‘No, You Couldn’t’: Americans on Obama’s Failure to Deliver on His Promises
SputnikNews.com
13.01.2017
Barack Obama has delivered his farewell address to the nation, ending his final speech with the very same motto he used during his presidential campaign: “Yes We Can.” However, media reaction to his speech was quite the opposite. Sputnik discussed Obama’s legacy with Paris Dennard, political and social commentator and former White house staffer.
In an emotional display of words that went on for almost an hour, the outgoing US president sounded more like he was speaking back in 2008 during his campaign.
He ended his final speech with the very same motto he used during his presidential campaign – Yes We Can — and by thanking US citizens for their support.
Obama is leaving office as a relatively popular president — with opinion polls giving him a favorability rating among voters of between 55 and 57 percent.
Nevertheless, Americans remain deeply divided about his legacy. Fewer than half say they are better off than they were when the Democrat entered the White House in 2009, and two-thirds of Americans believe Obama was unable to keep his election promises.
National Review magazine described the final address as “a great deal of vague and fruity talk about ‘hope and change,’ very little of genuine interest, and an undercurrent of bitterness communicating his unshakeable belief that the American people just simply are not up to the task of fully appreciating History’s unique gift to them in the person of Barack Obama.”
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