Obama is not a good president

Osama Pro: “Now if my opponent can first prove that this source is not trust worthy and secondly can find a trust worthy site that says that Obama did not hesitate and he CIA did not advise Obama to give the go orders, I will admit that he did give the go orders and drop this part of my argument.” No research or refutation is needed on my part. If you actually read source #1 then you will immediately realize that the site is refuting the misinformation of an e-rumor which has been circulating, and which my opponent has embarrassingly fallen prey to, which paints Obama as indecisive and that he was overridden by CIA director Leon Panetta. The rumor is false, as is indicated by the title of Pro’s source: President Obama Hesitated to Give Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden-Fiction! The site goes on to give the transcripts of interviews of Panetta and Obama that aired on NBC and CBS, and which tell a different story than the false claim of my opponent or the rumor going around the internet intended to tarnish Obama. The site goes on to say: In a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) statement to employees that was reported in the Wall Street Journal on May 2, 2011, the CIA head wrote. "Persistent hard work produced the results that the American people expect of their intelligence service: We gave President Obama and his team accurate, relevant, timely intelligence—providing the information and insight they needed at key points as this mission developed. I offered my personal thanks to the President for his willingness to make the courageous decision to proceed with the operation." When voting on sources, I ask that readers to please keep in mind that I have clearly flipped Pro’s reference by demonstrating that it supports my case rather than my opponent’s. If he declines to concede this line of argumentation, then it would seem that the burden Pro demands boomerangs back on him: he must undermine the credibility of a source which he himself provided, and then give a more credible reference which will support his claims of Obama’s indecisiveness and lack of leadership. Voter Fraud Pro’s source #2 is reporting on accusations made against the Obama Administration by a zealous Republican Attorney General named Tom Horne. Since the time of his lawsuit, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals struck down at least part of the law, thus in effect ruling against him [9]. He’s taking his case to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the law. Therefore, using this judicial fight as evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Obama is both speculative in that it has not been made clear what the President even has to do with this Arizona judicial battle, and moreover, the most recent ruling has been against Horne! If this is all Pro has, he’s really shooting blanks. Afghanistan When the war was starting to turn badly, Obama moved more troops in and stepped up our assault on the Taliban and turned them back. He’s well known to have unleashed drones at an unprecedented scale on our enemies, despite the Liberal boo-hooing about it [10]. At 12 years, 1 month, the war in Afghanistan has been the longest in our history. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda have suffered catastrophic losses, though they do keep fighting, and probably will until the very last one of these fanatics is killed. That beautiful day could be decades from now, and isn’t worth it for us to stay until then because Afghanistan isn’t our country to fight for. Our objective has been achieved, and the major threats neutralized (including Osama bin Laden). Now our role is to support the Afghanis. The country is theirs, not ours. Blood spilled protecting it should be theirs, not ours. The ultimate responsibility for its defense is theirs, not ours. If we stayed, an argument could still be made 20 years from now that we’re leaving “too soon”. That criticism is hollow and meaningless. Global Popularity I sometimes find myself absolutely stunned by the lengths to which Obama’s critics will go to find something bad to say about him. When Obama campaigned in 2007 on reaching out to Iran, and offered to negotiate about their nuclear weapons program without preconditions, his critics threw a fit and called him weak, reckless, and naïve for being willing to sit down and talk with our enemies [11]. Now things have come full circle, and my opponent is essentially arguing that Obama hasn’t done enough reaching out to our enemies when he says, “we should have spent our time an money not on increasing our popularity with allies that have proven to be loyal, but with our enemies or neutral countries.” Really? Really??? Okay, maybe Pro somehow missed the constant efforts Obama has made to improve diplomatic relations with our rivals, which include the Russian “reset” [12] or the first phone call in over 30 years between the leader of America and the leader of Iran [13]. Obama has probably tried harder to find a way to cooperate with our rivals and enemies than any president since Nixon, who made great diplomatic strides with China. And he has done this amidst vicious hostility and unreasonable partisanship and criticism from Republicans. Just about any success he has ever achieved has come despite them, not thanks to them, as some set out from rather early on to sabotage his presidency at virtually any cost (quotes from Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Michele Bachmann are especially enlightening, but really it is actions that speak louder than words) [14]. Obama has pressed on to do the right things where he can, even when they are not always popular things – such as reaching out to our enemies. This is all one can ask of a president. 9) http://www.azcentral.com... 10) http://news.yahoo.com... 11) http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com... 12) http://www.washingtontimes.com... 13) http://www.theguardian.com... 14) http://mediamattersaction.org...