The wipeout of Obama’s legacy

[TalkRadio]

President Obama’s legacy is rapidly vanishing. The decision by President Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran is the biggest blow, but it’s only the latest. The elimination of the individual mandate and canceling the yearly bailout of insurance companies have left Obamacare in a precarious condition. Young immigrants whose parents brought them to the United States unlawfully—so-called dreamers—are losing their legal status.

This is historic. Presidents often vow to wipe out big chunks of their predecessor’s legacies. President Eisenhower was going to take on the New Deal. Ronald Reagan targeted the Great Society. Both backed down. Trump, working with congressional Republicans, hasn’t. He’s eager to deflate Obama’s standing and inflate his own.

Obama and Democrats have made Trump’s efforts surprisingly easy. Obama, you’ll recall, succeeded brilliantly in the first two years of his presidency when Democrats controlled Congress. But once Republicans held the House, Senate, or both over the next six years, he ignored Capitol Hill as much as possible. He spared himself the unpleasantness of compromising with Republicans and instead governed by executive orders and regulations.

Decisions taken by the president alone are vulnerable to being erased by subsequent presidents. And that’s what happened to the pact with Iran. It wasn’t a treaty ratified by the Senate. Democrats used the filibuster to block even a nonbinding vote on it. Trump killed the deal with his signature. That was also all it took to quit the Paris accord on global warming.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/the-wipeout-of-obamas-legacy

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Obama had a legacy?

 

[HisArpy]

Obama had a legacy?

Yep.

It was whitewash.

http://www.crownpaint.ca/wp-content/uploads/Legacy-1830-300x300.jpg

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Yep.

It was whitewash.

http://www.crownpaint.ca/wp-content/uploads/Legacy-1830-300x300.jpg

"Crown" paint. How quaint. And a velvet touch.

 

[phrodeau]

Obama had a legacy?

Nobody was saying anything about Obama's legacy until Trump came along.

Thanks, Donald!

 

[sircumvent]

Nobody was saying anything about Obama's legacy until Trump came along.

Thanks, Donald!

Rim shot

 

[TalkRadio]

Obama: I will consider it an insult to my legacy if you do not vote

Nobody was saying anything about Obama's legacy until Trump came along.

Thanks, Donald!

President Obama made a strong sell for a candidate to succeed his legacy at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner Saturday night. The president invoked slavery and the Jim Crow era and preached that if they wanted to give him a good send off then register people to vote because his legacy is at stake.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter," Obama said. "It all matters. And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down it's guard and fails to activate itself in this election. You want to give me a good send off? Go vote!"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v..._want_to_give_me_a_good_send_off_go_vote.html

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v..._want_to_give_me_a_good_send_off_go_vote.html

Oh yes, I forgot about that one. The media still buzzes with the news of Obama's historic speech to the Congressional Black Caucus dinner.

 

[Hypoxia]

Obama still scares these goobers shitless. If his dark hand flicked toward a roll of Mentos, they'd shoot him.

 

[BBIV]

this thread is better

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1476364

 

[WoundedKnee]

Funny. Especially coming from someone who is scared shitless of President Trump who is crashing the economy, starting WWIII and alienating every ally that we've ever had ('cept for those damned dirty Jews who need to be marched into the sea).

 

[lovecraft68]

A presidents legacy is like the truth. There's three sides the people who loved him, the ones who hated him and the actual truth.

The left worships him, the right loathed him. The truth is he had his ups and downs like any other president and was nothing exceptional.

 

[WoundedKnee]

I just realized that my list is remiss. Progressives are also terrified that President Trump is destroying the environment beyond all repair.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Is what Trump wants to be his legacy. It’s good to have goals.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I just realized that my list is remiss. Progressives are also terrified that President Trump is destroying the environment beyond all repair.

Much the way a (D) coming out EVERY morning and executing puppies, kittens and small mentally disabled children with an evil evil evil AR-15 and would be hailed as progress.

He could be the most environmentally friendly POTUS of all time....they would still cry about how he's the worst.

https://pics.me.me/trump-cures-cancer-curing-cancer-we-have-the-right-isto-31493425.png


It's typical partisan derp.

 

[lovecraft68]

Trump's legacy will be not giving a shit what whiny liberals say or how much they cry and just sitting their taking their shit and being the object of their obsession while the GOP does what they want and exactly what he wants.

Hopefully there comes a day when people look back on it and the out of their mind progressives are seen as the pariah to the country because they are. The hate spewing from the Trump detractors is fueled by their own self loathing because they brought this country to Trump.

Anyone sick of whining and foot stomping and a lynch mob trying to destroy freedom of speech and creating a nazi like culture where anyone supporting the party they don't like is persecuted pushed people who didn't even like Trump to vote for him.

The fourth Reich put their enemy in power and its hilarious when they call others nazis.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Maxine Waters is terrified that the Trump legacy might be, he made America great again.
What an American treasure she is.

 

[BotanyBoy]

The hate spewing from the Trump detractors is fueled by their own self loathing because they brought this country to Trump.

They don't understand that...they don't want to see it.

They think if they quadruple down on "We're going to tax you into poverty, by the way we're going to have to take your guns, get rid of free speech and by the way fuck white people. They need to be punished for the collective sins of their race across history. " they will get it this time.

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

One of Obama's greatest legacies was the attempt to out do Truman's legacy by evaporating from space one Arab at a time.

 

[Rightguide]

Maxine Waters is terrified that the Trump legacy might be, he made America great again.
What an American treasure she is.

There isn't a more hateful, racist, black communist in the House. If placed in a position of real power she'd be the equal of any genocidal African tyrant whoever lived.

 

[bellisarius]

Maxine Waters is terrified that the Trump legacy might be, he made America great again.
What an American treasure she is.

Damn but she's fun to watch meltdown. I mean, even the black community is migrating away from the bullshit she spouts.

 

[phrodeau]

There isn't a more hateful, racist, black communist in the House. If placed in a position of real power she'd be the equal of any genocidal African tyrant whoever lived.

There isn't a more hateful, racist President than Trump. He'd be the equal of any genocidal et cetera.

 

[FGB]

Well, You know.

If Obama had done his shit...and it was the correct word, the correct way, he would not be whining now.

But NO...King Obama had to have things don HIS way and no matter how solidly legal it was not and he and the country is and will be paying the price.

I guess the good news is we know for sure what will not work!

 

[Saint_Ann]

Obama and Carter can battle it out for the least relevant US presidential legacy.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Is what Trump wants to be his legacy. It’s good to have goals.

Do you understand why Trump pulled out of the Paris Accord? I'll wait for someone from the LWCJ to come up with something slightly resembling the truth.