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The best republican president of my lifetime.

Barack.. much like Clinton, had the luck to be following a complete disaster. 12 years of reaganeomics left this country in a steep recession. Between that and .com boom, he had some fabulous economic times. However, he also did a TON of damage. Free trade agreements, continuing interference in the middle east, deregulation, welfare reform, telecommunications act of 1996 (I could go on and on).

He lobbed bush a softball and unfortunately, bush hit it right out of the park.. continued the deregulation, ignored the housing bubble (Just like Clinton ignored the .com bubble) and BOOM.. 8 years of bush leads to the worst recession in modern history.

Hard for Obama NOT to do well after that. However, despite being handled a dream scenario, we get the weak as water ACA without a public option. (which he could have pushed through via reconciliation). We get the bush tax cuts made permanent b/c he blinked in negotiations with the GOP. We get MORE bad trade agreements. Insurance companies, private hospitals and drug companies are stronger than ever.. and oh yeah.. "Dodd-Frank" the weak as water financial legislation that has "tools" that by the time you use them, it is far too late. The entities that caused the crash are as big as ever and we are in just as much danger of another crash as we were in 2007.

So yeah, Obama carried the ball further down the field and has made it more difficult for us to undo the damage that started under Nixon, continued under Reagan, Bush, Clinton, bush and now Obama... Corporations are bigger and more powerful than ever and the people who run them richer and more powerful than ever.. and Hillary Clinton will not do a damn thing to change that... you know it.

Obama had a chance in 2008 to turn this around. If he pushed for the public option and had BALLS in 2010, we wouldn't have lost the 2010 election, b/c the base would have had his back. But.. that isn't who he is... he is just another republican.. "One of the good ones", a little right of Eisenhower, but left of Nixon and Reagan.