{"id":11420,"date":"2018-09-24T14:09:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T21:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11420"},"modified":"2018-09-24T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T21:09:50","slug":"obama-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p>By traditional metrics, Barack Obama\u2019s presidency was mostly a failure. The economy, in a new first, never hit annualized growth of 3 percent. His signature domestic policy\u2014Obamacare\u2014caused chaos. Millions lost their coverage and doctors, and paid far more in deductibles and premiums. The stagnant recovery after the 2008 recession was the worst in 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Myriads of new regulations, higher taxes, and socialist jawboning vegetated the economy. Scandals at the IRS, Department of Veterans Affairs, FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, Justice Department, General Services Administration, and National Security Council abounded. Obama weaponized the federal government by punishing opponents through the IRS, monitoring suspect reporters, scapegoating and jailing a video maker, and using the deep state to exonerate Hillary Clinton from serial wrongdoing and to sabotage the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Abroad, a diplomatic \u201creset\u201d empowered Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia from the Crimea to the Middle East. The Iran deal legitimized Iran\u2019s ascendant Middle East hegemony. Chinese trade cheating was of no concern. ISIS was but a \u201cJV\u201d terrorist clique. North Korea freely pointed nuclear missiles at the West Coast. Israel and the Gulf monarchies and Egypt were no longer close allies. Outreach and deference instead were shown to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. \u201cLead from behind\u201d bombing of Libya led to a disaster. Nonexistent \u201cred lines\u201d in Syria, flexible nonproliferation \u201cdeadlines\u201d issued to Iran, and rhetorical \u201cstep-over\u201d lines given Vladimir Putin all eroded U.S. credibility. And on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in terms of culture, Obama clearly won.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2018\/09\/23\/obama-won\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness By traditional metrics, Barack Obama\u2019s presidency was mostly a failure. The economy, in a new first, never hit annualized growth of 3 percent. His signature domestic policy\u2014Obamacare\u2014caused chaos. Millions lost their coverage and doctors, and paid far more in deductibles and premiums. The stagnant recovery after the 2008 recession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1156,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Yc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7114,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/following-the-trail-nixon-blazed\/","url_meta":{"origin":11420,"position":0},"title":"Following the Trail Nixon Blazed","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Obama shows the same Orwellian disregard for the Constitution. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0National Review Online\u00a0 What would a president do if he were furious over criticism, or felt that his noble aims justified most means of attaining them? 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