No One Can Argue There Hasn't Been Change

With yesterday's historical announcement from the president, it's becoming clearer and clearer that anyone who tries to argue there hasn't been any change since 2008 really isn't paying attention.

In honor of the Hope and Change that has come to America, here is The Fold Blog's Top Ten.

1. bin Laden is dead thanks to President Obama's direct policy of refocusing efforts on finding and killing him.
2. The first and only Health Care Reform in our nation's history (an ongoing hope in America since 1948).
3. Successfully ended the war in Iraq and greatly helped #1 to happen.
4. Saved the American auto industry.
5. Successfully used American interventionism to remove Gaddafi (something the last 4 presidents couldn't do).
6. Repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell.
7. Ended Bush's state-sanctioned torture policies.
8. New Start Treaty with Russia.
9. Ended Bush's restrictions on Stem Cell research.
10. First American president to openly support gay marriage.

We could probably make a list of 20 items and still leave stuff out.  However, these are the 10 issues or items that we feel have affected the most change since 2008.  These are not necessarily changes from the previous administration.  Some are changes many presidents tried to do but failed (health care reform, kill bin Laden, remove Gaddafi, etc...).

It's true many people can argue there hasn't been enough change but to argue there hasn't been any is ridiculous.  Any president would love to have just one of the ten listed above, in less than 4 years time too.  On that same note, there isn't a president since FDR you can list 10 monumental changes in their tenure that would be greater than what President Obama has done.

To say that you don't like the changes that have taken place is a totally different story.  But chances are you didn't vote for Obama anyway and don't plan to this year either and would complain no matter what the guy did.  Turning off your Fox News teevee set would help your world tremendously.

Viva la Change!