Re:Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Su...
by philwelch on Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:25AM
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Since Obama wasn't sworn into office until 2009, I'm curious what he did in 2008 to prevent financial disaster.
Re:Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Su...
by cmccabe on Sunday June 16, 2013 @06:27PM
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As a senator, Obama voted for TARP in 2008 (as did fellow candidate McCain). So in some sense, he did do something. It would also be naive to believe that he didn't spend a lot of time planning his future actions during that year. But you are correct that his main role in solving the 2008 financial crisis came in 2009 after he was sworn in.
Obama pulled us out of Iraq and Afghanistan more or less on schedule. And he kept us from getting sucked into Libya and Syria, except for extremely minor aid like the 2011 no-fly zone, and arming the rebels in Syria.
Obama has used executive orders to promote policies like reducing allowed federal standards for carcinogens, promoting open data standards, and much else. http://blog.okfn.org/2013/05/10/government-data-open-and-mac...