Since there's some hub-hub about too many political threads of the same subject I'd thought I'd let the board liberals set the example by confining President Obama's success stories to a single thread.
Just to ensure no thread creep, lets define "recent" as since Jan 21, 2013 or his the second inauguration.
Out of a spirit of goodwill, I'll go first: Various stock indices have set new all-time highs. Although most of the credit go to the hard working industry of the American people, and in terms of "real dollars" its not a record, but still it happened on his watch.
Second, he got rid of that skank Hillary Clinton as SOS. I'm sure Bill C doesn't like it but....
Go ahead, board liberals, knock yourself out! Remember keep all of POTUS Obama kudos confined to this one thread!