Posted on 11/11/2016 11:08:09 AM PST by Innovative
What was supposed to be the crowning political achievement of Barack Obama’s presidency set the predicate for the unraveling of his legacy.
Obama is a once-in-a-generation political athlete who will always be remembered as the nation’s first African-American president. But a goodly portion of what he has labored for over two terms could now wash out with the political tide. His party has been devastated beneath him. It began in 2010, when Republicans took the House by winning 63 seats, the biggest pickup since 1948, and six seats in the Senate. In 2014, Republicans gained another 13 House seats and took control of the Senate. Democrats lost more than 900 state legislative seats in this period.
All in a presidential year. The GOP controls the presidency, the US Senate and House, and roughly two-thirds of the country’s governorships and state legislatures. The Democrats are now, judging by the scorecard of major offices, the nation’s minority party.
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The one thing I said in 2009 was that if nothing else, Obama would single handedly finish off the democrap party. He may just have.
Hey! I think the Clintons deserve some credit too.
will another black person ever get the chance to be president ?
“will always be remembered as the nation’s first African-American president”
Will ONLY be remembered....
He did have some help with that. Hillary Clinton gave him an able assist in the endeavor...
the infowarrior
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!
The Witch: They said you’d come... From the North, a man of great strength... A conqueror.
Demolition of the Democrat party was the SECOND greatest part of the legacy of Barack Hussein Obama.
Far greater was the motivation he gave the people of Flyover Country to propel The Donald into the newly restored White House.
Yes — but they will be a staunch conservative Republican.
Or as some Brit reporter on CNN put it:
“Barack Obama has proven that he excels at getting Barack Obama elected. But he’s an abject failure when it comes to getting any other Democrats elected.”
If the Bush GOPe toadies in Congress have any say they will blow it.
How can we really believe the polls when they say Obama’s approval rating is above 50%. We know how distorted and corrupt the polls are. Obama made this election a referendum on a third term for him. Hillary has 47.5% of the vote. The other 52.5% voted for someone else.
The 50% may be a personal approval rating. What is his job approval rating?
Obama’s legacy....the successful destruction of the Democrat Party!!! God bless him, for he has failed miserably in destroying the American Republic!!! Can you imagine Howard Dean as the DNC Chairman? ya gotta be kiddin’ me!!!
Rich Lowry$
The guy who turned the National Review into a “Vote for Hillary” magazine?
Shut up rich.
He was a known marxist muslim anti-American illegal alien in 2008.
His legacy and yours in the press is the destruction of America.
I don’t buy that his personal approval rating is 50%. We know the approval of his policies are well below 50%.
Spot on article but Rich Lowery is a little too late to the party. I’ll never warm up to him again after the way he dissed out nominee. Screw you Rich Lowery. Traitor.
This was Clinton’s legacy as much as it was Obama’s. Bill and Hillary Clinton have turned the Democrat Party into the party of Wall Street and the military industrial complex. Imagine that.
I can believe it. Obama hasn’t done anything of substance in Washington since ObamaCare was passed in 2010, so any “approval ratings” he has are based on nothing more than the public perception of his personality.
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