Jonathan Alter, a columnist for The Daily Beast, is the author of two pathetic New York Times bestsellers about Hussein Obama, The Punk: President Obama, Year One, and The Communist Holds: Obama is One of Our Enemies.
Posted on 10/05/2018 12:07:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It’s one of this autumn’s pleasant surprises. Two years after Donald Trump’s election as president and 10 years after his own, Barack Obama is gracefully re-entering our consciousness, reminding us of what we have lost and may yet recover.
The contrast between Obama and Trump - decent vs. despicable; incisive vs. ignorant; honest vs. humbug; classy vs. clownish - is now the critical subtext of the 2018 campaign. With Obama’s current approval ratings more than 20 points higher than Trump’s, the aching memory of his presidency will help energize Democrats in the midterms.
But Obama’s return is also a reminder that some of his admirable qualities—modesty, prudence, deliberateness - have inadvertently helped Republicans endanger everything he built.
If Obama’s reputation is secure, his legacy is not. Many of his accomplishments in office are in danger of being wiped out in November. The personal stakes for him and his place in history are high.
Now, just weeks away, comes a fork in road. One way leads to the validation of Donald Trump and makes his reelection more likely. Six more years of him as president would mean the extinction of nearly everything Barack Obama achieved beyond becoming the first black president. The other path offers a chance at redemption. If enough Democrats stop knocking on wood and start knocking on doors, the president they revere may yet live large in history for more than the content of his character.
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Jonathan Alter, a columnist for The Daily Beast, is the author of two pathetic New York Times bestsellers about Hussein Obama, The Punk: President Obama, Year One, and The Communist Holds: Obama is One of Our Enemies.
What ‘legacy’?
The tone of that is a far cry from
BLUE WAVE!
BLUE WAVE!
BLUE WAVE!!!!!!!
Please, don't make be drool...
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Obamacare will still be here. At least until it goes bust.
Get a room!
[ If Dems Lose Again, Obama’s Legacy Is Gone Forever ]
Well there still are:
1) Over 8 trillion dollars in additional public debt
2) The abomination of the White House with the gay pride
3) The abomination of the Stonewall Inn as a national monument and
4) Obamacare - protected by “leading the fight against Obamacare” John McCain
Oh, Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama leaves a “legacy” alright.....
Nonsense. Obama's legacy is pushing forward corrupt neo-Bolshevism with full rewards for the more equal pigs running the show.
This is gone forever as soon as Satan is gone forever. Wherever there is a weak, corrupt, vengeful or otherwise evil soul there is a home for Satan and his communist spawn.
MODESTY??? From President MeMeMeIIIMyMyMy?
And he only achieved half that....................
Six more years of him as president would mean the extinction of nearly everything Barack Obama achieved beyond becoming the first black president. …Everything is about race with these hard leftists, isn’t it.
This week's decision about a Supreme Court Justice is, as Senator Murkowski has stated, bigger than being about one nominee, this decision may very well be about reclaiming and restoring the very "soul" of the nation and its underlying principles, as stated in its Declaration of Independence and implemented in the Constitution of the United States of America."
They used the word "virtuous" to describe such people. Defined by Webster, "virtue" is "a conformity to a standard of right," but whatever word is used to describe it, such a moral standard is the necessary fountainhead of a free society. The Declaration of Independence referred to "Nature's God," the "Creator," the "Supreme judge of the World," and "Divine Providence" Our nation's founders came together, voluntarily, to create a limited government to secure for them and posterity their God-given rights to life, liberty, and property. Such liberty, they believed, rested on three great supports:
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.... It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government." - George Washington's Farewell Address
"We may look up to Armies for our defense, but virtue is our best security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where virtue is not supremely honored." - Samuel Adams
"Virtue must underlay all institutional arrangements if they are to be healthy and strong. The principles of democracy are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted!' - John AdamsAnd Alexis de Tocqueville, the French statesman who traveled across America in the 1830's and wrote a two-volume study entitled "Democracy In America," observed:
"It cannot be doubted that, in the United States, the instruction of the people powerfully contributes to the support of a democratic republic; and such must always be the case, I believe, where instruction which awakens the understanding is not separated from moral education which amends the heart." - Tocqueville
Wait...who?
A divided America is Hussein’s legacy.
And I fear it will be a lasting legacy.
He had help-the Clintons actually kick started that for him
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