Obama Domestic Policy

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There is a controversy among the American people about our current president, President Obama. Some people find he is not a trustworthy man and that he has done nothing to better our country but in fact has only brought it down. His foreign policy, domestic policy, and promises he has made to the U.S citizens in the beginning have taken a toll on how the American people look up to him and respect him as our president. President Obama’s foreign policy was something that really stood out to the American people. His stand on the foreign policy is to “end war in Iraq responsibly, finish the fight against the Taliban and Qaeda in Afghanistan, secure nuclear weapons and loose nuclear materials from terrorists, and renew American diplomacy to support strong alliances and seek a lasting peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” (The Obama-Biden Plan). Osama Bin-Laden is the leader of the terrorist group that has been in conflict with our country. President Obama did send out a search party that assassinated him but terrorism has not stopped. Our troops are still in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting. Not only that but we also are taking in Muslim refugees which is essentially giving …show more content…

In 2009, President Obama “signed economic stimulus legislation like the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus) and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 into law in response to the Great Recession of 2008” (Domestic Accomplishments of President Obama). President Obama has also signed plenty of other acts in the year of 2010 that fall under the categories of financial regulations, health insurance, same-sex marriage, and lending out federal loans. The president also stopped supporting Ex-President Bush’s policy that pays federal tax dollars to fund stem cell

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