9 signs that Obama is totally in the second semester senior year phase of his presidency

Imitating Grumpy Cat? Hanging out in Marc Maron's garage? Sometimes, it seems like the president already thinks school's out for summer.

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Barack Obama has had a strikingly momentous second term. His administration negotiated the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership and a major nuclear deal with Iran. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of both same-sex marriage and ObamaCare. Team Obama scored a big climate agreement with China and reversed a decades-old policy toward Cuba, reestablishing U.S. ties with the country. Obama has commuted more sentences for non-violent criminal offenders than any president since Franklin Roosevelt and, as evidenced by his powerful Charleston church eulogy in which he broke out singing "Amazing Grace," he has also made some of his boldest strides yet toward addressing race issues.

As Kenneth Adelman, Ronald Reagan's arms control negotiator, put it, "Obama may be singular as a president, not only because of his striking background. It may turn out that unlike virtually any other president, his second term is actually better than his first."

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