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- colin_s-9
While I can't stand the Trump administration, I'm really looking for people who would defend the Obama years at this point.
The dude's only legacy was ACA which is, at best, a mediocre band-aid in the future of America's health care industry disaster economics.
He was elected an idealist but quickly compromised bascially everything, and was broadly ineffective for his last 5 years in office... not to mention his inability to close Gitmo or the fact we are still in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I'm not saying I'd rather have had McCain or Romney, I'm just wondering what democrats can possibly see in a future in the party. It's the failures of the Obama administration to constrict executive powers and move the country to the left that have left Trump with all this breathing room to fuck us over in so many ways.
- you have heard of the "party of 'NO"", right? Getting things done requires cooperation, the GOP took an unprecedented stance to stop anything and everything.formed
- ^ exactly what formed saidRamanisky2
- let's see ... stock market tripled under him, job market improved every year, year after year, he pushed us into an alternative energy future ... and moremonospaced
- Can you qualify your last sentence please?BonSeff
- apparently colin_s has been living on a different planet.Ramanisky2
- To be fair, we're never leaving Iraq or Afghanistan. We're there for life, it's our only stronghold in that region.sofakingback
- didn't he compromise a lot because he couldn't get anything past the repubs? I agree he made some terrible foreign policy decisions but any other presidentfadein11
- would have struggled with the growth of ISIS and taken the same advice from the military/intelligenc... that he did. I don't follow the line that ISIS werefadein11
- created by Obama, deep state possibly but Obama highly unlikely. Too much weight is put on the puppet leaders shoulders. They cannot actually change the realfadein11
- agenda that much and Trump is a perfect example of words vs reality.fadein11
- How is Trump fucking anyone over - nothing is happening?fadein11
- should have read other comments 1st :)fadein11
- perpetual war and rebuilding warzones are all part of the game colin - it's what makes the real money.fadein11
- Obama deported a shit ton of people and didn't make a big deal about it?BonSeff
- Obama droned a shit ton of people and didn't make a big deal about it?BonSeff
- any president would have droned the fuck out of the middle east - it's what you do. and a slightly better alternative to carpet bombing it has to be said.fadein11
- https://tericarter.w…BusterBoy
- I don't think Obama compromised as much as a) Repubs blocked him at every turn, and b) the guy was always a centrist and pragmatistallthethings
- The "Hope" thing got people projecting stuff onto him, but that's not who he was at all. The funny thing is if he was an R, the right would be renamingallthethings
- Reagan National for Obama. But you know, he's half black, and they couldn't abide that.allthethings