The Obama presidency that never was

Hope" and "change."

Those were the words that propelled Barack Obama—a first-term, backbench United States senator from Illinois whose only name recognition came from a speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention—from the hustings in small towns across Iowa to the White House.

Eight years later Obama’s presidency ends with the magic that once surrounded his candidacy and subsequent election long gone.

In the end, however, Obama may go down in the annals of presidential history as an asterisk—the country’s first black president. Nothing more.

Obama’s poll numbers—54 percent of Americans approve of him, according to the latest Real Clear Politics average of polls—have recovered from the low point of his presidency following the enactment of Obamacare, when Lucifer probably had a better approval rating.

Nevertheless, his fall from grace is remarkable. Especially when you consider this was the president who was viewed by many on the political left as their messiah.

America is more divided than ever. Obama has split the country in ways not seen since the Civil War.

And those divisions aren’t limited to partisanship or even the identity politics of race, ethnicity, sex (who would have thought what bathroom you use would ever become an issue!) and religion.

Obama moved Democrats so far to the left that the two major parties no longer believe in the same creed.

If there is an Obama legacy this will surely be it.

Obama failed because he was either disinterested or incompetent in the sausage making that was required to bring about the expectations he and he alone set with his soaring rhetoric and lofty promises.

Just think how things may have been different had President Obama actually governed like candidate Obama and unified the country in the process.
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