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Obama tried to accomplish a lot of progressive stuff, but Congress held him back from a lot of what he really wanted to do.

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Obama tried to pretend to be a progressive while accomplishing as little progression as possible.

Worked really well seeing comments about him. Apparently acting is more important than actions. Don’t forget to thank Obama for not codifying abortion rights…

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Must be nice, not having a memory

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I remember watching the news closely during his presidency, to hear what he had to say about the Dakota Access Pipeline and ensuing protests, and there was nothing. So, some weeks back I searched to see if there was anything I missed, and I found one instance of a person asking him about it, and he gave only generic responses. Like it was new info to him. Blew me away, because to me it was the most important topic around that time along with what we were doing/going to do in Syria. I don’t have a high opinion of the man, nor the system that makes people like him a figurehead.

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Most people including those on Lemmy only care about appearances and acting skills of politicians. They are far too stupid to look at the actual actions of politicians.

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He also kneecapped himself by trying to work with the GOP when they made it clear they were unwilling to negotiate in good faith

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