Obama’s long lamentable goodbye

Published January 15, 2017 5:03am ET



Since Election Day, President Obama has acted the good sport in public, promising that he’ll ensure “the smoothest transition possible” by paying forward to President-elect Trump the gentlemanly and decent treatment he himself received from President Bush.

But in truth, Obama has been doing all he can to make life difficult for his successor, shoveling new policies and regulations into place as fast as he can, even though his “third term” was roundly rejected on Nov. 8 in the defeat of Hillary Clinton.

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