History will be kind to Barack Obama, because he was framed by the two worst Presidents of all time, because he had some impressive accomplishments (including ending the Iraq war and passing Obama are), and because he honored the Presidency and served stylishly. Obama also bore the burden of being the first of his race to be Cief Executive. But he failed to use his profound communication skills to effectively counter the Republican disinformation campaigns and the Democratic Party lost considerable ground during his time in office. I have been curious to see how he would behave as a former President, and for this first hundred days he's been hugely disappointing. He has said exactly nothing about the fraud who replaced him and his fascist and racist policies. And now we learn that he has been infected with Clintonitis and somehow, despite a $65 million dollar book contract, he's taking $400,000 speaking engagements from the Wall Streeters who he declined to prosecute after they destroyed the economy in 2008. Truly and utterly nauseating.

President Obama offered up a confoundingly absurd defense of his administration's response to its early knowledge that the Russians were trying to hack the election. He claims that he personally warned Putin to "cut it out," and that he's now going to strike back--a month AFTER the election. Obama claims that, although he was convinced the reports were true, he didn't want the interference of a foreign government in our electoral process to "become a political football." God forbid! He felt that rather than retaliate immediately or make it clear to the American public what he believed was going on, he needed to stick to just stating the facts and not imputing any "motives" to the actions of the Russians. God forbid! Conservatives love to portray liberals as murky-thinking ineffectuals with no sense of how the real world works. It's usually an absurd stereotype, but every once in a while, like in today's presidential press conference, it comes to life.