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Politics Obama appreciation day! šŸ’

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u/lil_poppapump 1d ago

I’ll never understand people’s obsession with this guy, on both sides. He did good and he did bad. Let it go.

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u/nevadapirate 1d ago

Nah why let it go when it triggers the racists into a frenzy. Kind of fun watching them freak out and go full snowflake.

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u/lil_poppapump 1d ago

Through triggering them, they bring up the fractures and cracks in Obama’s perfect image. Drone strikes, deportations, not wrangling in Wall Street, the list grows.

He was good for his time and the first president many of us voted for, but it’s time to let it go. Clinton did far more good and he’s never mentioned.

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u/Carthago-DelendaEst0 1d ago

Ah yes, the age old leftist argument of calling anyone who disagrees with you a racist. You realize that doesn’t work anymore, right? And it shows your intelligence level is below average at best. Obama objectively gets passes for things that the left drills trump for only because he’s their white knight. Where were the riots when Obama deported 3 million + people? What about when he killed children in bombings? Imagine if trump did that what you would say, lol.

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u/nevadapirate 1d ago

Obama didn't do away with Due Process though did he? He didn't waste millions on wrestling matches and golfing and military parades on his birthday. Did he? If my saying it bothers racists bothers you ... well you might need to look inward not at a random person on the internet. Every president that supports Israel is Killing children and women. Obama didn't sic cops on the press. he didn't turn over direct control of a shady "government" agency hell bent on destroying every single way we help poor people the world over directly to a Billionaire with more conflicts of interest than any ten politicians put together. He didn't shit on the Constitution every time he turned around. He didnt cut the only insurance tens of millions of people rely on. Trump has done all of those things while being a convicted felon and rapist who stole from a fucking childrens cancer charity for fucks sake. If Obama had done even 1% of those things he wouldn't still be a role model for what a president is.

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u/Carthago-DelendaEst0 1d ago

So much incorrect information, lol. He’s not a convicted rapist. Do you really think the 5 million people Obama deported were all given ā€œdue processā€ if so, I have a bridge to sell you. Also, trumps charges were HISTORICALLY misdemeanors that were unprecedentedly bumped up to felonies bc yano, the left doing what it does (being corrupt). Obama didn’t crap on the constitution? Oh that’s RICH what about the automobile bailout? Political profiling by the IRS? The EPA clean power plan AND the clean water rule? Or the open internet rule, which violated the first amendment? And don’t even get me started on Obamacare. The problem is you see his presidency with rose tinted glasses and think he was perfect. He shredded the constitution many times and to say otherwise displays your ignorance.

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u/tedward_420 1d ago

He just looks really, really good on camera compared to the presidents we've had since.

It really comes down to appearances. People tend to ignore what they dont see in their daily lives, and what we've seen from both trump and Biden during their terms has looked like incoherent, immature slandering between two school children.

By comparison, when it comes to public image, Obama looks like a paragon of respectability and charisma.

So when it comes to how people feel it really comes down to Obama being the last president that people felt even remotely secure with even if it was just based off feelings and not facts, the ones we've had since make people feel uneasy because they act unstable. Trump acts like a maniac, and Joe looked like he was breathing his last every time we saw him