Somebody claimed recently in another thread that Obama's presidency will be treated very favorably by historians. I'm sure that many active participants in USA Politics would agree. My question is "what are his major successes?" It would also be relevant to explain how he, personally, was instrumental in making those successes come to pass.
Just as an example of my thinking on the issue, even if you think Obamacare has been a success, which no doubt it has been from a certain perspective, I think Obama's handling of health care reform was a disaster. Virtually any other Democratic leader could have done a better job with it I think, especially Hillary Clinton. By completely outsourcing the writing of the bill to Congress, and not personally getting involved in the negotiations, we ended up with a big ball of wibbly wobbly stuff that came within a whisker of being struck down by the Supreme Court and may yet be facing insurmountable problems. Furthermore, the way the bill was passed engendered so much political opposition that it gutted his party's control of Congress and sapped his power to have much effect on domestic policy. Something similar, although not quite to the same extent, happened with the stimulus bill in early 2009, which should have been a no-brainer.
Just as an example of my thinking on the issue, even if you think Obamacare has been a success, which no doubt it has been from a certain perspective, I think Obama's handling of health care reform was a disaster. Virtually any other Democratic leader could have done a better job with it I think, especially Hillary Clinton. By completely outsourcing the writing of the bill to Congress, and not personally getting involved in the negotiations, we ended up with a big ball of wibbly wobbly stuff that came within a whisker of being struck down by the Supreme Court and may yet be facing insurmountable problems. Furthermore, the way the bill was passed engendered so much political opposition that it gutted his party's control of Congress and sapped his power to have much effect on domestic policy. Something similar, although not quite to the same extent, happened with the stimulus bill in early 2009, which should have been a no-brainer.
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