Obama nostalgia thread
 

ITT you admit that you are going to miss Barack. Come on. Just admit it, you know you want to. I know he hasn't been perfect and yeah he's made some bad decisions. DROOOOONES. but come on. don't lie to yourself. look at this guy



Politico – GOP is like "Grumpycat," Obama says

renaming mt. mckinley denali was just about my favorite thing he did, well bringing Keegan in to do the rage translator was pretty gold

i loved angry obama tbh

lame duck obama is what we wanted all along tho

he gives very few fucks at this point and it's wonderful

and yes probably the funniest president

hahah i was just about to post the ass stare.

lol @ sarkozy's weird goth daughters

or wait, is that sarkozy? I know he's in the first pic but his wife is a brunette french model iirc

I believe that was the.... Italian prime minister's family? I'm not sure, that happened in like 2009

looked up "obama with goth daughters" and its spain

bert was still PM of italy in 09 i think

in seriousness though, regardless of anyone's personal take on the things he did, I think he is going to go down as the Democratic icon for decades to come. I think he easily replaces Bill

I knew it was somewhere they drink and sleep all day

where's futureboy

futureboy is finally going to get his president hillary so maybe he will stop being such a bitter illogical fuck

cant believe its almost over. seems like the bush era lasted 40 years or something

The Trump presidency is going to be the most fun ride ever.

i love that one time he gave me a free phone

biden has a raging boner in that pic

lol u just made me lol

'bama with them emo girls is pretty funny 2

Obama could have been such a good president. Too bad he blew it.

at the very least Obama lands in the upper quartile of presidents. Really, he got more accomplished than Bill and was more liberal. He's the new Democratic golden boy.

what do you think Obama, himself, accomplished that was good?

Not being George Bush, for starters.

I'm not even speaking personally although I do like Obama. In terms of legacy, he easily accomplished more than Clinton. Clinton was very conservative in his actions and primarily seems so good because he did very little to put himself at risk politically or in terms of policy. Obama has a long list of things he said he would accomplish in office, and with two major exceptions (Gitmo and immigration reform), it looks like he's really cleaned up.

You're from Canada, right? Still living there? Or am I mistaken? Just curious.

So what are those things you think he himself has done that have really cleaned things up? A mildly challenging question, but an honest one.

nah I'm an American, two time Obama voter. The following all come to mind as big wins for his legacy.

–Obamacare

–"the climate president"... hopefully every successive president will be a better climate president or we are all fucked, but he's shown far more commitment to the issue than any other US leader. no keystone pipeline, paris agreement, domestic work to clamp down on emissions

–Iraq pullout including no permanent bases

–bin Laden is at the bottom of the ocean

–Iran deal, plus he's done more than any other world leader ever to reduce nuclear stockpiles even though this issue is out of media vogue and no one cares right now, I think people will remember his work on this later

–Cuba detente

–reform of NCLB

–repeal of DADT

–greatly reduced dependence on foreign oil

–net neutrality

–end Bush restrictions on medical research i.e. stem cell research

I'm not sure what you mean by "he himself." This seems like it might be a qualifier to dismiss things accomplished by his administration because they were eased into reality by the Republicans eating themselves, or dismissing the ACA because it's a legislative act. In a conservative sense, "he himself" might mean things he accomplished solely through quantifiable executive hard power. But I do not believe that is a good measure of the accomplishments of any president, and more than that, "legacy" is more about a non-scientific public consensus.

but if we wanted to go accomplishment by accomplishment, I personally do think Obama is easily better than any other post-war president. That's not necessarily through virtue of his amazing accomplishments, but most US presidents have been fantastically awful.