This is a rant, but I want to get it off my chest:
No sooner had the Supreme Court made its big decisions last week than the press began talking about Obama's legacy.
Slate: Obama’s Legacy Is Looking Pretty Good Today.
MSNBC: What President Obama’s historic week means for his legacy
CNN: Best week in Washington: Barack Obama's legacy
Chuck Todd in the Washington Post: Obamacare is now this president’s legacy. But it started almost on a whim.
Since when did reporters become historians? Since when did they become soothsayers, able to predict what will and will not endure? No matter how many times their analysis and prognostications prove false, they go right back at it again, unbowed and unashamed.
As Philip Roth puts it, history is the "unfolding of the unforeseen." We should stand humble before it.