He will be remembered as a good President. No major mistakes and the country did well enough during and directly after his Presidency.

I think they will look on him fondly, but also as an opportunity squandered. He was the ultimate compromise president, and while there was a chance to issue a New Deal for the 21st Century he tried to do just enough to avoid disaster.

He will be remembered as a good President. No major mistakes and the country did well enough during and directly after his Presidency.

It's hard to say how things are going to shake out but he's probably going to have the Fall of Europe on his record and possibly WWIII.

I think he will be remembered as somewhat of a disappointment. I think a lot of people have been reluctant to criticize him because they didn't want to be tagged with being racist.

He came in vowing to change Washington and he essentially doubled down on failed capitalist policies.

I will always believe that the bailout was a mistake. Should have allowed the financial industry to correct itself.

He also virtually ignored the plight of the dispossed for the entirety of his presidency. Poverty worsened under him and helping poor people never appeared to be a priority.

Health Care Reform will be his signature achievement for better or worse. That will be his legacy.

It's hard to say how things are going to shake out but he's probably going to have the Fall of Europe on his record and possibly WWIII.

The bailout was a mistake, but that was done on Bush's watch. They should have let the too big to fail fail to teach them a lesson about gambling and losing. Now we have a bigger problem. That is not Obama's fault.

He was never going to meet the high expectations of his first Presidential campaign. I wish he could have healed the partisan divisions in this country, but the Republicans had no interest in that.

But how can we complain with sub-5% unemployment, finally rising real wages, and a now stable housing environment and financial system? At the end of 2008, a lot of that was in question. Europe still has many countries with double digit unemployment.

And that's why I mention it depends how his non-interventionist strategy works out in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. It could go the way of Neville Chamberlain. But I was certainly in favor of pulling back from foreign engagements in the wake of the Iraq disaster.

The failure of the Euro Zone is not his fault. You can't have political union without a fiscal union.

The thing is we didn't really need a "New Deal for the 21st Century". Things aren't perfect by any means but we've mostly recovered from the housing crisis and we are in a stronger position economically than much of the world especially if oil prices stay low.

It sounds great to dream about changing everything but you don't do that because too many people bought houses they couldn't afford.

I think he will be remembered as somewhat of a disappointment. I think a lot of people have been reluctant to criticize him because they didn't want to be tagged with being racist.

He came in vowing to change Washington and he essentially doubled down on failed capitalist policies.

I will always believe that the bailout was a mistake. Should have allowed the financial industry to correct itself.

He also virtually ignored the plight of the dispossed for the entirety of his presidency. Poverty worsened under him and helping poor people never appeared to be a priority.

Health Care Reform will be his signature achievement for better or worse. That will be his legacy.

The low unemployment rate is mostly a product of unemployed people who have left the workforce. There hasn't been job creation since he has been President. The top 1% has benefitted greatly since he has been President and no one else.

Politically speaking he has been a disaster. He really hasn't worked with either side and tried to get anything done. Not just Republicans but Democrats also.

He has been a no show on the issue of African American poverty. Has never really raised the issue in 8 years. He definitely has never attempted to address it.

Democrats have lost a great number of seats since he has been President and the reason for the "reset" has a lot to do with him.

He should have stayed out of Libya and should not have made empty threats with regards to Syria.

Agreed, there was very little change and he had control of the house and senate when he took office for two years. His healthcare reform was initially a good thing, by the time it passed and was loaded with pork it was pretty useless.

On African American poverty- really disappointing. Obama admitted that he smoked pot, yet he did nothing to try to end mass incarceration for non-violent drug offenders other than commute some sentences. Even that would have been a great first step. Ending the War on Drugs should have been a priority.

Also, he should have done something about Black Lives Matters. Launched an investigation or called for new police standards.

I am extremely disappointed by Executive overreach during his tenure, which we saw in nearly every major department. However, it was merely a symptom of partisan fighting between Congress and the President. Clearly, the President was too aloof to work with Congress, and the Republicans had their oppose anything Obama wants agenda. That was evident by not passing the TPP trade agreement, which is a core Republican belief. .

I think he will be remembered as somewhat of a disappointment. I think a lot of people have been reluctant to criticize him because they didn't want to be tagged with being racist.

He came in vowing to change Washington and he essentially doubled down on failed capitalist policies.

He also virtually ignored the plight of the dispossed for the entirety of his presidency. Poverty worsened under him and helping poor people never appeared to be a priority.

Health Care Reform will be his signature achievement for better or worse. That will be his legacy.

Some of these things were going to be hard to do simply because he was black. Not saying that he couldn't have tried though.

He didn't lead. He left it up to the Democrats and lobbyist. Same with the stimulus package. He tried to start negotiations with Republicans by meeting them somewhere in the middle and they rightfully asked for more. He's one of the worst negotiators ever. Biden was able to get deals done because he built relationships. President Obama didn't have the patience for that kind of work.

It wasn't a symptom of his time. It was a continuation in the belief of the primacy of the executive he inherited from his predecessor.

I had really hoped for a more idealistic presidency from him. I expected someone steeped in constitutional law to understand the danger of the overreach of the executive for the past decade and have the personal self control to end it. He did not. I have no hope that there will ever be anyone in the future such discipline. Should someone get into office in the future, it will be so embedded into the "powers" of the presidency from the past two decades that no one will even think to question whether it is proper.