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Grading Obama

Kwame Anthony Appiah · 27 Nov 2011

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  1. the presidency is a very constrained office and it is extremely hard, even when you have both houses controlled by your party, to get things done.
  2. Both of these things are good for America, I believe, and the first was especially good for black America which is disproportionately underserved by our current healthcare system.
  3. In dealing with the financial crisis, for example, so it seems to me, his administration has done too little for the poor and too much to please the masters and mistresses of the world of finance.
  4. The presidency also leads even those who are instinctively suspicious of an over-reaching executive to seek to enlarge and protect powers that are democratically suspect
  5. Those who complain on this account should probably not focus their objections on the President.

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