Ka kammala wannan magana: Obama ya sanya hannu kan wasu muhimman dokoki a cikin shekaru biyu na farko a ofishinsa. Babban gyare-gyare sun haɗa da: Dokar Kula da Lafiya (ACA ko "Obamacare"), kodayake ba tare da zaɓin inshorar kiwon lafiya na jama'a ba; Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform da Dokar Kare Abokin Ciniki; da Kada ku tambayi, Kada ku gaya Dokar Dokar 2010. Dokar farfadowa da sake saka hannun jari ta Amurka ta 2009 da kuma Taimakon Haraji, Inshorar Inshorar Rashin Aiki, da Dokar Halitta Ayyuka na 2010 sun kasance masu karfafa tattalin arziki a tsakiyar Babban koma bayan tattalin arziki. Bayan doguwar muhawara kan iyakar bashin ƙasa, ya rattaba hannu kan Dokar Kula da Kasafin Kudi da Dokar Taimakawa Masu Biyan Haraji na Amurka. A cikin manufofin kasashen waje, ya kara yawan sojojin Amurka a Afghanistan, ya rage makaman nukiliya tare da Amurka da Rasha Sabon yarjejeniyar START, kuma ya kawo karshen shigar da sojoji a yakin Iraqi. Ya yi umurni
shiga tsakani na soja a Libya don aiwatar da shawarar Kwamitin Tsaro na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta 1973, wanda ya ba da gudummawa ga hambarar da Muammar Gaddafi. Ya kuma ba da umarnin aikin soja wanda ya haifar da kisan Osama bin Laden.