The sheeple sea
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- Jul 4, 2015
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Too often I feel like Obama's presidency has been a completely underwhelming presidency, his two biggest achievements are the Iran deal and the Affordable Care Act, and that took him years to put together. I found the Affordable Care Act to be a band-aid on our health care system at best. The Iran deal I actually like, pretty tired of war over here.
But he has had to make concession after concession and while I understand that that's politics, he didn't. He really thought he could reach across the aisle and negotiate, and unfortunately in American politics today no one wants to be caught negotiating with "the enemy".
His first few years involved failing and failing to move things through a gridlocked congress, and one of course one could blame a childish congress for that, and they definitely take some fault. But his naivety, likely caused by the fact that he was only in the government at a federal level for two years beforehand cost him quite a bit. As his presidency wraps up people on both sides of the aisle seem to either demonize or deify him.
Republicans like to talk loudly about how Obama is ruining this country and killing the economy, but he has proved to be much friendlier with big business than he seemed. In fact, it seems like he conceded as much as he could implementing a Republican health care system on a national level, but people on the right hate that plan and want repeal. They like to talk about how he is destroying the country, I can't even see how it did that much to even make a big impact actually.
And on the other side Democrats like to act as though Obama spent his presidency pulling us out of goerge bushes hole and we're nearly saved. But, the economy is recovering, it had nothing to do with any politician and more to do with our markets. Things are still bad for many, not terribly worse than they've been for years, but still.
Does anyone else look at Obama's presidency and instead of shouting about its evils or defending him as the savior of the economy just think, "meh"?
But he has had to make concession after concession and while I understand that that's politics, he didn't. He really thought he could reach across the aisle and negotiate, and unfortunately in American politics today no one wants to be caught negotiating with "the enemy".
His first few years involved failing and failing to move things through a gridlocked congress, and one of course one could blame a childish congress for that, and they definitely take some fault. But his naivety, likely caused by the fact that he was only in the government at a federal level for two years beforehand cost him quite a bit. As his presidency wraps up people on both sides of the aisle seem to either demonize or deify him.
Republicans like to talk loudly about how Obama is ruining this country and killing the economy, but he has proved to be much friendlier with big business than he seemed. In fact, it seems like he conceded as much as he could implementing a Republican health care system on a national level, but people on the right hate that plan and want repeal. They like to talk about how he is destroying the country, I can't even see how it did that much to even make a big impact actually.
And on the other side Democrats like to act as though Obama spent his presidency pulling us out of goerge bushes hole and we're nearly saved. But, the economy is recovering, it had nothing to do with any politician and more to do with our markets. Things are still bad for many, not terribly worse than they've been for years, but still.
Does anyone else look at Obama's presidency and instead of shouting about its evils or defending him as the savior of the economy just think, "meh"?
