Take A Moment To Appreciate What President Obama Accomplished In 8 Years
Rachel Maddow delivered a long litany of the things President Obama has accomplished, and she didn't even get to all of them. All of them would have taken up the whole show.
It seemed appropriate to put this on the front page as the "peaceful transfer of power" is happening.
She also had a call to action at the end.
The transcript follows, but I urge you to watch it, because her emotion was part of what makes this so compelling.
Under President Obama the high school graduation rate in this country hit 83%. That's the highest it has ever been in the history of this country.
When President Obama took office in 2009, the country was in an economic freefall, plunging into an economic abyss, unemployment hit 10%. Unemployment is now at 4.7%.
Under President Obama, we have had 82 straight months of private-sector job growth. That's the longest streak ever in the history of our country of consecutive months in which there have been job growth and not job losses.
Under President Obama, we put a rover on Mars.
Under President Obama we have had the first drop in the federal prison population in decades.
Under President Obama, after a concerted effort by his administration, homelessness among American veterans dropped by half.