It isn’t very pretty, although compared to the United States that Trump and his fellow Fascists are planning, Obama’s eight years will probably seem like the time of milk and honey.
But Obama did make some pretty speeches.
William Rivers Pitt at Truthout gives the outgoing President his due, but is crystal clear about what he did and didn’t do. . .
“In a nation willing to spend trillions of dollars on wars and weapons that don’t work, President Obama time and again bought into the nonsense ‘austerity’ arguments proffered by the wreckers on the Republican right. Instead of shredding those decades-doomed trickle-down tropes for being the brazen lies they are, he accepted the premise and made Social Security and Medicare actually seem negotiable instead of sacrosanct. Now, like the rest of us, he’ll get to watch a Republican Congress destroy 75 years of progress because he failed to explain that we’re not actually broke, we just have skewed fiscal priorities. Not acting is a decision.”