished in the preceding 4 years? Aside from the now threadbare excuse of blaming his predecessor, "W", we are in far worse condition in almost every way than when he was elected.
As I've mentioned before... Obama was the least vetted presidential candidate in the history of the U.S. His only real recommendation was his skin color. His election was seen as rinsing the US national guilt over slavery (over 145 years ago) from our collective psyche.
He had a long history of very questionable dealings in Chicago politics, including close associations, later denied, with 1960's radicals, sat under a radical, unaplogetically racist (black) preacher for years and then denied being influenced by him, not to mention clearly questionable association with Tony Rezko and shady financial dealings.
But beyond all that (which came to light after his election) he had no, none, zip, nada experience in any area of national government. His singular claim to fame was as a neighborhood "Community Organizer". Yes, he did have 4 years as a Senator, during which he voted on nearly every thing with "Present". (Here, that's a non-vote but keeps one from having a record to defend.)
(But he did (and does) give a good speech as long as he's not deprived of his telepromtper. His biggest gaffes have been when he adlibs.)
So... we are presently in debt to the tune of 16 Trillion (yes, with a "T") dollars, most of which he accumulated in 4 years. Not one budget has been proposed or passed (significant), his vaunted set-piece of ObamaCare is clearly unworkable and reconized as such by even memebers of his own party. To try and make it more workable, he has reduced spending on a system that was working to help poor and elderly with medical costs (Medicare) by 500 million dollars.
Then there's all the bowing a scraping an apologizing to world leaders while not once in 4 years having visited the Normandy gravesites of U.S. and Allied soldiers... the first president to fail doing that since the monuments were established.
This has been a disaster of historical proportions that will haunt us for decades to come, while the black people (and other poor) are self-admittedly worse off...
and I haven't even mentioned Benghazi...