He was the first black president straight out of central casting. The reality that the Obama administration was possibly the most corrupt in American history has dawned on about half the population. Another 25% understands that what he did wasn't good for them.
And the remaining 25% knows he lied when his lips were moving. Sure some of them don't care and I get that, but he doesn't have a following except among his acolytes. The media repeatedly suggests an Obama popularity that frankly doesn't exist.
I think his popularity exists for what is probably a good number of people that live on social media approved headlines and liberal TV shows. The Daily Show back in the day really pushed him and then mostly acted like he was a god despite punking him from time to time because Jon was at least a little more honest than the current crowd.
Bush was universally shat on, then Obama was made to seem like we elected the love child of MLK and a rock star. Then 8 years of shit like the Nobel peace prize and pretending he was a saint really set a tone for people. Pretty much everything bad that happened during his time was blamed on Bush and republicans. Even Biden did that during a debate saying it was all the fault of a republican congress. I don’t recall a single thing Obama took credit for when it didn’t reflect well on him, or was made to take credit for. That image still lingers in the minds of many, particularly here in the Bay. Biden only ran this time because they could conjure that back up, and combine it with Trump being a racist backlash to the first black president.
Trump did shatter it for many, but there are just as many if not more out there now that still look back and remember a time before they were told there are KKK folks marching in the streets and believe in that reality. It isn’t a conspiracy, they just believe it. I know plenty of people that believe it. Not one of them ever looks into anything beyond going to a ‘trusted source’ like CNN or whatever Google’s pushing. It really is a divide between high information and low information voters at this point.
I didn’t used to rate Obama as the worst president of all time, but considering he created this situation and entrenched the worst of it into the system, I have changed my mind on that. Turns out the problem with the red scare was that they didn’t go far enough in getting that out of the system. They pushed it to the fringe and education system and it festered and grew and now China and other folks are funding it to spread the cancer.
At first I thought Obama was stupid or just lazy and incompetent; but he was very good at personal enrichment. He's the worst of Chicago politics the political machine that's focused only on corruption. As time goes by I think that's becoming clearer to more people. There was not a peaceful transition of power from the Obama administration to the Trump administration.
I took Obama at his word for a while. That maybe it was the fault that republicans were holding him up, things like that. As time went on, however, and in retrospect, it’s almost impossible to see things that way. Not being able to keep your existing healthcare, him bailing out the banks, more wars, the never ending blame with explanations that didn’t make any fucking sense.
About all he was good at was PR. And after 2012, playing the race card and acting like people didn’t like him because he was black. His failure as a president caused him to set race relations back 50 years by pretending he didn’t do well because people are racist. No Barry, people came to dislike you because you talked a big game and did a poor job.
When I tried to read anything he'd written when he was president of the Harvard Law review and found out that was impossible. Maybe 6 months into his administration, the only reason why an egomaniac like Obama would seal the law review was there was a problem.
That was my red pill moment. Later when he was a devout racist trying to create strife and division in the country that was when I lost all respect for him. Next the scandals and the lies just kept mounting. Now with the declassified documents we know that he was a corrupt criminal.
He was the first black president straight out of central casting. The reality that the Obama administration was possibly the most corrupt in American history has dawned on about half the population. Another 25% understands that what he did wasn't good for them.
And the remaining 25% knows he lied when his lips were moving. Sure some of them don't care and I get that, but he doesn't have a following except among his acolytes. The media repeatedly suggests an Obama popularity that frankly doesn't exist.
I think his popularity exists for what is probably a good number of people that live on social media approved headlines and liberal TV shows. The Daily Show back in the day really pushed him and then mostly acted like he was a god despite punking him from time to time because Jon was at least a little more honest than the current crowd.
Bush was universally shat on, then Obama was made to seem like we elected the love child of MLK and a rock star. Then 8 years of shit like the Nobel peace prize and pretending he was a saint really set a tone for people. Pretty much everything bad that happened during his time was blamed on Bush and republicans. Even Biden did that during a debate saying it was all the fault of a republican congress. I don’t recall a single thing Obama took credit for when it didn’t reflect well on him, or was made to take credit for. That image still lingers in the minds of many, particularly here in the Bay. Biden only ran this time because they could conjure that back up, and combine it with Trump being a racist backlash to the first black president.
Trump did shatter it for many, but there are just as many if not more out there now that still look back and remember a time before they were told there are KKK folks marching in the streets and believe in that reality. It isn’t a conspiracy, they just believe it. I know plenty of people that believe it. Not one of them ever looks into anything beyond going to a ‘trusted source’ like CNN or whatever Google’s pushing. It really is a divide between high information and low information voters at this point.
I didn’t used to rate Obama as the worst president of all time, but considering he created this situation and entrenched the worst of it into the system, I have changed my mind on that. Turns out the problem with the red scare was that they didn’t go far enough in getting that out of the system. They pushed it to the fringe and education system and it festered and grew and now China and other folks are funding it to spread the cancer.
At first I thought Obama was stupid or just lazy and incompetent; but he was very good at personal enrichment. He's the worst of Chicago politics the political machine that's focused only on corruption. As time goes by I think that's becoming clearer to more people. There was not a peaceful transition of power from the Obama administration to the Trump administration.
That's a watershed moment in American history.
I took Obama at his word for a while. That maybe it was the fault that republicans were holding him up, things like that. As time went on, however, and in retrospect, it’s almost impossible to see things that way. Not being able to keep your existing healthcare, him bailing out the banks, more wars, the never ending blame with explanations that didn’t make any fucking sense.
About all he was good at was PR. And after 2012, playing the race card and acting like people didn’t like him because he was black. His failure as a president caused him to set race relations back 50 years by pretending he didn’t do well because people are racist. No Barry, people came to dislike you because you talked a big game and did a poor job.
When I tried to read anything he'd written when he was president of the Harvard Law review and found out that was impossible. Maybe 6 months into his administration, the only reason why an egomaniac like Obama would seal the law review was there was a problem.
That was my red pill moment. Later when he was a devout racist trying to create strife and division in the country that was when I lost all respect for him. Next the scandals and the lies just kept mounting. Now with the declassified documents we know that he was a corrupt criminal.