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From Doug Ross:
President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]
� First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government

� First President to Violate the War Powers Act

� First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels

� First President to issue an unlawful "recess-appointment" while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department)

� First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

� First president to intentionally disable credit card security measures in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures.

� First President to Defy a Federal Judge's Court Order to Cease Implementing the 'Health Care Reform' Law

� First President to halt deportations of illegal aliens and grant them work permits, a form of stealth amnesty roughly equivalent to "The DREAM Act", which could not pass Congress

� First President to Sign a Law Requiring All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party

� First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs

� First President to sue states for requiring valid IDs to vote, even though the same administration requires valid IDs to travel by air

� First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters

� First President to sign into law a bill that permits the government to "hold anyone suspected of being associated with terrorism indefinitely, without any form of due process. No indictment. No judge or jury. No evidence. No trial. Just an indefinite jail sentence."

� First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat

� First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases

� First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government

� First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler

� First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions"

� First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees

� First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space

� First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places

� First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present"

� First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund attacks against civilians

� First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It

� First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory

� First President to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena

� First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)

� First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago

� First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case

� First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts

� First President to Preside Over America's Loss of Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute)

� First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization Tied to the Cop-Killing Weather Underground

� First President to allow Mexican police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil

� First president to propose budgets so unreasonable that not a single representative from either party would cast a vote in favor ("Senate unanimously rejected President Obama's budget last year in 0-97 vote", "House Votes 414-0 to Reject Obama�s Budget Plan", The Blaze)

� First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and rights to half of all offshore oil revenue" (The Law Of The Sea Treaty)

� First President to Golf 90 or More Times in His First Three Years in Office

But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.
Quite the legacy 'ya got there Barry. Something to be very proud of. The 120+ comments on Doug's site offer some additional Historic Firsts. Imagine what he could do if he had another four years...

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