Obama

It has been over 460 days since President Obama was sworn into office. It is time for a look back and a re-buff of those who say Obama's accomplishments have been less than steller:

- Health Care - Say what you will about the reform not going far enough but President Obama's reform expanded coverage to 32 million more Americans while simultaneously reducing the deficit by $1.3 trillion over the next 20 years. It also made it illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and allowed young people to stay on their parent's health care plan until they are 26.

- Economic Stimulus - Obama signed into law the largest stimulus package in history at $787 billion which included spending for health care, infrastructure, education, and direct assistance to individuals. As a result of these measures, the industrial production index has been up 9 months in a row, the readings on GDP last quarter showed 5.9 percent annual growth and employers added 162,000 jobs in March, the biggest gain in four years.

- Nuclear Weapons - On April 8, 2010, President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the latest Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a "major" nuclear arms control agreement that reduces the nuclear weapons stockpiles of both countries.

- Supreme Court - Obama's first Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor became the very first hispanic on the Supreme Court and only the 3rd woman. He now prepares to announce his second nominee.

- Stem Cell Research - On March 9, 2009, Obama repealed a Bush-era policy that prevented federal tax dollars from being used to fund research on new lines of embryonic stem cells.

- Environment - On January 27, 2009, Obama directed the Department of Transportation to raise fuel efficiency standards incrementally to 35 miles per US gallon by 2020. Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides $54 billion in funds to double domestic renewable energy production, renovate federal buildings making them more energy-efficient, improve the nation's electricity grid, repair public housing, and weatherize modest-income homes.

- Iraq and Afganistan - On February 18, 2009, Obama announced that the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan would be bolstered by 17,000 new troops by summer in an effort to create a new strategy in the war "Canaidate Obama" promised would be the focus of his presidency. On February 27, 2009 Obama declared his plan for ending the Iraq War in a speech at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

- Nobel Peace Prize - Obama was awarded the Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" . He then donated the $1.4 million given to him in conjunction with the Nobel Peace Prize to ten charities, including the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund and the United Negro College Fund.

What did I miss, and what are your thoughts?