I value Obama for his efforts to mostly keep us out of new foreign wars.  The economy would likely have progressed about the same regardless of who was president.  The jury on Obamacare is still out.  It did nothing to control costs and even left alone would likely be unsustainable because of the rocketing costs.  Besides, just look at the family recently highlighted in the RG basically begging for funds to support their child's skull fixing operation.  The child was identified as being insured by Obamacare.  It was also important to have a partially black President.