Originally Posted by Just Todd
Can you defend any of the atrocious things
Big Ears has done?

You're soooooooooo right Todd. How can I defend the President when he's

- Set the programs moving that killed bin Laden and many of his underlings

- Teamed with NATO to bring freedom to Libya and, as a bonus, kill Qudaffy

- End the war in Iraq many years after Shrub declared "Mission Accomplished"

- Ended Don't Ask Don't Tell giving equal rights to everyone serving in the military

- How about StuxNet?

- Provided $12.2 Billion in new funding for Individuals With Disabilities Education Act

- Extended Benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees

- The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: a $789 billion economic stimulus plan

- Created more private sector jobs in 2010 than during entire Bush years

- Voluntary disclosure of White House visitors for the first time in US history

- Appointed first Latina to the US Supreme Court

- Reversed 'global gag rule', allowing US aid to go to organizations regardless of whether they provide abortions

- Signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, giving the FDA the authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of tobacco for the first time

- Signed New START Treaty - nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia

- Increased average fuel economy standards from 27.5mpg to 35.5mpg, starting in 2016

- Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers

- Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB

- Launched recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, providing transparency and allowing the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse

- Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America's Veterans

- Signed the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids -- 4 million of whom were previously uninsured

- Issued executive order to repeal Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research


There's a lot more but it just makes it harder to defend President Obama. SimCity will fix everything.


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