Posted on 07/12/2016 2:22:49 AM PDT by Cronos
Barack Obama confronting again the frustrating sting of his unfinished business.
The lingering shortfalls of his presidency -- on guns, race, war, and politics -- seemed to confront Obama in each hallway and beyond every podium during his stop in the Polish capital.
Obama insisted Saturday he's not keen to assess his own legacy as his term winds down, preferring to leave that task to historians. He says he's focused more on finishing his presidency at a sprint. And for the first time in years, a majority of Americans say in polls they approve of his job performance. That doesn't mean, however, that tough realities about what he has and hasn't accomplished aren't rapidly settling in.
his three appearances decrying gun violence in America joined a seemingly endless stream of statements following mass shootings. His press secretary said Friday that inability to convince Congress to pass gun control was the President's biggest frustration.
The racial undertones of the violence placed Obama, yet again, in the fraught position of calling attention to persistent racial disparities, which he says he's experienced himself, while also championing the police many minorities mistrust.
Obama responded Saturday that change takes time.
..As a president who entered office eager to deescalate conflicts, and to normalize relationships around the globe, deploying American troops to counter Russia....
Incremental progress has become a hallmark of Obama's governing mantra.
"As Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful military in the world, I spend a lot of time brooding over these issues," Obama said when asked about the conflicts from which he's been unable to fully withdraw U.S. troops. "And I'm not satisfied that we've got it perfect yet. I can say honestly, it's better than it was when I came into office."
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Obama’s legacy - utter failure as a president and as a human being.
The caption writes itself.
There are a lot of delusional voters out there.
He is delusional!
This guy who apparently “broods” over issues, I have to laugh about that one because his mother and grandparents probably wrote his teachers notes excusing him from homework and probably numerous other activities at school as they would have been considered beneath him at even that age.
I just checked Rasmussen and “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama’s job performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove (see trends).
The latest figures include 28% of who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 39% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11.”
Our Friends don't TRUST us and our Enemies don't FEAR us........GREAT LEGACY, Barack Hussein Obama!! (although he set out to destroy America, and he has done a great job of it).
He has a legacy and it suck for him and us.
Obama has accomplished ZILCH.
In fact he is far, far into the negative column.
It’s easy to see how he could think Hillary is the “most qualified” person to ever run for office.
He succeeded in destroying the USA’s reputation. But the credit for that goes to the people who elected him TWICE — probably even more so to the folks who voted for him the second time around as well and now say “I regret it” — what do you do with such idiocy?
“Better than when i came in to office”?
Horse pooh.
Nothing this marxist a-hole has done has made anything better.
Celebration time when the magic negro fool leaves office.
MOVE out of this country.
The Big Choomer Broods About Injustice
People know the correct answer, I suppose. And to some extent, they probably accept it too.
What a puts.
Meant what a putz.
It is good there are so many media voices speaking for them.
I know people who are so in love with him, “no other President has been so intelligent, so classy, so good for the Country”...”I will miss him and his beautiful family”...”Michelle, the classiest FL ever”..They hate Trump with a passion...All living the fantasy they have created in their minds.
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