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I give him points for cleaning up the mess, I just want him to stop talking about working with the Republicans, who created the mess. Haven't heard crazy talk like that lately so that's good.
I absolutely agree with you on that. There is no working with the guys that admitted their only objective was to make him a one term POTUS. Kind of backfired though didn't it?
But, that is one of Obama's stengths...they cannot ruffle his feathers and now that he will not have to worry about being re-elected during his 2nd term. It wii be interesting to see how this plays out.
But to keep things in perspective, there have only been 20 Presidents since 1900. So "Top 10" is simply "top half". Personally, I think history will kindly judge the President that lead the United States out of the Great Recession, began national health care, got us out of the Iraq debacle and decimated al-Qaeda. I'm just saying that inclusion in "Best 10 out of 20" alone isn't a great achievement (though the top, let's say, four, from that list will be 'great' or 'near great' Presidents, and after we've had a few decades for history to assess all these Presidents, I believe President Obama will probably be in that elite top four).
You realise when we left Iraq, Obama credited Bush for bringing the war to an end with the surge. I also thought your post was until I saw it's recent....how in the world can you say he decimated Al Qaeda when it's becoming evident that they're behind the recent attack in Libya.
This is simply a poor reflection on Newsweek. I wonder what Pravda thought of Stalin when he was in power?
When Lev Kamenev, Joseph Stalin and former Duma deputy Matvei Muranov returned from Siberian exile on March 12, 1917 they took over the editorial board. Lenin prevailed at the April Party conference, at which point Pravda also condemned the Provisional Government as "counter-revolutionary". From then on, Pravda essentially followed Lenin's editorial stance.
Pravda was the communist's Newsweek
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A bit premature, no?
How can you judge a president's legacy when he isn't even halfway done with his presidency...
Obama started writing his memoirs in his late twenties. That speaks volumes about how his future was already put in motion over two decades ago.
8 out of 10 "best" presidents were Democrats. LOL. No bias on the part of the loony liberals who picked the "best."
And there have only been 20 presidents since 1900, so I'm not sure being 10th is some sort of ringing endorsement. Also laughable is the fact that Dwight Eisenhower is nowhere to be found on the list.
actually he was at least in the slide show he was the 4th slide which would make him #7 so yes Eisenhower was on there as well he should be.
This is going to explode some brains. I am not surprised that historians are already placing Obama among the ten best. Considering what he has accomplished against unbelievable obstruction and bias is going to give him an impressive legacy.
What has he accomplished that is so great?
$16 trillion debt, continuing double digit unemployment, raising taxes on the middle class(when he promised not to), disrespected major world leaders, weakened our military, caused us to lose prestige in the world, and have a downgraded credit rating, prosecuted an unlawful war in Libya, presided over the Solyndra and Fast & Furious scandals, spent an inordinate amount of time on the golf course, and told business owners that someone did the work for them.
Lets see....things that make a president great......hmmmm......winning WW2, ending slavery, being black, etc.....by golly, obama might make it!!!!
According to Newsweek being a Republican automatically disqualifies one for being a great president.
No one can accuse that magazine of being objective.
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