What a class act. It’s too bad the door swung so far in the other direction after he left.
I voted for him but hate how he talked shit about the Patriot act overstepping then extended it and took away even more of our rights.
Congress extended it. Obama simply didn’t veto it. Perhaps that makes him complicit but it sailed through the Senate in a 67-32 vote which is likely to never happen ever again and a veto would only get overridden by Congress, which makes a President appear weak.
No perhaps. He spoke against. Under his presidency the added rolling phone taps. That is just as bad as W. I guess he is a little better because he didn’t lie about an attack on America to pass it.
What would you have liked him to do in order to stop it from passing?
Obvious answer here is veto.
67-32
A veto wouldn’t have made a difference.
Yeah, that’s just enough to be a super-majority
I wish a politician ‘told us how it is’ by relaying to us how it actually is. Like, the power structure and the way shit gets accomplished by government. We have no clue. People running for office have a jist of a clue. Those in power are burdened by the system. I wish we knew more about the system.
the way shit gets accomplished by government
Well, largely, it doesn’t. And the reason for that is because few people in the US government right now know how to operate a government.
Many in the government in fact don’t want the government to operate.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Except that what’s possible is waaaaaaaay less than you think.
Yeah, the racists were pretty pissed about the whole… Having a black president thing.
I miss Obama
I miss sanity in politics.
Was shit perfect? Fuck no, but there was comfort in appearance of civilized debate. You could disagree with a politician, family member, or even stranger without calling their entire world view into question. I can remember when we agreed on the facts, and just disagreed on whose solution was best to fix the problem.
I’m too old for this shit.
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