pknopp
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Ending a war, once our troops are deployed is not easy. We still have troops in Europe and S KoreaHe lied about everything he promised us. If President Obama had been the person Candidate Obama said he would be there would be no President Trump today.
He didn’t lie
He never said Mexico would pay for the wall and that he would pay off our debt.
Not being able to accomplish all your agenda is not a lie, it is politics
He promised to prosecute the bankers that broke our laws. He did not. He didn't even try. He actually did the opposite. They gained big time under his administration.
He promised to ban lobbyists from the White House. On day 1 he did the opposite.
He promised to get us out of the stupid wars. He did not.
He promised not to get us into new wars. He did.
He promised to close Gitmo. He did not. He could have.
Should I continue? I can.
He promised to do Health Care in public. He did not. He promised to lower health care costs. He did not.
Again....you point to unaccomplished agenda as a lie
You have to try to not accomplish something. In many of those cases he actually did the opposite. He had full power to prosecute the bankers. Nothing.
He had full power to end the wars. Nothing.
He had full power to close Gitmo. Nothing.
It was his decision to get us involved in Syria and Yemen.
He lied.
You expected him to only do the easy things? He was clueless when he promised to do that? Nixon did it. It can't be that hard.
Obama tried to close Gitmo on day one. He was blocked by Congress
He still reduced the prison population to less than 100
They gave him the ability to close it. He refused to take responsibility for closing it.
“The president,” said Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, “has no one but himself to blame for the fact that Guantánamo has been open longer under his watch than under the prior administration.”
'No one but himself to blame': how Obama's Guantánamo plans fell through
Now we will note, you didn't even bother to address the rest.
And the article notes his horrible record on civil rights. From refusing to give people trials to expanding the Patriot act to spying on the media to killing US Citizens while denying them due process.