By Laura Hollis, Patriot Post - Just five days before the election of 2008, which would catapult him into the presidency, candidate Barack Obama gave a speech in which he made what is now one of his infamous statements: “We are just five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”.. In the eight years that followed, America got a taste of what Obama had in mind. His pernicious legacy includes inflamed racial hatreds, a disastrous rollout of kinda-sorta single-payer health care... an apology tour to the Middle East, the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans... and funding terrorism by sending $400 million in cash on pallets to Iran.