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Originally Posted by Robbie
So how do you rate his Presidency? Is that the legacy he has? Failing at cleaning up for Bush?
Not much of an achievement there. At least he will go down in history as the first black President. And that's a good thing.
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I think we have to wait and see. At the moment Obama looks like a pretty average president. When he took office he was faced with a country stuck in wars we had been in for years and couldn't get out of and a collapsing economy. IMO he didn't do a great job in fixing the economy and did a slightly better job of getting us out of Iraq and Afghanistan (although we are heading back there now with ISIS which I think is a direct result of the invasion of Iraq).
What will define him him is Obamacare. If at some point in the future we end up with some kind of good, affordable, national healthcare or at least a system that works better and is more affordable than what we have today, he will likely be credited as the guy who got the ball rolling and people will look back on him fairly positively. If Obamacare ends up being a bloated mess that crashes and burns and has to be scrapped, it will tarnish him and he will likely be seen as the guy who forced through a healthcare plan in the middle of one of the worst recessions in history.