Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
I know we\u2019re only half-way through, but can we take a moment to consider Barak Obama\u2019s legacy as President?\u00a0 How\u2019s he shaping up against his competition?<\/p>\n
Reagan and Bush I ended the Cold War.<\/p>\n
Nixon opened China.<\/p>\n
Johnson \u2013 civil rights.\u00a0 Like it or hate it, he made it happen.<\/p>\n
Kennedy \u2013 I credit the inspirational ‘put a man on the moon speech’.\u00a0That was a pivotal moment.<\/p>\n
Truman won The War by dropping The Bomb.\u00a0 World changing event.<\/p>\n
Slick Willie, Carter, Eisenhower \u2013 nothing much happened, good or bad, they\u2019re as forgettable as Hayes or Cleveland.<\/p>\n
The Light Bringer?\u00a0 So far, the subjects for his legacy include:<\/p>\n
the worst economy since the Great Depression<\/p>\n
the worst race relations in 50 years
\nglobal terrorists rebounding bigger, stronger and more confident than ever
\nalienating our allies and destroyed all hope of working relations with our associates (China, Russia for example).
\ndestroyed the concept of rule of law with scandals such as IRS, Fast and Furious, GM bailout
\nexecuted American citizens without trial, hearing or oversight
\nincreased surveillance of American citizens to levels the KGB only dreamed of
\nhas drones over everyone
\nhas people reading this email
\nThis is Barak Obama\u2019s legacy – The hope and change – so far. \u00a0It\u2019s bad enough.\u00a0 And we have three years left.<\/span><\/p>\nMaybe if we invade Syria, things will get better?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u00a0I love all the liberals who used to furrow their brows back in 2003 and talk about the “tail wagging the dog” who’ve suddenly become raging hawks.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I know we\u2019re only half-way through, but can we take a moment to consider Barak Obama\u2019s legacy as President?\u00a0 How\u2019s he shaping up against his competition? Reagan and Bush I ended the Cold War. Nixon opened China. Johnson \u2013 civil rights.\u00a0 Like it or hate it, he made it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38172,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38169\/revisions\/38172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}