Barack Obama’s first two years in the White House were an underappreciated triumph. By some measures, the former Democratic president’s list of accomplishments from this period is more impressive than the records belonging to any modern American president.
In just two years, Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, in addition to the Recovery Act, which rescued the country from the Great Recession. There was also the rescue of the American auto industry. And Wall Street reform. And a major overhaul of student loans. And the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” And ending the war in Iraq.
And the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. And the ratification of the New START treaty. And the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. And new consumer safeguards on credit card companies. And an overdue expansion of stem cell research. And repairing the United States’ international reputation and global standing. And the confirmation of two great Supreme Court justices.
That’s the sort of…
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