Jerrod Laber

Obama’s foreign policy legacy undermines his C-SPAN ranking as 12th best president

by Jerrod Laber | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

C-SPAN recently released the 2017 Presidential Historian Survey, in which a group of presidential historians rank all previous presidents from best to worst. President Obama did extremely well, coming in as the 12th best president of all time. Obama was commended for his handling of the economy, public persuasion, and (the most unsettling reason) his moral authority. Survey respondents seemed to have overlooked a simple fact, though, which should shatter any image of moral authority from the Obama tenure in office: his destructive and inhumane foreign policy. Obama’s record on warfare is,...

Jerrod A. Laber is a Program Manager at the Institute for Humane Studies. He is a Young Voices Advocate.

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