Barack Obama's Presidency

During his first year of presidency he focused on fixing areas of the government President Bush failed to properly oversee; one being aspects of Bush’s war on terrorism. Obama began his destruction with the CIA; in regards to interrogation tactics, Obama dispelled secret memos hidden by the Bush administration, causing much controversy in the government. This incident brought much attention to other faults that occurred during the previous presidents reign.

Barack Obama has impacted America in many ways since he was elected the 44th president on November 4th, 2008. The first African American president of the United States has taken the world by storm and done many great things for this country. Barack Obama has accomplished many things in his personal life, and also as the president of the United States. Obama has affected the world financially, economically, and rebuilt our image as a nation.

When President Obama became president of the United States he used his executive power to stop federal regulations that were not finalized by President Bush. He stopped plans to ease air pollution standards and established a more open public- records policy. He also ordered the detainee camp at Guantamo Bay, Cuba. These events occurred when he had just become president back in 2009.

The position of president has evolved in the almost quarter millennium since the framers created the Constitution. The main issues facing the framers included the position’s structure, independence, and power. Although the modern presidency is different from the framers’ design, they would approve of it, since the concerns that the framers had with the executive still have been prevented. When creating the presidency, one issue the framers decided quickly was the structure, particularly having one president. This satisfied the needs of both the Conservative and Radical Republicans, by allowing for quick action, while still providing clear accountability.

President Obama inherited two wars, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He was faced with difficulties trying to help the economy and to get the job rate increased. 2. What were his major accomplishments?

This conflict put Obama in a difficult situation, and whatever he said ultimately made somebody upset. As the social unrest within America grew, Congress wasn’t much better off. To get anything passed, Obama resorted to Executive Orders or a vote that resulted in strictly party lines. This further enraged extreme Republicans known as Tea Party members, and Donald Trump eventually gave voice to these

The presidency of 44th US President Barak Obama has been marked with rather prominent and significant shifts in policy, reverberating throughout many areas of the country. One of the president’s most controversial proposals that has yet to be fully acted upon is providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. Supporters of the legislation point to a variety of moral and economic reasons to justify their position while opponents retaliate with their own concerns about the “fairness” of this policy action. For many against this pathway, citizenship is a delicate conceptual idea that already has a clearly defined pathway within the United States. Citizenship is often a rather subjective

Barrack Obama’s tenure as President of the United States is coming to a close and voters should understand how to gather reliable information on new candidates, such as Jeb Bush. Even though paying attention to all four major types of media platforms; digital, legacy, a candidates’ own media, and social media, creates a sound informative opinion on Republican Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, digital media provides voters with the most holistic view. The benefits of digital media, throughout the week of September 15th through the 22nd, created an opportunity to construct a different point of view on Bush and what he stands for.

A key issue during the 2008 presidential campaign and Obama’s administration was interest groups and lobbyists. Obama had to deal with interest groups all throughout his presidency, whether it was dealing with Congress or his interaction with committees. Over time interest groups have taken on a larger and more important role in government. The interaction between interest groups and Obama played an influential role in shaping his presidency.

In the article “Obama’s ‘Where’s Waldo’ Presidency,” Ruth Marcus touches up on her opinion of President Obama. She begins her editorial discussing how Barrack Obama talked about “change we can believe in” during his campaign, but then describes how the president has “been missing in action” (Marcus, paragraph 1). Marcus brushes up on most big topics that have happened while Obama was in presidency, and goes over how she believes he handled the situations. It is easy to see Marcus’s opinions, and she ends her editorial explaining that she believes Obama is difficult to find in many situations, and that he does not explicitly say what he agrees or disagrees with (Marcus, paragraph 12).

Thank for your response, and I agree with you that the president, sometimes, use his executive power as too much power; also, he may use these executive orders for the benefit of himself, not for the better of our country. In total 8 year term, the presidents signed a lot of executive orders. Such as, Bill Clinton signed 364 executive orders, G.W. Bush signed 291, or Barack Obama signed 276. We know that most of their executive order are contributed to make our country better, but many of their decisions are too abuse…Moreover, I agree with you that we don’t need to eliminate executive order because the nation needs an executive order to create a new law in a short amount of time to solve the issues as soon as possible.

I decided to write about the 2008 election between Illinois senator Barack Obama which is our 44th president and Arizona senator John McCain. This election was historical in many ways. For one Barack Obama was the first African-American man to ever be elected president of the United States of America. Another reason would be that the U.S. achieved record voter turnout numbers of African-Americans and Hispanics. Also it is estimated that over a 136 million Americans voted for president in the 2008 election. In the 2008 election the Democratic Party chose senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden as the Vice President. The Republican Party chose senators John McCain and Sarah Palin. The Libertarian Party chose Bob Barr while the independent party

President Trump has made about 15 executive orders since his inauguration. The first executive order by Trump was signed hours after his inauguration. The executive order was to revoke funding for Obamacare. Revoking Obamacare affects everyone with Obamacare insurance.Many Americans with financial trouble will now be having trouble finding health care.

The President can bring up policy he wants to see pass as a way of agenda setting, but Congress must bring them to the floor. He can veto bills brought to his desk, but the veto can be overturned by 2/3 of Congress. The president also appoints judges, who create public policy in their individual decisions, but Congress must approve the judgeships. The President only truly has one power of public policy that requires no act of Congress.

Barack Obama uses legitimate power. Legitimate power is based on the user’s position, power, given by the organization. (Lussier and Achua, 2013, p.150). Barack is an effective leader. As long as he isn’t breaking the law, he can have executive agencies to do anything he wants. Of course he is aware of congress being able to remove him if he abuses his power. Barack Obama is quite powerful. He has the ability to veto bills congress sends him. He also designates a large number of powerful positions. Individual who the president chooses is almost always approved. He can also fire a lot of these appointed officials, again giving him power over how these departments are run. He is Commander of the military, so he can move military resources around