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CMV: Obama wasn’t that great. Or bad.

Despite Obama’s historic achievement as being the first black president, good rhetoric and unifying tone, I don’t think he has too many accomplishments to his era. Here are my positives:

- Obamacare
- Advancement of LGBTQ rights
- Getting out 2008 Recession (many debate the effectiveness of his policies. Certainly we did get out of the recession, but the package cost lots of money.)

Here are my negatives:
- Little to no advancement on criminal justice/black equity
- Lack on environmental action
- Continuation of GW Bush foreign policy
- Drone warfare

The last two are Obama’s largest failures to me. Most people hate Bush and think he’s a dummy because of how he got us into senseless, expensive bloody wars. Obama continued these wars. The only positive I can give him is his decision not to get into Syria. Obama reneged on his promise of diplomacy and getting out of the middle east. He also continued the NSA’s spying on Americans. Foriegn policy is the one thing that the executive branch has full control and responsibility over, and Obama continued Bush’s mistakes. This is the major factor making Obama an average to “meh” president. CMV.
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He actually drew down troops in the wars and generally had good relations with our allies.

He passed DACA, but was also aggressive about deportations (despite the lies).

He increased salaries for government contractors.

He started with a large deficit, but shrank it tremendously over the terms.

Unemployment slowly dropped.  Trump rode those coattails.

If you recall, Congress impeded him every step of the way. See Merrick Garland as one of the more egregious examples.

So in short, he cleaned up a number of Bush/Republican messes, but was stymied from making real major changes due to his own views and Republicans.

He was not a far left, radical Marxist, atheist, Islamist, socialist who hated America, allowed open border, and wanted to kill white people and the troops.  He was a pretty good (not great), moderate president.