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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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To: Libloather

He sparked hope for the new communist left and got blindsided by economic and political reality.


21 posted on 03/10/2018 12:43:14 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Libloather

Despite the efforts of libtard progressives, truth be told, the ONLY legacy of ObamaIdiot will be that he simply was the 1st Black POTUS, that is it.


22 posted on 03/10/2018 12:50:34 AM PST by cranked
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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.

An obvious and natural reaction to a president that had swung radically to Left of any previous president.

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.

Again, a natural reaction to a president that had plotted a course to change the fabric of American culture and politics through immigration. Flooding the country with third world immigrants will drive politics in the country to Left. Bringing in millions of unskilled immigrants to this country will swamp the social welfare system and drive up deficit spending.

They had little tolerance for criminal justice reform to achieve racial justice.

Why should they. There is no justice in ‘racial justice’. The phrase ‘Justice is Blind’ is a ancient truth. Justice must look at the facts and only the facts. No man should receive different treatment under the Law because of his race. If one man can assault a man and walk away unpunished because of the color of his skin there is no justice.

They hated the Affordable Care Act and financial regulations.

Of course they did. Everything about ObamaCare was an assault upon the foundations of this country. It was passed illegally in congress and against the obvious will of the people. Dodd-Frank was nothing more than a power grab by congress meant to bring in campaign contributions. The bill did nothing to combat bank fraud and simply added so much regulatory compliance cost on small banks that they can not compete with the big banks.

The Obama administration add so much regulatory cost to the US economy in all sectors that he slowed the recovery of the economy to a crawl. It was inevitable that any new administration that did anything to alleviate that burden would spark a sharp acceleration in the economy.

Trump did that in spades and we are all reaping the whirlwind of prosperity.

23 posted on 03/10/2018 12:51:11 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: Libloather

Is this “Batshit cracy leftists night” at the Bijou? Besides this idiot and the others that followed him at the CNN site, we had Nathan TwistedFrankfurterberger and his Guns and White Supremacy thingy.

Look at the number of professors who are crazy. No wonder our kids can’t learn the truth or at least how to think objectively.

Let me check if there is a full moon out tonight (and I don’t mean Bill Clinton’s butt). Somewhere a cave is missing a lot of its leftist denizens. Meanwhile, those LeftoBats are dropping guano all over America and it stinks.


24 posted on 03/10/2018 1:09:56 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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"Have you noticed that since Trump took office the beheading videos have stopped?"

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"He who shaves and runs away, shaves to run another day."
- cc 10/17/2015

They'll be back in time for the next obama.
25 posted on 03/10/2018 1:16:44 AM PST by clearcarbon
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This IDIOT is trying to rewrite History!!! LOL
26 posted on 03/10/2018 1:25:57 AM PST by KavMan
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To: clearcarbon
They'll be back in time for the next obama.



I don't think they'll be a next Obama!

You will need to have another MONSTER STOCK Market CRASH & they'll never be another 1st Black President LOL

27 posted on 03/10/2018 1:28:27 AM PST by KavMan
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To: Libloather

The writer obviously wants to get in on the ground floor of the “revisionist history of the Obama presidency” movement.


28 posted on 03/10/2018 1:30:47 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Libloather

In a nutshell....The three America Haters: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Barack Hussein Obama, three birds of a feather. End of story, Case closed!!!


29 posted on 03/10/2018 1:34:03 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Libloather

Hagiography.


30 posted on 03/10/2018 1:47:43 AM PST by Carlucci
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To: KavMan; clearcarbon

It’ll be a thousand years before Americans vote for another ineligible according to Article 2 Sec. 1, homosexual, faculty lounging mulatto


31 posted on 03/10/2018 2:06:15 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Carlucci

Obama’s qualifications for being President was his skin color and his ability to BS people into buying whatb they thought they wanted to hear from him.

Apart from that, he had no legacy. Left nothing for the Democrats and nearly all his agenda is being reversed and dismantled. He had 8 years to accomplish something and the only he bequeathed America was hate and division.

And he only won twice because he GOP ran uninspiring milquetoast opponents against him.


32 posted on 03/10/2018 2:08:55 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: atc23

The guy fed off white guilt and thought his eloquence endeared him to America.

Hillary was even worse. Thank God the country put a swift end to the Clinton dynasty.

The only thing commendable about Barry is he saved us from 8 years of the Hildabeast. But that’s about it.


33 posted on 03/10/2018 2:13:17 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: Libloather

Pearls Before Swine today had Pig asking, “What is happening to the country I grew up in?” Pig, tell your writer that Obama fundamentally transformed it. The adults are trying to set it right now with no help from idiot cartoonists.


34 posted on 03/10/2018 2:14:31 AM PST by Rastus
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Princeton needs to take its huge endowment and give it to homeless people all over the country

Then they need to close the university.

Otherwise they are subsidizing a guild of stupid professors and students.


35 posted on 03/10/2018 2:23:07 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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Liberals don’t get it. They were looking for the liberal Reagan.

And they still don’t understand what the country admired about Reagan - and likes about Trump.

It ain’t their personalities.


36 posted on 03/10/2018 2:26:31 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: Libloather

>>They had little tolerance for criminal justice reform to achieve racial justice.

This is one of the more dangerous ideas pushed by the Left, and that is saying something.

This idea led directly to Nickolas Cruz and 17 dead in Parkland. Because the law wasn’t enforced to make the numbers “look right” on juvenile law enforcement by race/ethnicity, he didn’t have any events that would have prevented him from buying a firearm on his record. This despite a large number of brushes with law enforcement that should have resulted in exactly that.

At root, it is an article of faith by the Left that any difference in crime rate by race is because of racism in the system, and not because certain minorities commit crime at higher rates. Which latter is plainly the case if you look at murder rates by race of the perp, for example.

The public policy discussion on this aspect of Democrat orthodoxy should be extensive in the wake of Parkland, but instead we are talking about the same old gun control bromides, which is absurd.


37 posted on 03/10/2018 2:37:16 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

The only thing that will silence these maniacs is a Civil War.


38 posted on 03/10/2018 2:40:33 AM PST by ZULU (End the Obama/Holder "Promise" program, FIRE Runcie, the $335,000 Broward Co. Stupidintendent of Sc)
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Obama and Holder instituted the policy that led to the Parkland massacre but that’s the NRA’s fault.

With liberals, there’’s no cause and effect. When something goes wrong, that’s a feature not a flaw.

And they always get the benefit of the doubt for their wrong-headed solutions. Like gun control.


39 posted on 03/10/2018 2:42:32 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: Libloather

https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/julian-e-zelizer/

Leftist liberal “educator” connected with leftist think tank New America. Works with his mother, a leftist sociologist.


40 posted on 03/10/2018 2:47:58 AM PST by ZULU (End the Obama/Holder "Promise" program, FIRE Runcie, the $335,000 Broward Co. Stupidintendent of Sc)
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