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

In this round I would like to first respond to my opponent's case and then move on to reinforce my own. My opponent stated that we are experiencing the construction of the best democracy around the world. This is flat out false. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index, America's democracy since 2008 has DROPPED by 1.1 points to 19th in the world. So in stead of seeing our democracy continually growing, we are actually seeing it shrink before our eyes. Specifically, we still have the PATRIOT Act and the NDAA in place which allow for massive spying and imprisonment without a trial. My opponent then claims that corruption is being struck down, but like I have already said, Transparency International has found that our government is actually MORE corrupt. Next lets talk about presidents addressing issues. My opponent has stated that Obama has really cracked down on financial crooks, but again, look to the fact that he didn't go after anyone responsible for the financial crisis, which is just another example of corruption. Speaking of which, lets look to the healthcare reform he has passed which is a whopping 2,700 pages long. Whereas, our entire country was founded on less than 10 pages. Obviously some of the things in the reform are back-hand deals. Peter Schweizer elaborates in his book "Throw Them All Out". In it he explains that Obama's affordable care act has given monopolies to drug companies who just so happen to also be political donors and lobbyists affiliated with Obama. As far as Gun Control Goes, there are two key things to remember. First is that my opponent assumes that more gun control is the right thing to do, completely ignoring the intense controversy surrounding the issue. Second, we must look to the fact that nothing related to gun control have actually changed, so even if we assume is the right thing to do, Obama has done nothing. However, president Clinton did. He passed a ban on Assault Weapons like the one used in the Movie Theater Shooting in Colorado, which was later repealed. Now I will reinforce my own case. First of all, my opponent has not even addressed my first contention which states that Honorable is defined as being held in high esteem. Under this definition Obama comes in 6th place to all presidents of recent years, making him, for sure, not the most honorable. Next, I will individually address my opponent's attacks on my second contention. First he stated that the president is not responsible for his employees, but because he employs these people himself and fails to correct their behavior, he absolutely can be held accountable for their actions. If he has a bad employee, it is his duty to either fire or correct that employee. If he fails to do so, which he has, then he must take some of the blame. However, even if we disregard everything that his employees have done, we can see he has still done highly immoral things. If we look to my point about drones, he PERSONALLY approves of every attack. These attacks have killed over 200 children and 3 US citizens. Now I will move on to my opponents attacks on Reagan. First of all, he draws wild conclusions without backing them up. However even if you accept his claims which have no evidence to back them up, its important to understand that he gave three examples of how America's unwillingness to use military interventionism to solve problems were bad in his opinion. But if you look at his first speech you can see that he states that distancing yourself from military interventionism is good, so he is contradicting himself when he states this. Now I will finish off things off by addressing his attack against Clinton. First lets look to the fact that Clinton led America through a prosperous time guided by his leadership. Second, remember the fact that some things are more immoral than others and that Obama has personally approved of the killing of hundreds of children and US citizens. Ask yourself honestly if having an affair is worse than killing hundreds of innocent children.