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Obama's legacy: He sparked hope -- and got blindsided
CNN ^ | 3/09/18 | Julian Zelizer

Posted on 03/09/2018 10:41:54 PM PST by Libloather

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Many members of his party pleaded with him to stop watering down his proposals, including lowering the amount of his stimulus request, based on the false hope he would be able to persuade his opponents -- but Obama insisted. As the political ecosystem started to drown in partisan spin and vitriolic slander, he attempted to be reasonable, appealing to the evidence-based angels in our electorate, desperately trying to ignore all the noise.

But the partisan noise was what our politics was now about. And this influenced much of his term in office. Starting with the 2010 midterm elections, Obama was Tea-Partied. He watched as the Republican Party veered far to the right. A new generation of politicians came into power whose core policy beliefs were well outside the mainstream. They were extraordinarily hardline in their stance against immigration. They had little tolerance for criminal justice reform to achieve racial justice. They hated the Affordable Care Act and financial regulations. And they were determined to cut federal spending as much as they could.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hope; hussein; legacy; obama
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Editor's Note: Julian Zelizer is a history and public affairs professor at Princeton University and the editor of "The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment." He's also the co-host of the "Politics & Polls" podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @julianzelizer. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.

Julian needs to find a way to 'move on'. The country has.

1 posted on 03/09/2018 10:41:54 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Still polishing his “soetoro kneepads”.


2 posted on 03/09/2018 10:49:08 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: Libloather

So he should have said premiums will go through the roof instead of going down 2500. And he should have said there was no way on earth you could keep your doctor.


3 posted on 03/09/2018 10:53:29 PM PST by taterjay
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To: Libloather

Obama - sparked “hope” in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine, Iraq.


4 posted on 03/09/2018 10:55:40 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Libloather

What a ridiculous sack of.....

So these are what pass for “learned professors” in the 21st century.

Simply a bunch of left-wing propagandists....


5 posted on 03/09/2018 11:00:14 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Libloather

Obama was America’s Erich Honecker.

Like the East German leader, Obama ruthlessly spied on his people while arming far flung enemies of the West.


6 posted on 03/09/2018 11:04:17 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q-Tards and Laugh!)
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To: Libloather

Obamunism sucks.


7 posted on 03/09/2018 11:07:33 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Libloather
Julian needs to find a way to 'move on'.

moveon.borg

Get it?

8 posted on 03/09/2018 11:14:59 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Libloather

What a comedian, Obama blindsided America and stole the nations hope. But of course it’s the communist news network and to them bathhouse Barry can only be a hero or ........victim, and this week he’s a victim.


9 posted on 03/09/2018 11:15:36 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Libloather

They care so much about Obama and never bothered to notice he was not even vetted for eligibility and the fact that he faked his selective service card and used other people’s social security numbers points to him having a citizenship problem. Not a problem for the magic boy.


10 posted on 03/09/2018 11:17:55 PM PST by Yaelle
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Give full credit, where it’s due: Obama not only stole the nation’s hope, he also scooped up a lot of spare change.


11 posted on 03/09/2018 11:20:37 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!�)
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To: Libloather

So Communist News Network is still lying for the Kenyan Fraud.

We are not surprised.


12 posted on 03/09/2018 11:20:47 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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[Obama - sparked “hope” in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine, Iraq.]

But mostly in Iranian mullahs who seek the destruction of Israel and the bankrupting and moral decay of America.


13 posted on 03/09/2018 11:21:45 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Libloather
Starting with the 2010 midterm elections, Obama was Tea-Partied.

He watched as the Republican Party veered far to the right.

A new generation of politicians came into power whose core policy beliefs were well outside the mainstream.

They were extraordinarily hardline in their stance against immigration.

They had little tolerance for criminal justice reform to achieve racial justice. They hated the Affordable Care Act and financial regulations.

And they were determined to cut federal spending as much as they could.

And?

14 posted on 03/09/2018 11:23:06 PM PST by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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OMG!! This is the biggest Mega- Giga- Tera- Barf Alert I’ve seen all week!


15 posted on 03/09/2018 11:23:35 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: Libloather
A new generation of politicians came into power whose core policy beliefs were well outside the mainstream.

OMG! How did this happen? Was there a coup???

No, there was an election and Obama's homeys got swept out of office.

16 posted on 03/09/2018 11:36:19 PM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Libloather

there is no way a properly trained historian would even consider doing a historical “assessment” of a presidency less than 10 to 20 years in the past.

Doing such an “assessment” after less than 2 years is lacking in proper intellectual ethics.


17 posted on 03/09/2018 11:44:35 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: PGR88

More than anything else, Obama inspired the fringe, the bizarre, the confused, the hopelessly naive and of course Putin’s Russia.

Obama gave Putin Carte Blanche to assert Russian military, economic and political heavy handed sway over great swathes of the globe, something that went against formal, US post-WWII Foreign policy efforts. Our main policy was to keep the Russians out of the Middle East and away from warm naval ports.

Now, after years of Russian involvement in Syria, they’ve tested all their military system developed since the late 1980’s and have battle tested and improved every system they have.

This is akin to the book about Pearl Harbor entitled, “While America [Obama] Slept”.


18 posted on 03/09/2018 11:46:32 PM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: PGR88
"Obama - sparked “hope” in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine, Iraq.i>


19 posted on 03/09/2018 11:59:45 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: clearcarbon

Have you noticed that since Trump took office the beheading videos have stopped?


20 posted on 03/10/2018 12:26:40 AM PST by databoss
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