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    Now we can yell at one of america’s most mediocre presidents, actors, and movie producers.

    Edit: as somebody pointed out he’s not a director, he’s a movie producer and actor per IMDB

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        Did I stutter? Obama squandered a huge mandate. I’m not saying he’s a bad president like trump or bush, just a mediocre one, who could have done more but never rose to the moment. He also won the dem primary by poisoning the well against clinton which was a component of her 2016 loss.

        And look at fucking Carter, spent his post presidency helping people.

        Obama spent his whole post president career jacking off and chumming up with a bunch of tv celebrities. He’s a mediocre president whose smug charisma presaged trumps smug charisma. Why live in denial?

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          Say what you want, but that dude fixed up a lot of America after the recession. So many cities and towns were fixed up and modernized due to his stimulus bills. And Obamacare is great - my wife would quite literally have died without it. Legalized gay marriage too and made the order that killed Osama bin Laden.

          He’s pretty dope in my book.

          Also, screw the Clinton’s and their Epstein-buddy asses.

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        Its the same american goldfish memory that lead us to trump 2.0. People forget how inneffective Obama was at fighting right wing narratives and how inneffective he was at pushing for the policies he campaigned on.

        Over time people’s memories of Obama have been more nostalgia for the times rather than an honest assessment of his actions. People forget that if he had given half the effort to shutting down guantamano bay that trump has to destroying the department of education we’d be looking at a very different calculus of executive power.

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          Over time people’s memories of Obama have been more nostalgia for the times rather than an honest assessment of his actions.

          Hell, at this point I’ve seen people being kind of nostalgic even about Bush…

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          No, I’m speaking directly to his policy decisions and his inability/unwillingness to protect the American people from corporate greed.