Commentary: Why Obama needs more time

Morris Reid, a leading Washington consultant and former official in the Clinton administration, argues that Barack Obama's work is only half done.

Yes this country and its people are better off than they were four years ago but the job is not done. It took us many years to get into this current economic mess, so it will take President Obama more than 4 years to get us out of the current economic situation we are in.

When President Obama came into office there was talk of our country going into another economic depression like the one in the 1930s. Thankfully through passage of the stimulus package an economic crisis was averted and now we have been steadily improving the economy and have had consistent job growth for over 26 consecutive months rather than losing over 3 million jobs as we had done during eight years of the Bush administration.

More needs to be done and more jobs need to be created, but economic recoveries do not happen overnight.

What has President Obama done over the past four years in office? He has saved the American auto industry which is the backbone of the American economy. He bailed out Wall Street and stabilized the housing market despite the double dip in home values which are higher now than they were before he became president. We can do more and more needs to be done but let’s not forget the bold steps that the President took to keep our economy from collapsing.

When President Obama came into the office, the other side did not want to work to solve our nation’s problems. Republicans led by Senator Mitch McConnell stated that their number one priority was defeating President on the first day he took office. So before Republicans question what the President has done over the past four years, let them look at themselves in the mirror and ask themselves what have they done because if you want to compare what the President has done for this country over the past four years rather than what the Republicans in Washington DC have done over the past 4 years, the comparisons are not even close.

Despite the last administration getting us into two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and not paying for these wars that we were involved in, President Obama has restored America’s standing in the world and helped capture and kill Osama Bin Laden.

07/09/12