Former President Barack Obama stumped for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh on Thursday, where he all but invited a wisecrack about former President Donald Trump. Polls in key swing states such as Pennsylvania remain tight, and Trump's numbers have improved in recent weeks. The Harris campaign is hoping Obama can help turn out votes
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.
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.
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.