It’s strange that a president who had such a transformative effect on our national discourse will leave such a negligible policy legacy. But Barack Obama, whose imperial term changed the way Americans interact and in some ways paved the way for the Trump presidency, is now watching his much-celebrated and mythologized two-term legacy be systematically demolished.
He chose the form of his destructor.
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Wow. Full page ad in @nytimes signed by @stephenharper and former Australian PM John Howard pic.twitter.com/ABNQdCe4Pf
— Norman Spector (@nspector4) May 10, 2018
Good! The more of the Marxist’s legacy that is demolished the better.
Charles I found out the hard way in 1649 that Personal Rule doesn’t work. And like Obama, his political legacy was dynamited to the ground.
I’m waiting for Unthingy to claim that the reason Trump’s scrapping it all is because he’s a racist.
Obama used every department in the government as slaughter tools against many, including prestigious and distinguished American people. ( like Ben Carson )
He shouldn’t wonder why his nothing burger presidency is dissed.
The freckles Republicans refused to impeach the incompetent Obama…He was allowed to put all the worst Hair Balls into positions of Power & weaponized the IRS, CIA, FBI , Homeland Security ( Border Control). The Corrupt 9th circuit still exists, maybe after McCain checks out we will finally get rid of the 9th.. (Somebody likes the Corruption in California)….
Trump needs to demand an Indictment of OBAMA & his Hair balls.. Let Obama defend himself like normal little people….He held a Planning meeting with the cast of sick bastards, just before the Jan 6th 2017 Trump briefing… That conspiracy “is” a crime
MY President is … uninstalling … one Obama bureaucratic regulation after another. Completely and utterly dismantling the virus Barrack Hussein uploaded into the American system. I hope that MY President also finds all of Barracks servers buried deep in our State … and smashes them to bits after bleachbitting the darkness out of em. Comey was server #1 … Rosenstein and Mueller are next.
President Trump could sweep every Obama regulation, including lifetime SS protection, away immediately by just proving that Obama was ineligible for the U.S. Presidency in the first place. We know Barry Soetorro had to give up his U.S. citizenship to be enrolled in an Indonesian school as a child. At what point did Barack Hussein Obama reacquire his U.S. citizenship?
Apparently they call this ‘deep state’ by another name, rarely used, it is aka the ‘shadow government’
It is headed by all the heavies from the Dems. They can’t accept that H.R.C. didn’t win, & working on the next election and undermining their President Trump at every turn. They are rotten to the core and totally illegal. They are treasonous.
This is VERY SCARY.
Obama gave up on attempts to legislate early on. He had no stomach or perhaps patience for the glad handing and horse trading that it requires. Even when putting through “Obamacare”, Democrats were wondering where his leadership was.
That left him to preside through the executive branch, making it easy for Trump to dismantle Obama’s legacy.
”… is now watching his much-celebrated and mythologized two-term legacy be systematically demolished…”’
it is more like ;
everything Obama tried to demolish is being repaired by Trump.
In spite of what you (and I) may feel, you should admit that Senor Obama knew (knows) how to work a crowd. Smooth and flawless speaking, he held the crowd in his hand at the dinner and on many other occasions. Oration is a skill that many other famous people have had ……Julius Caesar, Adolph Hitler for examples. It’s a gift.
I totally agree with your comment on Obama’s talent, but body language doesn’t lie. At the Correspondents’ Dinner his jokes were quite witty ( had good writers ) but notice when he touched his nose, it is a sign that he’s telling a lie, and he was, we now know ( it was about his birth certificate) ……
Other times, in speeches, he would look to the left, which is another sign of lying. ( if you like your plan, you can keep your plan, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, et cetera…ad infinitum)
Which Correspondents dinner? At one of those dinners a few years back he decided to socially embarrass Trump who was of course a private citizen at the time. I was appalled that the President of the United States would do something so tasteless at a public event. I never forgot it — and I gather neither did Trump.
LindaL: see this thread, there is a you tube video of the White House Correspondents’ dinner that you correctly referred to but missed here- in. It was on April 30th as shown ….. Think it was probably 2009…Obama’s hair hadn’t turned grey yet! (press on the dotted line just above the N.Y.T. print)
I suspect Trump had already made up his mind to run for president because he wanted to hear what the jokes were about him.He never went back to another Press dinner and probably will never attend again.
If you have ever listened to obama stumble through the language without a teleprompter then you would realize that he has no gift.
I hear PMSH and some other past leaders have taken out a full page ad in the NYT praising withdrawal from the deal.
I thought I heard head explosions.
Glad to see Harper weighing in. I respect his opinion.
Obama lived by the EO, not feeling the need to consult Congress. Now it can all be undone the same way. Ahhh.
If I have to choose between the wisdom of Stephen Harper, Barack Obama or Justin Trudeau, the result is obvious.
Gotta love the line the US is turning its back on their allies in Europe. Sure, they will tell the US they don’t want their $billions in foreign aid and will do required heavy lifting themselves. Let them go to war for ME oil, we in Canada and the US don’t need their crude crap.
Trump is beholden to US voters not Europeans and their attendant bureaucratic state.
Like cabin boy statists are fine with important decisions for their nation being made in other nations or sycophantic, corrupt appeasers.
the one thing that was worse than obama’s arrogance in the video was the attendee’s slobbering affection for him, clapping with glee at every utterance. now, donald trump is president, something the political expert obama predicted would never happen. that steely resolve in his face (while obama poked fun at him in front of a safe, fawning audience) is coming to the fore again while he is methodically cancelling obama’s silly and destructive policies. seeing this makes the deconstruction of obama’s “legacy” all that much more satisfying that the president, and his supporters, are indeed having the last laugh…