unfair wage discrimination...the list goes on. In fact Obama was vastly more progressive than Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter -- who both cut welfare programmes and shied away from social issues, let alone any Republican. But there are three areas that require added focus: the stimulus bill, Obamacare and financial reform. Most discussion on the Stimulus Bill of Feb 2009, aka the Recovery Act, focuses on whether it was big enough to avert disaster. But this misses the point -- it launched a public works programme of a scale previous Democratic Presidents could only dream of. As Michael Grunwald pointed out in his book, The New New Deal, adjusted for inflation it was 50% bigger than the original New Deal launched by FDR. In scale and focus it combined several bills into one. It was the biggest, most transformative energy bill in US history , contained the biggest expansion of anti-poverty programmes since Lyndon Johnson, and was the biggest foray into US industrial policy since the 1940s. To put it another way, Obama did not let the opportunity offered by such a financial crisis go to waste. The bill pumped $90 billion into renewable energy when previous Presidents only authorised a few billion every year. When reporters write that President Obama ignored climate change, they aren't just wrong, they are actively misleading. The Healthcare Act was similarly unprecedented -- almost every Democratic President since World War 2 has tried anything approaching universal healthcare but failed. As the New Yorker pointed