Today is the first anniversary of the operational beginning of America's Affordable Care Act, now almost universally called ObamaCare. Not an anniversary that its namesake is going to celebrate as the opening was plagued by computer crashes due to demand. The silver lining there however is "due to demand." One year on and 7,500,000 Regular 'Muricans who didn't have any health insurance now do.
2013 was all around a bad year for Barack Obama. Islam's attacks on America on 9/11/12 were still fresh wounds and the Muslim "street's" chants of "Obama, Obama, We Are All Osama" were ringing painfully in the president's ears. In June he took a powerful one-two combination to the gut when his spying on the world got out and when the non-coup coup in Free Egypt occurred. So when the computers crashed on October 1, 2013, well, one can understand being depressed about it all.
ObamaCare is the single most important social legislation in half a century in America and it WORKED! Barack Obama's legacy will always have that gold plating. Obama got America out of the Great Recession, too; paint on another coat of gold for that.
Will history find the Obama coin-of-the realm 24 carat through and through or are will it find those achievements gilding of base metal? Those are some pretty thick layers of gold. Obama got the base metal in change when he inherited the presidency, the spying was George W. Bush's legacy to him, as was the economy. Obama could have turned lead into gold if he had stopped the spying as he stopped the recession. Instead, on the spying, Barack Obama became what Herbert Hoover was on the
Depression, a president at first ignorant of the scale of the calamity and then a president willfully impotent, who consciously decided to do next to nothing.
Barack Obama will not suffer Herbert Hoover's legacy--Is Hoover remembered for anything else? (No.)--Obama will always have health care and the economy but the change that the president of Change inherited and that he refused to change, that was bad money indeed, it was devastating, it did more lasting harm to the country than his achievements in combination; indeed it showed that America was a different country entirely from what Americans and the world thought it was, the American people different, Obama himself different, all base. The country, the American people and Barack Obama personally were shown to be at base, base. Bad money indeed and bad money drives out good money. That will be Barack Obama's legacy.
2013 was all around a bad year for Barack Obama. Islam's attacks on America on 9/11/12 were still fresh wounds and the Muslim "street's" chants of "Obama, Obama, We Are All Osama" were ringing painfully in the president's ears. In June he took a powerful one-two combination to the gut when his spying on the world got out and when the non-coup coup in Free Egypt occurred. So when the computers crashed on October 1, 2013, well, one can understand being depressed about it all.
ObamaCare is the single most important social legislation in half a century in America and it WORKED! Barack Obama's legacy will always have that gold plating. Obama got America out of the Great Recession, too; paint on another coat of gold for that.
Will history find the Obama coin-of-the realm 24 carat through and through or are will it find those achievements gilding of base metal? Those are some pretty thick layers of gold. Obama got the base metal in change when he inherited the presidency, the spying was George W. Bush's legacy to him, as was the economy. Obama could have turned lead into gold if he had stopped the spying as he stopped the recession. Instead, on the spying, Barack Obama became what Herbert Hoover was on the
Depression, a president at first ignorant of the scale of the calamity and then a president willfully impotent, who consciously decided to do next to nothing.
Barack Obama will not suffer Herbert Hoover's legacy--Is Hoover remembered for anything else? (No.)--Obama will always have health care and the economy but the change that the president of Change inherited and that he refused to change, that was bad money indeed, it was devastating, it did more lasting harm to the country than his achievements in combination; indeed it showed that America was a different country entirely from what Americans and the world thought it was, the American people different, Obama himself different, all base. The country, the American people and Barack Obama personally were shown to be at base, base. Bad money indeed and bad money drives out good money. That will be Barack Obama's legacy.
