With memories of how Barack Obama has been pilloried, vilified, and demonized, over 8 long harsh years in office, it is important to note that, with less than two days to go, he will be stepping down from the presidency with an approval rating that has reached 60 percent.
Sixty percent of Americans approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing in his final days in office, according to new polls from CNN/ORC and The Washington Post/ABC News, his highest numbers in those polls since June 2009.
Those numbers are slightly higher than polls released earlier in the week. Gallup reported a 57 percent approval rating, and both Monmouth University and NBC News/Wall Street Journal reported 56 percent approval. Rasmussen gives Obama the highest approval rating of this week’s polls, showing the president at 62 percent approval.
2017 represents the 60th year anniversary since Jack “Jackie” Robinson, the nation’s first Black major league baseball player, retired from baseball. And 2017 represents the year that Barack Obama the nation’s first Black president steps down from the presidency.
History has bestowed a mantle of honor and respect on the legacy of Jackie Robinson, who was subject to cruel racial derision and hatred when he broke the color line in 1947. Robinson would later become a significant and beloved icon of American culture and an inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
It has been an extraordinary concentration of effort and skill, over 8 long years, to have managed to produce the mythical propaganda that Barack Obama, with all his amazing achievements, was really a failure. Nevertheless, like Jackie Robinson, Barack Hussein Obama is nothing short of a hall-of-fame president, one of the greatest this country has seen, and history is already giving him his due.
Well done, sir! And best wishes to you and your wonderful family!