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Obama's Gone Rogue!

He's Gone Rogue! Obama has carved out something of a Lone Wolf Presidency in recent weeks. After the China Climate deal, the immigration Executive Order on immigration, plus his budget deal with Congress and finally the announcement of the opening of ties with Cuba….it all adds up. Obama has finally broken out of the box. He’s free now without fetters from Congress, from future elections, and even from his own party. He’s gone rogue, as they say, in defining his legacy. And in his final two years, or as he terms it, “the fourth quarter” of his Presidency, he’s ensuring that his legacy is going to be more about the positives and things he can do then the obstruction that has plagued him throughout much of his last six years. Obamacare will always be a defining force with this President. But after scaling down two of the longest wars in American history, killing Osama Bin Laden, ramping up a new policy of spying and drone warfare, and propping up a faltering economy, O