Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
Two questions are being mixed up here.
One, did transformational changes take place during Obama's term? Clearly yes. Obamacare was passed. The credit should go to Pelosi though, since Obama's weak leadership was already on display. Similarly, the democrat congressional leadership passed an enormous budget-busting "stimulus" bill, that was really just a massive payoff for their financial supporters. Again, obama was largely a bystander. Obama was somewhat more directly involved in the disastrous bank and auto bailouts.
Two, were these changes good for the country? I would argue they were not. They ran up our already staggering debt, killed job creation and undermined the rule of law and our confidence in our institutions of government.
For me, the most significant things about Obama have been his nearly unmatched laziness and his increasingly crude class warfare rhetoric. These are not the attributes of a great or even mediocre president.
