

Barack Obama

How will history see me?


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"The Economist" apparently never heard about the climate and about plutocracy.
The latter implies the degeneracy of the former. Climate and plutocracy are the two most important problems today. And it is by whether Obama finally address them that he will be judged.
Plutocracy implies the debt problem. Basically the government of the USA is throwing money at the People, just as the Roman emperors were.
And nothing will matter very much, when the planet goes crazy from burning 400 million years of carbon.
Will Obama Unchain himself? I just made a long analysis of that:
This is a serious essay, not like the one of The Economist. It is indeed not serious to equate the relationship between France and Germany (sister nations which used to be part of the same polity for many centuries) to the one between the USA and China.
China is a 4,000 year old civilization. It has nothing to do with the USA.
The USA is just the fruit of the disunion between England and France, it's purely a rogue appendage of Europe. There is no reason for it to go negotiate world rule with China behind closed doors. All and any problems of the world will be best dealt with by having the USA opening to Europe, instead of staying immersed in its provincial violence (as depicted so well in Tarantino's "Django unchained").



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Zeke Notlin in reply to 6FH6z5vjNK

The idea that single handedly he made it a divided country is, to be kind, ludicrous.
The "conservative" news complex has run for the last four years an obscene campaign of populist misinformation that preys on people's worst instincts-and many have bought. That Mr. Obama is taking your money and giving it to the undeserving (poorer than ever), he's anti-business (dow has recovered completely),he's raised taxes (he hasn't), he's a Marxist/Muslim (like they are even compatible), he hates America (where else would his rise even be possible), he has borrowed for his liberal initiatives (almost all defense and non-discretionary), he was born in Kenya(really?), etc...
He's basically an Eisenhower Republican, but the blood lust that's been unleashed (and honest fear of the future that the global economy has) has left many casually engaged, but right leaning, the perception that he's from a different planet.

t7jhFCEMm7 in reply to mahagwa

As a 'scientist', please point to the one peer-reviewed article that provides any support for alternative reasons for the recent rise in global average temperatures other than human carbon emissions.

As Oreskes found in a review of all the peer-reviewed studies which contained the words climate change, 75% supported the theory that human carbon emissions are responsible for the recent rise, 25% looked at climate change but not the causes of the recent temperature rises, and not one study out of the more than 1000 studies showed any support for any of the alternative theories.

As a 'scientist' you would appreciate the evidence is rather overwhelmingly insupport of AGW.

Manny Ribera

There is no word about USA-Georgia relationship. Post-soviet Georgia has become cause of brinkmanship and confrontation between Russia and USA.


Given the projected 4 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures, and the devastating effect it may have on many parts of the world, I was surprised to find that climate change did not make it to the Economist's top three list of challenges Mr. Obama has to address. Was that an oversight?


The greatest fiscal problem is the health care system, by far the most expensive in the world, due to a lack of a public, 'single-payer' universal plan

saagua in reply to Morani ya Simba

Well George Bush fils started a war so that the US could "survive" Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, but It hardly made him a great President. Perhaps because it turned out that in fact there were no WMD in Iraq (the threat had been manufactured out of nothing) and that the war was simply an immense fiasco that did nothing but harm to the USA, killing thousands and costing a trillion or more in needless expenses.

NO it's lamenting to think that China alone causes all of the world's demise. Wake up...it's called business and trades. You either compete with the big dogs or go home and lick your nuts with the puppies. It's that simple. There is no one value employee work system in the world because every country has a different currency values.


George W. Bush may be looked upon by historians as one of the worst presidents, and certainly the worst re-elected president the country has ever known. American will have decades of consequences from the awful, harmful policy decisions and choices made by his administration.
Anyone following such a trainwreck is going to look skewed by comparison. And with how bipolar the nation has become, it is impossible to segment the now from the reality of the now.


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