In short, Cigar, your facts are cherry picked.
I think it would be more amazing had they decided to help him in every way possible. Of course they didn’t. Would you expect the Democrats to help Trump if he were elected?
‘[…]he has done so while demonstrating as much poise, sheer class and good humor as any human being could possibly be expected to show, and then some.’
Improved America’s image abroad, helped businesses, created race to the top, recapitalized Banks . . . are you serious? America’s image has been the worst it’s ever been. Bankruptcies reached record levels under Obama. ‘Race to the top’, otherwise known as Common Core was being taught back in the USSR and recapitalizing banks is another way of saying you, the tax payer, paid for the mess.
I could get the same stuff from Obama’s website. I don’t mean propaganda, I meant what has he done that you can explain as being something the ‘greatest President’ will be remembered for.
It’s not a ‘heavy’ post. When we look back over time, certain people are remembered because they stood out. Churchill, Stalin, Thatcher, Reagan . . . good or bad, they helped change the world we live in, they’re amongst the giants of the 20th century. Then I think, Jimmy Carter and I think, peanut farmer. Yet what did he do, what is he famous for? Without checking, I’ve no idea, but there again, my excuse is that he wasn’t presented as the greatest American President ever. Then I think Obama and I get a blank.
Conversely, not everything is Obama’s fault, he inherited a lot of the c**p, that’s true. Yet when I renember the ‘change we can believe in’, ‘yes we can’ and ‘fundementally changing America’ (presumably for the better), I still get a blank. Obama is a president, of course he did things; he signed order number whatever and propsed legislation that no one remebers without looking it up on google, but the question remains. After eight years, has America got better, as a country and/or for you.
Peter1469 (07-29-2016)
It isn't about 'official' evidence Cigar. Look at the abysmal GDP figures, relate that to a 'booming economy' and wonder why at an official unemployment rate of 5% (strange, UK says it has 5% as well), 46m are on food stamps and also relate it to poverty rates. You get a very different picture.