Obama is 2017's single biggest loser

(BOSTON HERALD)

By Michael Graham

Picking through the political wreckage of 2017 is no small task. If there are any winners from this year-long political root canal, they’re too inconsequential to mention (Doug Jones in Alabama, maybe?), while the list of losers is packed with prestigious names.  I predict, however, that when history sorts out the biggest losers of this “Year Of The Train Wreck,” the name on top of the list will be. . .

Barack Obama.

Yes, I know — he was just named Gallup’s “Most Admired Man” yesterday, but everything you need to know about the validity of that honor is that the “Most Admired Woman” award went to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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’Nuff said.

While his name has rarely been in the news in 2017, Obama’s policies were nearly always in the headlines — or at least behind them.

The economy, for example. It’s hard not to notice the stock market’s performance since Trump’s win: A 250-point jump the next day, and up more than 6,000 points (more than 30 percent!) since Election Day.  Not Inauguration Day — the day Trump policies would begin. No, the markets merely needed to know that the Obama-era policies were ending for the rally to start.

And they were right, too. The economy has grown twice as fast under Trump than it ever did during any year of the Obama administration. Obama had eight years in power, pushed through major legislation like Obamacare and Dodd-Frank, doubled the national debt — and the economy grew at a pathetic 1.5 percent his last two years in office.

Every day of over-the-top economic news in 2017 was a reminder of just how badly Obama under-performed as president.

The same is true with foreign policy, where Trump’s boldness in Syria, North Korea and at the U.N. — not to mention the collapse of ISIS — are backhanded blows to the Obama legacy.

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