Obama’s Legacy: Feuding With The Founding Fathers

Originally published by the Daily Wire

As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, former President Barack Obama has once again invited Americans to dwell on the shortcomings of their inheritance rather than its greatness.

Speaking at the gala opening of his presidential center in Chicago last week, Obama declared that the Founders “fell terribly short” of the lofty principles they proclaimed our great nation should embody. The former president went on to say that he was referring primarily to the persistence of slavery in the early republic. That’s fair, at least to some extent. No honest reading of American history can deny that slavery was a profound moral evil, nor that the Founders left significant unfinished business to later generations. Yet as Americans prepare to commemorate the most successful experiment in self-government in human history, it is striking that the Left is constitutionally incapable of discussing the achievements of the founding without immediately turning to its failures.

This has been Barack Obama’s consistent reflex since he first stepped onto the national scene more than two decades ago. Rather than treating the remarkable American story as a cause for gratitude, he persistently returns to it as a source of national (and ceaseless) self-reproach.

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