r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 16h ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/gatsby712 16h ago

We’ve been saying that for the last 10 years Obama. But you dared wear that tan suit and eat Dijon mustard. 

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u/DrawohYbstrahs 14h ago

What a traitor!

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u/Riley_ 14h ago

Obama alienated voters and damaged the legitimacy of the DNC by choosing not to prosecute any of the people responsible for the 2008 recession and foreclosures.

It helped set the stage for the DNC to lose to a bad candidate.

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u/gatsby712 14h ago

That and Joe Lieberman tanking single payer health insurance. ACA doesn’t get enough credit though for helping the economy. Self-employment and risk taking is way more possible when you detach health insurance from companies. 

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u/Educational_Law6753 13h ago

and, you know, just killed a few hundred thousand civilians. nothing major