History Will Be Very Kind

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History Will Be Very Kind

By Jonathan Chait January 11, 20159:00 p.m.

 

Ten and a half years ago, at the Democratic convention in Boston, Barack Hussein Obama was introduced to America as a youthful, magnetic man who had burst suddenly and somewhat mysteriously onto the scene. This characterization—superficially appealing yet weightless, more symbolic than substantive—followed him throughout his presidential campaign, when Hillary Clinton cast him as an inspirational speechmaker like Martin Luther King Jr., as opposed to a viable contender for president, and John McCain’s campaign scathingly labeled him a “celebrity,” attractive but vacuous.

 

The lived reality of Obama’s presidency has unfolded as almost the precise opposite of this trope. He has amassed a record of policy accomplishment far deeper than even many of his supporters give him credit for. He has also survived a dismal, and frequently terrifying, 72 months when at every moment, to go by the day-to-day media, a crisis has threatened to rock his presidency to its core. The episodes have been all-consuming: the BP oil spill, swine flu, the Christmas underwear bomber, the IRS scandal, the healthcare.org launch, the border crisis, Benghazi. Depending on how you count, upwards of 19 events have been described as “Obama’s Katrina.”

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The Last Garrison of Defense for Obama’s Legacy is Manned by Jonathan Chait

By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | January 12th, 2015 at 10:54 AM

Writing in New York Magazine, former TNR stooge Jonathan Chait writes, somewhat counter intuitively, that History will be “Very Kind” to Obama’s legacy. This assertion comes ironically juxtaposed with the virtually universal blistering criticism Obama is receiving even from his most vociferous defenders (likeMike Lupica) for having failed to send even an administration representative (nevermind the President himself) to the anti-terror rally in Paris this weekend. It has come to the point that long time liberal defenders of Obama’s presidency are forced to concede publicly that Obama will most be remembered as a President who did essentially nothing.

 

Strangely, that seems to be the exact basis for Chait’s pre-emptive praise of Obama’s historical legacy – that while all others around him were clamoring for him to do something, Obama has remained steadfastly calm and done none of those things: http://www.redstate.com/2015/01/12/last-garrison-defense-obamas-legacy-manned-jonathan-chait/

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History Will Be Very Kind

By Jonathan Chait January 11, 20159:00 p.m.

 

 

 

As the next two years proceeds, stand by for more like this. Particularly the latter half of 2016.

 

 

I would recommend stocking up on Barf Bags.

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This History Will Be Very Kind to Obama goes with WestVirginiaRebel's posting of today:

History Will Eviscerate Him: Obama Will Go Down as America's Gorbachev

 

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