Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I hainatia e Obama he maha nga pire tohu ki te ture i roto i ona tau tuatahi e rua i te tari. Ko nga whakahoutanga matua ko: te Ture Awhina Taonga (ACA, "Obamacare"), ahakoa kaore he waahanga inihua hauora a te iwi; te Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; me te Kaua e Patai, Kaua e Korerohia te Ture Whakakore o te 2010. Ko te American Recovery and Reinvestment Act o te tau 2009 me te Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, me te Job Creation Act o te tau 2010 i mahi hei whakaongaonga ohaoha i waenga i te Pakaru Nui. Whai muri i te tautohetohe roa mo te rohe nama a motu, i hainatia e ia te Mana Whakahaere Putea me nga Ture Awhina a te Kaitoha Taake o Amerika. I roto i te kaupapa here o waho, i whakapiki ake ia i nga taumata hoia US i Afghanistan, i whakaiti i nga patu karihi me te United States-Russia New START kirimana, ka mutu te whakauru hoia ki te Pakanga o Iraq. I whakahaua e ia te whakauru hōia ki Libya
mo te whakatinanatanga o te Whakatau a te Kaunihera Haumarutanga o te UN 1973, e whai wāhi ana ki te whakakahoretanga o Muammar Gaddafi. I whakahau hoki ia i te mahi hōia i hua ai te whakamomori o Osama bin Laden.