President Barack Obama has done nothing to deserve the praise he gets

"I negate the resolution. Resolved "Barack Obama has done nothing to deserve the praise he gets." The con offers the following observation. The resolution that my opponent affirms says Barack Obama has done nothing... In order to win this debate I will merely have to describe to you one example where Obama did something beneficial to at least a single person."This is a misinterpretation; It meant that Barack Obama gets praise to great to be deserved by what he has done. In order to win the debate Con needs to provide an instance in which he has helped an extraordinary amount of people."a) Job Creation Since Barack Obama took office on January 20, 2009 he has helped lead to the creation of over 5 million private sector jobs. On net that's about 3.6 million new jobs for American Citizens to be working. Furthermore, as a result of the economic policies put in place by the Bush Administration the unemployment rate in January 2010 was 9.7%. Now that number is below 7%."Here's the unemployment rate over the time Bush and Obama have been in office: Nov 1, 2013 7.00% Jan 1, 2013 7.90% Jan 1, 2012 8.30% Jan 1, 2011 9.00% Jan 1, 2010 9.70% Jan 1, 2009 7.70% Jan 1, 2008 5.00% Jan 1, 2007 4.60% Jan 1, 2006 4.70% Jan 1, 2005 5.30% Jan 1, 2004 5.70% Jan 1, 2003 5.80% Jan 1, 2002 5.70% Jan 1, 2001 4.20% Jan 1, 2000 4.00% Bush's Years were 2000-2008 The greatest unemployment rate was 5.80% and the lowest was 4.00%Obama's Years were 2008-2013 The greatest unemployment rate was 9.70%; 2 years after he took office and the lowest was 5.00%.From these statistics we find that over Obama's entire time as president he has not lowered the unemployment rate to levels below that of Bush. Therefore Obama overall has actually made more people lose jobs than gain them. "Furthermore, as a result of the economic policies put in place by the Bush Administration the unemployment rate in January 2010 was 9.7%. Now that number is below 7%."That's 2 years after Obama took office; so no it couldn't have been the Bush Administrations policies. Every year Bush was in office the unemployment remained below 6.00% so it is highly unlikely that within the 2 years Obama took office it was the Bush administrations policies that doubled unemployment rates. If you are going to make that assertion you need evidence for it which you have not provided. Anyways Obama has never brought unemployment below the levels when Bush was in office so that 7.00% doesn't prove he deserves the praise he gets. b) GDP growth "While under the Obama Administration our GDP has never been at a rate in which it was declining. It's currently at a growth rate of 3.07%. This is beneficial to our economy because it slows down inflation, gives our government more spending room and increases the money we can offer to those below the poverty line."You are misinterpreting the data. If the percent is negative it declines so it didn't actually decline while Bush was in office. In fact if you add up the percentages you will find that the GDP actually grew more while Bush was in office than when Obama was. In this comparison I will compare the total rise of the GDP over 6 years for each president:BUSH: 36.54% increaseOBAMA: 14.44% increaseSo in Bush's first 6 years; the amount of time Obama has been in office; the GDP rose ALMOST 3 TIMES AS MUCH THAN DURING OBAMA'S 6 YEARS.So actually Bush slowed down inflation, gave the government more spending room, and increased the amount of money we could offer to those below the poverty line, more than Obama did.a) Health care "For over 30 years politicians of both parties have talked about having a major health care reform. He's the first politician to do something about it. The ACA removes restrictions on pre-existing conditions, makes health care more affordable for small businesses, raises the age at which children can remain on their parents plans, removes lifetime caps, and gives woman access to free preventative health care. Aside from the small exception of insurance executives who would not like those things?"3 times as many people lost insurance to the ACA as people who gained it; so I'm going with the people who lost health insurance don't like it. Overall the ACA has actually uninsured more people than it insured.b) Gay rights "Unfortunately this is still an issue in our country and quite frankly it disgusts me. Now considering he has already helped many states work towards adopting policies that give homosexuals the human rights they deserve, he is helping in that way. He also worked to remove the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy which was a disgusting rule that made our country look ridiculous. Not to mention an overwhelming majority of Americans believe in legalizing gay marriage and even a majority of people on this site."No one ever took rights away from Homosexuals; they just haven't been allowed to marry. Marriage is not a human right and while that may help some people it isn't enough to warrant the massive amounts of praise he gets.CONCLUSIONCon has not been able to show Obama helping enough people to warrant his praise. In the first point I showed that Obama actually raised the unemployment rate rather than lower it. In the second point I showed that Bush raised the GDP nearly 3 times as much as Obama and he didn't get the same amount of praise for it as Obama does so it shouldn't be considered something warranting the praise Obama gets. The third point doesn't warrant any praise since more people have lost health insurance over the ACA than those who gained it. The only point that is valid is gay rights and that didn't help enough people to warrant the amount of praise he gets. Therefore Con has not proven that Obama has done something to deserve the praise he gets.