Payzmaykr posted...He really wasnt, but the two people he was sandwiched between made him look less bad than he was.
We elected him hoping to end military conflict in the Middle East and bring back a peacetime economy. We were crushed by eight years of a wartime economy and we needed relief. His response was to continue efforts in the Middle East and expand to Africa. He also bailed out Wall Street executives while his constituents had their wages garnished by the banks over the extortionate student loans, only to find out that the entire workforce flopped and their degrees arent worth the paper theyre printed on.
No federal rulings protecting the LGBT community. Nothing protecting cannabis users. Nothing that forced cops in red states to stop harassing people for marijuana. I know the media basically has him painted as a hero, but the guy was an establishment centrist plain and simple, and the mental gymnastics that it takes to deny that is laughable.
FTFY. I generally agree with you though-- Obama was light years better than Dubya or Trump, but he still disappointed on a number of levels, like how he caved on the public option for Obamacare.