Posted on 12/14/2016 1:48:05 PM PST by Kaslin
As President Barack Obama's White House days run out, it's time for his obsequious courtiers in the liberal media to announce his glorious "legacy." On Dec. 7, CNN devoted a two-hour prime-time special to the Obama legacy. It was hosted by Fareed Zakaria, a journalist whom Obama had invited to the White House so he could soak in Zakaria's wisdom and expertise -- in other words, so he could flatter a journalist into giving him softball coverage.
Mission accomplished.
Just as it began nine years ago, Zakaria started by celebrating the president's race, the gauzy references to Kenya and Kansas fusing into one glorious body. Forget what Obama did . The first legacy was simply who he represented.
And for that he'd been victimized. In CNN's eyes, Obama's central crisis was the "fierce, unrelenting opposition" of Republicans and their latent racism. Obama's former senior adviser David Axelrod claimed, "It's indisputable that there was a ferocity to the opposition and a lack of respect to him that was a function of race." CNN pundit Van Jones agreed, saying, "I can't name one thing that this Congress supported this president on in eight years!" The left never had the intellectual nuance (or the political decency) to acknowledge that one could oppose Obama because he's a socialist. Period.
At the show's end, Zakaria concluded: "Presidential legacies also exist above and beyond laws and policies. We remember John F. Kennedy for energy, vitality, elegance and intelligence that he brought to the White House. And in that sense, Obama has left an indelible mark.
"He and his family occupied the White House with dignity, grace and good humor. He ran an administration that was largely scandal-free ... and did it all the while under a microscope because he looked different."
At a time when liberals are warning about the democracy-gutting potential of fake news, there is no faker news than the declaration that Obama's time in office was largely scandal-free. In the two-hour special there was no mention of Benghazi or IRS harassment, and no time given to Solyndra or Operation Fast and Furious. Some scandals -- the failure of Obamacare, the courting of Islamist Iran -- were cast as "signature (achievements)."
How this network still includes the word "news" in the title is beyond us.
Most spectacularly, Zakaria didn't utter one word about the national debt. It almost doubled from $10 trillion to an inconceivable $19 trillion in just eight years. Obama fans complain that it's not all Obama's fault, but CNN and Zakaria didn't think that's a legacy, or at least as much of a legacy as, say, Obama holding a "beer summit" with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.
The dourest note that Zakaria hit in the two hours was -- you guessed it -- that troublesome President-elect Donald Trump. He may erase much of what Obama thinks is his enormous legacy. Zakaria admitted that Obamacare has problems, but so what? He is so pro-Obama that it doesn't matter whether it's actually a complete failure. He said: "I would argue that even if Donald Trump finds a way to repeal and replace it, it remains a historic achievement. Barack Obama did what seven presidents failed to do -- he made health care a fundamental right. It's the signature achievement of a consequential president."
This is socialist logic. Enshrining a right to health care never guarantees comprehensive health care. Ask the people of Fidel Castro's Cuba. Hillary Clinton lost in part because working-class people couldn't afford -- and didn't want -- Obamacare. That is his legacy, too.
Conservatives will define Trump's success by measuring how many of Obama's failed policies are reversed, and whether untrammeled federal government overreach is slowed in any way. We can count on CNN to oppose that agenda every step of the way.
That is his legacy
Hussein is going to be issuing BlackLashes for years. Don your blackflak jackets.
Obama is the water just before the rinse cycle.
More lather than white wash.
Gray, dirty, in need of a nearby sewer.
Obama has always been blaming others. That’s his only legacy.
Isn’t he responsible for the highest number ever on food stamps?
Isn’t he responsible for the decrease in black home ownership percentage?
Isn’t he responsible for the increased levels in black school failures and student achievement?
Isn’t he responsible for the increase in crime and bam bull?
Did he do anything of benefit to the black family other than serve to diminish it?
Worst President in History. Rather than reflecting well on his Race, he has proved to be an embarrassment. His Presidency has merely reinforced negative stereotypes here and around the world.
There were and are decent and competent black people who could have done well in the office, (Allen West, Ben Carson) and the real shame is that history has allowed this imbecile to represent a "black" Presidency.
They and we deserved better than this fool.
Our national nightmare will soon be over and we will awaken to a bright and glorious Trump morn!
No scandals?
So looting the American treasure, adding to the decline and debt while millions entered the country illegally for eight years is not a scandal? It's not a scandal to attack your own law enforcement as Obama supported criminal law breakers?
Not a scandal as Obama supported reckless chain immigration policies which resulted in mass murder of Americans as Obama continues importing terrorist into out towns and cities? These are not scandals? Gezuzz..
Correction: Zakaria is not a journalist. He’s a liberal masquerading as one.
Perhaps the "beer summit" should be marked as Obama's true legacy, at least symbolically.
Obama's "beer sumit" set the tone for race relations in the US for the rest of his Presidency. From that point on, Obama used his bully pulpit to not-so-subtly imply that in every conflict between law enforcement and a black person, law enforcement is always in the wrong. His "legacy" was giving a green light to the worst race riots the US has seen in nearly a half century, as well as a nod and wink blessing to hoodlums who shoot cops.
There will be no estate or death tax on the Obama Legacy because he ended up in debt
Not one part of Obamas’ legacy is redeeming, not even one.
O’s real legacy is proving that Carter is not the worst President that could be.
Regards,
HLB
So this is his only reaction to legitimite criticism.
See my post in #1
Yes, absolutely the worst.
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