The Obama Legacy and How Conservatives Should Start Rebuilding

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One of many unfortunate effects of watching these two appalling candidates every day is that their awfulness can obscure the fact that our current president has done so much damage in his two terms in office. Digging out of that hole would be tough enough; digging out of a 12-year Obama-Clinton or Obama-Trump hole will be tougher still.

In any case, our excellent cover story this week, by Steve Hayes and Tom Joscelyn on Obama’s emptying out of Gitmo, and the dissembling that’s accompanied it, offers one count in the indictment of President Obama. Elliott Abrams’s very interesting editorial on Obama’s new aid agreement with Israel provides another.

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