While the left will inevitably do what they do best (attempt to replace history with propaganda), here is the
true legacy of the Barack Obama presidency...
1. The
non-stimulating stimulus. Obama’s $750,000,000-plus stimulus plan retarded economic recovery, but it did manage to shatter by gargantuan amounts the record for annual federal budget deficits and set us on the path of approximately doubling the national debt during Obama’s eight years.
2. The
unconstitutional takeover/reorganization of General Motors and Chrysler. Obama shredded over 200 years of settled bankruptcy law by placing unsecured creditors (UAW) ahead of the secured creditors (bondholders) of those companies.
3.
Seizing defeat from the jaws of victory. Obama abandoned the winning Bush/Petraeus surge strategy in Iraq, destabilizing that key country, pushing it closer to Iran as well as opening the door for Isis.
4. Allowing the
American military to fall into a state of disrepair. Well, at least he has made sure that the Navy is using expensive biofuels instead of cheap petroleum.
5.
Loss of American stature in the world. Jimmy Carter-like, he has sought to charm America’s enemies (the Castros and the Iranian ayatollahs) while disrespecting old allies like the UK and newer allies like Poland. Through his indecisiveness with Syria, his bumbling interference in Libya, his capitulation to the Iranian mullahs, his passive acquiescence to Putin’s takeover of Crimea, and his obvious belief that America owes the world apologies instead of strong leadership, he has greatly reduced respect for our country around the globe.
6.
Obamacare. ‘
Nuff said.
7.
Dodd-Frank and its wicked spawn, the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Ditto.
8.
Hostility to fossil fuels. Using the EPA and other regulatory agencies, he has done everything he could to cripple the domestic production of cheap, reliable fossil fuels and given subsidies to political cronies and others producing
green boondoggles.
9. Disrespect for our system of government. He has shown
contempt for our Constitution, for anyone who resists his power grabs, and for the American people, particularly the
middle class. He seems to have tried to reduce the United States of America to a banana republic by governing in the manner of a Latin American
caudillo.
10. Weak support for police and an
increase of racial tensions. You know it’s bad when the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations is so frustrated that
he publicly accuses the President of the United States of waging “war on cops.”
10 things you won’t see the mainstream media talk about in the last 100 days of Obama’s presidency