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Post by avordvet on Oct 18, 2016 4:08:40 GMT -5
Obama adopts a grand design to shape his legacyBy David Nakamura October 17 at 7:07 PM President Obama’s advisers are sensitive about his lame-duck status and insist that the White House is not exclusively in legacy-defining mode. But the president himself can’t seem to stop reflecting on his tenure and touting his accomplishments, while also trying to settle scores and rebut critics in the process. In a series of lengthy interviews with magazine writers, newspaper columnists and historians — as well as in a couple of his own long-form essays — Obama has been presenting a favorable narrative of his presidency, framing it as a historic moment that managed to rise above unprecedented partisanship. All presidents hope to have some say in how they are judged by history, usually relying on august farewell addresses and blockbuster memoirs. But Obama has started earlier and seems more publicly strategic than his predecessors about framing his legacy. He is determined to get the jump on his critics about how his presidency is preserved for posterity. So far, a central theme has been to cast himself as the rational actor in an arena full of irrational ones. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-adopts-a-grand-design-to-shape-his-legacy/2016/10/17/a606f22c-8bcf-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html
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Post by avordvet on Oct 25, 2016 4:56:15 GMT -5
Obama: ‘We Have Not Had a Major Scandal’ in My AdministrationBY: David Rutz, October 24, 2016 12:07 pm President Obama claimed there had been no “major scandal” in his administration during a Democratic fundraiser Sunday night in San Diego. Obama made the comment while railing against Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), the former chairman of the House Oversight Committee who once called him “one of the most corrupt presidents” in modern history. “Here’s a guy who called my administration perhaps the most corrupt in history–despite the fact that actually we have not had a major scandal in my administration–that, when Trump was suggesting that I wasn’t even born here, said, well, I don’t know, was not sure,” Obama said, according to Politico Playbook. “This guy has spent all his time simply trying to obstruct, to feed the same sentiments that resulted in Donald Trump becoming their nominee.” freebeacon.com/politics/obama-not-major-scandal-administration/
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