Critique

A Critique of “What will the left look like after Obama?” by Stephen Marche In the past eight years America has seen immense changes, good and bad. Obama has legalized same sex marriage, lowered the unemployment rate, and began the end to the drug war. But is it all due to Obama, and what he has done over the last eight years? By Marche, calling president Obama, “[America's] Biggest winner” Is he giving him too much credit? Is it something president Obama deserves, after fighting against a rigid and impenetrable government that doesn’t like to make significant changes? Obama has made multiple changes to the United States government, but can Marche simply give all the credit to president Obama? Is this article very opinionated, or is it clearly supported by facts? In my opinion Marches’ article is not well enough supported to be giving all of the credit to Obama. Marche making the comments about police injustice, new candidates being not even close to how successful Obama was, and saying that Obamacare has done all the work on lowering the the rate of the uninsured, are all opinionated statements lowering the respectability of his
He talks about America without Obama, and all of the successes of Obama. Marche talks about popular issues in present day America such as racial police shootings. Also making points about the wealthiest one percent. Marche makes comments such as, “ The political crises of the moment are so profound, so under the current of what the democratically elected government can do, that only the starkest, most radical change would bring hope or change.” In addition he says how the next president elected no matter who it is will be a downgrade. Marche then goes on to bring up more racial issues. All of these topics are well supported, but very bias. Leading me to believe that this article about president Obama is