Why Barack Obama Was a Horrible President

[OfTheCross]

Why Barack Obama Was a Horrible President | naked capitalism

Well, I’m happy to call Obama a bad President, because he was. Of the many horrors of the Obama years, I will pick three. (I am omitting not prosecuting bankers for accounting control fraud, the HAMP debacle, the mortgage settlement debacle, destroying a generation of black wealth with his housing policies, the kill list disposition matrix, whacking a US citizen with a drone strike and no due process, ObamaCare and not single payer, the ObamaCare website collapsing on launch (with nobody held accountable), not closing Gitmo, the Afghanistan surge, enabling Google’s monopoly on search, creating the conditions for Trump.) All three are chosen to show continuties with the Bush Administration, rather than differences.

1. Legitimizing Warrantless Surveillance
2. Legitimizing Torture
3. Implementing dikk Cheney’s Energy Plan

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

wrong

 

[Althalucian]

Uh huh.

What's the progressive plan to undo the damage that his presidency did and how will they enact this in terms of practical politics? You know...winning elections and passing legislation?

 

[DEAD7]

Damn near all our presidents have been horrible... He was one of the least bad.

 

[invincible1914]

After Trump, I let up on Barack

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Damn near all our presidents have been horrible... He was one of the least bad.

This is probably the most in agreement I've ever been with something @DEAD7 said.



OP isn't wrong with most of those criticisms but virtually every president has been that bad or worse, and many have been much much worse.

 

[MoneyTron]

 

[Pirius Black]

Goofy ass list. Hard core leftists keep trying to make Obama hate happen, Regina George ass nikkas smh

 

[Corny Batman]

 

[Billy Ocean]

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

op is still fuming Trump lost

 

[hashmander]

op is still fuming Trump lost

he outchea mad as shyt.

 

[EndDomination]

Goofy ass list. Hard core leftists keep trying to make Obama hate happen, Regina George ass nikkas smh

I don't necessarily disagree.

I don't have any special dislike of Obama, after all I was keenly paying attention during the Bush presidency, even though I was a kid, so I've seen truly horrific governance at the forefront. But I do think that a lot of people who were only politically aware during Obama and Trump's administrations are making Obama out to be something *worse* than his predecessors. Which is bad.

That being said, he did effectuate some bad policies, and a lot of them were pretty unnecessary, (I'm almost done with A Promised Land), it seems he was constrained by a lot of bad advice and deeply unoriginal thinking from his team.

 

[Damba]

Why Barack Obama Was a Horrible President | naked capitalism

Well, I’m happy to call Obama a bad President, because he was. Of the many horrors of the Obama years, I will pick three. (I am omitting not prosecuting bankers for accounting control fraud, the HAMP debacle, the mortgage settlement debacle, destroying a generation of black wealth with his housing policies, the kill list disposition matrix, whacking a US citizen with a drone strike and no due process, ObamaCare and not single payer, the ObamaCare website collapsing on launch (with nobody held accountable), not closing Gitmo, the Afghanistan surge, enabling Google’s monopoly on search, creating the conditions for Trump.) All three are chosen to show continuties with the Bush Administration, rather than differences.

1. Legitimizing Warrantless Surveillance
2. Legitimizing Torture
3. Implementing dikk Cheney’s Energy Plan

CAC detected

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Why Barack Obama Was a Horrible President | naked capitalism

Well, I’m happy to call Obama a bad President, because he was. Of the many horrors of the Obama years, I will pick three. (I am omitting not prosecuting bankers for accounting control fraud, the HAMP debacle, the mortgage settlement debacle, destroying a generation of black wealth with his housing policies, the kill list disposition matrix, whacking a US citizen with a drone strike and no due process, ObamaCare and not single payer, the ObamaCare website collapsing on launch (with nobody held accountable), not closing Gitmo, the Afghanistan surge, enabling Google’s monopoly on search, creating the conditions for Trump.) All three are chosen to show continuties with the Bush Administration, rather than differences.

1. Legitimizing Warrantless Surveillance
2. Legitimizing Torture
3. Implementing dikk Cheney’s Energy Plan

He sucks, but these aren't even in the top 5 reasons he sucks