With the Presidential Elections only a few days away and a tight race between the two candidates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, one wonders whether it could have gone down to the wire like this, if the President hadn’t assumed office with a global financial collapse and two draining wars to deal with.
Eight years of the Bush administration had left voters feeling disillusioned, and Obama soon found himself in office with an impossible task: exceed voter expectations as the economy was crumbing to bits.
What was also clear was that the President should have kept healthcare for the second term but most of all, he, singlehandedly, wasn’t able to make changes, considering the fact that Congress remained divided over what was best for the common good.
Yet there were achievements despite these disappointments, and some of them include reforming healthcare and Wall Street, the U.S Auto industry, killing Osama Bin Laden, withdrawing troops from Iraq, changing foreign policy to fit the times we live in as well as getting rid of the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy of the military.
It is an impressive list of achievements, by any standards, but the reason why Obama deserves a second-term is because Romney will only reverse the progress back to old times – which got the country in trouble in the first place.
Obama has also given importance to education but also to the promotion of alternative energy sources while Romney wants to drill for oil in America as much as possible.
All in all, the Romney-Ryan ticket seems promising but is short on specifics… and which is why it is seems only fair that the President gets a second term to fulfill what he intended to carry out four years ago.