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Obama’s Policies and Broader Vision Face Reckoning With History
NY Times ^ | Nov. 12, 2016 | PETER BAKER

Posted on 11/12/2016 8:11:25 PM PST by Innovative

As he raced across the country before the election, President Obama warned supporters about the stakes. “All the progress we’ve made over these last eight years,” he said, “goes out the window if we don’t win this election.”

Hillary Clinton, his anointed successor, did not win, and so now Mr. Obama will find out whether his prediction was just campaign hyperbole or if his legacy really has just gone out the window. Not only are specific initiatives like his health care and climate change programs at risk, but so, too, is the broader vision Mr. Obama articulated for America.

Suddenly, the progressive, post-racial, bridge-building society he promised has given way to an angry, jeering, us-against-them nation to be led by a new president who relishes reality-show name-calling with racial overtones. In none of Mr. Obama’s worst-case scenarios when he came to office was this the way he imagined leaving.

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Yes! Trump will cancel and reverse Obama's actions that were sending the US into an abyss.
1 posted on 11/12/2016 8:11:25 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

With th left everything is backwards. Hope and Cange. Hope is despair and Change is the overthrow of freedom by communism. FUBO!


2 posted on 11/12/2016 8:16:10 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Innovative

If by “reckoning” they mean tried for treason and corruption. Then good.


3 posted on 11/12/2016 8:17:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Innovative

He talks like reversing everything Obozo did would be a bad thing...wrong!


4 posted on 11/12/2016 8:17:58 PM PST by econjack
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To: Innovative

“Suddenly, the progressive, post-racial, bridge-building society he promised has given way to an angry, jeering, us-against-them nation...”

Post-racial? From the guy that single-handedly set the stage for a slew of police assassinations?


5 posted on 11/12/2016 8:19:22 PM PST by Tallguy
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Yes! Trump will cancel and reverse Obama's actions that were sending the US into an abyss.

From the talking heads:

1. Shrillary did it to herself, making speeches to the young (who don't vote anyway), the Latinos (who are actually quite conservative) and African-Americans (who don't care since both candidates were white). She IGNORED her male base. Perhaps they voted for El Trumpo just to have a voice over Shrillary.

2. The media helped Trump by publishing and airing THE most vicious, nasty press about Trump and it seemed to have caused a backlash.

3. She got NO help from hubby. I don't recall seeing ANY commercials from BillyGoat saying: "Vote for my wife Hillary because she's The Best."

Sweet!

6 posted on 11/12/2016 8:21:25 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: BenLurkin

Agree,

Obamy in an Orange jumpsuit!

Hope and Chains for the Kenyan
would suit me.


7 posted on 11/12/2016 8:22:12 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Tallguy

Obviously the author is frustrated because Trump won.

Let him write stupid articles as therapy for himself, while Trump and his supporters are working to “make America great again”.


8 posted on 11/12/2016 8:24:00 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

Of course OBAMA’s broader vision represents a complete distraction of traditional Judeochristian values, the abolishment of the United States as a sovereign country, the abrogation of the Bill of Rights, the inverted admission of Muslim extremists into the U.S., the strengthening gay marriage, packing the Supreme Court with Marxist subversives, supporting anarchy in the streets, encouraging those intent upon murdering our police personnel, enabling Iran to achieve nuclear capability...


9 posted on 11/12/2016 8:24:14 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Hillary & Bill = Jezebel & Ahab)
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To: Innovative

These people are such morons. Obama has torn this Nation apart, creating racial divisions so he could utilize the crises. His Presidency hurt all Americans but especially Blacks. I am sick of the Kumbaya lies.


10 posted on 11/12/2016 8:24:36 PM PST by JayGalt
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“Suddenly, the progressive, post-racial, bridge-building society....”

Absolute skunk turds. Deluded Utopian tripe if I’ve ever heard it.


11 posted on 11/12/2016 8:25:21 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Innovative

Don’t shoot me but I actually found the article to be pretty fair, presenting both sides. Man I can’t believe this is the times!


12 posted on 11/12/2016 8:30:43 PM PST by McCarthysGhost
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Of course OBAMA’s broader vision represents a complete distraction of traditional Judeochristian values, the abolishment of the United States as a sovereign country, the abrogation of the Bill of Rights, the unvetted admission of Muslim extremists into the U.S., the strengthening of gay marriage (a complete abomination before God), packing the Supreme Court with Marxist subversives, supporting anarchy in the streets, encouraging those intent upon murdering our police personnel (sowing lawlessness-another major sin against the holy God of the Bible), enabling Iran to achieve nuclear, betrayal of Israel (provoking God’s wrath upon the US-—”I will bless those who bless the descendants of Israel & curse those who curse them”)....


13 posted on 11/12/2016 8:34:28 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Hillary & Bill = Jezebel & Ahab)
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To: Innovative

The Leftists are DELUSIONAL!

EVERYTHING implemented by Executive Order or COMPLICITY by the RINOs in Congress these past eight years MUST be turned back! It must be!

Do it, Mr. President-Elect (LOVE THAT!) Trump!

Just. Do. It. :)


14 posted on 11/12/2016 8:36:48 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Innovative

Obama was a racist anti-white divider. He pitted the races against each other and left our country torn asunder.

That’s his legacy and the American people repudiated it.

I’m just so relieved the Obama decade will soon be over.


15 posted on 11/12/2016 8:37:25 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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“From the guy [0bama] that single-handedly set the stage for a slew of police assassinations?”

+1

And yet, he escapes with no consequences. That hurts my heart. :(


16 posted on 11/12/2016 8:38:42 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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Obama’s Broader Vision

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17 posted on 11/12/2016 8:52:31 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Innovative
Republican intransigence must be explained at least in part by race, they figure — a refusal to accept the legitimacy of the first African-American president.

“I think President Obama will still go down in history as a great and historic president,”

The only thing historic about Obama is that he was the first black president otherwise there is simply nothing "great" about him. It is revealing of the leftist mindset that opposition to Obama is characterized as refusal to accept the legitimacy of the first African-American president. It is further confirmation of Nathan Bedford's first maxim of American politics:

All politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.


18 posted on 11/12/2016 9:01:55 PM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack!… Bull Halsey)
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To: Innovative

Trump is going to erase most of the Kenyanesian Usurper’s legacy.

He should never have been allowed into office.

Children of foreign nationals are NOT natural born citizens.


19 posted on 11/12/2016 9:04:04 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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I see you got out of the doghouse, welcome back.


20 posted on 11/12/2016 9:07:31 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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