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(3,226 posts) Sun Jan 11, 2015, 11:51 PM Jan 2015

History 'Will Be Very Generous' To Obama [View all]

We forget how lucky we are to have President Obama for the last 6 years

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/obamas-legacy-chait.html

"It is already clear that, whatever the source of the current disappointment with Obama, the explanation cannot be that he failed to achieve his stated goals. In his first inaugural address, Obama outlined a sweeping domestic agenda. The list of promises was specific: not only to rescue the economy from catastrophe but also to undertake sweeping long-term reforms in health care, education, energy, and financial regulation....."

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History 'Will Be Very Generous' To Obama [View all] awake Jan 2015 OP

As time goes by and the full impact of the ACA is realized and it becomes an expected program Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #1

Posted to for later. n/t 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #2

In the big picture, Obama will be primarily remembered as the President Maedhros Jan 2015 #3

And the ACA will be an unmitigated disaster Doctor_J Jan 2015 #6

Your implication that Bartlet Jan 2015 #8

there is no such implication. We STILL have the worst system in the world, Doctor_J Jan 2015 #9

So ACA did NOT improve anything, made it worse? REALLY? randys1 Jan 2015 #26

It's better for some, worse for others, more expensive, and absolutely killed SP Doctor_J Jan 2015 #34

Who is it worse for? You dont believe the rightwing talking point lie that ACA is causing higher randys1 Jan 2015 #41

That is how the Chomsky left will see him. geek tragedy Jan 2015 #10

Its the Chomsky left now? TM99 Jan 2015 #11

Obama=Bush people are the ones who are not Democrats. nt geek tragedy Jan 2015 #12

Just two sides of the same coin. TM99 Jan 2015 #13

So you live in the past pining for a party that no longer geek tragedy Jan 2015 #14

New is not always better, and TM99 Jan 2015 #19

Race had everything to do with it. geek tragedy Jan 2015 #21

Yours is not a cogent argument. TM99 Jan 2015 #22

Policies that appeal to blacks and Hispanics turn off white geek tragedy Jan 2015 #23

I disagree. TM99 Jan 2015 #24

Many white voters assume "economic justice" means "helping undeserving minorities." geek tragedy Jan 2015 #25

Left Leaning Independent.... VanillaRhapsody Jan 2015 #27

The same Left Leaning Independents who excoriated FDR in his day because he wasn't liberal enough. BlueCaliDem Jan 2015 #28

Political Curmudgeons! VanillaRhapsody Jan 2015 #30

I think it's genetic. :-) eom BlueCaliDem Jan 2015 #31

Born that way! VanillaRhapsody Jan 2015 #32

Also in fairness to Obama, he is just a continuation of the Bush presidency. But his "change" Doctor_J Jan 2015 #37

go here(link) for the bigger picture quadrature Jan 2015 #4

Mahalo, awake Cha Jan 2015 #5

The best Presidents were those who wanted to do something with the office... happyslug Jan 2015 #7

As One Who Stated Once That Had I Been Able To Vote ChiciB1 Jan 2015 #16

A paper was written by a Naval Officer, telling how far right the Military has moved since Reagan. happyslug Jan 2015 #18

Torture, Surveillance State, the 1%/TBTF, relentlessly sabotaged public education and workers blkmusclmachine Jan 2015 #15

I think not... gregcrawford Jan 2015 #17

He did salvage the economy Doctor_J Jan 2015 #20

Most definitely. Left-leaning Independent demagogues criticizing FDR, have all been forgotten and BlueCaliDem Jan 2015 #29

NO, I don't think so Demeter Jan 2015 #33

If those who write history are fans of corporate solutions to problems, torture, more war, Doctor_J Jan 2015 #35

that's not history, that's propaganda Demeter Jan 2015 #36

I think I am going to file this OP right next to this one Doctor_J Jan 2015 #38

Two more years Madmiddle Jan 2015 #39

In education, he is pursuing a corrupt privatization agenda driven by hedge fund managers yurbud Jan 2015 #40