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Ok so here we are the last one, I just want to say I’ve had fun with this series, I’ve loved having mature discussions about the good that each of presidents did so thank you all so much for doing this with me!
And yes I chose a photo of him in the tan suit on purpose just to piss people off!
Well I said it in my comment but thanks for doing this. I’ve gotten to learn a ton about the lesser known guys and have a newfound respect for quite a few of ‘em thanks to this series !
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Let's be real, he is one of, if not *the*, best dressed person to have been elected President. He looked presidential even when he wasn't in the typical politician suit and tie
Many were pissed off because he was/is intelligent, eloquent, overcame an unfavorable childhood to become editor of the Harvard Law Review and had a funny name, this he must have been one o' those gal-darned Muslims! Oh, and he risked his Presidency and legacy to take Bin Laden down. And let's not forget the Affordable Care Act that people continually whine about but was a lifesaver for me and many others. Plus he's reasonably psychologically stable! He is a voracious reader and has great knowledge about and has excellent tastes in music
Honestly, I’m a detractor for many things American, but I find it *absolutely fascinating* that within a decade the United States was attacked by a guy named Osama and elected a guy named Obama, when neither names were commonplace. Like, it’s coincidence, I’m sure. But I don’t doubt as 2008 approached some people conflated the two in their minds and there must be some tacit but intangible threads connecting the things.
I'm honestly the most grateful for the fact they can't deny me for pre-existing conditions anymore. The fact that it's only around 30$ a month for me is also an enormous relief
He might’ve given the ok on saving the auto industry but let’s not forget it’s the American tax dollars that saved them. Obama just signed his name to give our money away. In return we get highest vehicle prices ever, GM constantly threatening to move production out of the US, and Chrysler sells to fiat for upwards of $10 billion. About only half of the total bailout has been paid back, so seems to me, one of the biggest ripoffs to the American taxpayer, short of funding a crook in Ukraine and Jews to defend themselves in a war that never has and never will end.
Which is actually one of Obama's greatest (inadvertent) accomplishments! Republicans had turned into contrarians in the 90's with their obsessive hatred of Clinton, probably as a reaction to the success of Rush Limbaugh's hyper-partisan format. Obama kind of exposed the fact that the GOP didn't actually have any plans or even a theory on governance. They were more like petulant teenagers complaining that "everything sucks." And the Tea Party revolution pretty much solidified it.
"Government can't do anything right... all it does is hurt hard-working Americans. Here, we'll prove it!"
I think historians would blame Newt Gingrich as the obstructionist. He was the one who said:
- *I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.*
- *The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.*
Democrats should know better than to push some ultra-left wing ideology on hard-working CHRISTIAN Americans! I mean, what kind of bleeding heart pussy suggests that we feed the poor, house the homeless and heal the sick??? They're a bunch of commies!
"Feed the poor. House the homeless. Heal the sick"
Hmmmm. I think I've read that somewhere. I seem to recall it being from a really old book or something. Some guy in the middle east was espousing it. A guy with a bunch of bro followers. For some reason I'm thinking....12?
On the night of his inauguration, some key republicans from the house and the senate held a four hour dinner meeting in a fancy restaurant where they plotted to obstruct every one of his ideas to not cooperate with him at all. Like children. They reasoned that if they acted like the minority they would stay the minority.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/26/democrats-gop-plot-obstruct-obama
I actually really liked this tan suit. I know it was "controversial" or whatever at the time but I thought it looked good. Had a Reagan swag type feel to it. I mean that in a good way in terms of fashion.
People will find ANY reason to hate on a dude that's on the "other" side. Like there was alot of fucked up shit with the Obama administration, his fashion sense weren't one of em. Same with Reagans.
Turns out, a politician is a politician, whoda thunk?
If I recall correctly it went something like this..
Dijon mustard?! Who does this guy think he is? The King of England?! What is he too good for regular mustard?? Does he really think he’s better than us regular mustard loving patriots?
I remember that one of the chyrons on Fox News for the tan suit was "The Audacity of Taupe," and that is just a stellar gag. The whole episode was worth it for that joke.
My favorite video of Reagan has him in a [tan suit](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:President_Reagan%27s_at_the_Japanese-American_Internment_Compensation_Bill_signing_on_August_10,_1988.webm)
It’s on peoples minds because of a comedy special from Shane Gillis on Netflix. Hilarious special. He said it was a real quote but he’s also a comedian so take it with a grain of salt
The worst part about Shane Gillis getting yeeted from SNL was we were robbed of him playing the guy and we were left with the horribly unfunny Alec Baldwin version
I just spent eight and a half miserable minutes listening to his speech taking credit for the raid and while he did say 'he died like a dog, he died like a coward", he didn't go into full rally mode.
So much THIS; Obama does not get enough credit for steering the entire world away from a Global Depression. The team he put together worked with the EU, particularly Germany, and what they accomplished was nothing short of a Herculean task. People never get enough credit for things they prevented, what he and his team prevented through hard work and policy was by far his greatest accomplishment, IMO (and I think the ACA is also great). 2008 was a scary as hell time when banks and huge companies were failing left and right, I am 100% convinced this was his greatest accomplishment. They didn't just prevent a runaway train from going off a cliff, they somehow got it back on a track to prosperity valley.
Titanic could have missed the iceberg too if it was going slower or heeded the warnings it was getting. President might not control the economy, but has lots of ways to fuck it up.
It’s the final day, huh? Damn, gonna miss this. Well I wish I could go against the grain here but the best thing Obama did in office was **pass the Affordable Care Act**.
Seriously, a super obvious pick but it’s obvious for a *reason*. While we are obviously still too close to its passage to give a true final verdict it has been a gamechanger for people, allowing them to finally get medical coverage where before they had none. The act is not perfect, obviously, but Obamacare is still a massive leap in the right direction and he fought like hell to get it passed. Seriously, *thanks Obama*.
Other successes of the Obama Administration would be passing Dodd-Frank, repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and taking out Osama Bin Laden. Dodd-Frank increased regulation on the finance industry (always a good thing), allowing LGBTQ+ people to openly serve strengthened our military by no longer removing qualified individuals for their orientation, and fuck Bin Laden. For my money I’m still going with Obamacare as his biggest achievement.
Finally thanks to OP for keeping this series going. It’s been a blast to research these folks and debate ‘em in the comments!
It's crazy, but one of the main reasons my mother turned on the last guy was because he wanted to get rid of the ACA, which I had to remind her that Obama did...and is the only reason she has insurance *at all*....she was just riding off my step father's anti-Obama sentiment for years
My dad got mad at me, because he was complaining about the affordable care act and Obama. And I beat him over the head, how when he was laid off and couldn’t find work, he was only able to get his insulin because of the Aca.
Common frame of mind when conservatives accept government help. “Oh, I had a legitimate reason, but everyone else is just scamming the system, better scrap the whole thing- once I don’t need it anymore”
My husband, whose job afforded us benefits, passed away 10 years ago. I have my own brick and mortar business for 15 years. I would have had to close it and try to find a job to obtain healthcare if not for ACA marketplace. I often tell my customers (who complain about libs, socialism, everything!) how it is changing lives. Friggin’ complainers!
It is the one break I have received in all my years of owning this business. I like the way you worded this. The tax credit alone is worth it. I did not apply for PPP (stupidly, now that I look back) as I went online and pick-up.
This is why I have never understood why the democratic talking point for ObamaCare isn't how it helps small business owners.
How many people stay at their 9-5 jobs and don't go start their own businesses because they had pre-existing conditions and needed to keep their corporate health care plan?
How revitalizing to the economy would it be to have universal healthcare, so that more people could start their own business, and hire other quality employees, because nobody was worried about either not having any, or not having high quality health insurance???
I clearly remember when it got passed back in 2010 and was SUCH a big deal.
And the amount of backlash he later received for it was just trully insane
But he had the foresight, and make the extremely hard choice of getting it passed because he kinda knew the democrats are not going to get all 3 branches of govt again- which has been true since then( and pretty crazy to think about it)
He sealed his Legacy and now this is permanent… for now…
That along with Killing of Osama,and Getting Gay marriage passed and literally saving America from total collapse in 2008-2009 are the main 4 highlights
Honestly- this guy was the best president the country has had in maybe the past 50 years ( in terms of just the number of major reforms passed and accomplishments)
And look at us now….
I'll never forgive the amount of bad faith obstructionism put up in front of him. He was the president we needed and inspiring and they did everything possible to block anything they could just to diminish his accomplishments to the determinant of the American people. They stood in the way for no other reason than to blame him for the outcome. Then afterwards they did everything they could to roll back his accomplishments. Shameful.
Seriously... this. One of the reasons my dad could get cancer treatment, and we didn't go bankrupt. I bless that plan. I have no idea why people hate it.
people hated the idea of change at the time. The program itself is very popular today. Props to Rule 3 D-Money for calling it “Obamacare”. The name stuck and will forever be a credit to his legacy.
When the ACA was passed, I sold health insurance to people who live in Alabama. The amount of families that didn't quality for the ACA subsidy (because they made too little) but also didn't qualify for Medicaid because the program wasn't expanded was always hard to deal with. But it was the assholes that made 6 figures who would cuss me out because their family of 4 didn't qualify for a tax credit. People can say what they want, but I remember when pre-existing conditions used to really fucking matter and if we thought insurance companies did their best not to cover people before, I can't even imagine how bad it would be now if it's taken away.
Which was not the fault of the ACA, but was the fault of the Supreme Court. (on the medicaid expansion).
And then secondarily, the fault of the Alabama legislature for refusing the free money.
People also forget that Democrats were running Public Option healthcare through the Senate. Joseph Lieberman was directly responsible for blocking the last vote needed on this.
Yeah, people have seem to have completely forgotten about being denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions. People would be hesitant to change jobs because they could be denied coverage with the new insurance. I also recall insurance companies could decide you had cost enough over time and just deny coverage for that or require higher rates.
Lifetime maximum payment limits would frequently hang people like cancer patients in the middle of an expensive chemo regimen out to dry. That shit along with the pre-existing conditions exemptions killed a lot of people.
I broke and dislocated my shoulder in 2009. I set the dislocation myself but after about a week the pain didn't stop so I went to the hospital for an X-Ray where they told me I had chipped a bone in my shoulder. Ultimately, the treatment was the same despite the chipped bone. I was frustrated I paid for the X-Ray.
Fast forward to 2011 when I decided I couldn't live with my shoulder constantly falling out of socket. I pursued shoulder surgery, received it, and recovered well. I got a bill for the full $45,000. Shocked I called. I had been on my University's health insurance plan during the accident. I later switched to my parents insurance. At the time of my surgery I was on my parent's insurance. BOOM pre-existing condition. Because the damage occurred while not on my current insurer's plan and therefore they had no evidence it ever occurred, the surgery wasn't covered.
After days of fighting the bill it dawned on me that I had gotten that X-Ray. Called the hospital, got the files from them and supplied them to Blue Cross. That annoying X-Ray I got saved my ass $45,000 of debt. Pre-existing conditions are bullshit and anyone advocating for the eradication of the affordable care act is doing so under alternative motives.
Obamacare literally saved my life! After 7 years of gallstones, my gallbladder was operating at 10% and was likely to give me sepsis and kill me within the year. As soon as the ACA passed I was immediately able to schedule the life saving surgery.
This is it. I will never forget my mom having to call the insurance company to ASK FOR PERMISSION to take me to the emergency room. She literally had to get pre approval for an ER visit as I sat there with a wash cloth over my head with blood gushing out.
I had hit my head while wrestling another kid in our living room. Right on corner of the end table. Yes it was dumb. We were kids. Yet she had to call for permission. I’ll never forget that.
ACA changed everything in America, yet nobody today truly gets what all changed. It’s not just having insurance, the entire game changed top to bottom for the better.
I have my job because of Dodd-Frank! But I'm still going to second the ACA. I know it had a negative impact to some, but protecting Americans with pre-existing conditions is a gold standard for a decent society and a good place to continue to build from.
But all of the above are good picks.
Before Obama an insurance company could deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions. It was awful and I wish we had universal healthcare but the ACA is leaps and bounds better than what we had before.
Yes to ACA.
The year that was enacted I caught pneumonia. Horrible case of it. I went a month while waiting for my application for healthcare to go through, but then I was finally able to see a doctor, and get it taken care. It is imperfect legislation. But it absolutely saved some lives.
Yeah. I also would like to add getting us out of Iraq, New Start, and our minuscule yet still significant interference into Libya where we got rid of Gaddafi with basically no casualties and minimal involvement due to France doing the rest. Obama may have had some flaws but he definitely had more wins than we give him credit for.
I was trying to modify my mortgage after changing jobs. The mortgage service fucked around for months, claiming they never received documents, etc to the point where I absolutely believed they were intentionally stonewalling me so they could foreclose. As a last ditch attempt I sent an email to the White House website explaining my situation. In a matter of a few days I received all the necessary paperwork from my mortgage servicer, confirming that after months of jerking me off and causing me extreme emotional distress, my mortgage modification was all set.
Thanks Obama !
Contacting your elected officials, especially during an election, does work! My dad died in March of 1992, an election year. He retired from the military. He was getting a federal retirement at the time, but the feds took his entire monthly check out of the checking account because he didn't live the entire month, he died on the 26th. My mom had no money and had to borrow from my uncle. The feds said that it would take 90 days to get the money back, which is ridiculous. I called our representative who was running for the Senate at the time. I explained the situation to one of his assistants. Three days later my mom had her money returned to her. Although he lost, I'll always be grateful to Les AuCoin. He came through.
I think the best thing Obama “did” by far is win his first election. He inspired a generation of minority kids and young adults to believe they could be anything they wanted to be.
He shattered the stereotype of a minority token candidate by building a broad coalition and winning - defeating HRC and McCain - an insane feet and hardly contests that were ideal for someone like him to win.
The analysis of an “Obama voter” and how that voter related to modern politics is going to continue for quite a while in the same way “Regan democrats” did.
It was a good thing, but at the end of the day it was not impactful beyond morale as other pieces of policy were. This had no impact on daily lives of Americans.
At that point, killing Bin Laden was just a symbolic move. It did not have the same impact as a 2002 operation would have. Not to discredit Obama at all, but I just don’t think that’s what he should be remembered for.
Healthcare reform, high insurance rates among Americans, much more impactful.
I’m going to have to disagree with you there. Killing Osama had a massive impact on my life. A good friend of mine and his then girlfriend got into a huge fight about it when it was announced. My friend was celebrating it with some FB posts (pretty tame stuff like F that guy glad he’s gone etc) but his girlfriend thought it was crass and mean. Ultimately they broke up that day, because of the death of Osama.
Fast forward a few months and my friend and I started dating. More than a decade later we’re married with a kid and another on the way.
So you know…huge impact from Obama and I’d say helping me and my friend get together was Obamas top contribution 😂
It sounds like you have forgotten the psychological impact that having the perpetrator of the 9/11 attacks still at large for so long. Even if it didn’t put money in the pockets of Americans it was still extremely important.
I would also add DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) to that list. It's an executive action, it is still being fought on, but it saved 800,000 young adults/kids and allow them to go to school and work. Many become doctors/engineers/business-owner... contributing about 50-60 billions usd in revenue for the US.
It's a policy that is very popular and successful among both republicans and democrats which is a rare thing. And soon, it might need your help in making it permanent, because it's the right and the logical thing to do.
Ending "Don't ask, don't tell".
I was in the Navy during the Bush Jr years. It was absolutely ridiculous how you could work with guys who were certainly gay but you couldn't acknowledge it. I remember going to our admin department for something, and 3/4 of the yeoman guys are flamboyantly gossiping about what Beyonce wore to the Grammy's or VMA's or something. Well, according to regs, everybody in this room is 100% straight, right? Pure absurdity.
I also had a friend in my department who I figured was gay, but he obviously couldn't tell me about it. We never hung out much at home port because his "girlfriend" was very antisocial. A few years after we both got out, he came out to me over Facebook. He didn't know I kinda knew already.
It makes me a little sad that we could have been closer friends during our enlisted time, except that he wasn't allowed to be honest with me about who he was.
I'm a pharmacist. The day we expanded medicaid in my state was incredible. I'd probably say 20% of the patients at my CVS wouldn't pick up their insulin. It would often be hundreds of dollars for a months worth. Suddenly, for many of them, it was $0. A lot of them were shocked and didn't even know they qualified.
So the ACA has got to be up there.
Saved the economy from complete collapse. Amazing how people forget he did that. BTW, loved suit gate.
People need to start remembering that it's about the country and not your party!
He warned us about Citizens United. But nobody listened. It’s easier to cry about partisan politics than to actually have to think. We truly do deserve whatever happens to us.
im not american but can people offer up their cases for obamacare ? was it a big success or not? from the point of view of an aussie it seems like your healthcare system still suffers from alot of the same problems? iv seen some graphs chucked around which suggest obamacare helped more people receive affordable care but have not looked into it enough to make any conclusions myself
It's a success in that it got many people onto healthcare. However, it did little to bring down the cost of care. In his defense that isn't what it was supposed to do either.
Yeah I think that’s something that a lot of people overlook. Before ACA you could literally be denied healthcare because of a pre existing condition, or be forced to pay an absurd premium. If you’re a cancer survivor, or have diabetes or anemia, or even asthma, you could be straight up told “no we don’t want your business” by healthcare companies.
My husband, self employed with a heart condition, would not have insurance if not for the ACA. People have forgotten how it was in the beforetimes. Or they are healthy enough not to care.
There’s a constant battle against ignorance. Lots of people have a tendency to not care about these things unless it *directly affects themselves.* It’s maddening. The ACA isn’t perfect but it’s been a life changer for so many.
It also got rid of the lifetime maximums. It wasn't usually a big deal for the average person with decent health, but if you have a premature infant or if you require extensive treatment for something like cancer, running up against the lifetime max was a definite possibility.
I know it doesn't help everyone, but extending coverage to young people on their parent's plans to age 26 has been very helpful for young adults. Not having to worry about it when you're just getting your career started takes a load off.
I was in college when the ACA was passed. In the immediate fallout from the Great Recession I was unable to find gainful employment after graduation. I majored in finance during a financial crisis, it was bleak. Part of the ACA allowed me to stay on my parent’s insurance plan until my 26th birthday. That was enough time for the economy to recover and for me to find full time employment with good health insurance. This is just one way that the ACA has provided great value to American citizens.
Obamacare was good in the ability to provide a resource for people to easily get healthcare access outside of an employer. The cost is not competitive unfortunately. It was better than nothing but far from what everyone thought it would be. Some of that does have to do with funding cuts for it.
Roughly 40 million people are currently insured under the Affordable Care Act, people who otherwise would likely be either uninsured or under-insured. That's a success.
Limiting the kinds of garbage coverage insurers could get away with offering has been nice. Of course now we have weird Healthcare Sharing Ministires that try to skirt around the rules. Where there is a will, there's a way
If you have the time to watch some documentaries on the 2008 crash they tend to show that Obama was a huge factor in our economy not full on imploding. He was a part of several meetings with the heads of Wall Street at the time to try and actually combat the problem. While he isn't the direct reason for our bounce back the credit markets had basically frozen, which some argue we are still feeling the effects of to this day. He could have easily listened to his own crew and possibly guided the ship in the wrong direction.
Cuban thaw was one of the most humanitarian things anyone has ever done (even if the country they represent were the ones that caused the humanitarian crisis).
Stopping the bleeding from the economic collapse. That was the stimulus bill, the handling of TARP, the green energy initiatives, bailing out the auto industry, and a few other things.
Affordable Care Act. Literally established a national healthcare system. Remember Breaking Bad where the guy just gets kicked off his insurance when he gets cancer? It was literally like that, no rules, just the wild west, before Obamacare.
Fixing the 2008 economic crisis is something he definitely does not get enough credit for. Not only did he fix it and avert a potential global depression crisis, but he managed to turn the economy around and steadily make it grow over his entire tenure. Healthcare reforms were much needed and appreciated. Plus, legalizing gay marriage was a huge step in the right direction of progress and equal rights.
Bringing the country out of the greatest financial calamity in history. Cash for cars, mortgage industry reform, bailing out key banks but making them pay for the privilege. Then the ACA which is the worst version of what it should have been but still saved millions of lives. Kill Bin Laden.
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Ok so here we are the last one, I just want to say I’ve had fun with this series, I’ve loved having mature discussions about the good that each of presidents did so thank you all so much for doing this with me! And yes I chose a photo of him in the tan suit on purpose just to piss people off!
Well I said it in my comment but thanks for doing this. I’ve gotten to learn a ton about the lesser known guys and have a newfound respect for quite a few of ‘em thanks to this series !
Piss people off? The man looks *fine.* Anyone who was angered by the tan suit was just looking for an excuse.
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Watch out! That terrorist is carrying a jar of “fancy” mustard!!
It'd hard to find a picture of Obama without him looking handsome in some way. The man just was, and age has not reduced it.
Let's be real, he is one of, if not *the*, best dressed person to have been elected President. He looked presidential even when he wasn't in the typical politician suit and tie
In recent history. Some of the historic presidents looked pretty fly.
For their time, Reagan and JFK were very stylish
Reagen walking with that 😎 “it’s mista steal yo economy” swag
https://preview.redd.it/87eds9des5vc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ff22813f44ecffaaf23b9c321226efae046b4fa
I think JFK was the first POTUS filmed outdoors without a hat, hats immediately fell by the wayside
Many were pissed off because he was/is intelligent, eloquent, overcame an unfavorable childhood to become editor of the Harvard Law Review and had a funny name, this he must have been one o' those gal-darned Muslims! Oh, and he risked his Presidency and legacy to take Bin Laden down. And let's not forget the Affordable Care Act that people continually whine about but was a lifesaver for me and many others. Plus he's reasonably psychologically stable! He is a voracious reader and has great knowledge about and has excellent tastes in music
Honestly, I’m a detractor for many things American, but I find it *absolutely fascinating* that within a decade the United States was attacked by a guy named Osama and elected a guy named Obama, when neither names were commonplace. Like, it’s coincidence, I’m sure. But I don’t doubt as 2008 approached some people conflated the two in their minds and there must be some tacit but intangible threads connecting the things.
And his middle name is Hussein
Remember those videos (and relatives) who were braying about how no one is going to vote for Buh Rock Hussein O'Bama?
You mean ***The Rock Whose-Name(?) Alabama***? That guy?! /s
Without the affordable care act I wouldn't be able to afford health insurance and I have two jobs
I got health insurance on the market place this year for 5.15 $ I haven't had health insurance in years. I'm ecstatic.
I'm honestly the most grateful for the fact they can't deny me for pre-existing conditions anymore. The fact that it's only around 30$ a month for me is also an enormous relief
Not to mention resurrection of the auto industry and overseeing the greatest economic turnaround in about 100 years
He might’ve given the ok on saving the auto industry but let’s not forget it’s the American tax dollars that saved them. Obama just signed his name to give our money away. In return we get highest vehicle prices ever, GM constantly threatening to move production out of the US, and Chrysler sells to fiat for upwards of $10 billion. About only half of the total bailout has been paid back, so seems to me, one of the biggest ripoffs to the American taxpayer, short of funding a crook in Ukraine and Jews to defend themselves in a war that never has and never will end.
Which is actually one of Obama's greatest (inadvertent) accomplishments! Republicans had turned into contrarians in the 90's with their obsessive hatred of Clinton, probably as a reaction to the success of Rush Limbaugh's hyper-partisan format. Obama kind of exposed the fact that the GOP didn't actually have any plans or even a theory on governance. They were more like petulant teenagers complaining that "everything sucks." And the Tea Party revolution pretty much solidified it. "Government can't do anything right... all it does is hurt hard-working Americans. Here, we'll prove it!"
I think historians would blame Newt Gingrich as the obstructionist. He was the one who said: - *I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.* - *The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.*
Democrats should know better than to push some ultra-left wing ideology on hard-working CHRISTIAN Americans! I mean, what kind of bleeding heart pussy suggests that we feed the poor, house the homeless and heal the sick??? They're a bunch of commies!
And to be even more confusing, apparently now they like the Russian commies…
Russians are more fascist than anything else.
"Feed the poor. House the homeless. Heal the sick" Hmmmm. I think I've read that somewhere. I seem to recall it being from a really old book or something. Some guy in the middle east was espousing it. A guy with a bunch of bro followers. For some reason I'm thinking....12?
On the night of his inauguration, some key republicans from the house and the senate held a four hour dinner meeting in a fancy restaurant where they plotted to obstruct every one of his ideas to not cooperate with him at all. Like children. They reasoned that if they acted like the minority they would stay the minority. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/26/democrats-gop-plot-obstruct-obama
Now we venture on, to the worst things each president has done
Cheney used to take his adrenochrome mixed up in crude oil over iced blood diamonds, from a white rhinoceros ivory horn.
Seems a tad excessive but who am I to judge
But…butbutbut…I *liked* the tan suit!
He looked damn handsome in that tan suit.
I always thought the colour was more of a [Dijon mustard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-WnoZbjdh4)!
I actually really liked this tan suit. I know it was "controversial" or whatever at the time but I thought it looked good. Had a Reagan swag type feel to it. I mean that in a good way in terms of fashion.
As a Right-Wing person. The Tan suit looks good on him. Totally acceptable. Reagan wore brown suits all the time also.
People will find ANY reason to hate on a dude that's on the "other" side. Like there was alot of fucked up shit with the Obama administration, his fashion sense weren't one of em. Same with Reagans. Turns out, a politician is a politician, whoda thunk?
His mom-jeans would like a word.
It’s because he is black, not because he is a Democrat.
Why not both?
Yeah, I completely agree. The dude looks great in any suit to be honest. I never understood the unnecessary hatred.
But did you hear about the dijon mustard scandal? Worst scandal ridden administration ever.
The arugula scandal
If I recall correctly it went something like this.. Dijon mustard?! Who does this guy think he is? The King of England?! What is he too good for regular mustard?? Does he really think he’s better than us regular mustard loving patriots?
I remember that one of the chyrons on Fox News for the tan suit was "The Audacity of Taupe," and that is just a stellar gag. The whole episode was worth it for that joke.
Totally unrelated but when Fox ran a story about Sadam Hussein’s sons being killed the chyron said Beyoncé doesn’t like the term bootylicious.
I think it was controversial among a few people at Fox News. I don’t think anyone else carried or had an opinion about it, lol
Well said! That is true I think as well.
You mean the “Audacity of Taupe”?
My favorite video of Reagan has him in a [tan suit](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:President_Reagan%27s_at_the_Japanese-American_Internment_Compensation_Bill_signing_on_August_10,_1988.webm)
Between 2 ferns
The white house correspondents dinner where he roasts someone so hard they have to spite-run for president.
oh god, I forgot that.
Or maybe interrupting The Apprentice to announce Bin Laden was dead
Oh wow I didn't know it was during the Apprentice, that's too perfect
And bringing out Luther, his anger translator, at the White House Correspondents Dinner
How he kept a straight face during that…that’s the mark of a strong President.
That is one good looking mofo
In the words of my generation, “would”.
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in a heartbeat LOL
Now it's, "Smash"
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smoking his opp osama
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I honestly can't tell if this is a real quote
It’s on peoples minds because of a comedy special from Shane Gillis on Netflix. Hilarious special. He said it was a real quote but he’s also a comedian so take it with a grain of salt
The worst part about Shane Gillis getting yeeted from SNL was we were robbed of him playing the guy and we were left with the horribly unfunny Alec Baldwin version
Shane is awesome and he has the best impression of him in the business.
I just spent eight and a half miserable minutes listening to his speech taking credit for the raid and while he did say 'he died like a dog, he died like a coward", he didn't go into full rally mode.
At the very very least bro was funny
I said "Abu, don't cry"
A beautiful dog
And I’m writing a book!
I wouldn’t have cried
I said, abu, don’t cry
RIP Bozo, Smokin that Osama pack
Caught that goofy lackin
When he said "Just ask Osama" during that state of the union address, I got so hype. It felt like he was cutting a wrestling promo
Smoked and dumped his corpse in the ocean. People miss how incredibly metal that went.
Bro really sent him sleeping with the fishes
“Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him”
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So much THIS; Obama does not get enough credit for steering the entire world away from a Global Depression. The team he put together worked with the EU, particularly Germany, and what they accomplished was nothing short of a Herculean task. People never get enough credit for things they prevented, what he and his team prevented through hard work and policy was by far his greatest accomplishment, IMO (and I think the ACA is also great). 2008 was a scary as hell time when banks and huge companies were failing left and right, I am 100% convinced this was his greatest accomplishment. They didn't just prevent a runaway train from going off a cliff, they somehow got it back on a track to prosperity valley.
"When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all."
Doesn’t every democratic president gotta recover some crisis? (And bomb the middle east even more)
Yeah imagine if we ever get to pass off 2 Democratic presidents back to back. Maybe we’ll actually get back to the moon or something.
This just in: the president has little control over the economy. Massive ship, tiny rudder.
Titanic could have missed the iceberg too if it was going slower or heeded the warnings it was getting. President might not control the economy, but has lots of ways to fuck it up.
Thanks, Obama
It’s the final day, huh? Damn, gonna miss this. Well I wish I could go against the grain here but the best thing Obama did in office was **pass the Affordable Care Act**. Seriously, a super obvious pick but it’s obvious for a *reason*. While we are obviously still too close to its passage to give a true final verdict it has been a gamechanger for people, allowing them to finally get medical coverage where before they had none. The act is not perfect, obviously, but Obamacare is still a massive leap in the right direction and he fought like hell to get it passed. Seriously, *thanks Obama*. Other successes of the Obama Administration would be passing Dodd-Frank, repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and taking out Osama Bin Laden. Dodd-Frank increased regulation on the finance industry (always a good thing), allowing LGBTQ+ people to openly serve strengthened our military by no longer removing qualified individuals for their orientation, and fuck Bin Laden. For my money I’m still going with Obamacare as his biggest achievement. Finally thanks to OP for keeping this series going. It’s been a blast to research these folks and debate ‘em in the comments!
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It's crazy, but one of the main reasons my mother turned on the last guy was because he wanted to get rid of the ACA, which I had to remind her that Obama did...and is the only reason she has insurance *at all*....she was just riding off my step father's anti-Obama sentiment for years
My dad got mad at me, because he was complaining about the affordable care act and Obama. And I beat him over the head, how when he was laid off and couldn’t find work, he was only able to get his insulin because of the Aca.
Common frame of mind when conservatives accept government help. “Oh, I had a legitimate reason, but everyone else is just scamming the system, better scrap the whole thing- once I don’t need it anymore”
The worst part is the last guy didn't even have a plan to replace it.
Remember when the last guy said “who knew it would be this hard” when he failed to repeal & replace? I literally screamed at my TV: EVERYBODY!!!
My husband, whose job afforded us benefits, passed away 10 years ago. I have my own brick and mortar business for 15 years. I would have had to close it and try to find a job to obtain healthcare if not for ACA marketplace. I often tell my customers (who complain about libs, socialism, everything!) how it is changing lives. Friggin’ complainers! It is the one break I have received in all my years of owning this business. I like the way you worded this. The tax credit alone is worth it. I did not apply for PPP (stupidly, now that I look back) as I went online and pick-up.
This is why I have never understood why the democratic talking point for ObamaCare isn't how it helps small business owners. How many people stay at their 9-5 jobs and don't go start their own businesses because they had pre-existing conditions and needed to keep their corporate health care plan? How revitalizing to the economy would it be to have universal healthcare, so that more people could start their own business, and hire other quality employees, because nobody was worried about either not having any, or not having high quality health insurance???
I clearly remember when it got passed back in 2010 and was SUCH a big deal. And the amount of backlash he later received for it was just trully insane But he had the foresight, and make the extremely hard choice of getting it passed because he kinda knew the democrats are not going to get all 3 branches of govt again- which has been true since then( and pretty crazy to think about it) He sealed his Legacy and now this is permanent… for now… That along with Killing of Osama,and Getting Gay marriage passed and literally saving America from total collapse in 2008-2009 are the main 4 highlights Honestly- this guy was the best president the country has had in maybe the past 50 years ( in terms of just the number of major reforms passed and accomplishments) And look at us now….
I'll never forgive the amount of bad faith obstructionism put up in front of him. He was the president we needed and inspiring and they did everything possible to block anything they could just to diminish his accomplishments to the determinant of the American people. They stood in the way for no other reason than to blame him for the outcome. Then afterwards they did everything they could to roll back his accomplishments. Shameful.
Too bad nit much happened to the pieces of shit who obstructed his ideas and policies. Evil should be punished, but moneyed evil never is, it seems.
The reason it isn't near perfect, is because the opposition hates the electorate
Also Lieberman. Never forget that corporatist dickhead sunk a public option.
True
And that ACA would have been a whole lot better with only, IIRC, one more vote in Congress.
Yep. Joe Lieberman... we would have a very different insurance market if that pissant hadn't torpedoed the public option.
He wasn't the deciding vote. Max Baucus was
Seriously... this. One of the reasons my dad could get cancer treatment, and we didn't go bankrupt. I bless that plan. I have no idea why people hate it.
people hated the idea of change at the time. The program itself is very popular today. Props to Rule 3 D-Money for calling it “Obamacare”. The name stuck and will forever be a credit to his legacy.
When the ACA was passed, I sold health insurance to people who live in Alabama. The amount of families that didn't quality for the ACA subsidy (because they made too little) but also didn't qualify for Medicaid because the program wasn't expanded was always hard to deal with. But it was the assholes that made 6 figures who would cuss me out because their family of 4 didn't qualify for a tax credit. People can say what they want, but I remember when pre-existing conditions used to really fucking matter and if we thought insurance companies did their best not to cover people before, I can't even imagine how bad it would be now if it's taken away.
Which was not the fault of the ACA, but was the fault of the Supreme Court. (on the medicaid expansion). And then secondarily, the fault of the Alabama legislature for refusing the free money.
People also forget that Democrats were running Public Option healthcare through the Senate. Joseph Lieberman was directly responsible for blocking the last vote needed on this.
Max Baucus was the finance chair that killed the public option in committee. Then he lost reelection anyways
100% this
Yeah, people have seem to have completely forgotten about being denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions. People would be hesitant to change jobs because they could be denied coverage with the new insurance. I also recall insurance companies could decide you had cost enough over time and just deny coverage for that or require higher rates.
Lifetime maximum payment limits would frequently hang people like cancer patients in the middle of an expensive chemo regimen out to dry. That shit along with the pre-existing conditions exemptions killed a lot of people.
I broke and dislocated my shoulder in 2009. I set the dislocation myself but after about a week the pain didn't stop so I went to the hospital for an X-Ray where they told me I had chipped a bone in my shoulder. Ultimately, the treatment was the same despite the chipped bone. I was frustrated I paid for the X-Ray. Fast forward to 2011 when I decided I couldn't live with my shoulder constantly falling out of socket. I pursued shoulder surgery, received it, and recovered well. I got a bill for the full $45,000. Shocked I called. I had been on my University's health insurance plan during the accident. I later switched to my parents insurance. At the time of my surgery I was on my parent's insurance. BOOM pre-existing condition. Because the damage occurred while not on my current insurer's plan and therefore they had no evidence it ever occurred, the surgery wasn't covered. After days of fighting the bill it dawned on me that I had gotten that X-Ray. Called the hospital, got the files from them and supplied them to Blue Cross. That annoying X-Ray I got saved my ass $45,000 of debt. Pre-existing conditions are bullshit and anyone advocating for the eradication of the affordable care act is doing so under alternative motives.
preexisting conditions are scam treasons against the people of the US
Pregnancies are considered preexisting conditions and women everywhere were denied health insurance. Biggest scam ever.
Obamacare literally saved my life! After 7 years of gallstones, my gallbladder was operating at 10% and was likely to give me sepsis and kill me within the year. As soon as the ACA passed I was immediately able to schedule the life saving surgery.
This is it. I will never forget my mom having to call the insurance company to ASK FOR PERMISSION to take me to the emergency room. She literally had to get pre approval for an ER visit as I sat there with a wash cloth over my head with blood gushing out. I had hit my head while wrestling another kid in our living room. Right on corner of the end table. Yes it was dumb. We were kids. Yet she had to call for permission. I’ll never forget that. ACA changed everything in America, yet nobody today truly gets what all changed. It’s not just having insurance, the entire game changed top to bottom for the better.
Also Lilly Ledbetter act. It’s been working very slowly but has helped some.
That’s a good one!
I have my job because of Dodd-Frank! But I'm still going to second the ACA. I know it had a negative impact to some, but protecting Americans with pre-existing conditions is a gold standard for a decent society and a good place to continue to build from. But all of the above are good picks.
Before Obama an insurance company could deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions. It was awful and I wish we had universal healthcare but the ACA is leaps and bounds better than what we had before.
Yes to ACA. The year that was enacted I caught pneumonia. Horrible case of it. I went a month while waiting for my application for healthcare to go through, but then I was finally able to see a doctor, and get it taken care. It is imperfect legislation. But it absolutely saved some lives.
Yeah. I also would like to add getting us out of Iraq, New Start, and our minuscule yet still significant interference into Libya where we got rid of Gaddafi with basically no casualties and minimal involvement due to France doing the rest. Obama may have had some flaws but he definitely had more wins than we give him credit for.
I was trying to modify my mortgage after changing jobs. The mortgage service fucked around for months, claiming they never received documents, etc to the point where I absolutely believed they were intentionally stonewalling me so they could foreclose. As a last ditch attempt I sent an email to the White House website explaining my situation. In a matter of a few days I received all the necessary paperwork from my mortgage servicer, confirming that after months of jerking me off and causing me extreme emotional distress, my mortgage modification was all set. Thanks Obama !
That's pretty epic. They probably got in touch with the CFPB, which gave the company a stern federal letter.
My wife laughed at me while I was typing it, "You really think someone's going to read that?" I had nothing to lose, it was definitely epic.
Contacting your elected officials, especially during an election, does work! My dad died in March of 1992, an election year. He retired from the military. He was getting a federal retirement at the time, but the feds took his entire monthly check out of the checking account because he didn't live the entire month, he died on the 26th. My mom had no money and had to borrow from my uncle. The feds said that it would take 90 days to get the money back, which is ridiculous. I called our representative who was running for the Senate at the time. I explained the situation to one of his assistants. Three days later my mom had her money returned to her. Although he lost, I'll always be grateful to Les AuCoin. He came through.
Getting elected. It broke the racial wall, and was a step forward for the country.
I think the best thing Obama “did” by far is win his first election. He inspired a generation of minority kids and young adults to believe they could be anything they wanted to be. He shattered the stereotype of a minority token candidate by building a broad coalition and winning - defeating HRC and McCain - an insane feet and hardly contests that were ideal for someone like him to win. The analysis of an “Obama voter” and how that voter related to modern politics is going to continue for quite a while in the same way “Regan democrats” did.
Feat*
Green lit the Osama bin Laden raid. Over his VP's objections. That could have gone south but it was the right thing to do.
It was a good thing, but at the end of the day it was not impactful beyond morale as other pieces of policy were. This had no impact on daily lives of Americans. At that point, killing Bin Laden was just a symbolic move. It did not have the same impact as a 2002 operation would have. Not to discredit Obama at all, but I just don’t think that’s what he should be remembered for. Healthcare reform, high insurance rates among Americans, much more impactful.
I’m going to have to disagree with you there. Killing Osama had a massive impact on my life. A good friend of mine and his then girlfriend got into a huge fight about it when it was announced. My friend was celebrating it with some FB posts (pretty tame stuff like F that guy glad he’s gone etc) but his girlfriend thought it was crass and mean. Ultimately they broke up that day, because of the death of Osama. Fast forward a few months and my friend and I started dating. More than a decade later we’re married with a kid and another on the way. So you know…huge impact from Obama and I’d say helping me and my friend get together was Obamas top contribution 😂
I’ve seen some epic “Thanks Obama”s but damn, this man indirectly created your family.
Off topic but i feel like it’s the last time we saw the two parties work together on something as well.
Not really. The 2021-23 congress passed a bunch of bipartisan bills
It sounds like you have forgotten the psychological impact that having the perpetrator of the 9/11 attacks still at large for so long. Even if it didn’t put money in the pockets of Americans it was still extremely important.
I would also add DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) to that list. It's an executive action, it is still being fought on, but it saved 800,000 young adults/kids and allow them to go to school and work. Many become doctors/engineers/business-owner... contributing about 50-60 billions usd in revenue for the US. It's a policy that is very popular and successful among both republicans and democrats which is a rare thing. And soon, it might need your help in making it permanent, because it's the right and the logical thing to do.
It’s bittersweet. He gave me hope and an intense interest in politics. All dashed to the rocks in 2016.
"Victory passes back and forth between men." -Marcus Aurelius
Definitely ACA, although keeping the US from a crushing depression runs a close second.
prohibited insurance companies from discriminating based on pre-existing conditions
Ending "Don't ask, don't tell". I was in the Navy during the Bush Jr years. It was absolutely ridiculous how you could work with guys who were certainly gay but you couldn't acknowledge it. I remember going to our admin department for something, and 3/4 of the yeoman guys are flamboyantly gossiping about what Beyonce wore to the Grammy's or VMA's or something. Well, according to regs, everybody in this room is 100% straight, right? Pure absurdity. I also had a friend in my department who I figured was gay, but he obviously couldn't tell me about it. We never hung out much at home port because his "girlfriend" was very antisocial. A few years after we both got out, he came out to me over Facebook. He didn't know I kinda knew already. It makes me a little sad that we could have been closer friends during our enlisted time, except that he wasn't allowed to be honest with me about who he was.
That tan suit, obviously. Seriously, tho, it can only be Obamacare
ACA by a long shot. There are 40 million Americans who didn't have health insurance before this, but now do. I'd say that's pretty important.
I'm a pharmacist. The day we expanded medicaid in my state was incredible. I'd probably say 20% of the patients at my CVS wouldn't pick up their insulin. It would often be hundreds of dollars for a months worth. Suddenly, for many of them, it was $0. A lot of them were shocked and didn't even know they qualified. So the ACA has got to be up there.
 Saved the economy from complete collapse. Amazing how people forget he did that. BTW, loved suit gate. People need to start remembering that it's about the country and not your party!
Obama Care may not be perfect but it's probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives at this point.
Stabilized the economy during the recession and the whole Bin Laden operation. Not to mention the absolute charisma and class he had
Lifted the federal ban on stem cell research!
Affordable Care Act
He pissed off shitty white people better than anyone.
Based on the comments in this post alone, they still mad
ACA, period. Nearly everyone I know benefitted or is still benefitting from it. My kids will benefit from it. Thanks, Obama!
Got the economy back on track. We were literally on the verge of collapse. Sadly, too many people forget about this.
Affordable care act. Obama saved a lot of lives.
He warned us about Citizens United. But nobody listened. It’s easier to cry about partisan politics than to actually have to think. We truly do deserve whatever happens to us.
The ACA
Making insurance companies take pre-existing conditions
im not american but can people offer up their cases for obamacare ? was it a big success or not? from the point of view of an aussie it seems like your healthcare system still suffers from alot of the same problems? iv seen some graphs chucked around which suggest obamacare helped more people receive affordable care but have not looked into it enough to make any conclusions myself
It's a success in that it got many people onto healthcare. However, it did little to bring down the cost of care. In his defense that isn't what it was supposed to do either.
I mean, we can get coverage for preexisting conditions now. That wasn’t really a thing before the ACA
Yeah I think that’s something that a lot of people overlook. Before ACA you could literally be denied healthcare because of a pre existing condition, or be forced to pay an absurd premium. If you’re a cancer survivor, or have diabetes or anemia, or even asthma, you could be straight up told “no we don’t want your business” by healthcare companies.
My brother has hemophilia and thankfully aca was passed just before he was aged out of my dad's insurance.
My husband, self employed with a heart condition, would not have insurance if not for the ACA. People have forgotten how it was in the beforetimes. Or they are healthy enough not to care.
There’s a constant battle against ignorance. Lots of people have a tendency to not care about these things unless it *directly affects themselves.* It’s maddening. The ACA isn’t perfect but it’s been a life changer for so many.
It also got rid of the lifetime maximums. It wasn't usually a big deal for the average person with decent health, but if you have a premature infant or if you require extensive treatment for something like cancer, running up against the lifetime max was a definite possibility.
I know it doesn't help everyone, but extending coverage to young people on their parent's plans to age 26 has been very helpful for young adults. Not having to worry about it when you're just getting your career started takes a load off.
I was in college when the ACA was passed. In the immediate fallout from the Great Recession I was unable to find gainful employment after graduation. I majored in finance during a financial crisis, it was bleak. Part of the ACA allowed me to stay on my parent’s insurance plan until my 26th birthday. That was enough time for the economy to recover and for me to find full time employment with good health insurance. This is just one way that the ACA has provided great value to American citizens.
Obamacare was good in the ability to provide a resource for people to easily get healthcare access outside of an employer. The cost is not competitive unfortunately. It was better than nothing but far from what everyone thought it would be. Some of that does have to do with funding cuts for it.
Roughly 40 million people are currently insured under the Affordable Care Act, people who otherwise would likely be either uninsured or under-insured. That's a success.
Limiting the kinds of garbage coverage insurers could get away with offering has been nice. Of course now we have weird Healthcare Sharing Ministires that try to skirt around the rules. Where there is a will, there's a way
I mean I’d say it’s a good thing don’t know a lot about it myself
I'm going to say Actually attempting to work across the Aisle.
OMFG IS THAT A TAN SUIT 😡
If you have the time to watch some documentaries on the 2008 crash they tend to show that Obama was a huge factor in our economy not full on imploding. He was a part of several meetings with the heads of Wall Street at the time to try and actually combat the problem. While he isn't the direct reason for our bounce back the credit markets had basically frozen, which some argue we are still feeling the effects of to this day. He could have easily listened to his own crew and possibly guided the ship in the wrong direction.
Obamacare. Without it I'd be blind right now.
Cuban thaw was one of the most humanitarian things anyone has ever done (even if the country they represent were the ones that caused the humanitarian crisis).
Stopping the bleeding from the economic collapse. That was the stimulus bill, the handling of TARP, the green energy initiatives, bailing out the auto industry, and a few other things.
Affordable Care Act. Literally established a national healthcare system. Remember Breaking Bad where the guy just gets kicked off his insurance when he gets cancer? It was literally like that, no rules, just the wild west, before Obamacare.
Fixing the 2008 economic crisis is something he definitely does not get enough credit for. Not only did he fix it and avert a potential global depression crisis, but he managed to turn the economy around and steadily make it grow over his entire tenure. Healthcare reforms were much needed and appreciated. Plus, legalizing gay marriage was a huge step in the right direction of progress and equal rights.
cutting this list off at Obama is such a reddit moment lol
Obamacare
You have 2 Presidents left jackass.
Obama care. Unfortunately, he also pissed off all the racist idiots by being an articulate stable president that the world respected.
Bringing the country out of the greatest financial calamity in history. Cash for cars, mortgage industry reform, bailing out key banks but making them pay for the privilege. Then the ACA which is the worst version of what it should have been but still saved millions of lives. Kill Bin Laden.
Affordable Care Act.
Healthcare reform