Joy Ann Reid Gushes: Obama’s ‘Incredibly Popular,’ Scandal-Free, ‘Travels Well’

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REID: "I can still recall viscerally how hated and vilified and mistaken he was, sort of de-Americanized and for him to now leave office incredibly popular, I've heard, you know, the sort of adoration of him among Democrats likened to the way a lot of Republicans feel about Ronald Reagan. I think that he is popular not just with Democrats; he's popular with a lot of conservatives just for the way that he comported himself. No personal scandals. You compare that to something like 67 members of the Nixon Administration eventually indicted. Even Carter, who was a good, erect man, had a little bit of — I think one person. But this is a president who's gone with no personal scandals, no one in his administration indicted. He's urbane, he's wise, he carries us well around the world. He travels well. His family, beautiful family, an adoring family. I think he's a president who made us incredibly proud. He's the first African-American president. Incredible pressure on him to be perfect, to not make any mistakes personally and he didn't. And I think that he made black America immensely proud. When I got out of media, I did work on that campaign. It's one of the proudest things I've ever done, to play even a tiny part in helping to make this happen. I think we can be proud of it. No other Western democracy has elected an ethnic minority to be their president. We did it."