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Only temporarily. In reality what he did was implement a Republican health care system that only promises access if you can absorb the price gouging, and he had the power to nationalize our health care system.
I don't give a fuck about Osama. Two-plus decades of forever war and tens of trillions of dollars weren't worth it, and that's particularly true in light of the cuts to the social safety net in the US that have been occurring since Clinton. Further, it doesn't matter who started the forever wars, because Obama made the affirmative choice to adopt them as his policy.
He passed the shittiest conservative version of health care reform under the guise of bi-partisanship.
It was not what our nation needed. He could have rammed through a much better compromise, but he didn't. Then he somehow let the conservatives steal the narrative and turn their idea into "Obamacare". It was just stupid.
He got the Noble Peace Prize and then proceeded to bomb the Middle East 26,000 times.
The only good about Obama was his speeches. It is night and day trying to compare him to the ramblings of President shits his pants.
You must be young.
No, just practical.
I was one of the scant few in the US who opposed war in fall of 2001, and one of the first to refuse to stand up for the national anthem, which at the Mizzou/Texas game that fall got you about a dozen death threats from your fellow fans.
Turns out, history proved I was right not to believe the bullshit that the Dubya admin was telling us, and the people like yourself who bought it were not only wrong, but you put us into such a mountain of debt that the US will never recover.