Obama's successor will have plenty to point at

Let us fast forward to January 2017 when President Obama is no longer in office.

The most transparent (has a word been more over-used and under-performed than under Obama?) president and his administration are no longer the little boys with their fingers in the dike keeping the torrent of bad policy decisions over eight years of ineptitude from spilling forth and drowning the country in consequences not yet totally appreciated.

Will the former president adhere to the silence George Bush exhibited after being pilloried by Obama for every policy failure of the past eight years or will we hear the howls of a caged animal that strikes out in self-defense, justifying all that went before and certainly after him?

This president has shown on numerous occasions he is thin-skinned and not too keen on introspection nor willing to be held responsible for anything. It won't matter who becomes the new president. The handwriting is on the wall that the world will be a much more dangerous place than it was when Obama took office in January 2009.

The finger-pointing may not be quite as robust toward Obama under a Clinton presidency but be assured a new president, short on accountability herself will not suffer lightly without pointing a finger at her predecessor. If you think the infighting taking place now between the ultra-liberal wing of the Democrat party over fast track trade promotion and the merely progressive element, what's left of it is entertaining.

Wait till a new president goes after an old president from the same party. Let the games begin.

Steve Sarich

Grayslake