Obama: maybe I was "10 or 20 years too early"

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In terms of America being ready for a Black President, maybe he's right, which is sad. Clearly his election had no "healing" effect in race relations as some, including Carter, were predicting. Hopefully he won't be, as a non-white President, just an "exception from the rule".

In terms of some of his moderate hero policies, he was 10 years too late. Aside of undeniably good things he'd accomplished, Obama turned out to be more of a DLC-er than Hillary, despite running to her left in primaries.

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As a political organized/party leader Obama was largely unsuccessfully. He was great at running himself for the Presidency, but the party in general was left in much worse shape. First he tossed Dean's 50 states strategy and elevated mediocre leader such as Kaine for chair, then pretty much ceded control to the Clintonites. What I find particularly puzzling is the President being fine with his own party chair (DWS) fighting him over one of his signature policy decisions (Iran deal).