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Barack Obama looks at his list of New Year's resolutions, which includes: close income gaps, get along with Congress, hug Mitch, stop ISIS, keep America safe, stop global warming, and raise teenagers. Obama: Maybe I'll just lose some weight.
If one reads the biographies of our American Presidents, one finds Presidents who had more support than Mr. Obama but who did less to advance our nation and build up our people. Back then, corporations were national, not international, and had a vested interest in improving our economy, infrastructure, and educating our workers. In an international system, US companies allow theirselves to become subsidiaries of companies in nations where they can pay less taxes, and because of Citizens’ United and the newest bill permitting more money in political campaigns, they invest in politicians instead of communities.Mr. Obama is not a great president. He could have made a more visible and aggressive effort to push for his policies, though how they would have worked in the face of a GOP who declared before he took his oath of office their number one goal was to work against him, no one can say. Mr. Obama is also not our worst president, however, national polls and historical comparisons have already established that the Senates and HoRs of the last six years have been the worst, least effective, and most obstructionist since our nation began.Mr. Obama may not be a great president, he may not even be a very good one, but he stands much taller than the legislators in DC who have spent so much time and taxpayer dollars trying to tear him down.Respectfully,C.