Obama Has been An Inspirational President?Well He Probably Inspired More Suicides Than Any Other.

The Slate is one of those American political magazines that likes to pretend it presents and unbiased and objective view of world events. This is why for the past eight years the editorial policy has been objectively sucking Barack Obama’s cock. And why now Slate writers are still heaping praise on the inept and divisive man and the scant achievements of his failed administration.

Obama’s greatest achievement perhaps it to have put Donald Trump in The White House. Whether you think this is a good or bad thing depends on your political stance. This blog is neutral, our view being that Trump can’t be a worse president than any of the three that preceded him.

But let’s have a look at what The Slate has to say (and better still, some of the readers comments which have Obama’s legacy sussed out far better than the author of the main article.

Obama’s Legacy Won’t Be His Political Achievements

He wanted to be a transformational president. He’ll be an inspirational one instead.

By Jacob Weisberg

A decade ago, Barack Obama was already contemplating his presidential legacy. I know because I talked to him about it in 2006, during a long interview for a now-defunct men’s magazine. In a reflective mood after finishing his second book, his suit coat off and necktie loosened, the 44-year-old freshman senator opened up about his political ambition.

“My attitude about something like the presidency is that you don’t want to just be the president,” he told me. “You want to change the country. You want to make a unique contribution. You want to be a great president.”

Obama described visiting the Washington Hilton and walking down a long corridor decorated with pictures of all America’s presidents. “You go through, and you think, who are these guys? There are, what, maybe 10 presidents in our history out of 40-something who you can truly say led the country? And then there are 30 who just kind of did their best. And so, I guess my point is, just being the president is not a good way of thinking about it.”

In his final days in office, I’ve been remembering the bar Obama set for himself that summer afternoon and wondering whether he feels that he cleared it. Will Obama be remembered as a top-10 president, one who changed the country? Or as one of the perhaps admirable but not-quite-transformational others?

During his race against Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama articulated the same distinction in a way certain to annoy her and her husband by saying that “Ronald 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.” Obama aspired to be a kind of liberal Reagan who would not just change policy but embody the emergence of a diverse and progressive society. Read more >>>

When we in Britain and Europe talk about Obama’s legacy, our thoughts turn to the nations and areas trashed by his bombs and those of the allies and terrorists groups he supported have reduced to rubble, Syria, Libya and Yemen of course, Donbass (East Ukraine), Kurdistan, Iraq and Afghanistan where the man who preceded Obama in The White House kicked things off but in eight years the man who decalared he would be the world’s peacemaker and joybringer has made things worse with his support for Islamic extremism. In the USA, Obama leave a country more divided racially that any time since World War 2, with a deeply indebted economy, a society in which the gap between rich and poor has widened from a chasm into an abyss, and his executive overeach in governing by decree (executive order) because of his inability to get his policies through congress has resulted in widespread civil unrest. He implemented a lot of change on gay rights issues of course. That’s quite a legacy.

Here are a few selected comments (there is no attempt at balance here – just as there was no attempt at balance in The Slate’s article) Selection is based on the point made and the skill with which it is expressed:

Everett Ross 9 minutes ago

Finally, the press is beginning to grasp that Obama’s presidency was a failed presidency soundly rejected by the majority of the states (just ask Hillary how “Obama’s third term” campaign went). He may be basking in glow on personal popularity at the end of his term, but his policies have soundly rejected by the states. So go ahead and grasp at straws like “inspirational” for legacy. It is all you have left, and it is nothing more than a chimera

Packard Day 45 minutes ago
Obama’s political achievements? Are you kidding?

Our soon to be former first constitutional scholar President has single handedly destroyed the elected cohort of the entire Democratic Party. He managed to do what neither Ronald Reagan nor Newt Gingrich could ever do. Yes, Barack Obama has unified the Republican Party.

The only question going forward is what the Democrats will do now that they have yet another living black saint (Think John Lewis, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson) on their hands? In the upcoming years they will get to learn over and over agin why the Catholic Church insists on having only dead saints.

Otherwise, good luck kids. Only glad that your problems are not contagious.

Henry Miller1 hour ago

“Will Obama be remembered as a top-10 president, one who changed the country? Or as one of the perhaps admirable but not-quite-transformational others?”

Or, the right answer, as a disaster who tore the country apart with divisiveness, crushed its economy with another 10 trillion dollars worth of debt and over-regulation, and wrecked the healthcare system with Obamacare.

Bill Francis 2 hours ago

Obama has done more to damage America than any previous President.  One of the worst issues is his bringing America to the brink of financial collapse with over regulations, the making illegal changes to laws, increased taxation and extraordinary increases of the costs of the “nanny” state.

Not only these issues but his constant apology tours, bowing to foreign leaders and international give – aways to Russia and Iran have destroyed America’s reputation in the world.  His “leading from behind” is the best example of a failed international policy.  What he should have been saying is “IF IT TO BE IT IS UP TO ME” and lead by example.

Chris Campbell 2 hours ago

I really just don’t understand the instinct to praise Obama.

He was definitely a transformational president. He transformed a huge Democrat majority into a completely ineffective and irrelevant minority. Democrats should be very angry about that. But instead they praise him.

The GOP praises him as well, in private. Not only has he handed them the best position they have had in nearly a century, but he and Harry Reid have created tools that will make that position even stronger. They are having a very difficult time containing their glee.

Phrank 1 hour ago

@Chris Campbell  If Obama was white, there is NO WAY Democrats would be heaping the kinds of adulations on him and his “legacy” that we see every day and despite all the contrary data showing what an abominable failure he/it has been.  It is embarrassing, unseemly, and fundamentally RACIST — because the Left simply cannot have what they incessantly call the “First African-American President” to be (or have been) anything less than a demi-god.

Unfortunately, thanks to their completely deluded (or willfully blind) mindset, they may have also made Obama the last “African American President.”

Paul Keith: Civil but Disobedient Member1 day ago

GWB, when asked where his Presidency would rank in history wisely – for him that was huge – said that he would let history be the judge.  Wherever President Obama ranks when the histories are written a generation or two from now, he may not be at the top but I am confident he will be nowhere near the bottom where Donald Trump will be competing with Richard Nixon for that spot.

Christopher1988 1 day ago

In all sincerity–and this is coming from a liberal Democrat–what hope does he give us? The ACA is not a great accomplishment, even if it lasts (it protects the industry it was supposed to compete with, and people like me are stuck not being able to afford it but penalized every year for not participating in it), and it’s his only accomplishment. We can’t take hope in terrible election results for Democrats across the country paralleling his years in office, or his inabilty to get Hillary elected, or break the opposing party’s block on his SCOTUS nominations. Reagan did pretty much all of that, so we know it can be done in the modern age. We can’t take hope from his rewarding Wall Street crooks rather than opening proceedings against them, or using the internet to spy on all of us, or demonizing whistleblowers.

We thought–and maybe it was racist of us–a black man would be different. But he hasn’t been. And he’s done basically nothing for minorities in America. SCOTUS gave us gay marriage. Military intelligence took down Bin Laden.

The guy is a good looking speech maker. Are we supposed to hope for more of those?

celtic 1 day ago

Obama kind of mocked B Clinton as non-transformational, but he really should have learned from him. After Clinton over-reached with Hillary care and lost the Congress, he started working with Repubs, finding middle ground and got some things done. (He did have luck with the Cold War having ended, and the tech boom).

With Obama it was always strictly his way or the highway – even Dem leaders indicate he seemed too above it all to work with them – causing increased bad feelings all around, and after he lost Congress not much getting done.

Clinton wasn’t transformational, but he was a good president, and Obama wound up being neither.

Pharmgrl 1 day ago

“With Obama it was always strictly his way or the highway..”

You are Spot.On.

IMHO it’s a cop out to say it was Obamas race that lead to the unraveling of his legacy.

It was his abuse of executive power and marginalizing elected reps of half the country, right out of the starting gate with Obamacare.

After losing first the house, then the senate in historical blowbacks as the American people tried to reign him in, instead of the conciliatory third way approach that Clinton wisely adopted, an undeterred and yes-arrogant to the point of Shakespearean “tragic flaw”-Obama proceeded to stomp all over Article II, using every possible end run around Congress and its alleged power of the purse, to keep his agenda afloat.

From my chair I’d say the moment the reality TVideologue buffoon Trump saw his opening was just after 2014 midterms. Obama declared he had “a pen and a phone” and passed immigration reform by executive fiat, less than 2 weeks after the biggest electoral blowback since WWII, and over the vociferous objections of the new senate majority leader.

Trump is simply a Newtonian equal and opposite reaction to Obamas running roughshod over elected reps of half the country for 8 years.

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