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Today, I’m proud to change my profile photo to Barack Obama. This is my president! And I believe he is one of the best presidents in our history. By just about any measure, from jobs, to civil rights, from the environment to the economy - he has accomplished more any modern president. Here’s a greatly abridged reminder of some of his greatest hits:
He saved us from an economic disaster, taking unemployment from 10% to 4.6%.
He saved our auto industry.
He ended two wars.
Captured the man behind Benghazi, killed Bin Laden, got Syria to give up chemical weapons, and got Iran to give up nukes. All without a single American casualty.
He worked tirelessly, taking fewer vacation days than any president since Carter (less than half of what Reagan took and less than a quarter of what Bush took).
He deeply cares about individual Americans and is the first president to establish a system where he personally reads ten letters from citizens every day.
He saved millions of lives through the ACA, stopping discrimination because of gender or pre-existing conditions and letting young people continue to have health coverage under their parents. Now, more people are covered under insurance than ever in our history.
High school graduation rates are the highest they have every been in history.
We have had 82 straight months of job growth, the longest streak ever in the history of our country.
Business start ups are up 20% under Obama.
Wind and solar energy production under Obama is up 252%
He appointed the most diverse cabinet in history, promoting the equality of persons of color and women.
Grew private sector jobs by 11.6 million.
He protected waterways from coal mining, blocked offshore drilling in the Arctic & Atlantic oceans, and worked to create the Paris agreement with other countries to save our plant from climate change.
S&P 500 is up 157%
Highly dedicated to ethics and in 8 years not a single whiff of a scandal for him or his staff.
He reduced the student loan interest rates from 6.8 to 3.9%.
Obama made a concerted effort to help veterans and the result was homelessness among our veterans dropped by HALF! He increased money available for mental health care for veterans by a huge amount. He made regular trips to Walter Reed to spend time with wounded soldiers.
He conducted nuclear summits and convinced 16 countries to get rid of enriched uranium.
President Obama created a law to protect LGBTQ+ Americans from being fired just because they are gay. And he changed his mind and helped the nation embrace marriage equality for all.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed so that gay, lesbian, and transgender soldiers could serve their country and not hide who they are.
Gas prices halved because he reduced our dependence on foreign oil.
He banned torture by US personnel in all circumstances.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize.
He re-opened relations with Cuba for the first time in decades.
He reduced the deficit from 9.8% of the GDP in 2009 to 3.2% in 2016.
He protected us all from banks using our money to make risky investments like the ones that caused the crash in 2008.
He helped women’s equality by opening combat positions to women and ensured that women who were already serving in these type of positions received equal pay.
He created the Dreamers Act to help undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children establish a path to legal residency.
He changed the policy that brought fallen soldiers back to the states in secret. Now, it is done so that the family can be there and he added to that law funds to pay all traveling expenses for the families.
I am proud to say I voted for this man twice (and would do it again if I could).
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