The Facts of Obama’s Presidency are Quite Different from the Spin in His Farewell Address
The claims in President Obama's recent cover letter and farewell address are based on a series of artful statistics that do more to mislead than inform.
By James Agresti Published on January 12, 2017
In the closing weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama instructed the members of his cabinet to “prepare a detailed report on the progress we’ve made” since he became president. He then summarized these reports in a cover letter that paints a bleak picture of the U.S. before he entered the Oval Office and suggests that the nation turned around during his tenure.
Obama then repeated many points from this letter in his January 10th farewell address to the nation, where he declared that “by almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place than it was when we started.”
The claims in President Obama's recent cover letter and farewell address are based on a series of artful statistics that do more to mislead than inform.
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