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The Nation He BuiltA POLITICO review of Barack Obamas domestic policy legacyand the changes he made while nobody was paying attention.
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Over the past seven years, Americans have heard an awful lot about Barack Obama and his presidency, but the actual substance of his domestic policies and their impact on the country remain poorly understood. He has engineered quite a few quiet revolutionsand some of his louder revolutions are shaking up the status quo in quiet ways. Obama is often dinged for failing to deliver on the hope-and-change rhetoric that inspired so many voters during his ascent to the presidency. But a review of his record shows that the Obama era has produced much more sweeping change than most of his supporters or detractors realize.
Its true that Obama failed to create the post-partisan political change he originally promised during his yes-we-can pursuit of the White House. Washington remains as hyperpartisan and broken as ever. But he also promised dramatic policy change, vowing to reinvent Americas approach to issues like health care, education, energy, climate and finance, and that promise he has kept. When you add up all the legislation from his frenetic first two years, when Democrats controlled Congress, and all the methodical executive actions from the past five years, after Republicans blocked his legislative path, this has been a BFD of a presidency, a profound course correction engineered by relentless government activism. As a candidate, Obama was often dismissed as a talker, a silver-tongued political savant with no real record of achievement. But ever since he took office during a raging economic crisis, hes turned out to be much more of a doer, an action-oriented policy grind who has often failed to communicate what hes done.
What hes done is changing the way we produce and consume energy, the way doctors and hospitals treat us, the academic standards in our schools and the long-term fiscal trajectory of the nation. Gays can now serve openly in the military, insurers can no longer deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions, credit card companies can no longer impose hidden fees and markets no longer believe the biggest banks are too big to fail. Solar energy installations are up nearly 2,000 percent, and carbon emissions have dropped even though the economy is growing. Even Republicans like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, who hope to succeed Obama and undo his achievements, have been complaining on the campaign trail that hes accomplished most of his agenda.
The change is real, says Ron Klain, who served as Bidens White House chief of staff, and later as Obamas Ebola czar. It would be nice if more people understood the change.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/obama-biggest-achievements-213487#ixzz3wZ3U9Yjg
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Politico reviews the changes Obama made to domestic policy while nobody was paying attention (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2016
OP
Bookmarked the link. Thanks. So this press operation admits to not paying attention
underpants
Jan 2016
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madokie
(51,076 posts)1. I'll go to my grave
knowing full well that my votes for Obama were the best I'd cast up to this one I'm going to be casting for Sanders.
underpants
(182,803 posts)2. Bookmarked the link. Thanks. So this press operation admits to not paying attention
Until now. Actually Politico was founded and still serves as a conduit for Drudge nonsense to the MSM. Politico and the rest have willfully served only to provide drama and get RW replies for no understandable reason.