A little presumptuous there but looking less so with each day.
Consider:
-Obama's popularity is at an all-time high, or nearly so. That is all to Mrs. Clinton's benefit in the election.
What will she inherit if she wins the election?
-A healed economy. President Obama has brought America's economy back from the brink.
-Relations with Russia have never been good under President Obama and Secretary Clinton since the Medvedev-Putin duocracy gave way to the Putin plutocracy. Relations between the two countries are, beyond reasonable doubt, worse than at any time since the Cold War.
Putin has pushed hostilities beyond those of the Cold War when the two nations fought many proxy wars against each other but assiduously avoided direct military engagement.
U.S. and international sanctions against Russia for the invasion and partitioning of Ukraine, still on-going, have deeply hurt the Russian economy and produced a bitter hatred in Putin for Obama and Clinton.
Russia committed a war crime in Ukraine, the shoot-down of passanger plane MH17, now proven beyond reasonable doubt to have been caused by a Russian Buk missile fired from a Russian launch in Russian-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has committed a war crime in Syria, the bombing of a clearly-marked UN convoy carrying food and medicine to Aleppo. had threatened to shoot down American fighters if they attack the Assad regime in Syria.
Putin is "on the clock" in Syria. He thinks, and he is right to think, that Obama will not confront him and that a President Hillary Clinton would. Of course a President Trump would not but Putin sees that now as an unkikely, if still desired and worth interfering for, occurrence.
To that end, Putin has directly interfered in the integrity of the U.S. presidential election. The Obama administration has said publically today that Russia was behind the DNC and Clinton email hacks. NEVER has a foreign government so brazenly tried to rig a U.S. presidential election.
Besides identifying Russia publicly, it appears that Obama will not respond with a cyber-attack on Russia.
-Obama has dropped any attempt to get his nominee onto the Supreme Court, including using the issue as a political weapon against the Republicans, who have said that they will not take up Obama's nominee even if Clinton wins! She will have to nominate someone else.
-Obamacare is listing and needs fixing. Obama sees it as useless to try to get patches through this Congress. He is certainly correct in that but he has not made Republican obstruction a campaign issue: not on the Supreme Court, not on Obamacare. He is doing next to nothing, or too little at any rate, to help Democrats defeat Republicans running for the Senate and House. He has the popularity to do it, he had the issues to do it, he has, in a word the political capital to do it but he has not.
A fixed economy, Russia, the Court, Obamacare, no partners at home or abroad with whom to work: It is a mixed legacy.
Consider:
-Obama's popularity is at an all-time high, or nearly so. That is all to Mrs. Clinton's benefit in the election.
What will she inherit if she wins the election?
-A healed economy. President Obama has brought America's economy back from the brink.
-Relations with Russia have never been good under President Obama and Secretary Clinton since the Medvedev-Putin duocracy gave way to the Putin plutocracy. Relations between the two countries are, beyond reasonable doubt, worse than at any time since the Cold War.
Putin has pushed hostilities beyond those of the Cold War when the two nations fought many proxy wars against each other but assiduously avoided direct military engagement.
U.S. and international sanctions against Russia for the invasion and partitioning of Ukraine, still on-going, have deeply hurt the Russian economy and produced a bitter hatred in Putin for Obama and Clinton.
Russia committed a war crime in Ukraine, the shoot-down of passanger plane MH17, now proven beyond reasonable doubt to have been caused by a Russian Buk missile fired from a Russian launch in Russian-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has committed a war crime in Syria, the bombing of a clearly-marked UN convoy carrying food and medicine to Aleppo. had threatened to shoot down American fighters if they attack the Assad regime in Syria.
Putin is "on the clock" in Syria. He thinks, and he is right to think, that Obama will not confront him and that a President Hillary Clinton would. Of course a President Trump would not but Putin sees that now as an unkikely, if still desired and worth interfering for, occurrence.
To that end, Putin has directly interfered in the integrity of the U.S. presidential election. The Obama administration has said publically today that Russia was behind the DNC and Clinton email hacks. NEVER has a foreign government so brazenly tried to rig a U.S. presidential election.
Besides identifying Russia publicly, it appears that Obama will not respond with a cyber-attack on Russia.
-Obama has dropped any attempt to get his nominee onto the Supreme Court, including using the issue as a political weapon against the Republicans, who have said that they will not take up Obama's nominee even if Clinton wins! She will have to nominate someone else.
-Obamacare is listing and needs fixing. Obama sees it as useless to try to get patches through this Congress. He is certainly correct in that but he has not made Republican obstruction a campaign issue: not on the Supreme Court, not on Obamacare. He is doing next to nothing, or too little at any rate, to help Democrats defeat Republicans running for the Senate and House. He has the popularity to do it, he had the issues to do it, he has, in a word the political capital to do it but he has not.
A fixed economy, Russia, the Court, Obamacare, no partners at home or abroad with whom to work: It is a mixed legacy.
