Posted on 02/11/2016 1:09:00 PM PST by McBuff
When he was running for president in 2008, Barack Obama pointed to Ronald Reagan as a model for what kind of president he would like to be, not because he agreed with Reagan politically, but because Reagan "changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not." We won't know about America's long-term trajectory after the Obama years for some time, but as he begins his last year in office, it's not too early to say that Obama will probably turn out to be one of the most consequential presidents in recent history, if not of all time. This will be true even though his most important victories are partial and incomplete.
I use the word "consequential" and not something like "great" because we usually assign greatness only to those whose achievements most of us can agree were positive — Lincoln holding the Union together, FDR guiding the country through the Great Depression and World War II — or to those we think were great because they succeeded in achieving our own partisan goals. In this most polarized age (and in the midst of the administration itself), no president could be judged great by all, at least not for long.
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Awwwwww. He’s sooooooooooooooooooo dreamy.
DEFCON 5 is a peace time condition. If you want to get excited you set DEFCON 1.
one of the most consequential presidents in recent history
That he will be. Though not in the way the author intends.
DEFCOM 1 DEFCOM 1!!!!!MY BAD
Obama is at DEAF JAMZ 5.
I see. Us ordinary rubes just aren’t smart enough to see how great he is....
Obama had four major partial victories, one in each of the economy, health care, Iraq, and climate change. It’s not his fault that we don’t appreciate his brilliance. It’s not his fault that events outside his control kept those victories from producing good results. He did stuff, and it was consequential, so we need to bask in the glory that is Obama.
“Obama is at DEAF JAMZ 5.”
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
It is DEFCON not DEFCOM.
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