“It’s like a great oil painting. If you walk up to it and look real close, it’s not going to look so great. If you look too close at Obama’s record – the collapse on peacemaking in Palestine, tripling troops in Afghanistan, presiding over the greatest upward transfer of wealth in anybody’s lifetime – it does not look so great.”

Norman Solomon · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-01

Solomon compared Obama's record to a painting that looks worse the closer you examine it.