Posted on 03/28/2018 12:11:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It becomes clearer every day that Barack Obama, a historic president, presided over a somewhat less than historic presidency. With only one major legislative achievement (Obamacare)—and a fragile one at that—the legacy of Obama’s presidency mainly rests on its tremendous symbolic importance and the fate of a patchwork of executive actions.
How much of that was due to fate and how much was due to Obama’s own shortcomings as a politician is up for debate and is a question that emerges from Princeton historian Julian Zelizer’s new edited volume, The Presidency of Barack Obama.
With contributions from seventeen historians, the book bills itself as “a first historical assessment” of the Obama presidency. The overwhelming consensus, Zelizer writes, is that Obama “turned out to be a very effective policymaker but not a tremendously successful party builder.” This “defining paradox of Obama’s presidency” comes up again and again: the historians, by and large, approve of Obama’s policies (although some find them too timid) while they lament his politics.
The politics were pretty disastrous. As Zelizer summarizes, “During his presidency, even as he enjoyed reelection and strong approval ratings toward the end of this term, the Democratic Party suffered greatly. . . . Democrats lost more than one thousand seats in state legislatures, governors’ mansions, and Congress during his time in office.” Zelizer could have gone further. According to Ballotpedia, more Democratic state legislative seats were lost under Obama than under any president in modern history.
Yet even with such political fallout, the overall tone of the book is surprisingly wistful.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonreview.net ...
Great! Let’s see if we can break his legacy in pieces and throw his lying butt in jail! He spied on Trump and gave money to our enemies. Jail him! And his controller, ValJar.
The Kenyanesian Usurper
Kenyan by his father, raised in Indonesia, not naturally an American.
Yet even with such political fallout, the overall tone of the book is surprisingly wistful...
I can think of better words than wistful.
And being wistful is all they have left. The left.
Obama’s legacy is a House of Cards going down very quickly with each slight of wind and sensibility.
Fgeep g;add in a BAR fight.
I don’t hear much about obamacare these days. It was already imploding, but now that the mandate is history, it should be in total free-fall.
Why are we not hearing any horror stories?
This is an ideological oxymoronic abortion of an article/analysis. It’s hopeless and wishful nonsense!
Let me see if I can match the wisdom here.
“It was the driest storm on record. The ruined crops and flooded fields were bad but the region needed rain after the drought so that farmers could make money. The storm was historic. Over all, it was good and will be remembered.”
Good on policy? Probably a book by liberals for liberals. Obama’s lasting legacy in one sentence: The first black American president.
He has no achievement, other than being the most flatulent president ever.
Honestly, everyone I know who has ever been within 10ft of the guy says the same thing
What's fragile about it?
It reads solidly as...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...
The most incompetent, racist and criminal presidential regime in history...!!!!
Huh?
What policies are they?
Worst policy maker in history. Worst party builder in history.
Most of the “historians” who approve of the Obama cabal’s policies are Pinkos.
Hey Elaine: that’s “an historic” President.
Only Jimmy Carter appreciates him, now that he’s no longer considered the “Worst President Ever!”
The creation and rise of ISIS, furthering the nuclear ambitions of Iran and NKorea, disastrous Russian reset, 17% black unemployment, record food stamp usage, record workplace nonparticipation, Politization of NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS, EPA, etc... That is the Obama legacy.
I disagree.
Some turds last quite a long time.
From both ends.
American government only rewards failure. Rewarding success only threatens the lifestyle of the ruling class.
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