What you should be feeling good about are the people who held Obama's feet to the fire, who weren't deterred by the criticism of Obama's 'most ardent supporters' (like you) and were willing to let him and Democrats renege on their campaign promises.
I'm not talking about START, by the way -- There was no way that it wasn't going to get passed. That was a no brainer. There was no way that Republicans were going to let themselves get caught on the other side of that issue. I'm talking about legislation like 9/11 Responders, and DADT, although we're going to have to wait to see just how and when Obama's going to let that be implemented.
From your list of Obama's 'accomplishments', it's clear that you don't read legislation and listen only to his very high priced public relations' spinners' rhetoric. For example, when 50,000 combat-trained troops remain (plus untolled numbers of private contractors, specifically to hide American military presence and involvement), when key Iraq government posts are empty, the war in Iraq is far from over.
And we're in the 10th year of the Afghanistan war, no end in sight, expansion on the horizon, with an undefined and free-floating 'mission'.
And as far as "keeping the nation from going into a Depression", you really don't want to go there. You really don't want to put Obama in that seat. It wasn't any trick or great feat; all that was needed was opening up Americans' veins (US Treasury) and bleeding us all out into the criminal banks' back pockets. And it was Bush that did that (TARP). What Obama was responsible for was an anemic stimulus and HAMP that has this Depression (yes, we're in a Depression, not a recession) poised to meltdown yet again:
3 million foreclosures down, 11 million more in the pipeline. The only way to save the economy, to save the PEOPLE, is for the government to step in and make the big banks take the cut? 15 million families are about to face foreclosure.
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