Obama’s legacy is a devastated Democratic Party

As President Obama concludes his reign of error, his party is smaller, weaker and ricketier than it has been since at least the 1940s. Behold the tremendous power that Democrats have frittered away — from January 2009 through the aftermath of Election Day — thanks to Obama and his ideas:

Democrats surrendered the White House to political neophyte Donald J. Trump.
US Senate seats slipped from 55 to 46, down 16 percent.
US House seats fell from 256 to 194, down 24 percent.
Democrats ran the Senate and House in 2009. Next year, they will control neither.
Governorships slid from 28 to 16, down 43 percent.
State legislatures (both chambers) plunged from 27 to 14, down 48 percent
Trifectas (states with Democrat governors and both legislative chambers) cratered from 17 to 6, down 65 percent.

Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, eight presidents have served at least two terms or bowed to their vice presidents due to death or resignation. Among them, Obama ranks eighth in total state legislative seats that his party preserved during his tenure.

Obama has supervised the net loss of 959 such Democratic positions, down 23.5 percent, according to Ballotpedia, which generated most of the data cited here. This far outpaces the 843 net seats that Republicans yielded under President Dwight Eisenhower.

By this measure, Ronald Reagan is No. 1. While he was president, Republicans gained six statehouse seats.

In terms of boosting his party’s state-level strength, Obama is the worst president since World War II. Reagan is the best.

Democrats can chant the soothing lie that this wholesale, multi-level rejection of their party stems from “structural racism,” the legacy of Jim Crow, the immortal tentacles of slavery, or whatever other analgesic excuse they can scrounge up. The same nation that they claim cannot outgrow its bigotry somehow elected and then re-elected Obama, quite comfortably.

This deep-rooted repudiation is not of Obama himself, but of Obamaism, today’s Democratic gospel.
At home, Obamaism features economic stagnation, morbidly obese and equally dysfunctional government, racial and identity fetishism, and rampant political correctness.

Overseas: Shame at American pre-eminence fuels flaccid “leadership from behind.”

All told, 1,043 federal and state-level Democrats lost or were denied power under Obama, largely because Americans grew disgusted by such outrages as a non-stimulating $831 billion “stimulus,” eight consecutive years of economic growth below 3 percent, an 88 percent increase in the national debt, the revocation of America’s triple-A bond rating and ObamaCare’s epic flop ($2.3 trillion to finance widespread insurance policy cancellations, 20 bankruptcies among 24 state co-ops, early retirements for experienced but exasperated doctors and more). Also nauseating: federal nano-management of everything from dishwashers to third-grade lunches to national school shower policy.

Abroad, Obamaism spawned the rise of ISIS, the fall of US personnel in Benghazi, and Iran’s relentless humiliation — before, during and after Obama’s delivery of some $100 billion in unfrozen assets, including at least $1.7 billion in laundered cash, literally flown in on private jets.

“My legacy’s on the ballot,” Obama said last September, just as he had said before the 2014 midterms.

And Democrats have paid the ultimate price. The political cadavers of more than 1,000 Democratic incumbents and nominees, from Hillary Clinton on down, confirm that Obama is poison at the polls.

Rather than enjoy a traditional, low-key post-presidency in Chicago, Obama plans to hunker down in Washington, DC, comment on current events and counsel his party’s candidates and officeholders. Democrats should find this as appetizing as dinner cooked by Typhoid Mary.

Free at last!



Free at last!



Great Gawd Almighty!
Free at last!

IMO hardly.
They're deep in the media and education system and "deep state;" all those unelected officials/government employees that actually "run" the country.
Rooted in union positions.

Look at the memo recently released, the recent "loss" of text messages by the FBI, the "lost" hard drives of Lois Lerner, the "intel" used for the invasion of Iraq for WMD, Whitewater, Hillary's seemingly charmed life of so much information disappearing or being lost, crap information being used.

IMO that isn't really done by the "people in charge."
At best it's wanted by them, the people that actually do it.

The tremendous power of Democrats is their infiltration of the system to such a degree that ideology is.

IMO most of the senate and congress is just smoke and mirrors anymore, saying and doing outrageous things, reversing each other and bickering.
But the Democrats are already entrenched too deep in the system.
Like plague rats ridden by termites on a ship while two captains argue about which way to go while sitting dead in the middle of the ocean.

Thanks!

Well, he was a good crier. And the terrorists gave him lots to cry about.

To bad he had no balls

Thats ok...
Micheal has a good pair....oh sorry....
I mean Michelle. Just check the Elenshow and Big Mikes swanging dance moves...give him plenty of room....or else his gun will dig into your hip...

or it means about as much as Trump overseeing a day with the biggest one day stock drop EVER

trends go up and down, and for many reasons ...

The stock market will rise and fall as it has always done.
It's called a correction, nothing to do with POTUS.

typical trump tactics...

hog all the credit for the markets rise and
backpedal when it drops a 1000 pts in one day

labels democrats not standing and applauding for his
speech are treasonous anti-americans...

not a single word about the fact republicans did
exactly the same thing as recently as a 2016 Obama
speech to congress..

the biggest phony to hit the big-time..in all of recorded history

The topic is not about Trump.

I think that once everything comes to light Hillary will be proven to be the biggest phony of all time ..she should get the award if for nothing else tenure..altho Bill runs a close second ..and will see where the road takes us with Obama and Trump..we may end up changing the line up..

altho I have to say for someone who claims to be a "stable genius" he does have a tendency to say some of the dumbest chit..

but let's face it the only collusion that I see so far that has been proven ..has been on the part of the Dems..

And Hillary's crimes are so blatantly in front of our faces theres no denying it..But let's wait and see just how deep this rabbit hole goes into Deep State...

I'm telling ya..ya couldn't write this stuff..And where Obama fits in ..in all this still remains to be seen


..slowly the layers of the onion are peeled away..let's see if we can make them cry ..this time...

I agree. Hilary is smart, a master at CYA. She was banking on winning
the election though. That may be her undoing. We can only hope.

Has been nothing more than a scramble ever since..they sure didn't expect

to lose or else they would have deleted the emails sooner..they've been

trying to stay one step ahead of this since it began..the rats be

scurrying.. But I have to say there has sure been a lot of Russian


involvement whether it's real estate or dossiers..I mean when Trump talks

about the amount he made off of real estate when he sold it to a Russian

seems to be quite exorbitant and while sometimes it's best to hide in

plain sight it leaves we wondering.


But it still leaves the question Why haven't they filed charges against

Hillary. They go after Trump trying to prove he's guilty..when they

already know that Hillary is guilty on so many levels..If they let her

off..I say it's time for a good old fashion revolt...

That is true. The topic was Obama, in the politics and current events thread, although there is no current event involving him and he no longer holds political office,

yet people are commenting about the Clintons without objection, huh?

OBamas legacy is millions more able to afford and be eligible for healthcare. coming out of TWO wars, LGBT rights, environmental protections, scandal free leadership, a dow jones that went from 7.9 thousand to 19.8 thousand, from losing 787,000 jobs in a month to gaining 259,000, being brave enough to address the issues of healthcare and race relations in America, and doing it all with a republican majority in the house which vowed to do whatever they could to undermine his ideas before even hearing them.

Wow! way to spin school girl.
Too bad the spin is not true but we'll accept that just
to make you happy.



now is that better?

the data is researchable.

healthcare coverage from 13.3 percent not covered to 8.8 percent not covered, or in raw numbers, from 41.7 million to 28 million not covered

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/health-insurance/historical-series/hic.html


Two wars ended
Iraq war (March 2003 through December 2011)
Operation enduring Freedom (October 2001 through December 2014)

LGBT Rights
Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ (2015) (/ˈoʊbərɡəfɛl/ OH-bər-gə-fel), is a landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.


DJIA returns
http://www.1stock1.com/1stock1_139.htm


job gain/loss




Here’s John Boehner, the likely speaker if Republicans take the House, offering his plans for Obama’s agenda: “We're going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell summed up his plan to National Journal: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/the-gops-no-compromise-pledge-044311

Ok mshoney,

jus what ever you say.

its actually what documented history says,

I'm just re-posting it for others to read for themselves.