My vote is for 'doing fuck-all regarding Citizens United'.
Oh and not getting rid of the PATRIOT ACT.
... when the Dems had a trifecta, and he could have done it, if he cared to.
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The dems having a trifecta does not mean that he has absolute power in deciding what to do with it. If it doesn't fly with the democrats as a whole, he can try, but would fail.
Let's be honest, the democrats as a whole would never have gone along with getting rid of the PATRIOT Act.
Yet when Republicans have one they get everything they want passed.
Because the whole party wants it.
The posed question was what would history remember about his presidency.
It was not 'why is this the case / how did that happen'.
You're rationalizing.
You're not 'wrong', but you're rationalizing.
Yep, he/they did not have absolute power.
But that was the peak of their power - look what they did and did not do with it.
They sold out the country, continued the selling out of the country... and effectively presided over the main event that literally formalized selling out the country.
Hopefully I don't need to explain that the President typically has a very large impact on the policies and politics of their party.
I don't think history will remember that he did not do something, especially something that he had no power to do. He'll be remembered for what he did.
He'll be remembered for what he di
Bombing weddings, schools, and hospitals? Being denounced by doctors without borders? Signing off.on extending the patriot act? Persecuting Snowden and manning?
Depends on who writes the books.
Certainly not when one of their own wrote most of it
I mean, most people will probably remember him as one of the presidents of the United States?
Honestly… probably. The first black president is kinda memorable, and while the other persons post might be true, along with other things, seems most likely to be that.
I was joking about how the question subtly says [at the end of the question] "as president"?
Libya was his biggest mistake. The mildly redeeming thing about it is that he admits that and that his intention wasn't bad.
You compare that to the current leadership of the USA and it suddenly seems a lot less bad.
And, of course, less bad automatically means good. I only lost a toe instead of a leg, I should be happy and stop wishing I hadn't lost anything!
Ultimately you'll have to accept that people are people. If you'd randomly pick a person and put them in the oval office with the US army under their command they'd fuck some shit up. Particularly with all the outside pressure from different interest groups.
I'm not telling you to be grateful for Obama. Hate him, criticize him. Just be aware that he was probably in the top percentile of world leaders. You go ahead and roll your dice. Surely Shitface McAssclown will be a better leader.
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Take everything bad Obama did. Make it happen in one day. That’s a Tuesday for Trump.
Butcher of Libya?
Wasn't that Muammar Gaddafi?
Hmmmm.
Obama did some decent things domestically but he was pretty bad about killing middle easterners so I'll say it's both of them
Both.
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The average american tends to justify any horror perpetrated by the US military and its commander in chief if he is going to be a decent president with domestic policies
And with Obama, we didn't even get the decency or good domestic policies either.
Just pretty speeches and excuses.
Not sure here but among the other things I remember he campaigned with the promise to close guantanamo bay, thing that he didn't?
Nope, and even more fun, he actually made ~~enhanced interrogation techniques~~ torture explicitly legal via EO on a New Years Day holiday. (I forget which one.)
yes! goddamnit I hate it
It sickens me how people still deify him in this country. Obama was and is a motherfucker, just fairly well-packaged and with great PR overall.
Every president is a mother fucker. Since the beginning and until the end.
It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of 'em was one kinda sombitch or another.
I also won't forget that Russia and China did not vote against the intervention.
Yes, one day relief from Twittler and Lemmy posts about this.
Way to steer the narrative.
Anyone defending the black Reagan might want to review his time as president
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