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I don't like the guy so I may be biased but, I can't think of anything he has done well except lie. He can't leave soon enough.
Complete failure of both foreign and domestic policy. Worst president of my 53 years.
Obummer's four accomplishments (certainly not "best things") :
1. Create divisions and isolate opposition. The country is the most polarized its been since the Civil War. Racial tensions are at a 50 year high.
2. Financially weaken the states, nation, and redistribution of wealth (both internally and globally.) The country is 19 Trillion in debt, and the state budgets are blowing up with the Medicaid burden from the 'Affordable Care Act'. There is more to the BLM actions then what is printed. The EPA, ATF, IRS and BLM are out of control to name a few.
3. Globalization and the UN. No president has done more to embolden our enemies and alienate our allies than Obama. He has vacated a world leadership role that this nation held that kept balance around the world. The agreements and treaties inked under his administration contradict what is in the nation's best interest and force a more UN centric position upon this country.
4. Do harm to western culture, "Dreams of my father". Nothing is more blatant than the recent release of enemy combatants at GITMO; this action will result in deaths. The lack of acknowledgement of the terror threat compounded by the lack of action against ISIS is crazy. A combination of 3 and 4 is why Russia is now taking a leadership role in the Middle East. Both terrorism and fiscal irresponsibility will haunt this nation and its allies for a long time to come.
All in all, the damaged this guy did with two terms in office is staggering and will impact us for a long time to come...he accomplished a lot.
I'm interested in hearing if anyone here can think of a single thing that happened while he was in office that they liked and for which they would also give him credit. I'm not talking about increased gun sales.
There is one often forgotten thing: he ruined Ken Salazar's political career. Ken may have been governor or worse, no he is washed up. I despise Ken.
Besides his eventually leaving office, I will credit him for unwittingly setting the conditions for destroying the political power of the Clintons. Had he not left the Benghazi Consulate out to dry and then tried to cover up his inaction, Darrell Issa (and now Trey Gowdy) wouldn't have filed their requests for emails that led to uncovering the Clinton email server problem which led to the discovery of mishandling of classified emails which is now prompting TWO FBI investigations and probable indictments which will include exposure of the blatant corruption in the Clinton Foundation.
I'm sure the Clintons thought their "Foundation" was untouchable but even the Washington Post and New York Times are going after them now. I'm not sure it's worth the decades of pain that Obama's presidency will have given us but destroying the Clintonian power base is a good thing -- making them face justice for the unprecedented monetary corruption of the "Clinton Foundation" is even better.