Obama's tainted and sullied legacy

 The job of a decent and skilful politician in a democracy is to appeal to the interests of people without feeding their prejudices. 

After 2008, who gave these people much to like? Not Obama, who two years after the financial collapse told them their troubles were over, except for some economic ‘headwinds’ that would lighten up soon. 

Obama’s $65 million book deal and $50 million Netflix deal, his photo-op vacations on Branson’s island and Geffen’s yacht and Tahiti, his design for tearing up the Chicago Olmsted Park to lay down the Obama Presidential Library, which will host a yoga centre – these things are noticed in the right-wing press and the gutter Twittersphere.
 

They make Obama out to be one more liberal hypocrite; whereas with Trump he avows what he is (a brash and rather vulgar billionaire  allied to his s brutality of address) unlike the needy Obama who is prone to financial and egoistical  inducements.