Obama is the worst president in history

I wish Con improved health and a quick recovery. In Rounds 1 and 2, Pro presented an overpowering case that Obama is the worst president, based on two criteria, lies and broken promises - i.e., integrity " and harmful policies - i.e., negative accomplishments, which Con tried and failed to rebut. In Round 3, Con tried to defend Obama"s unequaled 2009 spending, with excuses that part of the $209 billion spent was $114B for the stimulus, which grew jobs, and that he spent only 23% of GDP. These excuses were disproved in Rounds 1 and 2. In addition, Obama actually spent an all-time record $3.52 Trillion, and the $800B earmark-laden Stimulus grew to $2 Trillion, and actually lost jobs and hurt the economy. If it is OK for spending to rise with GDP, then the debt may increase unboundedly, and we will never balance the budget, before certain fiscal Armageddon. Spending should decrease in absolute terms until the budget is balanced, and we can begin paying off the debt. [22, 23] When the Stimulus was signed, unemployment was near 8%. Obama projected it would never rise above 8% (It did) and would plunge to 5% by Dec. 2013. The jobless rate this January was 6.6%, with an abysmal labor force participation rate of 63%. 5 years after the Act, 10.2 million people are out of work, and Americans not in the labor force who want a job has exploded - by some estimates, a record 90M. After $150B in stimulus and other spending on green energy boondoggles, 32 Obama-backed green firms went bankrupt as of Feb. 2014, including Solyndra at a cost to taxpayers of $535 million; Beacon Power, $240M; Abound Solar, $400M, Fisker Auto , $529M, etc., etc. [24] While Obama"s domestic policy is the worst ever, his foreign policy is worse. Every region of the world that his weak and wrong policies touched is worse off because of them. Al Qaida is on the rise throughout the Muslim world and beyond. Nations no longer look to America as the strong defender of freedom; as a result hot points everywhere have flared and aggression is reigniting against our friends, threatening our critical interests [25, 26, 27]: .Syria is in Civil War. Obama shrunk from his "red line" and his original support of Al Qaida there .Iraq is also in civil war, fostered by Obama"s failure to sign a Status of Forces Agreement .Iran is moving ahead with its nuclear bomb research, fortified by Obama"s reduction in sanctions, with no corresponding commitment to end pursuit of the bomb .Iran"s funding and supply of terrorist groups has sparked violence throughout North Africa Source 27 seems to be a lucid statement reflecting some of his numerous failures. Obama is the most corrupt president ever. Any president who knowingly lies without bound, speaks one way and acts another, makes promises he knows will not be met, and continues to spend record amounts of our hard earned money on policies that hurt not help us, as Obama has done for political gain is corrupt. All of this was demonstrated in previous rounds and supported by numerous sources. [29, 30] When compared with those considered the worst presidents, there is no doubt Obama is infinitely worse. While most are criticized for either their lack of integrity or their bad policies, Obama failed spectacularly in both areas. As to those considered the two worst up to now, Buchanan and Harding: Buchanan: Presided over the dissolution of the Union. He did not challenge the states intending to leave the Union after Lincoln's election. He supported compromises enabling slavery to spread to the western territories, including, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing settlers to permit slavery in their states. While he opposed other policies later embraced by history, he is condemned largely for his positions in the context of the huge historical issues leading to the Civil War. The war broke out as an immediate result of Lincoln"s election, and would have, whatever Buchanan did. Obama is the worst president, due not to one external issue, but to his lack of integrity and his bad policies across the board, as detailed above. Also, he brought about three Constitutional crises of his own: 1) He directed the Executive branch to disobey Federal Law, 2) he initiated Executive Branch actions in areas over which Congress has purview, and 3) he permitted his party, in control of the Senate, to ignore Congress"s Constitutional mandate to pass a budget annually, all for the first time in history. Buchanan was not a copious liar and as uncaring as Obama is. He stated his position on slavery issues directly; he believed in these positions, and he certainly did not state them for political gain, as Obama does. Also, he did not break major campaign and policy promises, as Obama does routinely, and he passed no law as crushing as Obamacare, and had a far less negative impact on the economy of the day, than the previous arguments proved Obama had. Harding: is condemned for his lack of integrity and his corruption. "He busied himself with golf, poker, and his mistress, while appointees and cronies plundered the U.S. government in a variety of creative ways. His secretary of the interior allowed oilmen, for a modest under-the-table sum, to tap into government oil reserves". He signed the first federal child welfare program, and supported an 8-hour work day. He created the Bureau of the Budget to prepare the Federal budget. He advocated an anti-lynching bill to curb violence against African Americans, he negotiated peace treaties with Germany and Austria, and he promoted the world's major naval powers" agreement on a naval limitations program that held sway for a decade. While Harding was condemned on a moral basis, Obama is condemned for all manner of corruption I to his self-serving lies, deceit, and broken promises, as well as his terrible policies, which hurt the economy and the middle class, stimulate unemployment, grew Government tyranny over our lives, and enslaved us with new crushing taxes and regulations, as detailed previously. Obama"s corruption is personal. As proved, he lies and makes bad promises more than any president, and he fosters the same throughout his regime. Source 30 documents a few (252) examples of his corruption. Thus neither of the presidents previously considered the worst can compare to Obama"s failure as a president and human being. ---- 22. 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