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What Has President Obama Done? Essay

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In Obama’s first campaign he dazzled audiences with high powered speeches about “changing Washington.” He always said his campaign was about “hope and change.” He said he wanted to “cast off the worn-out ideas and polices of the past”. But what does that mean? Does it mean that political power will shift to groups currently outside the walls of power? Or does it mean that a different party will call the shots? Or was he just saying it to get votes and was not planning on backing it up? (1) When campaigning Obama presented himself as a “transformational president” (1), but what does that mean exactly. He wanted to be the type of president that would introduce a new kind of politics. When Obama was campaigning for his first term and he …show more content…

A lot of things have obviously changed since then so I think that when he was saying he wanted change he was more talking about updating what we have to fit how our country is now. I personally do not think that Obama was just saying “change in Washington” because of the votes I honestly do think that he was wanting to change Washington. To begin with he automatically changed Washington by being the first African American president. You can also see that he really did want to change Washington by looking at the laws that he tried to get through congress. One of those being the health care reform, he is trying to help the middle and lower class with a national healthcare program. Then big problem with this is the fact that very few people in congress were open to hear what he had to say. He was trying to make it so more people could afford health care. I know a lot of people are not happy with the way that Obama is dealing with things but considering what he was handed when he came into office his first term I personally think that he is doing the best that he can. When he first came into office our economy was in a recession, there was a budget deficit and there was no consensus on how to solve it. Not to mention the fact that we were in a war that was costing us a ton of money and there was also an economic problem in rest of the world. If we look at how we are doing today I think that we are

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