Blue3
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« on: November 25, 2016, 07:12:38 PM » |
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« edited: November 25, 2016, 07:16:57 PM by Blue3 »
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Being unable to get his chosen successor in office He did all he could
Collapse of the Democratic Party at a state level Could have done more, but not even mostly his fault, when he campaigned for other Democrats they usually did poorly
Inability to reach catharsis in regards to the public's demand for punishment of Wall Street He passed financial reform, and it's a good thing he didn't go all populist and tell people to gather their pitchforks and torches
Rising disillusionment with political system It was there before him, in fact Obama came to fame by trying to fight it in his 2004 speech Sluggish post-crash growth Not his fault, and it was pretty good we grew at all and didn't have another depression
Continued racial tension This is what you get when a country that still has a lot of racists gets a black president
Inability to pass key trade deals with Pacific countries and EU Not many really care about this
Inability to ride with rising economic inequality Not sure what this means? Most of his proposals couldn't make it through a GOP Congress
Failure to pass a healthcare reform with lasting, strong public support Yeah, they failed in the PR of this for the most part
Failure to pass immigration reform See GOP Congress, but he does have some responsibility for not fully taking advantage of those first 2 years
Failure to pass gun control See GOP Congress, but he does have some responsibility for not fully taking advantage of those first 2 years
Failure to pass comprehensive climate change legislation See GOP Congress, but he does have some responsibility for not fully taking advantage of those first 2 years... and he WAS able to accomplish a lot with executive orders
Collapse of Sunni Awakening, and subsequent rise of ISIS, fall of Mosul Not really America's fault, and I think ISIS will be a short-term blip anyways
Being moribund in Syria Yeah, this was a failing
Unable to deal with a more aggressive Russia We enacted crippling sanctions against them... he was perfectly "able to deal" with them. But "dealing" anymore with them would mean war.
Failure to follow through on Libyan mission We were never meant to be even the leader of the humanitarian intervention. Libyans made that mess, they should clean it up. Maybe doing a little more would have prevented Benghazi and that whole fiasco, but really I don't think it was our responsibility. It's not like Iraq, which we broke.
Inability to install successor to Scalia Did all he could
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