Obama's record of achievements

A letter writer parrots the GOP line that Barack Obama is a "failed president." This argument holds special appeal for Republicans but requires a short memory. Obama inherited an economy that was shedding 750,000 jobs a month, a banking system in ruins and an auto industry on the way out.

His predecessor, by contrast, inherited a budget surplus and a healthy economy. He immediately set about squandering both, then embroiled us in two wars.

In Obama's three years in office, more jobs have been created that in the entire eight years of George W. Bush. We're out of Iraq, bin Laden is dead, the auto industry is profitable and Obama signed health care legislation that eluded his predecessors for nearly a century.