Ask The Politics Guys: Obama’s Legacy?

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This week, Mike and Jay talk about the legacy of President Barack Obama. They discuss what presidential greatness means, whether ‘great’ presidents are something we should even hope for, Mike’s four-point criteria for measuring presidential success, Obama’s ‘Top 10’ achievements (according to Mike) and his biggest failures (according to Jay).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.
0:17.3	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:23.5	My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay Carson.
0:30.4	Here's our Ask the Politics Guys question for this week, Jay.
0:33.7	All right.
0:34.5	It's a question a number of listeners have asked in various ways for the last few months.
0:40.1	And I kind of boil it down to this.
0:42.1	How good if a president has Barack Obama been?
0:44.9	And what will his legacy be?
0:47.8	Well, he's kind of more my president than your president, I guess.
0:51.5	Right?
0:51.9	He's our president.
0:53.0	No, I mean, he is as I look, I'm not one of these people,
0:56.0	not my president. I'm an American. He's my president. He's from my party, I guess I'll say.
1:00.5	Yes. I'm a bigger source. So, you know, to me, it's hard to say right now. I think we're too
1:06.3	close to the Obama presidency. It really, I think we'll be able to answer this question a lot better in a few generations.
1:12.9	You probably don't want to wait around that long for an answer.
1:16.1	So tune in.
1:18.1	Yeah.
1:18.7	It's sort of, you know, a story apocryphal about, you know, Henry Kissinger and Joe N.i and Kissinger, Asting, you know, his Chinese counterpart,
1:35.0	what do you think of the effect of Napoleon on history is? And Joe and Lie responding too early to tell.
1:42.2	Yeah, exactly. So we're, you know, maybe a little like that.
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