Wednesday, November 9, 2016

The Obama "Legacy"

With apologies to William Shakespeare:

I come to bury Obama, not to praise him.
The evil men do lives after them;
While the good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with Obama.

With Republicans controlling the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives come January, 2017, the meager Obama legacy is in peril. It is likely that Obamacare, the Iran nuclear deal, and certain trade deals will become defunct.

What remains is a footnote saying Obama was the first non-white president, a man during whose administration race relations became worse. His will be a very weak epitaph.