Obama was a good president

I can understand how many people were anticipating a wonderful change when Obama was elected. I wanted him to be wildly successful. However, as history has shown us, he failed as a president to do anything more than reduce the prestige and dominance of America in the world stage, reduced the freedom of the average American, and weakened our national security. I will go point by point here, and look at Pro's comments. 1. America is not a democracy. We are a representative republic. It does not matter what the majority thinks, wants, or how they vote. The Founders were terrified of democracy. That is why they established the rule of Law instead of the rule of the mob. If you read the other papers, documents, books, and notes written by the Founders, you will see that they had a vastly different interpretation of the "general welfare" clause from what most people view it today. The founders recognized two kinds of "welfare", general and special. Special welfare went only to a certain group or class of people. General welfare benefits every citizen in the nation equally. The US Constitution gives the federal government the power to "promote the general welfare", but not specific welfare. However, in 1936 the courts closed the "Butler v. the US" case. It redefined the term general welfare to mean "if the government thinks it is good for the country". Obama did everything he could to keep the power in Washington DC and not where it belongs, in the hands of the people (Amendment 10 of the US Constitution). 2, 3. On civil rights he was a disaster. At every turn, Obama promoted the division of people based on color, identity, etc. Never once did I hear him try to unite the people by denouncing divisions. We are not black, white, red, yellow, etc. We are humans. The only major difference between peoples is their culture. If you take a new born child from one culture (regardless of color) and put that child in another culture, the child will grow up believing they belong in, and they will thrive in, that new culture (provided the general populace of the new culture accepts them, but that is a given in the scenario). However, if you teach a child from birth to be afraid of another person's color, or to resent them for their "privilege", or to think of them as lesser than yourself, etc., you will end up with people who look at outside appearance rather than the character of the person. 4. His healthcare system is tantamount to slavery; I will explain. Healthcare is not a right! The only way for a person to receive healthcare is for someone else to spend a great deal of time and money to learn to be a healthcare professional. Then that person has to spend even more of their time and money to treat the illness of the person who is sick or injured. If a person has a right to healthcare, then you are saying a person has a right to a portion of another person's time and money. This is slavery. NO ONE has a right to force another person to treat their medical conditions. If a doctor chooses to donate his time to treat someone who cannot pay, that is his business, but the government does not have the right to force him to treat someone against his will. 5. Obama was wrong when he said that strengthening our economy starts with the middle class. Do the middle class create jobs? Do they create financial empires that employ 10s or 100s of thousands? NO! I agree that we need to reduce taxes, but we need to do it on everyone. The government spends our money foolishly. It is better in the hands of the people who earned it. The economy does not grow from the bottom up! That is simple foolishness. The producers drive our economy. If we give incentive to producers and reward the takers of risks then we, as the Founders did, will see massive growth in the wealth of this nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it (to borrow a phrase). 6. Again with the division (this time on the basis of sex). I agree that men and women should be treated equally in the marketplace. Men and women should be paid equally for doing the same job in the same way. However, they frequently cannot. Sometimes they are better at a job than a man is. In this case they should be paid more than a man. However, it is not the role of government to handle issues like this. It it the role of the free market. In a free market, a person's value is not at issue. It is the value of the job which they hold that determines pay. Why was Michael Jordan paid more as a baseball player than many of his teammates in the minor league? Because people paid to see him play. People came to see him, not his teammates. So he produced more income for the team. He was a worse player, but brought more revenue into the team, so his position was worth more than the other players. 7. Obama was relaxed and "cool" if you want to call it that. But he was also demeaning to the superiority that the American people have earned. Since our founding, the President of the United States has never knelt, bowed, or acted submissively to any other world leader. However, Obama bowed to at least 3 world leaders in the first year of this time in office. We have earned the right to stand equal to every other nation in the world. It is offensive to the men and women who have died or shed our blood for the freedom of this nation for him to bow to another world leader, especially our rivals like China. 8. The environment is not one of the responsibilities of the presidency according to the US Constitution. His involvement in the environment is immaterial to is value as a President. However, his continual push for greater governmental regulation on American business enterprises creates a larger burden, increased cost to the consumer, and a reduction of our competitiveness in world markets. 9. While it is a fact that Obama reduced our active military forces dramatically, and reduced our military effectiveness significantly, he did advocate for their continued support after their service ended. He could have done significantly more, like cleaning up the VA, and reducing the wait times for veteran's benefits. 10. This is laughable. Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize before he ever did much of anything as President. This totally destroyed the value of any future Nobel Peace Prizes awarded. It is not peace to capitulate to your aggressors, thereby emboldening them to even greater acts of violence against you. It is not warmongering to take the fight to your enemy after you have been attacked, so that the fight does not rage around our women and children. Obama's presidency was weak militarily, and that does not promote peace. Ending a war prematurely is not peace, it only emboldens the enemy to grow strong again and attack again. 11. Again, education is not one of the powers of the President or the federal government. That power belongs at the State or individual level. For the president to be involved in education is a usurpation of power that does not belong to him. And again, Pro mentions "White House Initiative"s that are entirely based on color, or national origin, or some division rather than being equally beneficial to all Americans. 12. I will grant that Obama was an amazing public speaker. He has a wonderful speaking voice, great timing, and a stage presence that keeps a crowd riveted. But if that is all you can say about the guy, then he leaves a lot to be desired in a President. Don't get me wrong, I think the man himself is probably a pretty good guy. I don't know him personally, but from what I can tell, he is not sleeping around on his wife, or beating his daughters every night. He seems to have his house in order. But in terms of leading this country in the path of freedom, individuality, and prosperity, not only did he fail miserably, but he was he one of the worst Presidents we have ever had. There have been worse, but there have been many that were better.