Thanksgiving thread to highlight Obama's success and debunk BS from your Fox Newz watching uncle.

[Snarkoleptic]

I never start it at Thanksgiving, but I ALWAYS finish it. Please post your success stories and debunks below (with links), show up armed with the facts and leave them sputtering sentence fragments "...but, but Benghazi...Socialism."

Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with everything Obama has done, but many of us are headed into enemy territory tomorrow and it's time to power up.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/15/a-long-list-of-president-obamas-accomplishments-with-citations/

Here are just a few from the linked, although somewhat stale article. It's worth reviewing as my wingnuts ruminate over their favorite talking points.

Improving the Economy, Preventing Depression.

Obama pushed through and signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as “the stimulus package,” despite the fact that not one Republican voted for that bill. In addition, he launched recovery.gov, so that taxpayers could track spending from the Act. http://1.usa.gov/ibiFSs http://1.usa.gov/e3BJMk

In his first year, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created and sustained 2.1 million jobs and stimulated the economy 3.5%. http://reut.rs/i46CEE
(Now more like 12 million jobs)

Obama completed the massive TARP financial and banking rescue plan, and recovered virtually all of its costs. http://1.usa.gov/eA5jVS http://bit.ly/eCNrD6

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1. Bristol Bay Alaska

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014967416

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2. Article - "5 Obama Accomplishments & Successes Republicans Have To Pretend Never Happened"

http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-obama-accomplishments-and-successes-republicans-have-to-pretend-never-happened/

Proved trickle-down economics are wrong, again.
You don’t hear it mentioned often enough, but 2014 was the best year of job creation in this century. This is a key point, because it’s the first full year in which Obama’s economic policies really took hold. Most of the Bush tax breaks on the rich ended in 2013. And in 2014, new taxes on the wealthy and corporations kicked in to help 16 million Americans gain health insurance. The result was a job market like we haven’t seen since the’90s. As they did in 1993, Republicans claimed that asking the rich to pay a bit more would destroy the economy......

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Proved that the government can kick-start a clean-energy revolution.
When it comes to fighting climate change, President Obama has done more than anyone on Earth. Beyond the regulations he set in his first term, which are quickly reducing our dependency on dirty energy, the stimulus launched the clean-energy technological revolution this nation needed. Republicans started calling the stimulus “failed” before it even became law. And that kind of message discipline — plus half a billion dollars in ads that smeared the bill — scared Democrats from bragging about it. But now that we’ve experienced the first year of economic growth where carbon emissions didn’t increase in 40 years, maybe they should....

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3. I am happy to thank President Obama for holding for the people against an incredible effort from

this nation's over powerful wealthy and conservative billionaires, and the wealthiest own all the information and the services that provide access as well.

I am not proud of how many Democratic voters have even believed and even joined the anti-Obama hate fest.

To read around on DU one would be hard to find that we have a fabulous human for a President.

Thank you Mr. President Obama for working for us.

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4. Thanks

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. But what if your uncle punctuates each statement with "...and that's a scientific fact!"

It's hard to refute science.

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6. I find that a lot of the BS thrown around by my wingnuts has a small basis in reality,

but is viewed in a twisted way or through a corporate/plutocratic lens. I love to google the source reporting and tear it to shreads.
One example is that of the horrible regulations on mint farmers who can no longer distill the oil from their plants.
Turns out they were dumping hundreds of gallons of boiling water into local streams and, in one case, a neighbors dog was killed when he went for a swim in the boiling stream.
They're dog lovers and immediately ran from their support of the farmers in this case.

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7. More- "President Obama Has Done a LOT! A List of 309 Accomplishments so far, With Citations"

http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-accomplishments/

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8. (Paul Krugman), once one of the president’s most notable critics, on why Obama is a historic success

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-defense-of-obama-20141008