Obama is the worst president in history

I will conclude with rebuttals in order of my opponent's arguments in this round. I should also mention that Pro keeps posting arguments within the comments; you're not supposed to do that. Pro did not present an overpowering case that Obama is the worst at all. I have fully debunked his claims, explained is so called 'harmful policies' and 'negative accomplishments' not to be so. Since Pro failed to provide rationale for this statement, I will rationalize mine. I did explain that Obamacare provides insurance for all and reduces the deficit, listed the partisanship problems Obama faces, and defended his actions for the poor. Since Pro has not provided a logically correct rebuttal to this, I will claim that my arguments for these actions were, "overpowering cases". I don't see how my 'excuses' were debunked. The 144 billion stimulus, job growth, and the 23% of GDP are facts taken from official govt. or non-partisan org. sources, which I listed in the sources. As for my opponent's arguments that the stimulus ended up costing 2 trillion, those are nonsense, and I can find no credible sources for this. The 787 billion price tag for the stimulus was not all spent in '09- the spending is spread out to 2016, after which the stimulus actually reduces the deficit. [1] [6][8]. My 23% statement was right- 3.52 trillion is 23% of the GDP, so don't lie. As for your claim that the govt. should stop spending in a crisis, I remind you that that's what Hoover did. And it ruined the country even more. [2] Obama's prediction of going to 5% was basically assuming that his plan would go through- which it didn't. The Republicans have largely blocked his plans. I remind you that the president doesn't work in a vacuum, there are other factors at play. Granted, job recovery has been slow, and Obama hasn't done everything he should on it. He isn't perfect. As for your 90 million unemployed in America statement, that includes children and retired persons... The Middle East is in decay because of Bush-era policies. The withdrawal was begun under Obama, yes, but remember why we invaded. Bush gave a complete and total lie about Saddam's chemical weapons, told the populace that they would be greeted as liberators, and installed an unpopular puppet to rule. The majority of Americans blame Bush for these failures. [3][4] "Corrupt" is defined by the dictionary as 'guilty of dishonest practices' and 'debased in character'. You didn't prove anything in the previous rounds, all accusations have been debunked. [5] Obama has made mistakes, but he isn't either of those. As I said, he hasn't lied so much as he hasn't followed through on promises (mostly due to the GOP), but he isn't a bad person. Therefore, he cannot be called corrupt. Solyndra was a disaster, just as every other president has had a disaster, such as the Contra affair with Reagan, the Iraq controversies with Bush, etc. Again speaking about the Middle East, we don't have any alternatives. We don't have any right to tell other nations what to do, especially with the havoc our own policies have wrought on the world. If we intervene militarily, we'll just get stuck in another quagmire. Obama knows this, so he avoids conflict. Obama cannot be compared with the disastrous policies of many of his predecessors, he is far better than Coolidge and his economic failures, Nixon and his scandal, and the widely discredited Bush. Your accusations that Obama has broken federal laws are lies. He hardly oversteps his boundaries- which ends up meaning that less gets done. Reagan broke the law more, shipping weapons to Iran (violating the embargo), and Bush illegally invaded Iraq and caused a war that's killed thousands. I should also note that the negative attributes Pro pins on Obama are shared by basically every politician to a greater or lesser degree. I'm also not sure where the Buchanan argument comes from, or the point of it. He was a good president. But we're debating about whether Obama was the worst, not whether he was the best, or better. Looking at Pro's source for Obama's alleged corruption, I don't see any corruption that's been personally attributed to Obama, but rather corrupt dealings in businesses and in some federal elements. Again- I remind you of Nixon- who was proven to corrupt over tapes of him being shown to be perfectly aware of Watergate. In one taped interview, he mentioned that the "press is the enemy... the professors are the enemy" (with regard to Vietnam) Here is a man who is against the ideals of our Constitution, despises the press, and goes against the popular will of the people with regard to an important issue of the time. [7] Conclusion: For the reasons proven in my above arguments, I have defended Obama's policies, proven my opponent's arguments to be unfounded, and given sufficient evidence of worse presidents to affirm that Obama was not at all the worst president in history. I thank my opponent for an interesting debate. Sources: 1. http://www.nytimes.com... 2. http://www.gilderlehrman.org... 3. http://nationalinterest.org... 4. http://thinkprogress.org... 5. http://dictionary.reference.com... 6. http://www.usnews.com... 7. http://www.huffingtonpost.com... 8. http://www.factcheck.org...