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What were the worst things Obama did?

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zzyzxroad

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After living with trump for almost four years I definitely miss Obama. During his Presidency he received a lot of criticism but it didn't seem all the justified(unlike trump). Besides wearing a tan suit what were some of the worst things he did?
 
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Well, he did kill a lot of people with missile strikes which hasn't helped US relations in certain areas of the world. He also wasted a 4 year period with a super majority to pass some critically needed major legislation (voting rights reform, campaign finance reform, healthcare reform)

I guess the worst thing obama did was not intervene in an environment that allowed trump to eventually rise to power and not wielding power when he had it.
 
According to Republicans he was bad for the economy and was racially devisive. They then praise Trump for continuing the economic trajectory we were on while worsening the deficit to GDP ration... don't even get me started on the racial thing.

The real "worst" thing that they are unwilling to admit, is that his skin color is too dark for their liking.


In my opinion, the worst thing he did was that he made the ACA worse by trying to work with Republicans who ended up voting against it anyway. He should have taken his mandate in 2008 and rammed home policies like Trump and his lackeys have done.
 
Sunburn74 said:
Well, he did kill a lot of people with missile strikes which hasn't helped US relations in certain areas of the world. He also wasted a 4 year period with a super majority to pass some critically needed major legislation (voting rights reform, campaign finance reform, healthcare reform)

I guess the worst thing obama did was not intervene in an environment that allowed trump to eventually rise to power and not wielding power when he had it.
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Actually Obama only had a supermajority for 2 years and their signature legislative achievement was healthcare reform. Watered down due to needing to get the support of some moderate Dems and independent Joe Lieberman. In 2010 the Repubs took the House and took back some Senate seats, though the Democrats retained the Senate. But that supermajority was gone in 2 years.
 
Sunburn74 said:
Well, he did kill a lot of people with missile strikes which hasn't helped US relations in certain areas of the world. He also wasted a 4 year period with a super majority to pass some critically needed major legislation (voting rights reform, campaign finance reform, healthcare reform)

I guess the worst thing Obama did was not intervene in an environment that allowed trump to eventually rise to power and not wielding power when he had it.
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He did not get us into those wars and he was a little busy fixing the economy for the first couple of years. He did try to work with congress to approve a proper healthcare package but the republican propaganda machine spun up and made that impossible. They then turned the compromise they forced into a bat and beat the Dems with it so bad nothing else was getting done. The same bat was used to take the house and prevented anything else from getting done.

You don't remember any of that?
 
MrSquished said:
Actually Obama only had a supermajority for 2 years and their signature legislative achievement was healthcare reform. Watered down due to needing to get the support of some moderate Dems and independent Joe Lieberman. In 2010 the Repubs took the House and took back some Senate seats, though the Democrats retained the Senate. But that supermajority was gone in 2 years.
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Sunburn74 said:
Well, he did kill a lot of people with missile strikes which hasn't helped US relations in certain areas of the world. He also wasted a 4 year period with a super majority to pass some critically needed major legislation (voting rights reform, campaign finance reform, healthcare reform)

I guess the worst thing obama did was not intervene in an environment that allowed trump to eventually rise to power and not wielding power when he had it.
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Obama had a supermajority in reality for a total of...5 months. Not 2 years, and definitely not 4.

Add in the fact that the Democratic Party is a Big Tent party that doesn't march in lockstep...and those 5 months weren't some monolithic time period of Democratic tyrrany.

That said, all US Presidents are elected Emperors and kill people because Empires gotta Empire. Obama wasn't nearly as bad as some, but he still murdered people using your tax dollars. They all do.
 
Yeah the worst thing he did was execute a US citizen without trial. That was pretty bad.

Still, he was easily the best president in my lifetime. As I was technically alive for the last bits of Carter I would put it as Obama>>>>>>>>>Clinton>>GHWB>>>>>>Reagan>>Carter>>>>>>>>>>>>>GWB>(add 500 more of these)>>Trump.
 
His biggest fault in my opinion was to believe it’s possible to reason with the insane. I expect the same from Biden. When you don’t know what you feel you don’t know what others feel either. The enemy is not out there nor is the cure. The enemy is within. We will not evolve until we start to care about our children, to see to it as best our wisdom can manage so that they grow up with a minimum of want and fear.

There are two roads that fork before us. One leads down to ruination via the lusts of ego and the other toward the light of integration of opposites and healing.
 
He was uppity. Acting all superior n shit using big words and thinking he could drink from the same fucking water fountain as us!
 
Usually the chuds say Syria, although they haven't given a shit before or after, that was just about Obama being half black same as everything else. Obama couldn't win in their eyes even when he did win.
 
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Deplorable.
 
nickqt said:
Obama had a supermajority in reality for a total of...5 months. Not 2 years, and definitely not 4.

Add in the fact that the Democratic Party is a Big Tent party that doesn't march in lockstep...and those 5 months weren't some monolithic time period of Democratic tyrrany.

That said, all US Presidents are elected Emperors and kill people because Empires gotta Empire. Obama wasn't nearly as bad as some, but he still murdered people using your tax dollars. They all do.
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This keeps getting corrected and no one is right so far. Dems lost the super-majority in January, 2010, because of a special election in Massachusetts triggered by the death of Ted Kennedy. Scott Brown won that election on 1/8/10. Since Obama was seated 1/20/09, he had a super-majority for just short of one year.

In that time, he and Congress passed the ACA, the stimulus bill and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

Too bad about that special election. He probably could have gotten climate legislation passed in his second year.
 
woolfe9998 said:
This keeps getting corrected and no one is right so far. Dems lost the super-majority in January, 2010, because of a special election in Massachusetts triggered by the death of Ted Kennedy. Scott Brown won that election on 1/8/10. Since Obama was seated 1/20/09, he had a super-majority for just short of one year.
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Are you counting months where the Senate wasn't in session? Subtract those. 5 months.
 
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