I don't get it, if this is your opinion and this matters to you, you must truly hate Obama. Trump hasn't done anything yet, and what he has said is that he'll normalize interest rates and get banks back (closer to) fair dealing.

Obama's government, for his entire term, kept injecting 0% loans into banks. Again, and again, uh-oh, "taper tantrum", even more, and again, and again, and again, and again.

That wasn't enough, of course, Obama, in order to stop the still bleeding banks, he also made it far, far easier for Wall Street to "invest" in far undervalued real estate, which they gladly did of course, and made huge profits on. And half of middle America is paying 2-3 times (yes, times) the rent they'd otherwise would be paying as a result.

And while Obama may not have created the debt slavery of student loans (which is what undischargeable loans were considered since the beginning of the modern era until, apparently, 2005), man did he expand it. It is a truly incredible amount if you look at it, the amount Obama discharged it by.

Are we so sure that market self-regulation, which has flaws, is going to be worse than Obama's government regulating the banks every move, and giving them more and more, and then even more money every time a regulation even slightly misses it's purpose, which is very often ?

And what did he use the government's percentage of all this extra money for ? Well to finance 2 wars and various skirmishes around the globe.

"Surprisingly" this lead to an acceleration of income inequality in the US. We don't know this for sure, but from history we know that the odds far exceed 99.9% that all this money was malinvested, and has not in fact made life in the US better. I mean, we're not 100% sure of course, but come on. Put another way, if this is the debt acceleration that resulted in wise investments, then people 50.000 years from now will be learning in kindergarden how smart not just Obama, but all of America was during this period. But ... that's not the case, and this money was mishandled, wasted and outright lost, I'm sure, in at least some cases. So very soon we'll be penning in the 3rd very surprising massive crash of the economy in the computer age into the history books.

Obamacare is not financially viable. Sorry to point out the obvious, but it didn't matter who was elected. Hillary was going to repeal Obamacare as well. I realize this goes against public perception and her promises (except when she was speaking to wall street), but aside from the fact that it's a necessity, there were democrat-leaning press articles about it for the past year and a half. Yes she would probably have masked it and distorted the change, but it just can't survive.

You'd think liberals would have issues with this guy. But he's really eloquent. And I have to say, he is. I really admire this about Obama. Of course comparing him with Republican candidates one might point out that he usually successfully finishes sentences successfully, very much unlike republican presidents. Also, compared to other democrats he's great. Clinton is passable (his wife is a better speaker in my opinion, but nowhere near as good as Obama). But even viewed by himself he is a great orator. I actually enjoy listening to his speeches even when I've just spent hours researching how the information in them is (partially) misleading. But boy, he can pick the one positive statistic out of a sea of bad news and make you feel good about the country and the world. Man, do I want this guy to help me run a company. He is also a very open and direct symbol of the values of America. Equality for one. He is black. Equality in other ways : he was certainly not part of the establishment of American politics, he was a small-time community organizer from Chicago ... and it is actually possible to grow from that into president. Wow ! Well done ! Again something very admirable.

I would like to stand by what Hillary said after the election about Obama "boy, will we miss him. Boy, for the next 4 years will we miss him". I will. Very sorry to see you go, Obama. America's standing in the world got serious bonus points just because of you and that was great !

But when it comes to what he's achieved ... I have to say, I'm not happy. Not happy at all.