Krugman: Obama is an Historical Success.
Oct. 13th, 2014 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxomaiYou know how I keep saying that Obama is the best President we've had since LBJ? Paul Krugman lays out the case for why this is in the latest Rolling Stone:
BHO of course doesn't shit rainbows. We can, and should, fault BHO on domestic mass surveillance, failure to reign in Wall Street, excusing CIA misconduct during the previous decade, continued drone strikes, a stimulus that was too small and targeted badly, and not putting his green economy agenda first instead of third on hist list of things to do during the 2009-2010 Congress. Most of all, it remains to be seen how much of his health care reform survives repeated court challenges. But Krugman makes a pretty good case that BHO's domestic agenda overall has been very positive, and transformative in a way we haven't seen since the sixties.
High office shouldn't be about putting points on the electoral scoreboard, it should be about changing the country for the better. Has Obama done that? Do his achievements look likely to endure? The answer to both questions is yes.
BHO of course doesn't shit rainbows. We can, and should, fault BHO on domestic mass surveillance, failure to reign in Wall Street, excusing CIA misconduct during the previous decade, continued drone strikes, a stimulus that was too small and targeted badly, and not putting his green economy agenda first instead of third on hist list of things to do during the 2009-2010 Congress. Most of all, it remains to be seen how much of his health care reform survives repeated court challenges. But Krugman makes a pretty good case that BHO's domestic agenda overall has been very positive, and transformative in a way we haven't seen since the sixties.
