He wasn’t on the ballot, but the 44th president suffered significant losses anyway, according to Boston Herald columnist Michael Graham.
I predict, however, that when history sorts out the biggest losers of this “Year Of The Train Wreck,” the name on top of the list will be. . .
Barack Obama.
Yes, I know — he was just named Gallup’s “Most Admired Man,” … but everything you need to know about the validity of that honor is that the “Most Admired Woman” award went to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
’Nuff said.
While his name has rarely been in the news in 2017, Obama’s policies were nearly always in the headlines — or at least behind them.
The economy, for example. It’s hard not to notice the stock market’s performance since Trump’s win: A 250-point jump the next day, and up more than 6,000 points (more than 30 percent!) since Election Day. Not Inauguration Day — the day Trump policies would begin. No, the markets merely needed to know that the Obama-era policies were ending for the rally to start.
And they were right, too. …
… The same is true with foreign policy, where Trump’s boldness in Syria, North Korea and at the U.N. — not to mention the collapse of ISIS — are backhanded blows to the Obama legacy. The Obama administration spent months dancing around phony red lines over chemical attacks on children in Syria. It took President Trump just one missile barrage to put Syria’s Bashar Assad back in his box and blow up Obama’s legacy of fecklessness.
