What will obama change if elected

The ex-commander in chief and the "Born to Run" singer appeared for their first joint sit-down to promote their new book out this week based on their Spotify podcast of the same name, "Renegades: Born in the U.

In their first interview, former Pres. When I was young, I felt voiceless. I felt invisible, and I think we're in trouble and that a lot of people do feel very voiceless. The Broadway musician has been a vocal critic of Trump, once saying Obama's successor doesn't "have a grasp of the deep meaning of what it means to be an American. Still, there are certain bigger trends we know are going to continue and others that show no signs of reversing.

Americans seem to expect major changes: More than six-in-ten, for example, believe that within 50 years, robots or computers will do much of the work that is currently done by humans. The demographic changes that have taken hold across the U.

The nation as a whole will turn grayer and its racial and ethnic diversification is expected to continue: In less than 40 years, the U. The foreign policy challenges facing this politically fractured nation seem endless, from Russia and China to terrorism and the environment.

At home, financial prosperity — even stability — feels increasingly out of reach to many Americans: Today, far more people are pessimistic than optimistic about life for the next generation of Americans. Yet the United States enters this uncertain new era with undeniable, if often overlooked, strengths. Republicans and Democrats, for example, differ dramatically over whether the nation has gotten more or less powerful as a global leader over the past decade, but majorities in both parties say the U.

And most Americans say that one of the hallmarks of U. It is tempting to believe that the pace of change in the U. As significant as the current moment of transition is, however, only the passage of time can reveal the trends that will truly have lasting importance. Michael Dimock is the president of Pew Research Center, where he leads a domestic and international research agenda to explain public attitudes, demographic changes and other trends over time. A political scientist by training, Dimock has been at the Center since and has co-authored several of its landmark research reports, including studies of trends in American political and social values and a groundbreaking examination of political polarization within the American public.

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January 10, Generally good. Death of Michael Brown. June May Generally bad. Death of Freddie Gray. Los Angeles riots. Obama presidency. He promised us a better America. What exactly will he do to fulfill that promise?. Certainly, he has already changed this country just by being elected. He changed presidential politics by defeating two of the most powerful members of the Senate to do so. He has changed this country by crossing the aisle to nominate Republicans to his cabinet.

He has changed this country by making Hillary Clinton his Secretary of State. His Change. Not since Bill Clinton's open line to the White House have we been able to so easily communicate our wants and needs to Pennsylvania Avenue.

What future changes are in store? Undoubtedly, it will be hard to make any sweeping changes with the economy in free fall, but there are changes he could bring about that would benefit everyone. Barack Obama will make us calm.

By being as calm as he is, he will bring us a sense of peace, even in the midst of the chaos that swirls around us. Barack Obama will make us want to be better people. In listening to his speech to the black youth of America, you can see that he wants more for us, no matter what our race.

He wants us to believe in ourselves, to strive for loftier goals, and not define ourselves by our financial status in life. Barack Obama will make us fight for what is right. While true to an extent, we have abandoned our own families.

Divorce, abortion, abortifacient drugs, "nursing" homes, living out of wedlock, perpetually dating and not committed to one person, these and others have devastated our sense of commitment to one another. These have also made Americans very sick. Lack of self-care is an ongoing problem for our national physical and mental health.

You treat others as you were taught at home. Since our nuclear families have become nearly extinct, Americans now turn to the government taxpayers whom they do not know to take care of them. Hillary will continue it. Given her own nuclear family, we can see where she will take our nation's families.

Like the prodigal son, families and individuals will climb aboard and demand what is "their's", thus abusing the charity of Americans. Charity should not be taken for granted nor abused. Love is never bullied. Empires fall when the people are vanquished. We are a nation whose spirit is broken. We suffer a grand malaise and Obama has made it far worse for families, for individuals, for Americans.

Given our grand malaise, it is no surprise Hillary, Trump and Sanders are popular: they are messiahs for their voters. Chuck Kotlarz. Obama had control of the US Congress for his first term…this is all on him. And then we Latinos entered the country and all Hades broke loose! That Americans are indignant today about "Mexicans" entering our country is something I find really amusing.

Apparently the Mexicans want their land back. May they bring their Catholic identity, roots and traditions with them. Perhaps they will infuse in us a sense of proper priorities so that a fireman can own a newly built house, have 4 kids in Catholic schools and the father can post comments on America website. You may not be his amigo, but you are his brother. When are you going to stop posting these irrelevant comments and statistics. East Asia countries produced almost nothing at that time.

In the US there was no medicare and social security was putting money into the economy not taking it out. Only a small percentage of married women worked which is why the labor participating number is low. Catholic schools were still mainly staffed by nuns, brothers and priests and were free in a lot of places or cost very little.

All those things changed but were especially accelerated as government programs came on line to transfer money to designated groups. Now one can argue over the effectiveness of these programs and their consequences but you pick a time which is no longer possible to go back to unless you want to bomb the major industrial nations of the world and prohibit married women from working. So I suggest you stop posting all these irrelevant and misleading statistics.

A billionaire inheritance is now the gift that keeps on giving. There was one Walton on the first Forbes billionaire list in They have no vision, and when there is no vision, the people perish. JR Cosgrove. Billionaires again. Have you explained what causes billionaires and why they are bad yet. If you took all the money from every billionaire you would be able to run the government for a few months and then there would be nothing left for the government to get.

I assume you are against anything published by the NY Times and Washington Post, since both are owned by billionaires. And how about all those billionaires supporting the Democratic Party, I assume you are against them too since they are obviously corrupting the party.

I have no particular love for billionaires but don't see the harm they are doing. A lot of their wealth is artificial, the results of stock market holdings. That is why they increased so dramatically during the Clinton administration as the stock market took off.

You write, and I paraphrase: Mr. Obama [vis-a-vis] President George Bush You have scarcely given the president his proper title in your article, save in several instances. Words selected by writers say much about writers. Kevin Clarke. President Obama did block the Keystone XL pipeline but a carbon tax could have plugged that pipeline with more finesse. A rising carbon tax could also obviate EPA rules to limit emissions from power plants. The US invests 1.

Why the constant harping on billionaires? You obviously have a thing against billionaires, especially those who inherit the money. This obviously means you must detest the Kennedy's and Franklin Roosevelt since their inheritied money came from liquor and the drug trade.

I personally don't see the harm since most of the money of these rich people eventually ends up in philanthropic causes and many of their efforts often employs tens of thousands. Of course not all and the Kennedy's and Roosevelt are good examples of money not doing as much good as others.

Maybe the Walton's money will end up doing public good with all their wealth but like most very rich people it is mainly in the stock of their very successful company started by their parents. You have not made a case that billionaires are bad or are causing problems with others. This is an OP about the changes Obama has made in our country and one of them is the facilitating of increased billions for the very rich by the deficit spending and money creation that has occurred.