The Obama Presidency - A Legacy Written in Sand

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  1. HB Surfer

    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Barack Obama had the opportunity to be a great president. Coming in as the "first black president", he could bring together and heal a nation like no other person to date. He could bring everyone together. But, then came the thirst for power and control, which will push him to the back of the pack when people consider presidents.

    By forcing through Obamacare on a 100% partisan vote, changed rules, and election fraud, Barack Obama set the tone of his presidency that there would be no bi-partisanship. Note: The only bi-partisan thing about Obamacare was the opposition as some Democrats were smart enough to know they were dooming future accomplishments by the power grab that was Obamacare.

    Another note: I know the Republicans (some) said they would fight Barack Obama the whole way. They are supposed to say that. A good president overcomes it like Reagan, Clinton, etc... did and finds a way to work with the other side. Barack Obama 100% failed in that act.

    Obama's legacy is written by Executive Orders. Those Executive Orders will be negated in days, which is the reason for the title of this thread, "A Legacy Written in Sand". Only a weak president has to rule by a "phone and and a pen". That was a choice by Barack Obama. He choose a temporary gain over long term accomplishments.

    Barack Obama chose to be a divider with his identity politics that came out again and again and again. He chose to be president of some of the people, and not all of the people. Those that were "clinging to their guns and bibles" rejected him, as he rejected them.

    History will not be kind to Barack Obama. The near term press, media, and hollywood weirdos will adore him, but in time as the reality of his reign is written, he was the biggest loser of a President since Jimmy Carter.

    He failed economically: (E6), Horrible GDP, Home ownership, standard of living, Household Incomes, #'s out of work, National Debt, Part Time Job Market, etc... etc... etc...

    He failed internationally: Iran, Russia, China, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Israel, ISIS, etc... etc... etc....

    He failed in race relations: St. Louis, Cambridge, Trayvon Martin, Charlotte, Dallas, etc....

    He failed domestically: Obamacare, IRS Targeting Conservatives, Spying on A.P. reporters, Solyndra,

    Barack Obama is what happens when you put an immature, empty suit into the White House. He had no real private sector experience and governed as an ideologue.

    (Note: This thread is not about Donald Trump, so save your derailing troll attempts. If he sucks too, I will certainly point it out as I did not vote for him.)
     
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    Kurmugeon Well-Known Member

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    Totalitarian Regimes are almost always a complete failure, and wash away with the next storm....

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    Aren't the same people complaining about this looking forward to Trump doing the very same with a Republican-dominated House?
     
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    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    .... and OFF Topic. Read the last sentence of the OP.
     
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    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I was pretty sure the Liberals had nothing to refute the OP. They backed a president that offered no real historical impact, other that his skin color. They then backed the "first woman president".... but the American people told the Liberals to get bent and go away.

    Barack Obama's presidency will be erased. His legacy is non-existent, except for all of his failures. What a waste of eight years.
     
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    Obamacare won't survive in its current form, but some of the key features will survive. Obamacare was not the plan that Obama wanted, but if some of the key features survive I suspect he won't care whether they exist under some different structure.

    Future generations will look back on that as Obama's legacy. Health care reform that permanently changed the landscape and brought tens of millions more Americans under coverage.
     
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    I could believe in what BO said recently,
    that the US Presidency will be relying heavily on his key staffers and what they bring.
     
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    i can refute the OP, obama was employed by the rich as all Presidents before him are, and he made money for them as W bush made money for them with oil wars, all at the expense of the poorer half of America.

    so obama did a great job as President making the rich richer using his exotic skin color, instead of relying solely on the bible as Presidents before him.
     

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