"Obama Libre"
*I predicted this. So happy for it. *
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If President Barack Obama’s year ended in November, it would have been one of the worst of his presidency.
Good thing he had the past five weeks.
Obama feels liberated, aides say, and sees the recent flurry of aggressive executive action and deal-making as a pivot for him to spend his final two years in office being more the president he always wanted to be.
As of Wednesday, that includes doingwhat 50-plus years of predecessors couldn’t do in relations with Cuba, propelling a generational shift in American foreign policy that could bring down a final remaining pillar of the Cold War. The Cuba announcement follows a post-Election Day sprint that included sealing a landmark climate agreement with China, shielding 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, and reaching a deal that funds most of the government for nearly a year while protecting Obamacare and other top priorities.
The midterms are done, and Obama feels that he doesn’t have to worry about being the driving factor in any other Democrat’s election. He has spent a year nudging Americans to judge him less on legislative accomplishments and more on his executive actions. And now he has a fully Republican Congress that he can alternate butting up against and making deals with — but really not thinking much about it at all.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/obama-libre-113663.html#ixzz3MGji742F
