Why's it so difficult for some to accept Obama was a good president

[Brian37]

And just so you know, I voted for Romney in 2012, but Obama was clearly the better choice. He's created 11 million jobs throughout his presidency and the economy is headed in the right direction. Not to mention gas is cheap as heck right now! I don't understand what's so hard in admitting he did a good job?

Well within your legal right to do that sure.

But if you can accept Obama as a better choice, you really should look at the balance of power since Reagan, the GOP has had the bulk of that power on average. Dems have only held the White House 16 of the 40 years and only TWO presidents left the nation better off than when they left. Clinton left us with a surplus on top of creating jobs. Obama, like you said created jobs.

Dems could have done much better though if it were not for the 36 years of GOP gerrymandering and continued deregulation and GOP obstruction.

But as far as gas, I really hate media harping on cost of gas, that means nothing long term. Certainly nobody likes paying more for anything, much less energy. But our planet is at stake and we need to drastically reduce burning fossil fuels for either buildings or cars for energy. Cheap now does not change the fact that pumping out CO2 at the rate we are is making our atmosphere more hyper active creating more intense contrasts of hot and cold, and more frequency of storms. Mitt unfortunately ran for the same climate change denying party Trump ran on, and is filling his cabinet now with anti science sickos. 

I'd bet if Reagan, who is most responsible for setting our exploding pay gap in motion, and lack of livable wages making it harder for even the middle class to get by, I'd bet if he were alive today, he would be horrified at what he set in motion. I think even with all bad shit he set in motion, I give him far more credit than the purely selfish GOP of today.