What has he done lately in his role as President of the United States?

Color me curious:

Press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Obama’s focus on the campaign “is relatively low now” because he is busy governing.

“He is not engaging particularly aggressively in his reelection campaign,” Carney said. “It’s only January. There is not a Republican nominee.”

Yet this week, the president is attending at least five fundraisers, including two Monday night in Washington and three events, including a public concert, in Chicago on Wednesday. First lady Michelle Obama, meanwhile, is appearing at four events in the swing state of Virginia this week, including two Democratic National Committee events.

On Monday night, Obama appeared at the Jefferson Hotel for an exclusive fundraiser with a group of 25 guests who had paid $45,000 apiece, with the money split between the DNC and Obama’s re-election campaign. Then the president attended an event for 700 people at the Capitol Hilton, which featured a performance by singer and pianist Sara Bareilles.

During the latter event, Obama made a lengthy speech that sounded very much like a draft of his campaign re-election message, hitting on his themes of fighting for the middle class and tying his GOP presidential opponents to Republican leaders in an unpopular Congress.

“Republicans in Congress and the candidates who are running for president,” Obama told the crowd in a refrain he would use twice more, “they’ve got a very specific idea of where they want to take this country.”

Then the president listed what he claimed were the goals of Republicans: gut education, technology and infrastructure investments; turn Medicare into a private voucher system; roll back the minimum wage, collective bargaining rights and environmental regulations.

“Republicans in Congress and these candidates, they think that the best way for America to compete for new jobs and businesses is to follow other countries in a race to the bottom,” Obama declared.

Obama also listed his accomplishments in office, citing his bailout of the auto industry, health care reform, the ending of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

I ask again, what has he done lately in his role as President of the United States?

Anyone?

Comments

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

“Obama also listed his accomplishments in office, citing his bailout of the auto industry, health care reform, the ending of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.”

That’s what he’s running on?

Point by point;

A). The auto “industry“, meaning GM and Chrysler(Ford didn‘t need one, but “industry" sounds so much cooler), bailout was begun under Pres. Bush.

B.) Withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq, weather you agree with it or not, was the result of the surge under…wait for it…Pres. Bush. Which Obama was against.

C.) As far as “health care reform”, I don’t recall Pres. Obama being involved at all in that fiasco. But hey, if he wants to take for such a piece of crap, socialistic, economy killing bit of legislation that hasn‘t yet passed the smell test by the SC…

So to recap, his “accomplishments” are either the result of the “failed policies of the last administration” or something he had little do with. But hey, gays get to serve in the military, whoopee.

Let’s just forget the what else he’s been responsible for - constantly high unemployment, the staggering deficit, the first downgrade in US history, the suffocating business regulations, losing 535 million to Solyndra, the ‘Fast & Furious’ jackassery…the demagoguery of the Tea Party, the class warfare BS, constant race baiting, supporting the vile, raping, drug using, criminal Occupy jagoffs…an “illegal war”, Gitmo still open…record setting golf outings, lavish and constant vacations…various verbal gaffes and outright lies…Van Jones, Joe Biden…his wife…

[The Ranter]

If this is him governing because he's not really campaigning, I have a feeling I'm going to hate his governing when he *is* really campaigning. :/