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To: FJB who wrote (824582)	12/22/2014 1:10:35 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578694

>> The failures of his first six years still hang over this presidency and are why he remains deeply unpopular. He will retain the ability to impact the country until the moment his successor takes the oath of office. But no one should mistake this flurry of activity for presidential success. As the months wind down in what he termed today the fourth quarter of his time in the White House, Obama will be relevant but his failures will continue to haunt the nation and cloud his legacy. It looks to me to be a gamble that his successor won't simply undo the provisions in January, 2017. And there is a good possibility he's right on some items. At this point, after the budget fiasco of a couple weeks ago the Republicans are dead to me. Democrats under a different name. The only real hope is a Convention of States to run their asses out and return power to the states. And that is, admittedly, a longshot because of all the ignorance around (I was told by two libertarian friends last week the Convention of States could wreck the Constitution. W.T.F.) The country is in far worse shape than I imagined it would be only a month ago. The Republican leadership is chickenshit.