Post by @Test_Tickles@lemmy.world

2026-11-05 03:07 UTC

2 things about Obama. He had no idea what he was doing. He was chosen because he had no experience and would not expect to know how to rock the boat much less try. He was also naive and thought other people could be trusted to at least not hurt themselves in their attempts to hurt everyone else. He only had a Democratic majority for just a handful of months. Bullshit lawsuits kept him from having the majority that had been voted in for almost a year. When he finally got a majority he got the ACA passed, but even then he didn’t have enough of a majority to push it through without watering it down to near useless. I think most of us were pretty disappointed that Obama didn’t do more, but looking back, it was pretty clear that he was only brought in as the janitor to clean up after the previous cluster fuck.

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@LemmySuxNow@reddthat.com 2026-11-05 03:35

Obama did exactly what he was supposed to. Capture a popular social movement and prevent it from actually accomplishing anything. Its why Democrats exist.

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@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 04:12

it was pretty clear that he was only brought in as the janitor to clean up after the previous cluster fuck. Thats the job expected of every democrat president.

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@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 04:33

he was only brought in as the janitor to clean up after the previous cluster fuck. oh I also thought it would be convenient to have him in office if the second great depression came through, so they could just blame the black guy.

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@Kurtismayfield@lemmy.zip 2026-11-06 03:40

A man that says to the rich “Im the one standing between you and tge pitchforks” knows exactly what his job is. A man that tries to make a grand bargain with the opposition party to cut Social Security, and was only stopped by a faction of the opposition party who couldn’t be seen working with him, knows exactly what his job is. A man that flirts with the idea of a public option, and still ends up supporting the system that the opposition party proposed, knows exactly what his job is. The bottom line is, Obama was to the right of Colin Powell.

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