Obama’s accomplishments

Here is what Mrs Obama told me in an e-mail about the accomplishments of the first four years of her husband’s administration.

Our businesses have added 4.5 million jobs in the last 29 months. The typical middle-class family has saved $3,600 in tax cuts over his first term. We passed historic health care reform. The war in Iraq has ended. It’s now easier for women to fight for equal pay for equal work. And gay and lesbian service members can no longer be denied a place in our nation’s military because of who they are or who they love.

But unemployment is still over 8%, we are adding $3 million a minute to the national debt, health care reform has a long way to go to prove success and the money saved in taxes required more debt to transfer funds to the Social Security trust. I guess I can’t argue with the Iraq or gay accomplishments although if I were a gay soldier on the front line with security forces in Afghanistan I might take issue with that “accomplishment.”

I’m worried more about what has not been accomplished like dealing with major issues such as Medicare, Social Security and managing our growing debt ….. I’ll even settle for a long-term strategy.