Ah, JazzQuipster, good work tracking down pieces of other lists on the Internet.

Let’s have some fun now, shall we?

* Got the United States OUT of Iraq.
Bush 43 actually got the troops out of Iraq. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement)
Best claim Obama has is that he got the U.S. out a week or two early.

* Begun drawing down troops in Afghanistan.
Obama sent more troops to Afghanistan (http://articles.cnn.com/2009-02-17/politics/obama.troops_1_afghanistan-troop-increase-troop-levels?_s=PM:POLITICS) at a cost of 36 billion over projected estimates (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/77619-cbo-troop-surge-to-cost-36-billion-over-three-years).

* Made it a priority to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.
This is too hilarious to even comment on. If you think Barack Obama
was the driving force behind the U.S. initiative to find Bin Laden then you need to get your head examined.

* Ended don’t ask, don’t tell.
This is good.

* Appointed two pro-choice women to the Supreme Court.
The private political opinions of judges, particularly Supreme Court justices, cannot have any standing on their rulings. They can only rule on the law. Ever watch a confirmation hearing for a Supreme… or bother to learn the rules of the U.S. Judicial System?

* Lowered income tax for ordinary working Americans.
I love the term ordinary working Americans, so vague as to be useless, like WE Are The 99%!
This sentiment is partially true. There was a small cut included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which expired over a year ago. There is also the roughly 2 percent cut in the amount people have to contribute to Social Security. Not everyone gets that, though, and it seems like it helps richer people more than poor peope.
Obama has also signed several tax raises into law (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/515/no-family-making-less-250000-will-see-any-form-tax/) that affect everyone, not just rich people. Of course, don’t forget the 4 billion extra the federal government is now in the hole. If you think the federal government’s stupidity when it comes to spending isn’t a tax on our future earnings, you need to wake up.

* Saved General Motors and Chrysler by loaning them money.
He helped force two private companies into a government receivership when they simply could have declared bankruptcy and reorganized like every other business in the history of the United States. He did not do this to protect GM or Chrysler, who were never in danger of disappearing. He did it to protect Unions (screwing over bond and stock holders in the process) and give them a piece of the companies. (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/23/business/la-fi-gm-bailout-review-20110623) Learn a thing or two about bankruptcy law.

* Provided the Department of Veteran Affairs with more than 1.4 billion to improve services to American Veterans.
God only knows what this refers to, and since you’re not the author of this list I really can’t ask you, can I? Another site which has this exact same point listed supplies a link (http://www4.va.gov/budget/products.asp) as proof, but when I tried it today the link was dead.
There is a recent bill HR 2055 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112hrpt331/pdf/CRPT-112hrpt331.pdf) which was sponsored by House Republican John Culberson which, I believe, set aside 1.4 billion for Medical IT for Veterans Affairs. Perhaps that is what this is for. If so, this bill was passed by a Republican House before it came to Obama.

* Repealed Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
This is strangely worded. Despite popular belief, there was no Bush era ban on funding of stem cell research. His administration was actually the first one to give government money to hSEC research, but it required use of pre-existing lines, because of laws governing the destruction of fetuses for scientific purposes. Private funding of any kind of stem cell research has, also, never been restricted in the U.S., just the use of taxpayer money. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_controversy#United_States)
Still though, not a bad thing.

* Issued executive order to close Gitmo (Naturally, it was blocked by Republicans).
This sentiment is so hilariously stupid it defies simple explanation. Do some reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#Obama_administration_policy

* Ended the use of torture.
This is really a two-parter, involving the ban of extreme rendition along with torture. Sadly, his ban has several, well-known loopholes. (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12041) I wish he would fix this, but odds are he won’t. He hasn’t seemed to have any trouble using intelligence gathered using these tactics, either.

* Established credit card bill of rights preventing credit card companies from imposing arbitrary rate increases on customers.
This is a massive, disgusting and utterly pointless overreach of federal power. You think lenders aren’t going to find other ways of making money?
On a personal note if you don’t like your credit card rate, don’t use it. Grow up and manage your money.

* Add $4.6 billion to the VA budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals.
Once again, cannot find this number. The 2012 Obama budget proposed 6 billion for this (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=697&sid=2270947), but I’m pretty sure this was not passed.

* Eliminated subsidies to private lender middlemen of student loans and protect student borrowers.
This must be about the federal government’s move to absorb FFEL loans through the passing of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Basically the government has gone from partially financing a very successful loan program involving private banks to running the whole mess and taking on all of the potential risk. There is a chance a profit can be made, but it is entirely dependent on how interest rates go and the government could just as easily loose more money. As far as a difference in cost to borrowers, there is none. (http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/10/student-loans-hcera-leadership-education-fox.html)

*Significantly expanded Pell grants, which help low-income students pay for college.
This is another effect of the government’s power grab under HCERA. Pell grants (which have doubled in number over the last five years) are nice, but it would be nicer if the government actually bothered to, you know, FUND THEM. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/education/18pell.html)

* Signed financial reform law requiring lenders to verify applicants’ history, income and employment status.
More nanny state stupidity. Banks don’t make loans that do not benefit them. The housing crash was caused by greedy governments. Read and learn: (http://americannewspost.com/theodore-roe/601/good-money-after-bad-the-fed-offer-fanny-and-freddie-limitless-funds/)

*Cut prescription drug cost for Medicare recipients by 50%
Not according to Huffington Post, that bastion of reactionary Republican thought! (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/obama-plan-to-cut-medicar_n_849294.html)
Bush 43 did cut drug prices for seniors, though, via the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. Maybe someone confused Bush 43 with Obama…

And last, but certainly not
least, is the crowning debacle of the Obama administration and the biggest violation
of our civil liberties since The New Deal: The Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act!

Sandwiched into a bill so mammoth
that even the Speaker of the House did not have time to read or explain it to
the citizens of the United States (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU)
are some of the following points from the pasted list:

* Made it possible for people with pre-existing conditions to
get health insurance.

* Prevents insurance companies from dropping coverage because
the person is sick.

* Allow children up to age 26 to remain covered by their
parent’s health insurance.

* Require health insurance plans to disclose how much of the
premium actually goes to patient care.

* Tax cost for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay
for employee healthcare coverage.

* Tax credits for up to 29 million individuals to help pay for
health insurance.

First off, as far as those numbers go in the last two points,
Google search turn up nothing substantive with them – only more copies of this
bullshit list re-pasted in here. 

Now, the sentiments expressed in the first four points are
pretty good, but they are only window dressing, folks.  The PPACA is designed to do one thing and one
thing only – socialize health care.  I know
it does not include a single payer system, but it is built to destroy private
firms, thus forcing all Americans into existing government-run institutions.  In essence, it is the death by a thousand
cuts. 

Think about it.  If the
government mandate stands, then it will be impossible to not have health
insurance, which immediately knocks out points 1 through 3.  The only useful one then is 4, and I can
practically guarantee that the Big G will definitely not disclose true care
costs even though they will make private enterprise do it.  When’s the last time you saw a budget report
that wasn’t an outright lie?

So there’s President Obama. 
Another 4 billion in the hole, and this is what we got.

  Ah, JazzQuipster, good work tracking down pieces of other lists on the Internet.  
 
Let’s have some fun now, shall we?

 
* Got the United States OUT of Iraq.
Bush 43 actually got the troops out of Iraq. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement)
Best claim Obama has is that he got the U.S. out a week or two early.
 

* Begun drawing down troops in Afghanistan.
Obama sent more troops to Afghanistan (http://articles.cnn.com/2009-02-17/politics/obama.troops_1_afghanistan-troop-increase-troop-levels?_s=PM:POLITICS) at a cost of 36 billion over projected estimates (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/77619-cbo-troop-surge-to-cost-36-billion-over-three-years).
 

* Made it a priority to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.
This is too hilarious to even comment on.  If you think Barack Obama
was the driving force behind the U.S. initiative to find Bin Laden then you need to get your head examined.
 

* Ended don’t ask, don’t tell.
This is good.
 

* Appointed two pro-choice women to the Supreme Court.
The private political opinions of judges, particularly Supreme Court justices, cannot have any standing on their rulings.  They can only rule on the law.  Ever watch a confirmation hearing for a Supreme… or bother to learn the rules of the U.S. Judicial System?
 

* Lowered income tax for ordinary working Americans.
I love the term ordinary working Americans, so vague as to be useless, like WE Are The 99%!
This sentiment is partially true.  There was a small cut included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which expired over a year ago.  There is also the roughly 2 percent cut in the amount people have to contribute to Social Security.  Not everyone gets that, though, and it seems like it helps richer people more than poor peope.
Obama has also signed several tax raises into law (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/515/no-family-making-less-250000-will-see-any-form-tax/) that affect everyone, not just rich people. Of course, don’t forget the 4 billion extra the federal government is now in the hole.  If you think the federal government’s stupidity when it comes to spending isn’t a tax on our future earnings, you need to wake up.
 

* Saved General Motors and Chrysler by loaning them money.
He helped force two private companies into a government receivership when they simply could have declared bankruptcy and reorganized like every other business in the history of the United States.  He did not do this to protect GM or Chrysler, who were never in danger of disappearing. He did it to protect Unions (screwing over bond and stock holders in the process) and give them a piece of the companies. (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/23/business/la-fi-gm-bailout-review-20110623)  Learn a thing or two about bankruptcy law.
 

* Provided the Department of Veteran Affairs with more than 1.4 billion to improve services to American Veterans.
God only knows what this refers to, and since you’re not the author of this list I really can’t ask you, can I?  Another site which has this exact same point listed supplies a link (http://www4.va.gov/budget/products.asp) as proof, but when I tried it today the link was dead.
There is a recent bill HR 2055 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112hrpt331/pdf/CRPT-112hrpt331.pdf) which was sponsored by House Republican John Culberson which, I believe, set aside 1.4 billion for Medical IT for Veterans Affairs.  Perhaps that is what this is for.  If so, this bill was passed by a Republican House before it came to Obama.
 

* Repealed Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
This is strangely worded. Despite popular belief, there was no Bush era ban on funding of stem cell research.  His administration was actually the first one to give government money to hSEC research, but it required use of pre-existing lines, because of laws governing the destruction of fetuses for scientific purposes. Private funding of any kind of stem cell research has, also, never been restricted in the U.S., just the use of taxpayer money. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_controversy#United_States)
Still though, not a bad thing.
 

* Issued executive order to close Gitmo (Naturally, it was blocked by Republicans).
This sentiment is so hilariously stupid it defies simple explanation.  Do some reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#Obama_administration_policy
 

* Ended the use of torture.
This is really a two-parter, involving the ban of extreme rendition along with torture.  Sadly, his ban has several, well-known loopholes. (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12041)  I wish he would fix this, but odds are he won’t.  He hasn’t seemed to have any trouble using intelligence gathered using these tactics, either.
 

* Established credit card bill of rights preventing credit card companies from imposing arbitrary rate increases on customers.
This is a massive, disgusting and utterly pointless overreach of federal power.  You think lenders aren’t going to find other ways of making money?
On a personal note if you don’t like your credit card rate, don’t use it.  Grow up and manage your money.
 

* Add $4.6 billion to the VA budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals.
Once again, cannot find this number.  The 2012 Obama budget proposed 6 billion for this (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=697&sid=2270947), but I’m pretty sure this was not passed.
 

* Eliminated subsidies to private lender middlemen of student loans and protect student borrowers.
This must be about the federal government’s move to absorb FFEL loans through the passing of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.  Basically the government has gone from partially financing a very successful loan program involving private banks to running the whole mess and taking on all of the potential risk.  There is a chance a profit can be made, but it is entirely dependent on how interest rates go and the government could just as easily loose more money.  As far as a difference in cost to borrowers, there is none. (http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/10/student-loans-hcera-leadership-education-fox.html)
 

*Significantly expanded Pell grants, which help low-income students pay for college.
This is another effect of the government’s power grab under HCERA.  Pell grants (which have doubled in number over the last five years) are nice, but it would be nicer if the government actually bothered to, you know, FUND THEM. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/education/18pell.html)
 

* Signed financial reform law requiring lenders to verify applicants’ history, income and employment status.
More nanny state stupidity. Banks don’t make loans that do not benefit them.  The housing crash was caused by greedy governments.  Read and learn: (http://americannewspost.com/theodore-roe/601/good-money-after-bad-the-fed-offer-fanny-and-freddie-limitless-funds/)
 

*Cut prescription drug cost for Medicare recipients by 50%
Not according to Huffington Post, that bastion of reactionary Republican thought! (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/obama-plan-to-cut-medicar_n_849294.html)
Bush 43 did cut drug prices for seniors, though, via the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. Maybe someone confused Bush 43 with Obama…

And last, but certainly not least, is the crowning debacle of the Obama administration and the biggest violation of our civil liberties since The New Deal: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act!

Sandwiched into a bill so mammoth that even the Speaker of the House did not have time to read or explain it to the citizens of the United States (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU) are some of the following points from the pasted list:

* Made it possible for people with pre-existing conditions to get health insurance.

* Prevents insurance companies from dropping coverage because the person is sick.

* Allow children up to age 26 to remain covered by their parent’s health insurance.

* Require health insurance plans to disclose how much of the premium actually goes to patient care.

* Tax cost for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee healthcare coverage.

* Tax credits for up to 29 million individuals to help pay for health insurance.

First off, as far as those numbers go in the last two points, Google search turn up nothing substantive with them – only more copies of this list re-pasted in here. 

Now, the sentiments expressed in the first four points are pretty good, but they are only window dressing, folks.  The PPACA is designed to do one thing and one thing only – socialize health care.  I know it does not include a single payer system, but it is built to destroy private firms, thus forcing all Americans into existing government-run institutions.  In essence, it is the death by a thousand cuts. 

Think about it.  If the government mandate stands, then it will be impossible to not have health insurance, which immediately knocks out points 1 through 3.  The only useful one then is 4, and I can practically guarantee that the Big G will definitely not disclose true care costs even though they will make private enterprise do it.  When’s the last time you saw a budget report that wasn’t an outright lie?

So there’s President Obama. Another 4 billion in the hole, and this is what we got.