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1 – Rescued the country from the Great Recession, cutting the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.7% over six years

2 – Signed the Affordable Care Act which provided health insurance to over 20 million uninsured Americans

3 – Ended the war in Iraq

4 – Ordered for the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden

5 – Passed the $787 billion America Recovery and Reinvestment Act to spur economic growth during the Great Recession

6 – Supported the LGBT community's fight for marriage equality

7 – Commuted the sentences of nearly 1200 drug offenders to reverse “unjust and outdated prison sentences"

8 – Saved the U.S. auto industry

9 – Helped put the U.S. ontrack for energy independence by 2020

10 – Began the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan

11 – Signed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals allowing as many as 5 million people living in the U.S. illegally to avoid deportation and receive work permits

12 –Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to re-regulate the financial sector

13 – Dropped the veteran homeless rate by 50 percent

14 – Reversed Bush-era torture policies

15 – Began the process of normalizing relations with Cuba

16 – Increased Department of Veteran Affairs funding

17 – Signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act

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Black people, especially the ones in the Mississippi Delta still without adequate sewage disposal? The area that the UN declared worse than many third-world countries. The black group's wealth of 1/2 of 1% didn't change. The black-on-black violence in Chicago didn't improve. Immigration isn't in the best interests of black folks. The 1965 immigration law has been a disaster for blacks. Hordes of well-to-do/skilled Asians and unskilled/poor Hispanics entering America to displace and replace blacks? The threat of the buffer class in erasing blacks?

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All you say is true. Obama had enough accomplishments to be considered to have a positive record. Rescuing the economy and saving the auto industry are things of noe. No one benefitting from the ACA would willingly give up coverage.

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Accomplishments? One billion dollars richer. Us? Lol!!!!

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What did Black Democratic leadership force Obama to do?

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Real black leadership ended after the deaths of MLK and Malcolm X. They made the ultimate sacrifice and died broke. Now, Cory Booker is on the payroll of the pharmaceutical companies and Kamala Harris is on her knees with a rich Jewish guy. Lol!!!!

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