Today marks six months until the end of the Obama Presidency.
Barack Obama has survived, literally and figuratively, for seven and a half tumultuous years as the 44th President of the United States.
He has come under the most blistering attacks of any President, including Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, since the times of Abraham Lincoln.
He has been insulted, ridiculed, not given proper respect, and accused of every sin imaginable.
No matter what he says and does, no matter how innocuous it is, right wing talk radio and Fox News Channel and Republican politicians at all levels have refused to cooperate on anything that would be beneficial to the nation at large.
His opponents make him out to be evil incarnate and constantly having ulterior motives, and they have stoked racism to new levels that are shocking in 21st century America.
Blockade, stalemate and gridlock have occurred on an every day basis, but despite that, Barack Obama has been an historic President, and has moved to add to the progressive tradition of Presidents since Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism in the early 20th century, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal in the 1930s, and Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society in the 1960s.
So when history is written, Barack Obama will stand out as a path breaking President, and will, assuredly, end up in the top ten of all Presidents over the long haul of historical analysis.
Today is also the 47th anniversary of Neil Armstrong saying “One small step for man; one giant step for mankind”..
He certainly wasn’t thinking about one orange person…
Hmm, revisionist history: “One small step backwards for man; one
giant chasm for mankind”.
Yes, Paul, 47 years, and we seem in some ways to be going backwards!