(March 22, 2017 at 4:42 pm)Chad32 Wrote:(March 22, 2017 at 3:40 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Stop slamming Obama and since when is it illegal for a democrat to value the private sector? He was never a corporatist. He had the same problem Bill had and what our democrats have had in congress since Reagan, a GOP party that throws a fit and screams murder until you give them the candy to shut them up. The GOP are the corporatists dems are merely their hostages we are forced to deal with.
Obama compromised when he didn't have to, when it came to the best thing he ever did. Healthcare. He certainly wasn't a progressive, expanding NSA spying, keeping Guantanamo open, and keeping us in all these wars. I guess there's not much point in bashing him now, though. He did manage to remain popular after eight years, and that's a pretty good job. He just could have been considerably better.
No, NSA and GTMO just like the ACA was not what Obama really wanted, but you deal with the cards you are played. Stop blaming him, that is fucking bullshit. Blame the obstructionist asshole GOP.
You need to look at the entire map of the voting districts over the past 36 years. You need to look at the balance of power of the House and Senate, Supreme Court and the office of the President in that same 36 years. You are stuck on one politician, but the future is never shaped by one person, but long term and also the voting habits of the public long term.
Every aspect of gov is subject to the review with no one branch having absolute power. The only way you can assess his choices is under what he wants to do, and what is realistic under the conditions he has to deal with. I am sure he would have done things far different if he had a longer time of having a democratic majority in his 8 years. Blame the asshole GOP for tying his hands. Blame them for holding him hostage.
Even when he had that very short period of a slight majority, he still dealt with a GOP majority that filibustered and killed most of what he wanted, and when he did do something, like the ACA it was watered down because of the GOP, not him.
Stop blaming the hostage for what the hostage takers do.
