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GQ has already spoken, so I think the smart and worldly patrons of YCS should weigh in on how great Obama was. What will be your favorite Obama memory, that you tell your grandchildren? http://www.gq.com/story/obama-greatest-president-legacy
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:GQ has already spoken, so I think the smart and worldly patrons of YCS should weigh in on how great Obama was. What will be your favorite Obama memory, that you tell your grandchildren? I think the Obama presidency was just a thinly veiled excuse for him to hang out with Steph Curry, Zach Galifanakis and Jerry Seinfeld.
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May 23, 2016 12:23
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I will start off, as the OP. My favorite Obama memory was when he won the Nobel Peace Prize. 
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May 23, 2016 12:38
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My favorite Obama memory is when he made the Terminator program real.
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May 23, 2016 15:06
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my favorite moment is when he caused a lot of outlandish caremad retard outrage among republicans, a torch proudly passed on to the democrats now with trump
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May 23, 2016 15:12
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The First Trans- president
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May 23, 2016 15:53
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My favorite moment was when his VP figuratively pulled Obama by his hair, kicking and screaming, into the pro-gay marriage camp.
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May 23, 2016 15:54
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probably al majalah
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May 23, 2016 17:06
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what retard actually likes obama in 2016 like even the weepy dipshits fawning over him in 2007/8 should have known better
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May 23, 2016 17:12
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paul_soccer10 posted:what retard actually likes obama in 2016 There are many who still like him, and even some who think he will be remembered as one of the greatest presidents ever. I am hoping someone who believes this will visit my tiny thread 
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May 23, 2016 18:16
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Like I think there was an Ezra Kline article a year ago that was something like "Obama's a great president because he's done something about every issue he mentioned in 2008"? It was a very weird article but then again I am not as smart as Ezra Kline or Obama (he went to Harvard), so
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May 23, 2016 18:21
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best president since FDR or maybe just best president since Eisenhower but we'll see how things pan out
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May 23, 2016 18:22
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baw posted:best president since FDR What do you need to see pan out before you put him over Eisenhower?
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May 23, 2016 18:25
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mostly foreign policy stuff but also the ACA
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May 23, 2016 18:26
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the ACA is only good relative to the absolute garbage mess we had before it unfortunately we will probably not make any more progress on health in this stupid bullshit country for another decade assuming we don't regress tremendously during the trumpocalypse So I guess compared to what it could have been (a bill consisting of the words "LET EM DIE" printed for 48,000 pages) it is excellent actually
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May 23, 2016 18:43
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the ACA is pretty weaksauce because in practice it doesn't really "help" the working class until the doctor tells you the tumor is malignant and in that particular moment its hard to feel too much gratitude since you're only totally bankrupted and not hyperbolically cartoonishly bankrupted and passing on 200k in debt to your next of kin. salary rules are excellent though, and i genuinely believe he's retroactively earned his nobel prize by not invading syria and probably starting a war with russia in the support of such awesome dudes like ansar al-sharia and ahrar al-sham like HRC and samantha power wanted to do so very very badly.
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May 23, 2016 18:45
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Willie Tomg posted:the ACA is pretty weaksauce because in practice it doesn't really "help" the working class until the doctor tells you the tumor is malignant and in that particular moment its hard to feel too much gratitude since you're only totally bankrupted and not hyperbolically cartoonishly bankrupted and passing on 200k in debt to your next of kin. Dont worry, Hillary will surely win a nobel peace prize 3 months after she's elected. I expect the people who vote on it already have a familiar tingle up their legs
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May 23, 2016 19:17
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He was def. a pretty pro President. I say top 15
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May 23, 2016 19:56
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Getting Joe Biden and the Onion together.
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May 23, 2016 20:23
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the important thing to remember about rating presidents is that every one of them is basically a war criminal as soon as they take the oath of office and they have all been consciously responsible for unspeakable horrors so you gotta take that stuff for granted
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May 23, 2016 20:31
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baw posted:best president since FDR This is a joke, right?
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May 23, 2016 23:11
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Obama's presidency was basically the best-case scenario for America these past eight years or so, considering the available options, and an unmistakable improvement over what came before, so that makes him a great President by default and there's nothing anyone can do to change that, especially not by making furious online counter-arguments. And with Hillary Clinton's win in November, his policies are mostly set to continue and become more enmeshed, so that's his legacy pretty much locked in. Actually probably his greatest legacy will be trolling the Republican party into self-destructing via Trump simply by existing.
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May 23, 2016 23:19
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Dolash posted:Obama's presidency was basically the best-case scenario for America these past eight years or so, considering the available options, and an unmistakable improvement over what came before, so that makes him a great President by default and there's nothing anyone can do to change that, especially not by making furious online counter-arguments. And with Hillary Clinton's win in November, his policies are mostly set to continue and become more enmeshed, so that's his legacy pretty much locked in. 
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May 23, 2016 23:46
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pretty sure he's the first president to say both "anime" and "manga" in an official speech. never thought that would happen in my lifetime
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May 23, 2016 23:50
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Dolash posted:his greatest legacy will be trolling the Republican party into self-destructing via Trump simply by existing. Which probably really pisses him off as well because there's no way he could have foreseen that
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May 23, 2016 23:55
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Dolash posted:Obama's presidency was basically the best-case scenario for America these past eight years or so, considering the available options, and an unmistakable improvement over what came before, so that makes him a great President by default and there's nothing anyone can do to change that, especially not by making furious online counter-arguments. And with Hillary Clinton's win in November, his policies are mostly set to continue and become more enmeshed, so that's his legacy pretty much locked in. Or, perhaps, pushing identity politics to where President Donald Trump becomes possible
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May 24, 2016 00:13
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gobbagool posted:Or, perhaps, pushing identity politics to where President Donald Trump becomes possible please elaborate
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May 24, 2016 00:37
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Immortan posted:This is a joke, right? no, it is not
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May 24, 2016 00:44
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gobbagool posted:Or, perhaps, pushing identity politics to where President Donald Trump becomes possible Yeah, the whole birther thing was totally the result of Obama's embrace of identity politics
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May 24, 2016 00:45
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Obama: bad or 
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May 24, 2016 00:45
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Badger of Basra posted:please elaborate Progressive fascism.
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May 24, 2016 00:58
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a roughly 40th-percentile president
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May 24, 2016 02:11
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My favorite part is that one of the first things brought up on the whitehouse.gov petition page was marijuana legalization and Obama just laughed and said "nope," even though he could unilaterally deschedule it making it de facto legal.
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May 24, 2016 02:23
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Imagine how awesome the economy would have been if W didn't tank it at the end there?
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May 24, 2016 02:23
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KabukiAvenger posted:Yeah, the whole birther thing was totally the result of Obama's embrace of identity politics Or, you know, Her Turn 2008. Credit where credit is due, and nobody can character assassinate a black man like a white woman!
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May 24, 2016 02:37
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Barack Obama is a good president with a great rear end
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May 24, 2016 02:43
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May 24, 2016 03:02
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May 24, 2016 03:06
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for a nation like the usa who talks such a big game about fighting al qaeda or "islamic extremism" or whatever i feel like not enough dialogue is given to the fact that hillary clinton literally wants to go to war so jabhat al-nusra can take over syria and genocide the alawites and that barack obama is literally, not figuratively but literally, the only reason we have not done so already and that most americans should be extremely grateful for that but are not because they are ignorant dog trash and we all deserve a succession of trash leaders.
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Willie Tomg posted:for a nation like the usa who talks such a big game about fighting al qaeda or "islamic extremism" or whatever i feel like not enough dialogue is given to the fact that hillary clinton literally wants to go to war so jabhat al-nusra can take over syria and genocide the alawites and that barack obama is literally, not figuratively but literally, the only reason we have not done so already and that most americans should be extremely grateful for that but are not because they are ignorant dog trash and we all deserve a succession of trash leaders. they're moderates ok
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