How will people remember Obama's presidency?

Obama will go down in history as one of the best presidents. Give it a few decades and people will see how his legacy plays out. I don't know where you are getting your disinformation about the deficit. The deficit has been shrinking under Obama. It is now more than $200 billion smaller. The US deficit is shrinking at the fastest pace since WWII. Thanks to Obama, we are on pace to another 2.4 trillion dollars in deficit reduction. The number would be much higher if the republicans would stop obstructing all common sense approaches to further deficit reduction. http://youtu.be/vFL81uwY5nI A more recent Maddow show had a statement, "When no one knows the truth, it's a lot easier to get away with lying" or something to that effect. Well, now that the sequesters are in place, it will quite likely destroy the progress that has been made his first term, but the republicans will do anything to sabotage his presidency at the risk of all the American people. And they rely on people being so deliberately confused that they will go around exaggerating a deficits growth and blaming Obama for it.

i really don't know where you get your information from, but the deficit grew massively under bush due mainly to 2 wars being fought as well as tax breaks. the reason the debt grew so fast under bush is you had tax breaks during a time of war. this never occurred in the history of the u.s. until George W. Bush became president. lets not forget the nations top accountant resigned in protest due to the outrageous spending under Bush. still, i like what the republicans did to have automatic across the board cuts. even though its painful it was needed to tame spending.

There will still be those who will say with their last dying breath he's the greatest. He could be holding a knife to their child's throat and they would still worship their false god.

From my very small view, the deficits thing is happening in many countries all over the world, perhaps on a proportionate level. When that big financial crisis was looming back in about 2007-8, many of the western nations with big economies all went into talks & agreed there was only one way left to avoid a "Great Depression" that was never tried before... & that was to spend our way out of it. It was a huge success down here, not so much so everywhere else. All we've got to show for it now is maintaining a AAA credit rating - just! Which means only one thing... more spending! Luckily, this is an election year for us. Now, back to "you guys". I will always remember every single one of his speeches that he made here, there & everywhere else. I think he should shove 'em all on DVD & sell 'em all over the world & make truck loads of cash. He gave a lot of people all over the world hope in difficult times. I know it seems hard to believe, but we can't really say for sure if someone else would have done a better job, just done it differently, because the only real way to tell is a side-by-side comparison, which is really quite impossible. Your President's character in itself is memorable. The things he achieved in his first term - I saw them posted on a website near election time - astounded me. If our hung parliament could have achieved even a fraction of that in that time frame, they'd be almost worth voting for. I can't speak for the whole country of course, but it seems your Mr Obama is "bigger than Jesus" down here!

most people say he's the best president america has every seen, but more time i wonder if he's just a puppet for bigger interests, the inflation has gone up more than ever affecting every country dependent on the Us, he will definitely be remembered in history as this has triggered the attention of the entire world, i'm not saying he's to be blamed entirely but we all know he's in charge of the obama administration so he should make more decisive moves.

hey i'm not the one who says he's the best lol, its people on the streets lol, and bush was really a jackass but somehow the people seem to like the idiots, can't figure out why lol

I was thinking of this just the other day and it made me sad. I believe he will go down as the most selfish, destructive president in history and perhaps even be held up as an example of one that is so focused on politics that he financially ruined the country for the sake of ideology. I think it's a shame that the party chose a man because of his skin color and his ability to read a teleprompter. The first black president should have been one who had a good working knowledge of finance and how a nation was run, someone like Herman Cain or so many other prominent businessmen or women that would know how to run a country. History will not remember Obama well and may even hold him up as the one that pushed the country into ruin.

This is going to veer off topic here a bit, but I was watching YouTube clips of Potholer to see his Crocoduck nominations for this year, and the suggestion bar had a Young Turks video in it. 3 minutes of my time is a fair trade-off to see the nonsense they're on about. And as I might have expected, it was nonsense. According to that uber-left-wing outfit, religion is only a right-wing thing. But you can keep going down the list of things that are supposedly creations of the right. Torture/rendition is only a right-wing thing. Spending massive amounts of money is only a right-wing thing. Campaigning dirty and being in the pockets of big business is only a right-wing thing. War and government intrusion is only a right-wing thing. And on it goes. And the hard left doesn't only say this nonsense, like the Young Turks and their religion point, but it's actually believed. I operate by a different standard of "lying" than, say, a guy like Michael Moore. According to him, as we all know, saying something that turns out not to be true means you intentionally lied. Well, I believe you have to be saying something with the knowledge that it's not true for it to be considered a lie. So by that standard, I can't even call the hard left liars -- at least not all of them. They just refuse to look deeper due to their hatred of the opposition. There are very few differences I can spot between Obama and Bush. Obama probably did a little more Coke, spent a lot more money and has a deeper tan, but they're interchangeable on so many things. War and drones and GITMO and letting other folks torture for us. Cronyism. A secretive administration. Stepping on freedoms. Playing far too political. Taking too many vacations while supposedly our President. But the biggest difference of all: Per the majority of mainstream media in this nation, Bush is already considered amongst the worst Presidents ever, while Obama is already considered amongst the greatest. That letter beside someone's name makes too gargantuan a difference in America, and that's very disturbing. Bye-bye bin Laden! But other than that -- I don't know. Championed gay rights? Only when it was in his political interest. It's not a stance he had until poll numbers suggested he have it. Ended the war? Sent troops. Killed more with drones. Says enough to ensure Bush is still hung in effigy over it. Helped with the debt? Exponentially added to it and continues to do so. Assisted in any semblance of a sound financial plan, even a budget, to help with the biggest crisis we face?

Thats easy, you will remember Obamas Presidency by all the empty wallets and purses after he leaves office....

I don't know about some people, but many, myself included will probably remember him as the most liked president worldwide in the past few decades, despite the many complaints by american citizens. But you may be right about the most memorable thing being his getting rid of Bin Laden. It really is something that we'll just have to wait and see to know. For Bush the main thing I remember is that he was... a complete idiot, and he somehow got voted in a second time while I shook my head in disbelief.

I aghree with you. Killing Osama Bin Laden was the one good thing that Obama did. Now they are going to try and take away child care from the working poor. Those people will have to leave their kids home alone at young ages or use someone that is not qualified to watch their children. Social programs need to come first to help the poor and middle class. That is the making of a good President.