Never went after Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld for war crimes. Committed war crimes. Never went after Wall Street after the GFC. Didn't care about the poor. Just coz he was cool doesn't make him competent.
You people have had monsters in the White House for decades. Shoulda been Bernie.
Me too. But, at the same time, if only he had not listened to his Wall Street advisors and had bailed out the loan holders instead of the big banks, we may have avoided this current mess.
There is so much he didn't do that enabled the corrupt gop and left a lot of Dems very upset.
He didn't stop foreclosures on those not underwater but lost jobs, he bowed to the banks, he pushed through privatizing student loans TRIPLING my kids loans with bs fees from lies by the company + random %
hikes!
He cowered to McConnell losing a SCOTUS seat instead of standing up to him
He knew the election was stolen from Hillary, yet, got angry at her,demanding she declare treasolini the winner. He tried to pass the TPP for CEO's. Had an entire office set up in the WH for it!
Nice personable guy tho
I want services, not tax cuts. Especially not more tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporations.
Nothing ever trickles down but the tears of the poor.
I have extremely strong reservations about Obama's presidency (and would advise anyone looking back to take off the rose-colored glasses), but I would rather have him serve 50 terms than suffer another day under the fucking shit show that is the current administration.
Wise words and a more than competent President....but he was the president who literally handed over the keys to Trump knowing the full extent of Russian meddling. Give credit where credit is due, but don't leave out the flaws
You mean the guy that bailed out the banks and mega corporations responsible for the global 08 recession, instigated wars in Syria, Libya, Yemen to name a few, poorly implemented affordable care that stifles low-income people. Not sure if this is competent government
Honey, you're delusional. I still bitch about Biden. I still bitch about Trump. I bitch equally unlike you damn blue Maga types. You need to get a grip or we all are going to keep getting fascists. You are the lube God damn it.
Once a law is signed, the only way to undo that law is by Congress undoing the law.. but he also passed Dodd-Frank, which had compliance enforcement with Mortgages and Banking and opened up a lot of doors and a lot of jobs. I should know I was one of those people who he helped with that law.
tell that to Trump and his flurry of EOs. Besides, Dems ALWAYS have their rotating villains to rely on, or some absurdity like the Senate Parliamentarian. Democrats are not a serious opposition party. Politicians are not your friend.
Geez… remember what it was like to have a president that was smarter and more mature than a toddler (Polish ‘shitling’ is the more appropriate term in this case).
i miss when people didn't have parasocial relationships with politicians and instead knew instinctively to dislike all of them.
when you see this dude you should think two things:
bank bail outs
renewal of the patriot act
failure to prosecute an administration that kind of cheated to get in and then provably lied us into a war, partially for personal gain, that was an important moment to me
Like all Dem presidents, its a shame he didn't have the power to do anything more than give warnings. Dems love to warn people about the things they'll do nothing to stop.
Honestly yeah, I do think that's part of the major issue. The dems have been crying wolf for years, so when it actually mattered people were already bored of it. Biden solidified the Dems' reputation as all talk and no action, and Trump won because he gets stuff done. (Even if it's a disaster.)
Dems have been crying wolf for years because for decades, GOP has been the pro-wolf party, gerrymandering districts to favor wolf candidates. Spreading pro-wolf propaganda, destroying more
flocks. Now it's wolf country and you blame the people who tried to warn you rather than the wolves?
How many decades does that little charade have to go on before you realize they are actually benefiting from and really dont actually mind what the wolves are doing?
Are they ineffectual, or complicit? Does it really make a difference which?
Oh I know, they all serve the same masters ultimately. Plus the more stuff Republicans break, the more the Dems have to run on in the next election by promising to fix it all and then simply never getting around to it.
He was the last President who was an excellent figurehead for our people. Good policy and good statesmanship. I don’t remember such chaos or hatred between each party.
It only feels like it was competent because it wasn’t a circus like it is now. It was still corrupted and terrible things still happened under his watch. If it was so great Trump would never have won in the first place.
If there I have one thing to be Loud and proud about beyond my religion, is the political views that most align with the Democratic, Progressive Wing of the part.
Reading through these comments, my god has Fox News completely rewritten history in people's minds. Even on a liberal app like this, people blame Obama for shit Bush did. Everyone forgets Obamacare was the priority, and he only had the super majority for a month.
yes. i do. i am a black cat anarchist. i openly despise all forms of state and violent hierarchy. i don't pick and choose some evils as acceptable because i don't believe life requires "necessary evils" and i'm correct to believe that
Likely my final addition to this thread, but no one on the opossing has tried to deny Obama's war crimes. Even if Lotus never mentioned another president in their life, thavwould still be fine as very few of the other war criminals are as lauded by the left as Obama despite his actions.
Not week goes by without remembering all the good he accomplished.
Love how Barack presented everything.
Economics, jobs, government policy, foreign relations and the beautiful tan suit.
He was competent in bombing the middle east, bailing out the banks, mass deporting my people, and aiding the cartels in the southern border, I'll give you that.
Just for fun yesterday I went back and watched some footage from old White House correspondent’s dinners where he was speaking. He was very funny and self deprecating, smart and reverential towards his wife and his beliefs about the importance of the freedom of the press. I miss him too.
He is why we’re here. Literally trump is his legacy, as in he was immediately followed trump up. He gave the president the power to do all of this. Oops!
Competent government is one thing but what Obama failed to do was fight against the status quo that led to MAGA. He could have used the bully pulpit and his supermajority to bring in Medicare for all and to prosecute the people responsible for the 08 financial crash but he didn’t and now we’re here
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Yes, but people forget that they are not trying to "compete" with China. They are trying to MAKE US what China was 50 yrs ago when they first started forcing their ppl to work for pennies and live in squalor so they could undercut every other price on the planet. NOW, their low prices OWN us all.
I also miss Joe Biden. He has not gotten enough credit for giving us 4 years of peaceful and competent governing. He inherited a total mess, he cleaned it up, our standing in the world was excellent and the economy boomed.
... we are never getting free. You miss a segregationist that aided in genocide. You miss mass deportations under your nose. He misses another mass deporter, that gave cops war weapons AFTER saying they shouldn't, plus bombed hospitals. Come on, get a grip
Yeah he really helped Israel ethnically clean up the Gaza Strip. Why can't we have an ardent supporter of crushing protests and strikes with heavily armed cops who isn't orange, ya know? Oh well back to brunch until this whole fascism thing they ushered in blows over
If that makes me ok with genocide, then you are ok with racism, war crimes, dismantling our democracy and kidnapping citizens as long as you get to show off your latest insults. Again, lazy thinking and petty attacks and no real understanding.
Your straw man fallacy in my opinion is not a valid opinion. It is built off stereotypes you hold, not reality. There is nothing about holding hose guilty of genocide that is inherent to any political party, ideology, or movement. It’s cowardly to claim those who stand up to that are your opposition
We didn't have a DoE before 1977 and had better scores. The only thing the DoE has done is add a layer of bureaucracy to education, which costs more money.
DoE doesn't invent anything, that's true. But DoE helps bring a budget to education just because it is a bureaucracy department in the bureaucracy system.
tRump told his cult last night “Don’t let them call it a Tariff Tax” so America you know what to do, call it what it is
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Right! Some things were still not right but we didn’t have to fear daily 24/7.the government was actually able to get things accomplished.same as before when the felon was president it’s all fighting and courts and the judges who are on the felons side. Delaying and temporarily stays.
I miss this family in the white house. Bill Clinton also helped me in high school. If it wasn't for him ending Dissecting animals being mandatory to pass a class w/o any substitutes...I would have had to cut up an innocent animal for no reason. U don't need to do that to major in retail management.
Why is Bernie okay with an excess of innocent people being snatched-up and sent to a country that they didn't even come from, compared to Democrats' approach of mainly deporting violent criminals to their country of origin?
Someone should have a station where Obama is interviewed 24/7 - featuring current day issues and topics. Its almost like I can close my eyes and it was all a bad dream i'll wake up from.
Obama bailed out the banks, allowed de-industrialisation to continue and loaded the US with debt. If he'd been a Roosevelt, he'd have broken up the monopolies, taxed the ultra wealthy and invested heavily in rebuilding the US.
Obama who bailed out bankers with no repercussions and gave us the meritocratic financial hellscape that pushed blue collar voters to trump? I'll take a new thing instead please.
He may have arbitrarily killed countless people with death from above, such as a wedding in Yemen, but he was just so charismatic and collected about it!
Man why can't we have somebody who prosecutes whistleblowers and sells out the poor without being so RUDE about it? #resist #graypoupon #bluewave
For a bright, sparkling moment, we were a serious, forward thinking country and a true world leader. It'll be a beautiful story to tell the grandkids when their hiding in rubble from death mechs seeking to reduce the population down to 50 million per Project 2025.
It would seem like everything Trump does is a desperate attempt to undo or dis everything that Obama and Biden did. That says everything you need to know about the Orange Hitler "president "
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And there you have it. Obama makes Trump feel small and stupid (because he is, but let’s not quibble). Trumps primary purpose has always been to destroy everything Obama did.
I bet if he could he would delete all Obama references from the govt websites
Of course the WOKE MOB turns to Obama for help with all of his fancy-pants reality, words, facts, and reason. Oooooo, look at me. I’m not incompetent or a liar.
He was an exceptionally weak president that served capital above all and yet still broke the brains of like half of Americans because he was black and because gay marriage was legalized under his presidency.
I remember days when I had no idea where Obama was or what he was doing, I just knew he was taking care of business. None of this 24/7 coverage of the bloated yam in our faces fucking everything up.
Every Dem President worked that way. Republican presidents are the only one's that need attention, and ffs, Dubya at least got his attention by visiting troops.
We had a competent government under Biden. Obama is a corporate democrat that governed as a republican he said so himself. He would not pass single payer with a majority. Centrism helped get us here. We need real change a FDR style progressive leader to fix what has been broken over the decades
If Obama was Biden was too. He upheld a lot of policies that Trump had in place and the left say his stance on Palestine was centrist. This is not to say that Biden wasn’t a great or competent president but come on…
Bless you and your family, President Obama. You are a forever gift to America! We miss you so much!
You also chose an incredible VP who "inherited" a sinking ship from trump. Biden repaired it & got it sailing beautifully until trump came back. The ship is sinking badly now with trump at the helm.
To be fair that competent government he ran sat idly by while they started the machinations of the mess we’re in. Combined with his insistence on bipartisanship while he controlled all three branches real sold us up the creek. Single payer ball drop, citizens united, free trade expansions. Smdh now
I hear u but his refusal to accept how the GOP changed was an action. He refused to accept they were no longer playing the same game and that the rules had changed and just trucked along like it was all how it’d always been. Thats a choice he probably regrets, it’s a choice we’re paying for now
He was an orator beyond compare, but I prefer the policies of Joe Biden who in my books is the best president of the last 50 years. Obama expended too much political capital on Obamacare which would have been better spent on climate change and fixing a corrupt SCOTUS.
If trump decides to continue to ignore constitutional law and run for a 3rd term, I’d love to see Obama run with Kamala as his VP and then resign shortly after being sworn in so we can have our rightful president. #obamaharris2028
Do we really think Obama wants to be President again? Can we not use our imagination and find someone else to clean up the mess that this country is in?Black people should not be held up as the “savior” for a country that clearly voted for white supremacy.
Yes, he competently patted the liberals on the head while he waged insane wars around the world and propped up the oligarchs. The only Democrats to do more to ensure Trump was Hillary and MAYBE Biden.
Yes however one stain on his record was him mocking Romney during the 2012 Presidential debate when Romney said Russia needed to be kept in check. Obama declared Russia was no longer a threat.
I wouldn't go that far, as I disagree with him on most of his proposed policies, but he would have, at least, been competent and responsible with the government.
The Romney-Obama race was the rare presidential race where the country couldn’t lose. Either way, the U.S. would have a principled and extremely capable president.
It's not the incompetence of the current trump sh1tshow though. It's the destruction of the fragile checks and balances that your founding fathers thought would be enough. The unscrupulous, lawless group in power in the US today are attempting to take its democracy.
Sure, but would Obama do something illegal. Trump can’t do it with out changing the constitution. It would take so long he have to do that now. And I doubt he would get the states to agree. So he have to do it illegally
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But I realize that is absolutely not the norm in most of the country.
But uh, sure doesn't seem to be happening anywhere else around here, so maybe it's just a weird outlier.
This nation absolutely does not take education seriously anymore.
You people have had monsters in the White House for decades. Shoulda been Bernie.
I miss a president that could get through an answer without rambling incoherently, taking himself or making fun of someone
He didn't stop foreclosures on those not underwater but lost jobs, he bowed to the banks, he pushed through privatizing student loans TRIPLING my kids loans with bs fees from lies by the company + random %
He cowered to McConnell losing a SCOTUS seat instead of standing up to him
He knew the election was stolen from Hillary, yet, got angry at her,demanding she declare treasolini the winner. He tried to pass the TPP for CEO's. Had an entire office set up in the WH for it!
Nice personable guy tho
Nothing ever trickles down but the tears of the poor.
He & Clinton got us here as much as the Bushes & DJT.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuq5XcVIss
I am not your honey.
when you see this dude you should think two things:
bank bail outs
renewal of the patriot act
All those war crimes.
yeah, surely that's the major issue, "too much warning"
get off it
flocks. Now it's wolf country and you blame the people who tried to warn you rather than the wolves?
Are they ineffectual, or complicit? Does it really make a difference which?
Nice work people...
Let's see how that works for everybody in 4 yrs time?
better be dead then living in horror
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He failed to prosecute CEOs.
I don’t believe you.
What on earth?
Love how Barack presented everything.
Economics, jobs, government policy, foreign relations and the beautiful tan suit.
SHOW HIM. HE. IS. WRONG
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TRUMP. IS. WINNING. THE. GAME. TO ABUSE #USA
HE IS LAFFING. AT YALL
HE WILL STRIP. EVERYTHING YOU DEPEND ON TO SURVIVE. AND LAFF. WITH HIS. FRIENDS
➡️Form your local groups.
☎️Figure out ways to communicate with other groups.
🪧We will continue to protest.
💪🏽We will not stop.
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We will hit these streets until the Washington criminals are arrested, tried publicly, & thrown in prison!!
If you want to post MAGA propaganda, do it elsewhere.
Trump's ex-employees got subpoenaed.
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Every time I hear about how much control Putin and Musk have over Trump I'm reminded of how much of a puppet Dubya was.
It's really nothing new. It's just so much more visible now. It's right in everybody's face, and the supporters just don't care.
Wise up!!!!
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New fuckin blood please
Man why can't we have somebody who prosecutes whistleblowers and sells out the poor without being so RUDE about it? #resist #graypoupon #bluewave
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I bet if he could he would delete all Obama references from the govt websites
Whoop Dee Doo. 😉
You also chose an incredible VP who "inherited" a sinking ship from trump. Biden repaired it & got it sailing beautifully until trump came back. The ship is sinking badly now with trump at the helm.
Dictatorships are even more fragile structures.
They are made of smoke and mirrors. They are held together with chewing gum and bailing wire.
We can bring down dictatorships with nonviolent actions that take aim at their fragility.
I will vote for you!
If trump runs for a third term - and there’s every likelihood that he will - then so can President Obama.