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Can Obama save any of his legacy?


Can Obama save any of his legacy?

Obama's agencies push flurry of 'midnight' actions But in Congress, Republicans are warning them to stop and are preparing to repeal those regulations en masse.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obama-regulations-231820

[Eight years of effort obstructed at every turn by Republican Congress critters and now it looks like the obstructionism will continue even after Obama leaves office. They want to destroy his legacy and probably will with Trump in power. Now there is an effort to save some of it with these so called "midnight actions" but they could quickly be crushed as well. What if anything can be done to stop this effort to make Obama an "non-person"?]


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BHO will not become a non-person, his legacy as to official ties to ME leaders, his credibility may have to deal with some losses but just as so many other POTUS he will be regarded in many ways in the history books.
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Obama's legacy is that the senseless wars in the Middle East was continued during his presidency, in fact escalated.
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What legacy? Once Congress and Presidentp Trump (Gawd I hate to even utter those words)
Finish their demo literally on of ACA, he will have no legacy. Once again I agree with olccasional advisory, Mr. Yobbo, his legacy is sadly an inept foreign Policy, particularly in the Middle East.

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He reduced racism by example, and he at least brought health care into the center of attention. But he continued wars and added more drone murders and wire taps.
We should have negotiated with the Taliban and al Qaeda instead of just trying to kill them all.
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Presidential legacy is inherently based on looking back at a continuum of Presidents. It becomes Obama's misfortune to have been President right before Trump.

Trump will undoubtedly be the most remembered President of this early century. Not that I have any prediction that he will do lots of good or bad things, it's just that he inherently attracts everybody's attention. Some will vilify him, others will praise him, but nobody will ignore him.

Obama, Bush and Clinton will become the McKinleys, Polks and Harrisons of the era. Obama will get an asterisk in the history books for being black, and Clinton for being impeached. Bush will not be remembered much at all (in spite of all the acrimony today). That leaves Trump to garner historical remembrance, for better or worse.
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Oh, I think Bush will be remembered as a contender for the worst ever.
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Oh, I think Bush will be remembered as a contender for the worst ever.



In the long term, looking back scenario, he will be pretty much of a nonentity. That he sent troops into a foreign country is no uncommon characteristic of American Presidents, unfortunately. Father and son will probably mean a familial comparison with the two Harrisons, but that's about it.

Historians generally agree that no biography of an American President can be written without proximity bias until the President has been dead for 50 years.

I'd agree to post on the subject 50 years after Bush's death, but I don't think my dessicated bones could type in the absence of ligaments and muscle. emoticon

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quote:

verrip1 wrote:

quote:

Yobbo wrote:

Oh, I think Bush will be remembered as a contender for the worst ever.



In the long term, looking back scenario, he will be pretty much of a nonentity. That he sent troops into a foreign country is no uncommon characteristic of American Presidents, unfortunately. Father and son will probably mean a familial comparison with the two Harrisons, but that's about it.

Historians generally agree that no biography of an American President can be written without proximity bias until the President has been dead for 50 years.

I'd agree to post on the subject 50 years after Bush's death, but I don't think my dessicated bones could type in the absence of ligaments and muscle. emoticon




One could compare the Iraq invasion with the Spanish American War, but Spain was an awful colonialist and it was our hemisphere they were in. In comparison, we had no business in the Mideast at all, and we massacred far more people.
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Ooops

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