He had some rough spots along the way, but no presidency is without those.
What he has been up against is a GOP which decided in a secret meeting upon his first inauguration that they would oppose everything he attempted to accomplish.
Unfortunately it took a while for President Obama to realize this in spite of all the evidence that that was what the GOP was doing. That is my biggest regret of his presidency. He should have fought harder instead of trying to build a consensus with a party which wanted absolutely nothing to do with consensus.
That is where he failed.
However, his second term has been very good in that respect. So I think his legacy is well secure. He's no LBJ, who would call opposition senators in the middle of the night to do some rather severe arm twisting, but that isn't who Barack Obama is, and I am fine with that.
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