President Barrack Obama was voted into office in 2008 and reelected in 2012. Coming into office President Obama made a lot of promises and gave hope to many Americans who were suffering during the time of President Bush. Through both of his terms he tried his hardest to keep all of the promises he made. He implemented laws and policies to help relieve people in the workforce of their long work hours through Obama care and he tried to raise the government budget by making a health care reform. With these policies, among a few others, Obama intended to help lower class families have a much better quality of life. In the beginning everything sounded great. There were a few people who believe that he would become the worst president of all time,
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Before President Obama was elected the U.S had a notoriously bad president, George W. Bush. President Bush left Obama with a ton of problems. High unemployment rate, low amount of jobs, and a completely destroyed of the American middle-class. According to aattp(Americans against the tea party).org 's article, The Top 20 Ways President George W. Bush Destroyed America,”Median household incomes declined by 4.2%, social economic inequality reached epidemic proportions, and the middle-class took on more debt than at any time since the Great Depression. His policies led to 8 million Americans falling below the poverty line, 3.5 million of those being children.” Through these facts, anyone can see that President Obama would have his hands full coming into office and that 's just the statistical portion of his problems. Another issue that President Obama had that was left from the Bush era was the American citizen 's distrust of the government. President bush made a lot of very bad decisions, again referring to aattp.org 's article, The Top 20 Ways President George W. Bush Destroyed America, President Bush, pulling us out of the Kyoto protocol, creating false narrative that Iraq was an ally of Afghanistan, ignoring the United Nations and launched an illegal preemptive war. All of these things led to the American citizens to be very observant to governmental decisions and also to judge President Obama to a much higher standard considering the fact that he would have to be twice the President that Bush was to get the U.S out of the hole it found itself
Before President Obama was elected the U.S had a notoriously bad president, George W. Bush. President Bush left Obama with a ton of problems. High unemployment rate, low amount of jobs, and a completely destroyed of the American middle-class. According to aattp(Americans against the tea party).org 's article, The Top 20 Ways President George W. Bush Destroyed America,”Median household incomes declined by 4.2%, social economic inequality reached epidemic proportions, and the middle-class took on more debt than at any time since the Great Depression. His policies led to 8 million Americans falling below the poverty line, 3.5 million of those being children.” Through these facts, anyone can see that President Obama would have his hands full coming into office and that 's just the statistical portion of his problems. Another issue that President Obama had that was left from the Bush era was the American citizen 's distrust of the government. President bush made a lot of very bad decisions, again referring to aattp.org 's article, The Top 20 Ways President George W. Bush Destroyed America, President Bush, pulling us out of the Kyoto protocol, creating false narrative that Iraq was an ally of Afghanistan, ignoring the United Nations and launched an illegal preemptive war. All of these things led to the American citizens to be very observant to governmental decisions and also to judge President Obama to a much higher standard considering the fact that he would have to be twice the President that Bush was to get the U.S out of the hole it found itself