Is Barack Obama the first president to...?

[denys]

Quit Trashing Obama's Accomplishments


An impressive list of accomplishments :


First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then


deny he was a foreigner.


First President to have a social security number from a state he has


never lived in.


First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States


First President to violate the War Powers Act. .


First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally


obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.


First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease


implementing the Health Care Reform Law.


First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a


third party.


First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs


when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.


First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of


companies to his union supporters.


First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act


through executive fiat


First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the


deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those


with criminal convictions.


First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of


his political appointees.


First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.


First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.


First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law


unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.


First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly


spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.


First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state


it is allowed to locate a factory.


First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath


to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).


First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been


properly issued years ago.


First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for


catching one of his friends in a corruption case.


First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in


his office. .


First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half


years in office, 90 to date.


First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.


First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.


First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.


First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights


and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by


the taxpayer.


First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.


First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year


at taxpayer expense.


First President to repeat the Holy Quran tells us the early morning


call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound


on earth.


First President to take a 17 day vacation.


How is this hope and change working out for you?

[eliot]

Negatively. in short.

[stein74]

excellent but what about lying to the world about WMD in iraq? cherry picking intel is a big downer when going to war.

http://obamaachievements.org/list#toc-20

[gillian59]

this looks like obama's teleprompter script with all those spaces

[patwin87]

the president made more than 500 campaign promises, and he's kept more than any president we've ever had.

if all you can remember is the campaign slogan, your brain is the problem.

[vruyk]

LOL! This is what happens when you get all your news from Fox. 8^P

[amdt57]

At least he didn't screw up a hurricane. By the way, Bush took way more than 17 days of vacation.

[symington]

Liar liar pants on fire. None of this is true. Only CONservative Morons believe this garbage.

[zadok]

Liar liar pants on fire. None of this is true. Only CONservative Morons believe this garbage.

Yes

[lifton]

The world's gonna end soon.