Ditka Butkus
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State a decision that a POTUS in your lifetime has made that has had either a direct positive or negative effect on you.
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Steve Tasker
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Obama's refusal to defend DOMA and the subsequent Supreme Court Windsor decision have been great for my immediate family. I am honored to be the best man in my brother's wedding next year and am incredibly happy for him and his future husband. It was already legal in NY, but I know the nationwide recognition meant a lot to him.
Thanks, Obama
Thanks, Obama
Ramsay Hunt Experience
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Well, it was my first time. So I really appreciated Clinton's decision to take it slow and make it super romantic.
AAABatteries
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mr roboto
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Going to war in Iraq - lost a good friend from HS.
Medicare part D and catastrophic prescription coverage - kept my grandmother with leukemia alive and relatively well for 5 extra years. She got to see my daughter (her only great grand child).
So thanks, and no thanks Bush.
Medicare part D and catastrophic prescription coverage - kept my grandmother with leukemia alive and relatively well for 5 extra years. She got to see my daughter (her only great grand child).
So thanks, and no thanks Bush.
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Dr. Octopus
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Jimmy Carter:
It would be many many years later that this would have a positive (and sometimes negative) effect on me - but my current wife was a Vietnamese refugee who with her family escaped Vietnam during the fall of Saigon at the age of 8 and finally entered the US at the age of 11.
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And Obama deserves credit because he shifted the balance of the court, which has not shifted?
The drumbeat for WMDs in Iraq started with the Clinton administration and after 9-11 there was an overwhelming chance that any mildly hawkish president from either party would have made the same call.
lod01
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Bush, by doing nothing about the massive housing bubble that formed on his watch, was able to destroy the stock market and allow me to pour in $ in 2009 and ride one of the greatest bull markets in history for the next 6 years.
So by being totally incompetent, he made some smart people a whole lot richer. So he has that going for him...which is good.
So by being totally incompetent, he made some smart people a whole lot richer. So he has that going for him...which is good.
B-Deep
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not sure how you define a POTUS decision but here's my real answer:
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990[1][2] (ADA) is a law that was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1990. In 1986, the National Council on Disability had recommended enactment of an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and drafted the first version of the bill which was introduced in the House and Senate in 1988. It wassigned into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, amended and signed by President George W. Bush with changes effective January 1, 2009.
If it was not his decision then at very least the manner which he treated this legislation and the respect he gave when he signed it certainly resonates with me. Many people know that I have a son with a fairly severe disability and this is one of many laws passed that have made his education much better than it would have been before their passage. Beyond that, simply stating with the law and his remarks that Americans who have a disability are an assets to this country and should be treated with respect and are an equal part of our society means the world to me, and was a key part of changing the way people think.
I cannot read his remarks without tearing up and quite frankly regardless of anything else he may or may not have done this alone puts him near the top of my list. The impact of this law and his remarks are that powerful to me.
If you have never read his remarks, I encourage you to do so:
http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/videos/ada_signing_text.html
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990[1][2] (ADA) is a law that was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1990. In 1986, the National Council on Disability had recommended enactment of an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and drafted the first version of the bill which was introduced in the House and Senate in 1988. It wassigned into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, amended and signed by President George W. Bush with changes effective January 1, 2009.
If it was not his decision then at very least the manner which he treated this legislation and the respect he gave when he signed it certainly resonates with me. Many people know that I have a son with a fairly severe disability and this is one of many laws passed that have made his education much better than it would have been before their passage. Beyond that, simply stating with the law and his remarks that Americans who have a disability are an assets to this country and should be treated with respect and are an equal part of our society means the world to me, and was a key part of changing the way people think.
I cannot read his remarks without tearing up and quite frankly regardless of anything else he may or may not have done this alone puts him near the top of my list. The impact of this law and his remarks are that powerful to me.
If you have never read his remarks, I encourage you to do so:
http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/videos/ada_signing_text.html
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HellToupee
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for doma being over
HellToupee
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Is this your board?
mr roboto
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No.
Chadstroma
Footballguy
Signing Dodd Frank Act. Added extra irritation, paperwork, training, more work etc all for essentially less money now. All directly resulting from Dodd Frank.
Chadstroma
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Ramrodding Obamacare through.... getting to watch my costs skyrocket over the last few years has been tons of fun.
There was zero call from any smart people from either party to fix the problem before the market crashed and Demorats were at least as responsible for the policies which lead to it if not more so. In fact Bush was one of the few policies a who actually said something needed to be done about it beforehand.
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Obamacare, good or bad, is something that is actually somewhat relevant to who the president was and Obama being president was uniquely responsible for its passage, although it still was dependent upon Demicrats having control of both houses.
FUBAR
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HellToupee
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You can pay your way out of this
Steve Tasker
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lod01
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I'm 100% positive they were going up with Obamacare or without. What Obamacare did do was give insurance companies the opportunity to jack up rates higher than the normally would.
Want to guess what comes with a repeal of Obamacare? Insurance companies claiming that Obamacare was what was holding prices down and now without it, they have to jack up rates higher than normal. I know if I was running one of these insurance companies, I would be preparing that move. Why? Because there ain't jack #### you can do about it. Why" Because you keep voting it the same brand of losers every election cycle. Not you personally. I'm speaking to everyone on this board goose stepping behind their party's candidate.
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timschochet
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College football playoffs.
Chadstroma
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Chadstroma
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Healthcare costs were going up but it would be fun to watch someone try to argue that Obamacare has not increased healthcare costs. For me, I saw my healthcare costs go from modestly increasing each year to almost tripling in the last few years.
The whole argument FOR Obamacare aka as AFFORDABLE Health blah blah blah Act was that it would keep costs down which of course was a bold faced lie. And which of course people like myself pointed out over and over and was told that I was a partisan hack and yadda yadda.
If it is repealed it would all be on what replaced it. I have been very displeased with the GOP for just doing the meaningless repeal acts recycled through Congress without presenting it's replacement.
There are things that could have been done to actually keep costs down but of course those were roundly ignored other than the liberal call for single payer, which would keep costs down but as with most liberal actions would have horrible unintended consequences.
El Floppo
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it's been a pain in the ###, and my options and coverage are slightly worse... but I'm paying a third (1/3) what I was paying before- so, yeah.
Jules Winnfield
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