How will history remember Barack Obama (unemployment, gas prices, Reagan, suspect)

[workaholics]

good president, bad president, decent president, good but flawed president?

[Statutory Ape]

He'll be remembered for his earning the Nobel Peace Prize.

The first true Nineteen Eighty Fourian.

[deechee_]

Good president. Helped inspire young black youths.

[Harrier]

Not well.

[bobtn]

save until at minimum 2041. History often remembers differently as time goes on.

[freightshaker]

I don't know? How does history remember Taft?

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by freightshaker

I don't know? How does history remember Taft?

As a mediocre president and a pretty darn good chief justice.

Barack Obama can only fulfil the first half - the catch is that President Taft was better than President Obama.

[workingclasshero]

he'll be remembered as the guy who made carter look good

obusha is the worst of the bunch of globalists we have had lately

[2nd trick op]

How history views Barack Obama will be linked in part, I believe, to how it treats the economic difficulties of the past five years. Although the usual Letfy mouthpieces and their allies in the supposedly "mainstream" media have atempted to portay these events as a repeat of the Great Depression of the Thirties, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the slump represents mostly a necessary adjustment to the realities of the near-complete end of American dominance, plus the first stirrings of a post-petroluem economy.

But in fact, the safety net did what it was supposed to do. The expanded economy provided a large supply of jobs, most of them, by necessity, outside the traditional heavy-industry base and no longer dominated by white male breadwinners. And the most vocal grousing came from those who, even after exhausting two years of Unemployment benefits, could not understand that a union card (unless linked to the public sector) no longer guarantees entry to the Workers' Paradise.

Obama enters his second term with a lot of safety valves still tied down, and a maistaken beilef that his attempts to co-opt the Judiciary will protect him. No one knows how soon, or how severely the markets will force a correction, but the same people who hand-picked Obama as a poster child for the homogenization of American society into something along the lines of the European model -- which provided two global wars and millions of graves over the past century -- are now betting that economic ignorance among the voting public will prolong the puppet show.

If Obama and the Democratic Left continue to cling to that distorted view, they will continue to sow the seeds for either a peacful transformaton of our Nation into two entities with divergent views -- along the lines of the Czech/Slovak spilt a decade ago -- or the contined gradual decline of the United States in a competitive world economy. But if, on the other hand, he downplays the rhetoric of class warfare and turns away, to some degree, from the new elitists within his own coalition, then it is posible that, like Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, he may be remembered as one more participant in the fiine-tuning of the process a mature democracy entials.

However, he has shown very little of the backbone manifested in the two Presidents previously cited, not has he faced anywhere as severe a test, and I suspect that he will merely folow the course of least resistance dictated by his handlers, while American resolve and prestige continue to deteriorate.

[steven_h]

Originally Posted by deechee_

Good president. Helped inspire young black youths.

Inspire them to what?

African Americans have been hurt the most by his policies. He'll be remembered as the first black President who could do no wrong, and if anyone thinks otherwise they're racists.

There is one shortcoming that is, in the long run, the most significant – and regrettably so, because Obama is uniquely qualified, and could have vastly improved America as a whole, had he addressed the issue. It is to have confronted the destruction of the Black family that has been the hallmark of the Black underclass for the last 40 years. Yet as he approaches the end of his Presidency, he has done virtually nothing.
Obama's Biggest Failure as President - Bruce Bialosky - Page 1


What a legacy.

But in case you need a little more.

The President who:
-ran on unity and then divided a nation.
-made more broken promises than any in history
-took no responsibility for his own failed policies
-blamed his predecessor well beyond his first term (call that a prophecy)
-spent more revenue than all presidents combined
-ended with unemployment higher than when he began eight years earlier (another prophecy)
-spent more money on infrastructure and public works without actually creating jobs
-Allowed states like CA to outsource public works to Chinese companies
ABC News, Sept. 23, 2011: U.S. law actually requires major infrastructure projects to Buy America when the cost difference is reasonable. In California, U.S. firms say they would have met those guidelines. But state officials decided to turn down federal money for a major part of the bridge, allowing a Chinese company to get the job.
-invested billions in failed alternative energy companies only to firesale them to the Chinese
Chinese company wins bid for battery maker A123 - Salon.com
-the only President in history to not get a budget passed in his entire first term
-food stamp roles went up 60% in his first four years, and will most likely double before he's done
-never closed Gitmo
-devalued the dollar faster than any admninstration before (the dollar is now worth about .08, and was worth .22 when he started)
-gas prices more than doubled
-electricity charges have risen 180%
-food has gone up an average of 28%
-the average family of four income has dropped $6k year

This is too painful to keep listing. I'm sure he inspired someone...



like Chris Mathews

Liberals all hated Bush for everything he did (even when they liked what he did)... yet love this guy who has done nothing but codify Bush. What's up with that?