Obama Used This Excuse To Exercise Tyrannical Control, But It Backfired According to recent reports, President Barack Obama has officially taken more executive action than any other president in the United States. During his two terms as president, Obama has issued 195 executive orders and 198 presidential memoranda. He can no longer make the tired claim that he is acting just as any other president has. Further, his actions are more extreme than those taken by previous presidents. Hes issued the Department of Labor to collect salary information from federal contractors, hes asked the Department of Education to cap student loan payments at 10% income, and hes pushed for amnesty. What do you think? Is it time Obama was out of the White House? 