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The Drive Through Presidency 01-09-17
Barack to the Future
From the January 16, 2017, issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.5:30 AM, JAN 09, 2017 | By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
They are keening in the Bay Area. "Oh, America, what have we done?" wrote a San Bruno reader to the San FranciscoChronicle the week after November's election. "Many of us feel for President Obama, especially as we watch him gracefully support Donald Trump's transition, knowing Trump's priorities include destroying Obama's legacy."
About half the country did not wish to see Donald Trump elected president. To judge from the papers, though, their chief regret is not that Barack Obama governed in such a way as to help deliver the White House to Trump. No! What eats at them is that Americans voted in such a way as to unsettle President Obama's peace of mind, or his self-esteem, or whatever it is we mean when we talk, as we increasingly do, of the president's "legacy."
That is how President Obama sees it, too. "If you want to give Michelle and me a good send-off, . . . if you care about our legacy, realize that everything we stand for is at stake," he told the guests at a Congressional Black Caucus dinner in mid-September. "I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard." Journalists have picked up this way of thinking. read more
From the January 16, 2017, issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.5:30 AM, JAN 09, 2017 | By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
They are keening in the Bay Area. "Oh, America, what have we done?" wrote a San Bruno reader to the San FranciscoChronicle the week after November's election. "Many of us feel for President Obama, especially as we watch him gracefully support Donald Trump's transition, knowing Trump's priorities include destroying Obama's legacy."
About half the country did not wish to see Donald Trump elected president. To judge from the papers, though, their chief regret is not that Barack Obama governed in such a way as to help deliver the White House to Trump. No! What eats at them is that Americans voted in such a way as to unsettle President Obama's peace of mind, or his self-esteem, or whatever it is we mean when we talk, as we increasingly do, of the president's "legacy."
That is how President Obama sees it, too. "If you want to give Michelle and me a good send-off, . . . if you care about our legacy, realize that everything we stand for is at stake," he told the guests at a Congressional Black Caucus dinner in mid-September. "I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard." Journalists have picked up this way of thinking. read more
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