When readers see the new book, “The Worst President In History, the Legacy of Barack Obama,” liberals are likely to laugh at the list of 200 reasons. Conservatives are likely to think 200 is too few.
For authors and Obama critics Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan, the list seems to grow every day, and is the reason they have just updated their 2016 book.
Theirs is an account of the Democrat’s presidency and includes the controversies Obama waded into during his last months in office and first year in private life, like his administration’s effort to protect Hillary Rodham Clinton from prosecution over her private email server and controversial Clinton Foundation deals. Reason No. 200 cites the FBI’s anti-Trump, pro-Clinton bias.
“There was a lot of stuff we needed to add,” said the authors of their revised 491-page book that cites 1,193 endnotes.
“Obama’s real record has been whitewashed by former members of his cabal, his supporters, the media,” they wrote, concluding, “if their fantasy version of Obama’s presidency goes unchallenged, we will lose more than just the facts to history.”
A sampling of the 200 pulled from the book:
- Blaming Bush and Congress for his woes. “During Obama’s first term, he blamed Bush for the economy, for the botched Operation Fast and Furious, for the massive deficits, for our plummeting national wealth, for our problems in the Middle East — for just about everything that went wrong.
- War on coal and oil. “Obama forced more than 200 coal-fired plants to shut down over a five year period.”
- Cut funding to fight aids. “This inexplicable decision had a devastating effect on Africa, where most AIDS deaths occur.”
- Nominating John Brennan as CIA director. Brennan has gone on to be President Trump’s critic.
- DACA via executive order. Obama went around Congress to give amnesty to some 800,000 younger illegal immigrants.
- Assault on the press. The Committee to Protect Journalists, said of Obama’s media attacks, “In the Obama administration’s Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press. Those suspected of discussing, with reporters, anything that the government has classified as secret are subject to investigation, including lie-detector tests and scrutiny of their telephone and e-mail records.”
