Obama Campaign's Michigan Director Tells Northville Democrats About President's Achievements
Garrett Arwa discussed how the Obama campaign believes it has helped the middle class.
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President Barack Obama's Michigan director spent Wednesday night at Hillside Middle School reviewing what he considered to be the president's achievements.
Garrett Arwa touched on many topics he touted as the Obama administration's successes since 2008. He spoke to a group of about 50 people at the Northville Democratic Club event. He gave them talking points to recruit others to support Obama's re-election.
"Everything (Obama) said he'd do on the campaign trail, he has done or he has tried," Arwa said. He explained that not all of the President's endeavors have been fruitful because of partisan bickering.
Some of the Obama highlights that Arwa discussed included:
- The passage of the Affordable Health Care Act, which some Republicans have dubbed "Obamacare." It stipulates an individual mandate by 2014.
- The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first bill that the president signed into law, is regarded by the Obama administration as a remedy to challenge wage discrimination in federal court.
- The repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The repeal did away with the military's ban on openly gay servicemen.
- The passage of the Small Business Jobs Act, which the President's administration considers a job-creating tax incentive for small businesses.
- The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which regulates financial institutions.
- The appointment of two female Supreme Court justices, including the first Hispanic Justice, Sonia Sotomayor.
- The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which the President's administration has touted as a stimulus to economic recovery by creating new jobs and middle class tax cuts.
After his presentation, titled "Promises Kept," Arwa took questions from the audience. They ranged from questions about why the Guantanamo Bay prison is still open after 10 years to why Obama supported, though he said he did so reluctantly, the extension of the National Defense Authorization Act.
chris. roznowski
2:36 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
I do not agree with what Garrett had to say. I don not feel
Obama has done any thing to help this country. But put us deeper in dept. He is an admitted socialist and communist rule.s.
Herb Helzer
6:28 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
"[W]e are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions." ~ Harlan Ellison
Chris, this was an open meeting at a public school -- all were invited. Had you availed yourself of the opportunity, you might have become slightly better informed.
chris. roznowski
6:37 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
I doubt that.
citizen
10:56 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Worst Prez. in Us History! Don't have to be Brilliant to see that. His supposed accomplishments are infringing on our liberty! We need REAL Hope and Change in Nov. 2012!
Herb Helzer
3:23 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012
Well, Chris., at least you're self-aware enough to know that factual information won't sway you. Kudos.
Really, "citizen" -- the worst in the entire 223-year history since George Washington was inaugurated?
Behind even James Buchanan, who stood by tut-tutting while the South seceded, failed to prevent or shorten the Panic of 1857, and allowed the federal army to deteriorate, costing thousands of lives from the prolongation of the Civil War?
Or Warren G. Harding, whose "Ohio Gang" Cabinet was probably the most corrupt in U.S. history (Teapot Dome being just the best-remembered), and was widely reputed to have had four mistresses during his career, fathering a child with one?
Or Andrew Johnson, who suceeded Abraham Lincoln and proceeded to introduce Jim Crow, fight Reconstruction and the 14th Amendment, and alienate so many in Congress that he was impeached (avoiding conviction by one vote in the Senate)?
Or Millard Fillmore, who pushed for and signed the Fugitive Slave Act?
Or Richard M. Nixon ('nuff said)?
Or Herbert Hoover, on whose watch the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began (which he made worse thanks to rigid ideology and imposition of punishing tariffs that strangled trade when it was most needed)?
Long story short, get a little perspective.
chris. roznowski
10:12 pm on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
I am concerned about our country and where it is headed. Obama wants another debt ceiling increase. He is demanding Congress to fork over another $ 1.2 Trillion dollars. of our hard- earned taxpayer dollars to rise the nations debt ceiling to a staggering $ 16.4 Trillion. I say vote no to this.
Herb Helzer
6:15 pm on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
And I say you've learned literally nothing from the MILLIONS of words published and posted and broadcast last year regarding the debt ceiling.
The agreement reached in August 2011, passed by the Republican-controlled House as well as the Senate at the very last minute to avert possible default and signed into law, explicitly allows the President to take this step at this time. All Congress can do is make a symbolic vote of disapproval (non-binding!) -- regardless of what you might say.
You know the top three things that will REDUCE the annual deficit and allow the possible paying down of some of the debt?
1. A stronger economy;
2. Expiration of the Bush-era tax rate cuts for the two highest income brackets (the ones I doubt you will ever be subject to); and
3. The automatic cuts that were also included in the law that allowed increases in the debt ceiling through the end of the year (the ones set to occur because the "Super Committee" failed).