By Jim Meyers,Newsmax
Exactly one year ago today,President Barack Obama swept into the White House on winds of promised change. But a Newsmax look back at his first 365 days in office finds far fewer highlights than lowlights.
Lowlights include:
Within days of taking office,Obama broke his pledge not to raise any taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year by imposing a tax hike of 61 cents on a pack of cigarettes. Measures the president supports would hike taxes by $2.1 trillion over 10 years,according to Americans for Tax Reform.
Just weeks after moving into the White House,Obama signed an executive order to shut down the detainee center at Guantanamo Bay and ordered it closed within a year. Nearly a year after he signed the order,the facility remains open.
The administration decided to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists in a civilian court in New York rather than in a military court,prompting critics to predict a “public show trial.”
Obama traveled to Copenhagen,Denmark,in an effort to convince Olympics officials to stage the 2016 games in Chicago. They chose Rio de Janeiro instead.
Obama also traveled to Copenhagen for the much-ballyhooed climate change conference,but the bid to forge a broad alliance against global warming fell short,and the Obama-favored cap-and-trade legislation appears to be dead in Congress.
The president dithered for months before finally agreeing to send additional troops to Afghanistan,then drew criticism for setting a date for U.S. withdrawal. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found that less than half of respondents approve of Obama’s handling of the war overall.
Obama said he would end the war in Iraq. During the year since he took office,473 more soldiers have died there and elsewhere,and troops remain in Iraq.
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Wow…so ignorant. Change doesn`t happen overnight,or even in a year. It`s called an economic recession,and Obama has repeatedly said that the next few years are going to be difficult. Of course theres going to be taxes imposed,and incase you haven`t realized the war is a little too far along to just pull out of. But no problem,I`m sure you could do a much,much better job at running the country. Now that`s a prime example of ìncompetence`.