The latest issue of New York Magazine includesa giant featurethat allowed 53 historians to wax eloquent on what they think President Obama's presidency will mean when we're all dead. <\/p>\n
The historians discussed whether Obama's 2008 campaign was realized in office, what his legacy will be, what the world will think of him and what his greatest accomplishment was (the most popular response was Obamacare). It's a fascinating array of analyses, worth reading in full. <\/p>\n
Since Obama's legacy will still be shaping itself for decades to come, and still seems too close to our faces to judge, we were most interested in the historians' to-do list of what Obama has yet to accomplish if he wants to impress the millennials who will decide what his presidency means 40 or 50 years from now. <\/p>\n
Here are some of their ideas: <\/p>\n
\"Close Guantnamo\" <\/p>\n
\"Prosecute those American officials that tortured detainees\" <\/p>\n
\"Pardon the Bush administration for torture\" <\/p>\n
\"Pardon Edward Snowden, John Kyriakou, Thomas Drake, and Chelsea Manning for their actions as whistleblowers and preemptively pardon George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other government officials who participated in the Bush-era torture regime\" <\/p>\n
\"Pardon Edward Snowden!\" <\/p>\n
\"One more speech about race in the wake of Ferguson, Garner, et al.\" <\/p>\n
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