Know Your President: Week Forty-Two

Party: Democratic

Fact One: The president came into office during one of the worst financial crises of all time. He did what was necessary to get the country back on track by signing a stimulus package, as well as a major industry bailout.

Fact Two: Passed a major healthcare reform bill. The jerk even had the audacity to name it after himself. President Affordable Care.

Fact Three: Even though this president enacted a policy to protect many undocumented immigrants, he also deported record numbers of illegal immigrants.

Fact Four: He repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which allowed gay & lesbian people to serve in the military. He was the first sitting president to support same-sex marriage. 

Fact Five: He signed an executive order which banned torture. Jack Bauer immediately quit his job.

Quotes: 
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.”

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Author: Ngewo