Obama's Legacy: A Great Man & Good President In Bad Times

[Pika78]

This actually made me cry! I'm all nostalgic this week... must be the pregnancy hormones (either that or Obama is just a really wonderful president whom I'm going to miss terribly).

Enjoy - it's from January, but I don't think it was posted here at the time: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/obamas-legacy-great-man-good-president-bad

There have been times over the last seven years when the hope-and-change mantra that propelled Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency seemed like a cruel fiction. Yet despite taking the reins of a war-weary nation in the midst of an economic calamity and having to endure the unrelenting enmity of an obdurate opposition party, Obama has wrought enormous changes during what has been the most transformational presidency in 80 years.

He has implemented far-reaching reforms in a dysfunctional health-care system, raised school academic standards, legislated pay parity for women, revolutionized the way we produce energy through harnessing renewable resources, fought back against global warming, taken on the epidemic of childhood obesity with his First Lady, provided deportation relief to young immigrants, legalized same-sex marriage and opened new opportunities for women and gays in the military. He saved the domestic auto industry, has added nearly four million jobs, reduced unemployment to 5 percent and the deficit by two thirds to a puny 2.5 percent of GDP, engineered egalitarian tax reforms and eliminated the most usurious of credit card abuses, while today the U.S. is an island of relative calm amid the global financial crisis. He also took out Osama bin Laden, isolated Vladimir Putin, normalized relations with Cuba, stabilized relations with Iran and ended the war in Iraq.

Obama's presidency has been, as a live microphone caught Vice President Biden saying on the day he signed the Affordable Care Act, "a big fucking deal."

[Fresh_Start]

1. I also believe he is a far better President then we deserve

as well as an amazing human being

[Aristus]

2. The haters can go to hell and stay there.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest Presidents in US history!

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. The Italian PM agrees with you & me. He did a great interview on Fareed Zakaria this morning.

For anyone who missed it, I suggest you take a look. There's lots of gems in that interview. Apparently, according to the PM, he's not the only European leader who will miss PBO.