@CaptainHarley, they created a financial crisis which led to both my fiancée and my best friend being unemployed for a long period of time.
That’s just on a personal level. It also of course ruined the financial security of millions of other people, and continues to do so.
The Republicans also manipulated the public into supporting a war that should not have happened, a war that ended up causing the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, many of them innocent civilians.
The Republicans were able to do both of these things by appealing to the sheer ignorance, gullibility, and selfishness of their “base,” who frothingly regurgitate the propaganda talking points spoon-fed to them by the party’s media apparatus.
I think it’s important to keep in mind—when discussing the accomplishments or failures of the Obama administration—what the alternative actually is.