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While the national debt is a valid point, Obama is not the soul person responsible for its increase. Constitutionally speaking, he has almost nothing to do with spending other than sign spending bills and the such as congress is in charge of drafting a national budget, borrowing money, and imposing taxes, not the president (United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8). WIth that said, presidents have been known to push in a certain direction and influence legislation. Bush thrust the United States into a faux war in Iraq in an effort to get oil contracts for US oil companies, it had nothing to do with WMDs nor Saddam Husain being a dictator as we gave Iraq chemical weapons under the table to use against Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, just like how we, the United States, gave military grade weapons to the Mujahideen to use against the Soviet Union, but then again, this debate isn't about how Operation Iraqi Freedom was a slipshod coverup for oil contracts. Obama's removal of troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan have in no way but the world on edge of "World War III," simply removing troops after the mission is over does not lead to a global conflict. In Iraq, democratic elections had taken place, and Saddam had been tried and executed by the Iraqi people, even with the underlying quagmire that was the war, that still constituted mission success and the job is done. In Afghanistan, the mission was to "fight terror" (kill or capture Osama Bin Laden and other Al Qaida leaders). Under Obama, a group of navy seals stormed a compound in Pakistan and killed Bin Laden, mission complete, time to leave. The election of 2004, similar to the election of 2008, was a mad house. The GOP contender was John McCain, a Vietnam war veteran, warmonger, and general moderate Republican. His Democratic contender was Barack Obama, a half black, half white, constitutional law graduate from Harvard. Following the tiniest sliver of information that Obama's father was Kenyan, the ultra right wing exploded into the who "Obama is a Kenyan Muslim," such grips can still be heard form the leader of the birther movement, Donald Trump, who now complains about school transcripts. Race played a role in the election yes, but policy did too, remember Joe the Plumber, and his issue with Obama's idea of a progressive income tax? Race played a role in the election just as age did, Obama being, for all intensive purposes, a black man running for one of, if not the most prestigious seat in the federal government, of course the minorities will support him, some simply because he's black (which in my eyes is the same as supporting a Republican candidate simply because he's affiliated with the GOP), but the Democratic platform, and Obama's ideals were more appealing to minorities as well a young voters. Obama won younger voters not only with his platform, but also his ability to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and that skill on behalf of Obama and his campaign staff allowed them to send out their policy ideas and fundraise in ways the GOP couldn't. Obama also ran a much better campaign that his opponents, not only did he beat McCain in the election, but he also beat Hillary Clinton during the primaries, and this shows how well his campaign was structured and carried out. You're statement about Obama being a "dumbass" doesn't clear anything up (unless it's meant to be a joke about how he's a dumb Democrat, and the symbol for the Democratic party is a donkey). Now for the topic of Obamacare, or as it's official called, The Affordable Healthcare Act. While I'm not a fan of using the market to solve a market issue, there are very positive things about the law like expanding Medicaid to those who can't afford insurance, making it so that one's insurer cannot deny coverage due to a preexist condition, nor cut insurance for hitting a "spending limit". The AHA prevents insurers from increasing the price of premiums on women simply because they have two "X" chromosomes, allows young adults to stay on their parents' insurance plan until they turn 26, makes insurance plans available across state lines from different vendors, and in the long run, will bring the overly inflated price of healthcare down. The concept of allowing heath care insurers to compete on a national scale creates a very common thing in a free market called competition, which is you are pro-free market, and/or pro-capitalism, you would be all for. I have my quarrels with Obamacare, but it's better than what is currently in place, though I would have still preferred to have seen a European style single payer system. You mention that it is, "...going against morality and doing abortion...," while provisions are set up to make abortion attainable to those who desire it, the clauses regarding abortion do not mean that every woman is require to have an abortion. Statistically speaking, abortion has a mortality rate of .6 per 100,000 were as mortality for pregnancy carried to term was/is around 16 per 100,000, in a way, making abortion safer than childbirth. While this statement shows my personal views, abortion is to murder as a miscarriage is to involuntary manslaughter, and while you may not agree with abortion, it should still be available in a safe and legal fashion for those who desire the procedure. With that said, this debate is not about abortion, but Obama, though if you wish to have a debate on abortion , I'm up to the challenge. Questions 1. Again, the president alone is not responsible for creating jobs, nor under the ideas of capitalism which so many people praise, is the government responsible for "creating" jobs. I suppose that if you want Obama to "create" jobs, the only way he could directly do such a thing would be to add additional departments similar to the DOJ, DOD, and akin to those, or increase government spending to create temporary boasts to the economy in ways such as repairing infrastructure. 2. I am not Obama, therefor I can't speak for him, and seeing as I'm somewhat approving of the Affordable Health Care Act, what counteraction should I demand? An official can only be impeached for committing a crime, and as far as we know, there is no proof that Obama committed any crime worthy of impeachment, also, if the House of Representative were able to somehow draw up impeachment preceding, and the trial happened, Obama would not be booted from office as the Senate is controlled by Democrats. Simply put, just because you believe Obama hasn't, "done his job," is not a fair enough argument for impeachment. Since when has Obama legalized drugs? If anything, he's been tougher on drug legalization than the Bush administration was as more DEA raids of marijuana dispensaries have occurred under the Obama administration than the preceding Bush administration in states were medicinal marijuana has been legalized on a state level.