Alrighty people. It's 2014, and President Obama is two years from the end of his second, and final term. There's no denying he's going to leave a legacy(which, of course, will also be related to his race), but the question of the hour is whether that legacy is going to be positive or negative?
He won in 2008 on a platform of Hope and Change, and then got smacked with a huge post-Bush era recession which he has managed to climb up from, albeit under heavy fire from all sides. He proceeded on to 2012, winning re-election in a campaign that was criticized for being highly negative, just like his opponent's was, and was drastically different from his "Hope, Change" campaign from before. He's had the controversial Obamacare to deal with, the Benghazi incident, a sudden Arab Spring that has resulted in further destabilization of the middle east and some unstable regime changes in the name of democracy, which still eludes the region, a rising federal deficit, and the 2013 government shutdown, among other things.
I for one, think that he's done a fair job as President, having fixed the mucked up economy and at least somewhat withdrawn America from middle east conflict, keeping his promises on withdrawing troops. However, he's left a loooot of promises unfulfilled even after six years in office, and he hasn't lived up to his 2008 campaign promises. He's also been somewhat indecisive in emerging conflict in the middle east, preferring to speak on the matter but not act, thus allowing him to change his stance later on and avoid commitment. I've also seen the same on the Ukraine conflict, except there he's provided a single, unchanging stance, but still has done little to commit, until recently where sanctions have entered the picture.
Obama is better than Bush, that's for sure. He's a good president, in my opinion. Is he a great president? No. So NSG, what say ye? Is Obama good or bad? What parts of his administration do you particularly like/dislike?
Begin the dissection of his administration at will.
