Obama: The Most Honorable President in The Last 50 Years.

I negate the statement that Obama is the most honorable president in the last 50 years. Before continuing I want to clarify and establish some framework for this debate. First and foremost, I would like to help have a better understanding of what being Honorable really entails. According to Oxford Dictionary someone who is honorable is 1. someone who is held in high esteem and 2. someone who knows and does what is morally right. Next, I would like to offer two presidents who hold up to this definition of honor more so than President Obama. Presidents Clinton and Reagan. If my opponent cannot prove that Obama is better than either of these two men, then the CON side wins. Lastly, I would like to clarify that things that the public are not well aware of STILL count as evidence against Obama's Honor under my second definition. I will now offer two contentions showing that under both definitions Obama is not the most honorable president. Contention 1: Esteem A big part of being an honorable president is having high public approval. According to a the gallup polling service, the average approval rating for Obama since his election has been 49%, a minority. President Clinton and Reagan fared much better. Reagan's approval while in office averaged at 53% while Clinton's averaged at 55%. The reasoning for this is that during both men's presidencies, the country felt the effects of economic booms guided by these presidents. But if that's not enough its important to note that 3 additional presidents had higher approval rating than president Obama. These approval ratings directly show that under my first definition of honor, being held in high esteem, Obama loses to a total of 5 previous presidents. Contention 2: Morality Contrary to what my opponent claims Obama has actually been behind political scandals and military intervention all while increasing america's corruption. 1. First lets look to the Obama Administration's political scandals. To name a few there is the Solyndra Scandal, the General Services Administration's lavish multi-million dollar trip to Las Vegas on taxpayer dollars, Secret Service Administrations Prostitute Scandal, the Libyan Embassy Cover-up, and most importantly Obama's drone scandal. Since taking office Obama has increased the number of drone strikes in Pakistan by 600% according to the bureau of investigative journalism. As a result over 1,000 innocent civilians have died including over 200 children. Also, in these strikes Obama has personally approved of the separate killings of 3 american citizens, one being only 16. 2. Now lets look to military intervention President Obama has had a very interventionalist track record. He kept our troops in Iraq for years and did a surge of 33,000 troops into Afghanistan. Also, lets not forget about his massive drone expansion in which he personally approves of every killing, even those that take out our own citizens or innocent children. Not to mention, these wars are costing the U.S. hundreds of billions if not Trillions of dollars. 3. Last of all, Corruption According to Transparency International, Corruption in America has INCREASED by 2 points since Obama took office. This can be seen when we look to the example of the financial crisis which was ,in part, caused by the selling of toxic assets by big banks on wall street. Nevertheless, Obama has not prosecuted ONE of these men. In fact, he has prosecuted less criminals on wall street than his predecessor, Bush. If we look to lobbyists, we can see that his higher-up cabinet positions are full of 17 at least! One of these men is the Attorney General himself, Eric Holder. In summary, When looking to all of these examples it is important that we remember the definition of honor which is doing what is morally right and that some things are more immoral than others. I know my opponent will try to say that Clinton and Reagan had scandal of their own, but when you decide who made more moral decisions, seriously ask yourself if whatever scandal my opponent brings up is worse than personally approving of the killing of hundreds of children. In conclusion, Obama is not the most honorable president because he is not held in the highest esteem and because he has made many decisions like killing hundreds of children which are highly immoral. Because of this he fails to meet the requirements of the definition of honorability which are being held in high esteem and doing what is right. For these reasons and many more, I urge you to vote CON. Thank You