it's true that he was handed a difficult plate.

but, regardless, obama was really a historically poor president. his economic policies were outstanding, but his foreign policy legacy was merely to accelerate the collapse created by bush. his major error was letting hillary take control of the state department; in the end, he was outsmarted by putin over and over again. and, he really left little domestic legislation that will survive the current administration, with perhaps the sole exception being the heritage foundation's health care plan - which is what the republicans always wanted, anyways.

i've said this before: look at a list of presidents from the second half of the nineteenth century.

you can't name anything they did, can you?

that's obamas future.

...except that he will be remembered for setting various things in motion, that will lead to the collapse of american hegemony.

those sanctions on russia will be remembered for time immemorial as one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the history of the world - on par with french armies starving in the russian winter, or germany foolishly overextending itself deep into the russian steppes.