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In Poland, Obama confronts a legacy reality check
CNN ^ | 11 July 2016 | Kevin Liptak

Posted on 07/12/2016 2:22:49 AM PDT by Cronos

Barack Obama confronting again the frustrating sting of his unfinished business.

The lingering shortfalls of his presidency -- on guns, race, war, and politics -- seemed to confront Obama in each hallway and beyond every podium during his stop in the Polish capital.

Obama insisted Saturday he's not keen to assess his own legacy as his term winds down, preferring to leave that task to historians. He says he's focused more on finishing his presidency at a sprint. And for the first time in years, a majority of Americans say in polls they approve of his job performance. That doesn't mean, however, that tough realities about what he has and hasn't accomplished aren't rapidly settling in.

his three appearances decrying gun violence in America joined a seemingly endless stream of statements following mass shootings. His press secretary said Friday that inability to convince Congress to pass gun control was the President's biggest frustration.

The racial undertones of the violence placed Obama, yet again, in the fraught position of calling attention to persistent racial disparities, which he says he's experienced himself, while also championing the police many minorities mistrust.

Obama responded Saturday that change takes time.

..As a president who entered office eager to deescalate conflicts, and to normalize relationships around the globe, deploying American troops to counter Russia....

Incremental progress has become a hallmark of Obama's governing mantra.

"As Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful military in the world, I spend a lot of time brooding over these issues," Obama said when asked about the conflicts from which he's been unable to fully withdraw U.S. troops. "And I'm not satisfied that we've got it perfect yet. I can say honestly, it's better than it was when I came into office."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: delusional; nato; warsaw
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Hope and change...
1 posted on 07/12/2016 2:22:49 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Obama’s legacy - utter failure as a president and as a human being.


2 posted on 07/12/2016 2:36:45 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Cronos
**....I spend a lot of time brooding...**

The caption writes itself.

3 posted on 07/12/2016 2:39:48 AM PDT by Daffynition (Who will stop her?"We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Cronos
And for the first time in years, a majority of Americans say in polls they approve of his job performance.

There are a lot of delusional voters out there.

4 posted on 07/12/2016 2:42:02 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Cronos

He is delusional!


5 posted on 07/12/2016 2:46:39 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: Cronos

This guy who apparently “broods” over issues, I have to laugh about that one because his mother and grandparents probably wrote his teachers notes excusing him from homework and probably numerous other activities at school as they would have been considered beneath him at even that age.


6 posted on 07/12/2016 2:47:29 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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I just checked Rasmussen and “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama’s job performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove (see trends).

The latest figures include 28% of who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 39% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11.”


7 posted on 07/12/2016 2:50:33 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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"....it's better than when I came into office". LOL!!!! He has set America and the WORLD on FIRE!

Our Friends don't TRUST us and our Enemies don't FEAR us........GREAT LEGACY, Barack Hussein Obama!! (although he set out to destroy America, and he has done a great job of it).

8 posted on 07/12/2016 2:53:04 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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He has a legacy and it suck for him and us.


9 posted on 07/12/2016 3:20:31 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: skr
I suspect that these results stem from very creatively worded questions or more likely, reflect answers from subjects feeling better about a future without Homobama.
10 posted on 07/12/2016 3:21:17 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Cronos

Obama has accomplished ZILCH.

In fact he is far, far into the negative column.

It’s easy to see how he could think Hillary is the “most qualified” person to ever run for office.


11 posted on 07/12/2016 3:44:42 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Ann Archy

He succeeded in destroying the USA’s reputation. But the credit for that goes to the people who elected him TWICE — probably even more so to the folks who voted for him the second time around as well and now say “I regret it” — what do you do with such idiocy?


12 posted on 07/12/2016 3:46:45 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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“Better than when i came in to office”?
Horse pooh.
Nothing this marxist a-hole has done has made anything better.
Celebration time when the magic negro fool leaves office.


13 posted on 07/12/2016 3:47:39 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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To: Cronos

MOVE out of this country.


14 posted on 07/12/2016 3:47:55 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: OttawaFreeper
Barack Obama - The Early Years

The Big Choomer Broods About Injustice


15 posted on 07/12/2016 3:52:03 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Cronos
a majority of Americans say in polls they approve of his job performance

People know the correct answer, I suppose. And to some extent, they probably accept it too.

16 posted on 07/12/2016 4:14:24 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: Cronos

What a puts.


17 posted on 07/12/2016 4:16:50 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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Meant what a putz.


18 posted on 07/12/2016 4:19:17 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: skr
There are a lot of delusional voters out there.

It is good there are so many media voices speaking for them.

19 posted on 07/12/2016 4:22:09 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop the Left and save the world.)
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I know people who are so in love with him, “no other President has been so intelligent, so classy, so good for the Country”...”I will miss him and his beautiful family”...”Michelle, the classiest FL ever”..They hate Trump with a passion...All living the fantasy they have created in their minds.


20 posted on 07/12/2016 4:22:51 AM PDT by etabeta
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