Obama is the worst president in history

Thanks to my opponent for providing sources. I see this is your first debate here, so you may not know that any and all points you want to make must be made in the debate itself and not in the comments. Just don't do it for the next rounds. First of all, Obamacare is neither harmful, and it's only unpopular because few people really understand it. I've done a debate about this before, I'll tag it here, but what the facts show is that the individual acts of Obamacare are very popular, ranging from 79% at best to 47% at worst, in fact the more popular the act, the less people know that it's in the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare actually will reduce the deficit by over 1 trillion in 20 years. It's also bringing the rising healthcare cost trend to a halt. I recommend "obamacarefacts.com"- it's a non-partisan webpage that has the actual facts about the act- without media bias. [1] [2] He doesn't lie about the Republicans. They've blocked veteran care bills because they wouldn't include Iran sanctions. They shut down the govt. because of Obamacare- they didn't have to, because the federal budget didn't really affect Obamacare in the first place. I've already addressed your first 3 paragraphs. [3] [1] Our economy was a ruin before he took office, and most of his problems were a result of Bush. There's no doubt on that. The debt problem? Our debt in August 2000 was $5.7 trillion. In August 2008 that was $10.5 trillion. Bush spent a wasteful, largely ineffective, unpopular war in the middle east, which shot our deficit through the roof, helped weaken our economy and led to the crash of '08, the result of Bush-era politics. He left office in disgrace. I don't think Obama's worse than that. [4] As for your job participation claims, unemployment has been dropping significantly. He can't do much more than he can, because Republicans won't let him. In fact, the GOP couldn't care less about the unemployed. At the very least they have health insurance, and Obama has kept on on trying to give them benefits so they don't starve. However, Republicans have both filibustered benefits extensions as well as cut food stamps by $500 billion, even as 9 million live in poverty. I don't blame Obama for calling them heartless at all. [5] [6] I'm going to address your "loss of freedoms" argument that you put in the comments. Most of the "freedoms lost" you listed in the comments aren't freedoms at all. "Right to have no insurance" isn't a right. Everybody has to have insurance in order to stabilize rising healthcare costs and get insurance to the poor. Freedom from crime by illegals isn't a right you lost- we've got police. So long as criminals exist, nobody has freedom from crime. As Gen. Colin Powell stated, voter fraud isn't really a serious issue in this country, so it's not necessary. The rest of your supposed "lost freedoms" are either blatant lies (freedom from business-destroying regulations, what on earth) or not even rights. This country has laws for a reason- people have certain unalienable rights, but you can't have the right to everything, because that would be anarchy. Why can't the GOP just shut up over Benghazi? It was a terrorist attack. The perpetrator is now in custody. Get over it. IT had nothing to do with Obama. Several hundred security contractors were killed in Iraq under Bush, but nobody mentioned them. The insane 'journalists' at Fox will bring it up anytime they need to attack Obama, and that's all it is. Even the official GOP report on it found no real scandal. It's all propaganda. [7] Half the population is pro-choice. So don't give me nonsense about the majority opinion of the country. 78% believes it should be allowed in all or certain situations. [8] Again with Obama being a dictator. He's obliged to pass the laws he needs to pass, and he takes executive action only because Congress is doing a horrendous job. I've already mentioned this. The House often forgets that it represents people. It's not carrying out the will of the people when it's trying to sue Obama (57% of population says no) or impeach him (65% say no) or shut down the government (almost everybody says no). [9] Your opening Round 2 arguments are nonsense as well. Obama hasn't directly or really indirectly caused suffering or economic harm, he's working against it. Clinton and Obama are the only two presidents to have reduced the deficit in recent decades. Nobody was killed by Nixon's lies- except for tens of thousands of American soldiers fighting in Viet Nam fighting a war that he knew was lost. The you can keep your insurance was a lie, but for those who it did affect it usually moved them to a plan that covered the minimum requirements of Obamacare. However, it was a blatant lie. But almost every president made major lies to some degree, (Bush, Nixon, Clinton, Grant, even Reagan), and this lie isn't that much more severe, and certainly not worthy of putting him as the worst president. Regardless of whether or not you think Obama is good or bad, remember that the debate only concerns whether he was the absolute worst, and Obama is not fitting of that title. So, in conclusion, I have proved my opponent's arguments to be mostly unfounded, defended Obama's policies, explained and countered my opponent's arguments, and as a result upheld my claim that Obama is not the worst president in history. I look forward to my opponent's response. Sources: 1. http://www.debate.org... 2. obamacarefacts.com 3. http://thinkprogress.org... 4. http://www.usdebtclock.org... 5. http://www.nationaljournal.com... 6. http://www.motherjones.com... 7. http://gawker.com... 8. http://www.gallup.com... 9. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...