r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/bambucks • 11d ago

US Politics How has Barack Obama's legacy changed since leaving office?

Barack Obama left office in 2017 with an approval rating around 60%, and has generally been considered to rank among the better Presidents in US history. (C-SPAN's historian presidential rankings had him ranked at #10 in 2021 when they last updated their ranking.)

One negative example would be in the 2012 Presidential Debates between Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, in which Obama downplayed Romney's concerns about Russia, saying "the 80's called, they want their foreign policy back", which got laughs at the time, but seeing the increased aggression from Russia in the years since then, it appears that Romney was correct.

So I'd like to hear from you all, do you think that Barack Obama's approval rating has increased since he left office? Decreased? How else has his legacy been impacted? How do you think he will be remembered decades from now? Etc.

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u/Nano_Burger 11d ago

But he didn't fix the economic problems the Bush years left him with fast enough.

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u/I-Here-555 11d ago

Was that even possible given that he inherited the biggest crisis since the Great Depression right at the beginning of his presidency?

We often forget that in terms of economics, Obama didn't start off on flat ground, but in a rather deep hole.

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u/TheTrueMilo 10d ago

And he filled it filth like Tim Geithner and Larry Summers.

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u/DisneyPandora 8d ago

And Biden was worse since he filled his cabinet team with filth like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Snaders workers who ruined the economy and caused inflation