I have never before seen a president say they would save jobs and actually try to count them as some form of achievment. Obama created a website for 18 million dollars to track jobs which was completely ineffective and wrong about the numbers. the site counted jobs in congressional district in several states that did not exist. He sent three different people to three different Sunday talk shows and each one of them gives a different number of jobs created..from “thousands and thousands” (Valerie Jarred)to “1.5 million” (Gibbs)to “2 million” (axelrod)
so using obamas standards we can say Bush created half a million jobs in 2008 in the healthcare industry alone, because healthcare kept adding jobs….see how pathetic this is.

the Jobs numbers for president are “NET” jobs, not trying to pick where someone hired and not count where others laid off. How can anyone not be offended by this?
In any economy there are companies hiring and some laying off. you will always be able to find where people were hired, even during the depression companies hired when they had openings but more jobs were being cut.

Unbelievable! I think Obama and his advisors got away with saying so many things without question they think they can just say whatever they want and everyone would believe it for the next four years. Kennedy’s seat going to the GOP is a huge wake up call.

While there are valid claims of accomplishments here Most of this stuff is fiction or intentionally misleading.

I could counter a lot of the posts in response to this list. But I will just address the one about overting a global depression. Obama keeps saying they brought us back from the brink. The Markets were in freefall his first 6 weeks due to the spending policies he and the party had been announcing. Look at two dates, March 9th and March 10, 2009. March 10 the markets started rallying big, the day before, March 9, 2009 Citibank reported profits in January and February after they recieved TARP funds in November. That was the first sign things werent as bad as they had believed before that. Anyone who supports this spending would be hard pressed to give an explaination as to what obama has done that has helped the economy. Not talking points but data to support that claim. government growth is all he has focused on, you cannot recover an economy on government spending alone. it requires the private sector to recover but obama is now attacking the banks which paid back TARP with the interest they agreed to when they received the money in 2008. BTW, in March 2009 Obama changed the terms for TARP with AIG, (a large democratics party supporter) and removed the requirement for them to pay interest. Gietner’s treasury announced they would lose 61 billion on AIG and Auto bailouts. in the same report they claimed there would be 19 billion in interest paid from the TARP agreements Bush signed to offset their losses…
With the AIG thing and the fact they tried to impose a tax on so called cadillac insuranbce plans but allowed the unions who support hima nd have regular visits to the white house to be exempt…doesnt anyone think thses things are just a little questionable?

One might as well add “Has sat in the Oval Office” for number 91.

A list of UNIQUE accomplishments, rather than following trend lines (”Better body armor”)–I’d bet more and better armor was supplied to the troops by Bush than Clinton–would be much more useful in judging Obama’s short record in office.