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Remember when Obama won? People thought all of their problems were going to disappear overnight lol. Acting like they just won the lotto.
Which election: the one that was 16 years ago or the one that was 12 years ago ?
And didn't win the lotto but I also am not in medical debt bankruptcy because of Obama and later McCain.
I was there for that. It was the first big election where the Internet really mattered for organizing. We trounced the opposition on election day. What we didn't do was maintain the organization that elected Obama and aim it downballot. We lost the legislature and that was the end of Obama's mandate.
Hope and change! And then...
And then he pushed for Universal Healthcare? We went into a major depression and his work pushed us out of it? Repealed "Don't Ask Don't Tell"? You know how shit it was to travel to other countries under Bush thanks to the Iraq War? Do you know that minorities for decades saw the presidency as a "Old White Dude club" since forever?
People acting like they fucked around for their presidency.
Romneycare?
And then he pushed for Universal Healthcare?
Which he failed to deliver despite Democrats having a filibuster-proof majority. Instead they appeased Republicans by implementing a Republican healthcare plan from the 90's. They couldn't even codify Roe V. Wade into law despite that being a campaign issue for Obama. For some reason the timing wasn't right.
You know how shit it was to travel to other countries under Bush thanks to the Iraq War?
You mean that war Obama didn't end because it was "too complicated" and instead killed hundreds of people (including children) with flying robots? That Iraq war?
We're talking about a guy who was given the Nobel Peace prize at the start of his presidency (for not being Bush) and then accelerated the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Shallow, shallow take. Mile wide, inch deep.
Valuable contribution. Much rhetoric. Very wise.