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i think he did a p good job despite all the opposition he faced. he cobbled together some kind of healthcare system, ended the iraq war and let legal weed take root. i wish he could've gone super saiyan, but that would have required super-majorities. :/
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I love my drone murder mass surveillance ex-president.
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I think he is still the most well liked US President for western nations outside the US in loving ages
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Feb 1, 2017 05:40
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no really, thanks for not being terrible, you could have had a spine and poo poo, and like maybe actually did half of what you promised to do, but you know, in this age of trump, i say comparatively you'll look stellar
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Feb 1, 2017 05:50
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it would've been cool if obama had spent some of the time between the election and inauguration dismantling the opaque surveillance apparatus he ended up handing off to a guy he lampooned at the white house correspondents' dinner almost as cool as if he'd ended the drug war, or jailed even a single wall street fucker
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rudatron posted:no really, thanks for not being terrible, you could have had a spine and poo poo, and like maybe actually did half of what you promised to do, but you know, in this age of trump, i say comparatively you'll look stellar his party refused to have spines, and they are displaying this today
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Feb 1, 2017 06:52
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better than Bernie
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Feb 1, 2017 06:54
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hes a bad guy OP
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Gridlocked posted:I think he is still the most well liked US President for western nations outside the US in loving ages Look at the loving competition
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He was a charming coward.
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Feb 1, 2017 12:54
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Feb 1, 2017 12:55
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Trump got more done in 9 days than Obama did in 8 years
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Feb 1, 2017 14:12
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He wasn't a particularly effective President, delivered a lot less than promised on almost every front, but he was a good mascot to the world for our country, and a pretty solid role model for the country's children. The new guy, not so much.
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Feb 1, 2017 14:14
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I recently found out about how Citigroup choose the Obama cabinet appointees, and watched the Snowden movie soon after. That's what he wanted us to vote in a third term of, with Hillary. Not feeling much love for Obama these days. If Trump wasn't such an imminent disaster I'd say we need to be making the case to democrats how we DON"T need another president like Obama again.
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That Robot posted:i think he did a p good job despite all the opposition he faced. he cobbled together some kind of healthcare system, ended the iraq war and let legal weed take root. obama didnt do fk all 4 legal weed btw ScrubLeague posted:He wasn't a particularly effective President, delivered a lot less than promised on almost every front, but he was a good mascot to the world for our country, and a pretty solid role model for the country's children. yea
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Feb 1, 2017 14:27
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our finest invertebrate president
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Feb 1, 2017 14:28
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That Robot posted:that would have required super-majorities. :/ haha yeah and that sure never happened right
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Feb 1, 2017 14:30
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it's not as if he came in with a supermajority and the democrats proceeded to sit on their hands the entire time
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The first Ad-American president A chat bot programmed with greeting cards and school house rock Kind of a bitch
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Pollyanna posted:it's not as if he came in with a supermajority and the democrats proceeded to sit on their hands the entire time That supermajority contained Blue Dogs who were functionally Republicans when it came to implementing Obama's agenda in the House, and it effectively didn't exist in the Senate due to obstruction in getting Franken actually into his seat and Kennedy's downward health spiral. I mean sure Obama deserves a lot of blame for foolishly thinking he'd be able to work out any sort of meaningful compromise agenda with an opposition which baldly promised that it's only desire was to ruin everything and anything he held dear, as well as the rightist weasels in his own party, but it's not like he could have actually just rode over them all had he wanted to.
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If a guy needs super-majorities in order to be a good president, then he was probably never going to be a good president in the first place.
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zeal posted:it would've been cool if obama had spent some of the time between the election and inauguration dismantling the opaque surveillance apparatus he ended up handing off to a guy he lampooned at the white house correspondents' dinner
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Pollyanna posted:it's not as if he came in with a supermajority and the democrats proceeded to sit on their hands the entire time
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Feb 1, 2017 14:56
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he killed Ben laden with his bare hands
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Feb 1, 2017 14:59
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he will forever be known as the guy who installed the surveillance state that precipitated a hard authoritarian turn and Bush will be remembered as the last traditional American president as a result hell of a legacy, Barry
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Mariana Horchata posted:obama didnt do fk all 4 legal weed btw he didn't shut it all down; he allowed it to grow like a weed 
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Captain_Maclaine posted:That supermajority contained Blue Dogs who were functionally Republicans when it came to implementing Obama's agenda in the House, and it effectively didn't exist in the Senate due to obstruction in getting Franken actually into his seat and Kennedy's downward health spiral. on the other hand, its just fascinating how much faster things moved in Congress once Nov 2010 hit and the Dems were put on notice that they were about to lose the House most productive lame duck session in quite a while
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VikingSkull posted:he will forever be known as the guy who installed the surveillance state that precipitated a hard authoritarian turn and Bush will be remembered as the last traditional American president as a result the man promised change
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Feb 1, 2017 17:11
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you can hire him for birthday parties now, so thats cool
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breaklaw posted:If a guy needs super-majorities in order to be a good president, then he was probably never going to be a good president in the first place. this rule might make sense if not for the fact that the opposition was driven insane by a black democrat winning the presidency
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Feb 1, 2017 17:19
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I think, as a fundamentally reasonable man, he was unprepared for the boiling animosity and flat-out shitheadedness he would face from his sworn opponents and would never find ways to effectively combat this, making his actions weaker. His trust in human nature made him publicly reassuring, but stopped him from seeing what he was really up against. It didn't help that he led a party that seemingly takes any chance to display their prissy cowardice.
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Obama was a good guy who was overly concerned with his legacy and way too invested in the ideals of American democracy this meant he wasn't willing to play dirty to push a political ideology the same way the GOP was this also meant that not a lot got done, and ironically his legacy is torched
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Obama killed an enormous number of foreigners and hosed over a lot of whistleblowers for what a milquetoast weenie he ended up being how can we reconcile his authoritarian tendencies with his complete lack of interest in pursuing domestic policy? idk
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obama bad. best president we had in decades. still bad
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I'm not gonna call the dude a spineless coward, but I will say that I'm pissed we got a uninspired bureaucratic manager instead of the grand visionary that was promised by his 08 campaign.
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