Posted on 12/09/2016 8:04:15 PM PST by Steelfish
Obama’s Second Term Was a Complete Failure by JIM GERAGHTY. December 9, 2016.
There’s no other way to describe it. Every December, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post picks the biggest political loser of the past year. In 2013, Cillizza’s selection was Barack Obama. He cited the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov, the NSA domestic-surveillance scandal, the IRS’s targeting of tea-party groups, and the continuing questions about the administration’s actions before, during, and after the attack on Americans in Benghazi.
In 2014, Cillizza’s selection was Obama, again. The midterm elections went abysmally for Democrats, the threat of ISIS became much clearer, Russia moved into Ukraine, and former CIA director and secretary of defense Leon Panetta painted an unflattering portrait of the president’s leadership in his memoirs. (snip)
Lined up one after another, Cillizza’s picks create a broader narrative: President Obama’s second term has been a terrible failure for the country. A nation that is pleased with the status quo — a nation that feels prosperous, safe, and confident about the future — doesn’t choose to roll the dice with Donald Trump. (snip)
Jonathan Chait’s ill-timed forthcoming book argues that “in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America’s best and most accomplished presidents.”
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria recently offered a two-hour special concluding that America failed its president: “It remains unclear if the country was ready for Barack Obama’s vision.” These are strenuous efforts to avoid the obvious: Obama’s ideas didn’t work. He failed to deliver what he promised.
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No. his second term was very successful — he much further weakened USA and our economy and liberties and defenses and allies - while shoving many thousands of enemy islamonazi fighting age men into our country. And he’s kept nearly 100 million Americans out of work too.
Yeah, and after the 100s of millions of dollars spent on his golfing he still sucks at that too.
No matter howyou slice it, Obama is a complete an utter failure. The media has already shown they willlie for him. Fake numbers on the economy. All BS all the time. Can’t wait until this clown is GONE!
I thought this was hilarious
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria recently offered a two-hour special concluding that America failed its president: “It remains unclear if the country was ready for Barack Obama’s vision.”
So was his first term.
Depends upon what his goals were.
Given that his goal was to “fundamentally transform” the greatest nation on Earth, I’d say he was quite successful.
He still has a little over a month to administer a coup de gras. A last parting shot as he lastly sets the White House on fire as he walks out the door.
He still has a little over a month to administer a coup de gras. A last parting shot as he lastly sets the White House on fire as he walks out the door.
I will always be thankful that Obama beat Hillary in ‘08. Sure, he ran up the debt, threw away our “victories” in the Middle East, and got 1 SCOTUS pick. We can survive all that and Obamacare wound up saving the GOP. He was lazy. Hillary would have been relentless
Exactly
Well I don’t know about that. He did lower his handicap on the links.
I’m looking at this from outside in. To me, he didn’t achieve anything good, first or second term. In foreign policy, he was is a continuation of his predecessor, only more surreptitiously.
“Can’t wait until this clown is GONE!”
The cat isn’t going anywhere. If you, like so many often wished Jimmuh Cahtah would have just shut up, and disappeared, this anus orifice will cause a double down on that wish.
WE will probably hear more about, and from the Obamanass after his departure from the White Hut than ever, because the leftist MSM won’t let us have otherwise.
Obama promised to fundamentally transform America. Faithfully following the instructions of Cloward, Piven and Alinsky he delivered exactly what he promised and intended, to weaken America, a country he had complete disdain for.
the homo’s did well during the Obama years.
“Obama’s Second Term Was a Complete Failure”
Obama himself has been a complete failure all his life.... unless you consider his attempts to greatly weaken America.
Vision is impossible with black eye patches over the eyes.
As Rush said, “I hope he fails”.
WTP say, but he didn’t fail, he failed only US.
Just like the the German people failed Hitler, it remains unclear if Germany was ready for Hitler's vision.
Golfing is very difficult. It almost launched me in a new career (as ditch digger).
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