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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the country better off than before Obama took office?  If no, the answer is clear.[/quote]

I would argue the country is better off than when Obama took office.

In the plus column:

-- Osama is dead
-- Auto industry is back
-- We're basically out of Iraq
-- Economic stimulus slammed on the engine break in 2009 and arrested the freefall. Granted, it had too many tax cuts as concessions to Republicans to be completely effective, but it was better than doing nothing. The recession did end, though.
-- We have an end-game in Afghanistan
-- Dow is 13,000 again for first time since 2008
-- Jobless rate is back down to 8.3%. Higher than when POTUS took office, granted, but the trajectory is right. Unemployment is a lagging indicator anyway. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
-- Health care reform. Yes, that's a net positive. Doesn't feel that way yet because the beneficial effects are delayed for another year or so, but it's a far cry better than what we had before.
-- Repealed DADT
-- Passed Lilly Ledbetter

In the minus column:

-- Didn't act aggressively enough on the housing crisis. 
-- Cut too many taxes while simultaneously being tagged (erroneously) as a tax raiser.
-- Income inequality continues to widen
-- Some would say deficit, but that's bullshit -- governments aren't households or businesses and have no need to balance budgets.[/quote]

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