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Obama's Disastrous Legacy
American Thinker ^ | January 5, 2017 | James Arlandson

Posted on 01/05/2017 5:17:20 AM PST by Kaslin

Obama is proud of himself. He and his devoted followers believe he has left America in better shape than when he found it.

Wrong.

To avoid the accusation of bias and (fake) "fake news," let's use the mainstream news media and government websites, in almost every case, to prove that Obama and his core followers are misjudging their own country and the world.

Foreign Affairs

1. His Benghazi policy was deadly for four Americans.

These deaths happened in September 2012, before his re-election, so the DNC had to adopt a false narrative about a video because terrorist groups were supposedly in retreat.

Politico: Final Benghazi report details administration failures

2. Obama withdrew the troops from Iraq prematurely.

We should have kept a military base there for as long as we have in Germany, Japan, and Korea. But Obama believes the standard leftist lie that America around the globe causes problems, not solves them.

CBS News: Leon Panetta Criticizes Obama for Iraq Withdrawal

3. The rise of ISIS "took me by surprise."

It did not surprise all of U.S. intelligence. The generals told him trouble was brewing.

CNN: ISIS rise surprised Obama, US intelligence

4. Syria and northern Iraq are disaster zones.

Refugees are streaming out of the area.

NPR: As East Aleppo Falls, Accounts Of Carnage – Then A Cease-Fire

5. ISIS has gone global.

CNN: ISIS goes global: 143 attacks in 29 countries have killed 2043

6. U.S.-Israel relations has deteriorated under Obama.

L.A. Times: Obama's tense relationship with Netanyahu colors Obama's legacy on Israel

His recent refusal to vote against the U.N. resolution that restricted Israel's right to build where it thinks best in Jerusalem indicates the deterioration.

WaPo: U.S. declines to veto U.N. Security Council resolution for Israel to stop Jewish settlement activity

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 0bama; foreignpolicy; isis; legacy; obama; truelegacy; worstpresident; worstpresidentever
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1 posted on 01/05/2017 5:17:20 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The veneer is off and the MSM will be held to account.


2 posted on 01/05/2017 5:39:45 AM PST by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: Kaslin

Hint & Fact: Yesterday afternoon, POTUS, Obama bid farewell to the US Military folks. Of course, all the military services & personnel were odrered there. However, there was not one spectator in hundreds of empty seats......there was not one cheer nor, one round of applause....there was only Obama standing there alone, which is what he will be doing forever, after January 20th, 2016. Good riddance, America Hater, Obama!!!


3 posted on 01/05/2017 5:40:37 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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(HAT TIP CONRAD BLACK---PARAPHRASING) Obama has operated the most incompetent administration since James Buchanan brought on the Civil War, but his pigmentation gave him immunity to severe criticism, disguising how inept he has been, how authoritarian and sleazy he's been; his self absorption and vanity has gone almost unnoticed as the MSM toadies and bootlickers went into overdrive.

That Obama actually believes he could have won a third term, and that the Russians helped Trump win, is a testament to his deluded thinking.

It's frightening to think this is the kind of mentality we've lived under eight years.

The aftermath is too unnerving to contemplate: a president who did nothing meaningful except count the number of brown people---foreign and domestic---getting tax dollars, and a spouse forcing school kids to eat kale chips.

4 posted on 01/05/2017 5:46:30 AM PST by Liz (The Clintons' embracing humanitarian relief is like the Sopranos' embracing waste mgmt.)
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To: Kaslin

The daily hate crimes of blacks against non-blacks is one of the REAL points of Obamao’s Legacy. He is filled with degeneracy, lies, and hate so it oozes out of his sycophants and worshippers.


5 posted on 01/05/2017 5:59:55 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: Kaslin

The president (Val) and Obama have nothing to be proud of they only have egos.


6 posted on 01/05/2017 6:04:13 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Kaslin
"Obama is proud of himself. He and his devoted followers believe he has left America in better shape than when he found it."

It was never the communist's goal to do what is good for America. His goal was to, in his own words, "fundamentally transform" it.

7 posted on 01/05/2017 6:06:08 AM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: Kaslin
The rise of ISIS "took me by surprise."

It did not surprise all of U.S. intelligence. The generals told him trouble was brewing.

Liar that told us it was the JV team so they could be ignored.

8 posted on 01/05/2017 6:08:17 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN)
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To: Kaslin

Obama’s plan as a minister of hate has been mostly successful. His downfall has been due to his stupidity in not realizing he is exposing the old media lying techniques. Exposing the extent of journalistic fraud is one positive aspect of his legacy and we should thank him for that.


9 posted on 01/05/2017 6:10:35 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: MHGinTN

Fact is, Obama has not been a president, but a minister of hate—this is his legacy.


10 posted on 01/05/2017 6:12:27 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Kaslin

SOLYNDRA


11 posted on 01/05/2017 6:14:15 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (MAGA)
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To: Kaslin

Down at #27 it says that race relations are at their lowest point in the Obama administration. Hell, they’re at their lowest point in about 50 years and this is primarily Obama’s fault.

If had used the killings of Trevon Martin and Michael Brown to educate blacks that both of them died because they both attacked men who had guns to fight back with. Instead, he blamed whites.


12 posted on 01/05/2017 6:33:58 AM PST by libertylover (Small-town America got sick and tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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Has Obama, or ANY so-called Black “leader” condemned the Racial Torture in Chicago?

Have they been asked to do so by anyone?


13 posted on 01/05/2017 6:36:05 AM PST by The Toll
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I saw that, and was really struck by the empty bleacher seats.
Even the Fox news guy—Bill Hemmer—I think, commented on the “sparse” audience.
As a mom of a (recently retired) soldier, it made me both glad, and sad!
Thank God we will soon have a new CIC!


14 posted on 01/05/2017 6:36:08 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: Kaslin

... and that is only his mid-East/terrorism disaster legacy.

His domestic disasters and the rest of his foreign policy disasters would fill volumes.

... and videos and images of his athletic legacy will be comedy gold for decades.


15 posted on 01/05/2017 7:04:48 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Kaslin

A helpful list. Could include cash for clunkers, solar scams, killing coal, wind power scams, doubling the debt, ft hood massacre, killing offshore drilling, arbitrary national monument designation of millions of acres of western land, epa ecodisasters, armed Fed agencies...


16 posted on 01/05/2017 7:40:52 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: Liz

<<<< That Obama actually believes he could have won a third term, and that the Russians helped Trump win, is a testament to his deluded thinking. >>>> and his arrogance


17 posted on 01/05/2017 10:29:14 AM PST by Kaslin (Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: lurk
Everything on the list proves that he is the worst president in the American history, and that is his true legacy.
18 posted on 01/05/2017 10:46:50 AM PST by Kaslin (Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: Kaslin

Eight years and never having economic growth over 3%. Pitiful.


19 posted on 01/05/2017 10:48:30 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
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bttt

The list has 36 items.

Also, this qualifier, “To avoid the accusation of bias and (fake) “fake news,” let’s use the mainstream news media and government websites, ..”


20 posted on 01/05/2017 10:48:56 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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