Unfortunately for Obama, economic recovery isn't on that list. Is the life of the every day American better than it was 4 years ago? I'd say not
if you think ANY president could have gotten us out of a hole in 4 years that it took 10+ years to dig, you're an idiot.
every economist who doesn't work for Fox News has acknowledged that the Obama stimulus did much to suppress the depths of the recession. most of them agree that it actually didn't go far enough since at least 40% of it was tax cuts thanks GOP holdouts.
if the economic recovery failed it was at least 40% the fault of the Republicans in Congress. not to mention that it was Republican party ideology that got us into this mess in the first place. 2 massive wars? Bush started but didn't pay for. tax cuts for the rich that none of them needed and didn't trickle down? Bush started but didn't pay for. bank bailouts? Bush policy. I could go on...
if this is your definition of a failed presidency:
- reducing the impact of the recession
- saving the automobile industry
- drawing down the war in Iraq
- finalizing the 2014 draw down for Afghanistan
- attempting to address consumer protection and healthcare reform (which no recent President has touched)
- putting an end to Don't Ask Don't Tell
- trying to put an end to the shame of Gitmo
- putting an end to CIA torture tactics
- increasing our investment in alternative/American energy
- increasing our investment in medical science (that was suppressed by Bush)
- shooting Osama bin Laden in the fucking forehead (fulfilling Bush' broken promise)
- killing hundreds of known terrorist officers and figureheads with efficient, cost effective drone strikes
then I'd love to see what you might consider a successful one.
you're delusional. and it's pretty hilarious.
Some of those things are certainly true though not all of them are remarkable reasons to re-elect someone with whom you have philosophical differences. I'd outright disagree with some that you gave President Obama credit for... saving the automobile industry, for example. Reducing the impact of the recession (kinda hard to measure what could have been, right?)
the point (and why TWD is delusional) is this:
if you could ascribe that list to a Republican president then the people who go around calling it a failed presidency would be dancing in the streets and trying to rub it in the face of every Democrat they came across.
if a GOP administration had saved General Motors, killed bin Laden, avoided depression, passed healthcare and consumer protection reform, increased our supply of domestic energy, revitalized the State Department, revitalized medical science research, and brought the combat troops home from Iraq they'd be calling it the greatest presidency of the last 40 years.
but because Obama did it, all of these things are apparently failures.
it's so absurd it's comical.