“I think it’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Obama said at the fundraiser
“I think it’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Obama said at the fundraiser
I don’t really remember Obama as spineless lol what is he spineless about?
Look he’s a politician they suck but acting like Obama wasn’t one of the best presidents we had in like 40 years is silly.
Remember how he ran on hope and change? How he presented himself as a progressive? Then how he failed to close Guantanamo, never even tried to codify abortion rights, didn’t bother prosecuting the Bush administration for their war crimes, did a bunch of war crimes himself, and expanded the surveillance state? Because I do.
And like the other commenter said, he completely capitulated to the Republicans when they invented some bullshit about how outgoing presidents aren’t supposed to appoint justices or whatever.
Obama personally promised me that he’d close Guantanamo, when I was a kid at one of his campaign rallies. He straight-up lied to me and didn’t close Gitmo.
And he accepted an award for transparency in a “closed” meeting so attendees wouldn’t have to sign in.
Killed two Americans in Pakistan with no due process.
Expanded the wars to six nations.
I think what you call spineless I’d consider being a decent politician in an indecent politician sphere
Obama isn’t without criticism but calling him a war criminal is a bit of an eye roll in my opinion. It’s usually about the drone warfare stuff and it is a drum the Republicans banged his entire presidency claiming he was drone striking everything possible. The truth is drone tech advanced in his presidency that allowed different missions to take place that removed soldiers from harms way, you’d probably make the same choice. It wasn’t even his war, say we should’ve pulled out sure but look how poorly things are going now that we have. The war crimes he’s accused of are dogpoop compared to the human rights issue that exists now. I’m sorry, I don’t think it is the greatest things anyone has done but I just find the Obama is a war criminal argument so silly. Our entire government is a war criminal, this dude was not a warmonger nor did he do anything to escalate fighting. How you gonna dump it all on him?
Prosecuting Bush. For what? War crimes again? Our government has been doing war crimes forever. Every single person in that federal government should be charged. But Obama isn’t going to arrest Bush because nothing would’ve come of it and again, on what exactly? Every judge, lawyer and politician wouldn’t support that or respect whatever exactly the war crime was. So why pursue that? So redditors and Facebook dads have less shit to throw?
I’m not saying Obama is the best. Absolutely do not try to act like I have to be completely black or white about very complex issues. You will not put that on me.
But acting like Obama is the boogie man is literally because Republicans and the like have sold that messaging. Obama is a mid politician, I don’t think he relishes in human suffering but he seems okay with a degree of it. But he was easily better than Trump, Biden, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, the Nixon baboons, Kennedy and Eisenhower. Carter is the only one who is a better man by a landslide but still not the best politician because he was also “spineless”. People only liked Kennedy because he was a liberal who was assassinated. You wanna talk about war crimes? Look up Nixon/Kennedy era.
So yes. Obama is easily without contest best president of my lifetime and over the last 60 or 70 years.
Be real about this stuff.
Bad things in the past don’t justify future bad actions. Using that exact same logic it can be argued that opening a concentration camp in Florida is totally good and cool because we had Japanese concentration camps before. That’s fucking stupid and you know it.
What are you talking about exactly? The war?
Lol I don’t think you understand and I don’t really understand what you’re talking about.
Nothing what you’re reading is being said. What is being said is what war crime did Bush do that Obama could’ve even gone after him for without tanking his own political position and also absolutely getting nowhere. Do you think after Nixon any president will face true legal repercussions? On top of that, dunno how old you are, but Bush’s whole presidency he was somehow seen as almost a little kid. He would goof, shrug say aw shucks and people would laugh and move on. In no universe I can imagine is Obama getting that guy prosecuted at all.
On top of that, aside from that. I don’t think Obama did any war crime. I think people who say that are genuinely uninformed or stupid. That’s a Republican fox news adjacent Joe Rogan ass take on Obama’s military practices.
Bush has far more casualties, Trump removed the ability to see how much he was drone striking and also illegal used drone strikes against Congress approval.
You’re not removing the military industrial complex from America, Obama is not going to be able to stop the war or solve anything really and that is clear in his handling of the situation. They attempted to train up a local force to hold peace which didn’t work and they pulled from aggressive military campaigning to drone strikes and policing. Where’s the war crime?
The last theater of war we engaged in (the cold war). They’re napalming folks by the gallon, slaying babies in Vietnam, overthrowing governments galore and attempting to assassinate De Gaulle, Castro and whoever else they don’t like.
Obama appears on the scene after all of this. After the CIA has gone rogue and the military industrial complex is both the heart and lungs of your economy. The war is already happening and your predecessors has made a lot of enemies for you. The fuck do YOU do in that instance? Really put yourself there don’t give me some crap liberal socialist answer. I’m a socialist myself, ain’t no fuckin way the world is letting me do what I wish to America in his shoes.
A lot of these people would call Jesus a centrist. Their mythical ideal progressive will never exist.
Lol 100%. Liberals, the left, progressives whatever you wanna call them die because one criticism and folks act like they’re basically Hitler or something.
Crabs in a bucket
Liberals and Leftists aren’t the same.
Supreme Court Justices among other things.
If that’s your biggest gripe I’d say it isn’t that bad.
People usually bring up the increase in drone strikes on Obama not realizing he was taking steps to prevent American soldier’s death.
He tried to get healthcare, changed his stance on gay marriage and stuck to it.
Obama was fine. I’d even argue good compared to his contemporaries.
He was drone striking in Yemen and Pakistan, he wasn’t replacing soldiers killing people, drone strikes were a way to kill extra people in places where he couldn’t send soldiers.
No drone strikes were a method of war that greatly reduces your rate of casualties.
I’m so serious man think about what you’re saying and tell me it isn’t a Republican talking point. You think Obama is just flying these drones himself? Scouting the missions himself? Calling up a general and asking if they can swing by and drone strike some folks?
There’s a whole military apparatus that transcends presidencies and the public/private sector divide of our system.
It was because the tech evolved and the military missions looked different. Go play modern warfare and go look at Ukraine, the technology changed and so did the culture of war.
the supreme court justice that got rid of abortion, birthright citizenship, and giving trump everything he wants isn’t that bad?!
american soldiers aren’t the only lives; “collatoral damage” are lives too but it’s worse than that because they’re killed at things like a wedding party instead of a war zone.
a pair of senators opposed so they stopped healthcare again (it only took one senator last time) whereas an eightfold number of senators and house members were steamrolled over by the republican’s agenda in the big beautiful bill.
he’s also still the “deporter in chief” even with alligator alcatraz being a thing and unaccompanied migrant children was his doj’s favorite group to target.
there’s also the crackdown on whistleblowers; maidan coup; the new egyption military dictatorship; destabilizing libya; disregarding isis; and on and on and on…
No. A president not being a power grabbing shit fuck and stuffing the bench isn’t that bad. You’re mad at Obama because he didn’t cheat? That’s not it.
American soldiers aren’t the only lives. But again you’re not being realistic. Obama does not sit there and control every single thing. He’s in meeting with experts feeding him advice, numbers and cost. If I told you this mission risks 0 American lives, this one risks dozens. You’re literally making the wrong choice risking your soldiers both politically and morally. The why to the fighting is a whole different question that I think is immature to put on Obama solely.
Again, you’re angry someone didn’t play dirty. Obama was doing what he could to represent a fair decent president so we don’t have a Trump and people like you embracing these stupid talking points are what helped bring us here because now people genuinely believe Obama is just as bad as Bush or Trump so what’s the difference, why vote, who cares. And that above all is literally the stupidest ever.
Deporter in chief? Please. He didn’t have masked dudes kidnapping Americans and deporting them to God knows where, ICE didn’t have the budget it has now, people weren’t being bussed to other parts of the country or flown places and used as political pawns cause brown people scary or something.
Was the dude perfect? NO. Would I vote for him again? Maybe in the right election. Are you guys being so drastic in your criticism you’re allowing no room for actually seeing the situation clearly? Yes, you’re being absolutely obtuse and obnoxious.
You seriously don’t remember when Obama went the pro-corporate road at the expense of the American people, or even the globe itself? Really?
The Affordable Care Act. The bailout. The housing bubble collapse. The drone strikes. Letting the courts get stacked. The continued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan… My god, that’s like every major issue, isn’t it?
Of course he wasn’t alone. I’m not blaming him as the only person responsible. But he was responsible, he was a lackluster president at best, and he spent eight years pushing the country towards where it is right now. Millions of us were saying that at the time, and we still are today. If you weren’t listening, that’s your own fault. If you didn’t believe us, that’s your own fault.
Goldman nutsSachs
Bailing out the bank?
I personally believe the financial system in America is the core of corruption. I also know that corruption is why America has any standard of value. Not saying it’s right, just the truth.
In that situation, you just let the boat sink? Because morally it’s wrong? We like to pretend there would be no blowback from letting that happen but there would be and not in a good way. So he did what everyone else does, kick the can down the road. What do you do in that instance? Let it die and watch your economy shit the bed because you don’t like it or something?
You guys are such idealists man c’mon. This is why progressives don’t exist in America.
My friend, you could have called us “idealists” back then, but now you’re just fooling yourself. Hillary and Harris lost. They lost, your agenda lost, your agenda failed. But somehow you have the gall to accuse us of being “idealists” when your own ideals keep losing in the polls.
Why don’t we try something good, something that would actually benefit the people? Maybe that would actually work.
What would have happened if the finance industry had to regulate? Ask the history books. It has been done in the distant past, successfully, several times. And of course in other countries more recently, also successfully. It turns out that we can stop ultra rich from getting richer, but only if we have the courage to try. Maybe someday you will find it.
Yes you let the boat sink because what they did after being bailed out was simply take everyone’s homes for free.
Fuck centrists and capitalist bootlickers.
Just say you’re a conservative and go. “Progressives” like you are such cowards. You’re so eager to slobber over politicians’ boots and make up excuses for why they can’t do anything good. I wish I could at least believe the DNC was paying you off, but I was one of you once, so I know full well you’ve just drunk the neoliberal Kool-Aid that hard. The people ready to jump down leftists’ throats with “um, ackshually, it’s physically impossible to do better than center-right austerity and authoritarianism” whenever we speak up have far more to do with why leftists have no power than any leftist “idealism.” Throughout history, it’s always been the lunatic radicals who made actual change, while the craven moderates fought them tooth and nail to preserve the intolerable status quo. Ever notice how conservatives are utterly unrestrained by all the things liberals insist are holding them back from making change? When MAGA wants something, they get it, no matter how unreasonable or flat-out absurd it is. But when the Democrats’ base demands better of them, they wring their hands and lament how gosh golly gee, they’d love to make things better, but they can’t because something something civility something something norms. If progressives fought like conservatives, we’d have fucking fully automated luxury gay space communism by now.
No no. He came in with a latex spine. Take a look at his cabinet. He did the job rather well but change was never going to come with that group.
Your economic false dichotomy is funny though. There were a whole range of options like nationalization and criminal charges for executives that did not get explored because centrism.
Bailouts, not ending the wars, gave up his SCOTUS pick without even the slightest hint of a fight.