Tag Archives: President Obama Accomplishments

Change We Can Believe In

Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:30 pm by Bob Cesca

I’ve always thought it was corrupt and unfair that three unaccountable companies could each control our financial futures. So this is a step in the right direction: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Monday that it will start supervising the … Continue reading →

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The Tax & Spend Liberal Who Didn't Tax & Spend

Posted on May 16, 2012 at 9:33 am by Bob Cesca

There’s the Republican myth about President Obama’s fiscal record, and then there’s this: The truth is since Bush’s last budget (2009), the deficit has gone down each year since then. Any Republican who says differently is lying. (Incidentally, I wish … Continue reading →

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The President's LGBT Successes

Posted on May 10, 2012 at 1:56 pm by Bob Cesca

The president’s remarks yesterday on same-sex marriage are absolutely welcome, but not entirely surprising, given his record so far. Even Greenwald gave ample credit where credit is due: President Obama today became the first American president to endorse same-sex marriage, … Continue reading →

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The President is Crushing the Budget Deficit

Posted on March 19, 2012 at 1:05 pm by Bob Cesca

The CBO is projecting that the president’s new budget would crush the deficit to almost zero by 2017. Via Kevin Drum, here’s the chart. Also, please note the “actual” side of the chart showing that the deficit has gone down … Continue reading →

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The Obama Campaign Agenda

Posted on March 18, 2012 at 4:39 pm by Bob Cesca

TPM watched The Road We’ve Traveled very carefully and constructed this pie chart: I’m not so sure healthcare reform will be so central to the campaign, but you can bet the economic recovery and the auto industry will be front … Continue reading →

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Is There A Pilot On Board?

Posted on March 17, 2012 at 4:29 pm by Bob Cesca

Steve Benen and historian Michael Beschloss on the Guggenheim documentary and the scale of the disaster the president inherited. When the narration tells viewers, “Not since the days of Franklin Roosevelt had so much fallen on the shoulders of one … Continue reading →

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'The Road We've Traveled'

Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:37 am by Bob Cesca

Here it is. Davis Guggenheim’s documentary about President Obama’s first term.

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The Most Underrated Obama Accomplishment

Posted on March 13, 2012 at 2:56 pm by Bob Cesca

I have a new piece up at The Daily Banter about the one major Obama administration accomplishment that too often gets downplayed — even though it might be the biggest accomplishment of any president in recent history. Go read it … Continue reading →

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Progressives and Evaluating the President

Posted on January 19, 2012 at 7:19 am by Bob Cesca

[My latest for the Huffington Post.] I am no one’s disciple. However, any attempt at an objective view of both the progressive and broader accomplishments of the Obama administration has been histrionically, unfairly and chronically mislabeled as the blind allegiance … Continue reading →

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Reacting to Sullivan's Newsweek Cover Story

Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:03 am by Bob Cesca

Megyn Kelly and Fox News are seriously bent out of shape by Andrew Sullivan’s cover story in Newsweek. And this Breitbart counterpoint is fantastic example of right-wing epistemic closure and the apocalyptic fantasies circulating within it. Regarding the general defense … Continue reading →

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