quote: Despite bitter opposition...republican opposition from Day One, despite trash talk left, right and center, this president will emerge as one of the most successful presidents in American history. end quote
I like him. I like the fact that he is approachable. I don't remember another president talking to ME on TV as much as he has. The legacy of a good President is about changing the country for the better and he has done that.
He has helped bring about change.
He has also shown us all a President is human, not just a talking hand puppet.
It really is laughable to look back at all of the ridiculous claims republicans and others have made against the president over the years. Some people will never believe any good of this President. Then there are some whose mind set is anti-Obama due solely to him being a black man in the white house.
note: Some of my rambling below contains snippets of quotes from here and there.
After one of the most disastrous presidencies in our history, that of George W. Bush, who cut taxes yet involved us in two un-paid for wars, and crashed our economy and that of the rest of the world as a result, we found ourselves with our nation’s first black president.
Not only did Barack H. Obama face the deeply entrenched racism of the nation that elected him, but a Republican Party determined to obstruct his every move, to make him a one term president and that term an utter failure. All the while, he had to face his real work, that for which he was elected: digging our nation out of the hole into which his predecessor had dragged us.
Fact-Checking Sites Prove Just How Good President Obama Has Been for America. It's all there for anyone to see....IF you want to see it.
he’s dramatically boosted our clean energy; moved us closer toward energy independence; presided over a half million jobs being created in the auto industry; massively reduced our deficits; has used diplomacy to make strides in the international community as opposed to just going to war; and we’ve seen the best period of job growth since the last time a Democrat lived in the White House. By the way, none of this includes the fact that he ordered the killing of Osama bin Ladin and we’ve seen stocks hit numerous record highs (proving trickle-down economics doesn’t work). He has given us universal healthcare. So, when Republicans say that President Obama has been the “worst president in history,” they clearly don’t have a clue what the heck they’re talking about.
quote> "I'm a Christian by choice. My family didn't—frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn't raise me in the church.
So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead—being my brothers' and sisters' keeper, treating others as they would treat me.
And I think also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God. But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace.
That's what I strive to do. That's what I pray to do every day. I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith."
Ever since voting to re-elect Barrack Obama I've been in line to vote for Hillary Clinton. She is ready, she's paid her dues and is more than qualified. She will be the first woman president of our United States but gender and race is not really the point here....white, black, male, female what matters is merit -skill, wisdom, leadership, experience. The legacy of a good President is about changing the country for the better and President Obama has done that.
