Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer said President Obama’s farewell speech this week served as an admission that he is ending his two terms with little to show for them.
In a column published Thursday night in the Washington Post, Krauthammer said Obama’s speech in Chicago was essentially an empty reprisal of his first campaign in 2008.
“The final speech, amazingly, could have been given, nearly unedited, in 2008,” he said. “Why, it even ended with ‘yes we can.’ Is there more powerful evidence of the emptiness of the intervening two terms? When your final statement is a reprise of your first, you have unwittingly confessed to being nothing more than a historical parenthesis.”
In his speech, Obama touted his achievements, including the healthcare law, job creation and the nuclear deal with Iran.
The economy, however, is widely perceived to be still struggling; the healthcare law is still mostly unpopular; and some polls show as much as 60 percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track.
On top of that, President-elect Trump has promised to replace the healthcare law and undo much of Obama’s executive orders.
