Obama legacy

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  8-1-17
  

  Obama’s Legacy Is Finally Coming Into Focus

  by Jonathan Chait

  Thanks to Donald Trump's attack on his legacy.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-21-17
  

  What Makes a President Great? Clipping? Sipping? Slashing?

  What criteria should we use when ranking presidents? 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-17-17
  

  Lincoln, Washington and Roosevelts remain history’s best presidents in survey

  Dwight Eisenhower moved into the top five for the first time, moving up from No. 8 in 2009 and No. 9 in 2000.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  1-25-17
  

  Gallup: Obama approval ratings most polarized in US history

  Barack Obama averaged 83% job approval among Democrats and 13% among Republicans.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-23-17
  

  Obama victories at Supreme Court were lowest since Zachary Taylor

  Every president since Reagan has won fewer cases than their predecessor.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  1-18-17
  

  10 Historians on What Will Be Said About President Obama's Legacy

  H.W. Brands, James Grossman, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Julian Zelizer et al.

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• SOURCE: Commentary
  1-19-17
  

  Where It All Went Wrong

  by Max Boot

  Wary of repeating what he perceived to be Bush’s mistake of over-interventionism, Obama instead veered toward extreme non-interventionism, with the exception of Libya and Afghanistan, where he imposed such severe limitations on American action that it made success impossible to achieve.

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• 1-22-17
  

  From Start to Finish Obama Was Always Consistent

  by Walter G. Moss

  But that wasn't always a virtue. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-18-17
  

  Obama’s Legacy as a Historian

  There’s one aspect of his record that has received less attention: his legacy as a historian.

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  1-18-17
  

  How Will Obama Be Graded By History?

  While the public’s rankings may be fickle, it turns out that presidential approval ratings do a reasonably good job of suggesting where presidents rank in the longer term.

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• SOURCE: The Brookings Institution
  1-11-17
  

  Obama leaves office with popularity, but little political strength

  by Elaine C. Kamarck

  A presidential legacy is not simply what a person accomplishes in office but whether or not he leaves behind a political party strong enough to nurture and protect the legacy.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  1-10-17
  

  Barack Obama’s Legacy Is More Secure Than You, or the GOP, Think

  by Jonathan Chait

  A glacier cannot easily be unmelted.

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• SOURCE: LobeLog
  1-17-17 (accessed)
  

  Bacevich and Mearsheimer on Obama’s Legacy

  "My position is that the United States is much worse off today than it was in 2009, when Obama became the president.” – John Mearsheimer

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  1-3-17
  

  Trump's election has changed Obama's post-presidency plans

  Instead of building on his legacy, he'll be defending it.

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Politics
  1-2-17
  

  Presidential historian Allan Lichtman says Obama’s worst legacy is the collapse of the Democratic Party (Interview)

  “He has forgotten what the great iconic Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt always taught, and that is, you not only have to be an innovator of policy, have you to be a party-builder."

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• SOURCE: The Chicago Tribune
  12-29-16
  

  Obama never understood how history works

  by David Greenberg

  Obama's Syria legacy won't be the only factor shaping how posterity regards his foreign policy. The uneven efforts to wind down the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the still-controversial Iran nuclear deal, the opening to Cuba, the weakening of al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, the struggles to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians - these add up to a mixed and complicated recor.

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• SOURCE: National Review Online
  12-27-16
  

  Obama's Foreign Policy Was an Utter Failure

  by Victor Davis Hanson

  Nations are collections of human beings, and human nature has not changed, despite Obama’s pleadings.

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• SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post
  12-20-16
  

  Obama's failed foreign policy

  by Gil Troy

  ''The outgoing US president has spawned a callow, cowardly series of leadership miscarriages that bullied friends and empowered enemies.''

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  12-20-16
  

  Obama Administration Report Card: Domestic Policy

  by Jeremy Kuzmarov

  Grade C+

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12-14-16
  

  Partisan Divide Colors Obama's Place In History

  As President Obama prepares to leave office, 45 percent of Americans think he'll be remembered as an outstanding or above-average president, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.