- The people are owed by Obama
- The Constitution was savaged
The bitter end of the Obama era by Jazz Shaw at Hot Air (excerpt)
You were swept into office by a nation weary of war and panicked over the collapse of a massive economic bubble. You promised to bring an end to those wars with mixed results. Getting out of Afghanistan proved more challenging than you thought. You did manage to end the official American war in Iraq, but while you can’t be held entirely to blame for it, that nation was quickly overrun by terrorists and now falls largely under the protective cloak of Iran. By the time you realized that ISIS was far more than the junior varsity team, they had taken their act on the road to devastating effect. While they may now be seeing the end of their official caliphate, their remnants are no doubt scattering across the globe bringing havoc and death with them. With the help of two relatively feckless Secretaries of State our position in the global theater is diminished.
The economy slowly staggered back to its feet during your tenure, though it remains far short of the robust health it enjoyed in the 90s. A significant portion of the jobs recovery came from the energy industry, a success story which took place in spite of your efforts to dampen it rather than through any actions you could take credit for. The mountains of regulations you piled on nearly every aspect of American business, largely through the office of Gina McCarthy, explain a great deal of the economic lethargy we are still experiencing today.
But perhaps your most significant “achievement” came in the arena of culture. You inherited a nation where roughly two thirds of Americans felt that race relations in the country were at least in fair shape and improving. Many of us, including the most skeptical such as myself, foolishly thought that the election of the nation’s first black president might put the final nail in the coffin of a sad aspect of our history and heal those wounds as much as is possible among human beings. But you managed to infuse racial divisiveness into your speeches and policies in a way nobody saw coming. Now the national numbers on Americans’ attitudes about race relations have essentially reversed. . . .
Via CNS: Obama Leaves U.S.A $9,335,000,000,000 Deeper in Debt
Regarding that whole Constitution thing that the suppose Constitutional law professor was sworn to protect:
Ilya Shapiro, who writes at CATO and The Federalist had this to offer::
Top 10 Ways Obama Violated the Constitution during His Presidency
