Bush was not my hero. And Obama could've and should've kept negotiations alive considering the stakes.
Obama's failure to maintain a presence in Iraq makes him partially responsible for our present need to reinvade Iraq.
Right.
Worst, no. With the exception of the ridiculous Rube Goldberg Obamacare law he's not really done much of consequence except for adding a few trillion of new debt for dubious "stimulus" plans quickly and properly abandoned. His best feature was the one probably least appreciated by those who elected him - he had a George H.W. Bush type presidency with no huge crises and no real transformation which is a good thing. Like Bush Sr. he didn't really move the ball for his party's pet causes very much (or really try even). 20 years from now people will struggle to remember anything beyond one or two things they did (Gulf War in one case, Obamacare in the other).
There were negotiations to include residual troops numbering in the thousands. Obama was one side in the those negotiations. Negotiations broke down. Do you suppose Bush would've let those negotiations collapse?
The subsequent withdrawal allowed the rise of ISIS.
Obama could've prevented it.
That means Obama is partially responsible for it.
Well, he let Iraq collapse. We should've left troops there to keep the peace. Same as we did with S Korea.
He also made a complete fool of himself, and America by extension, with the Syrian red line rhetoric.
Yes. At the time of our withdrawal Iraq was reasonably stable. Our withdrawal allowed Maliki to exercise his power like the jackass he was, and that led to ISIS.
Not even close. Hate does not mean you are doing a bad job. And love does not mean you're doing a good job.
The vast majority of unbiased historians think Kennedy was the worst president.
Worst or quite good?
How about middling.
These past two terms have been nothing but status quo.
This country needs a revolution.
Can't vote in the poll. He didn't suit me personally. I don't hate him, but I do not approve of his foreign policy. I don't think he's a great leader and he is a poor commander of our military. As a veteran, I feel he is out of touch and does not appreciate or understand their sacrifice. I feel he is more supportive of Muslims than Christians. I feel he supports the perpetrators more than he supports our law enforcement officers. He invited black lives matter to the white house, but was pretty much silent after Beyonce's anti-cop performance, then 6 officers were immediately murdered. My biggest problem with him is that he should have been someone who could unite us, but he's a racist, in my eyes, and his leadership, or lack, thereof, has helped bring us to the greatest racial division I have seen in my lifetime.
Can't vote in the poll. He didn't suit me personally. I don't hate him, but I do not approve of his foreign policy. I don't think he's a great leader and he is a poor commander of our military. As a veteran, I feel he is out of touch and does not appreciate or understand their sacrifice. I feel he is more supportive of Muslims than Christians. I feel he supports the perpetrators more than he supports our law enforcement officers. He invited black lives matter to the white house, but was pretty much silent after Beyonce's anti-cop performance, then 6 officers were immediately murdered. My biggest problem with him is that he should have been someone who could unite us, but he's a racist, in my eyes, and his leadership, or lack, thereof, has helped bring us to the greatest racial division I have seen in my lifetime.
What exactly would you have Republicans (or Democrats for that matter) "do for" those rural blue collar types?
He did way more for veterans than most of the past veteran presidents. I dont think "Being in touch" is all its cracked up to be. All presidents should listen to their military advisors, regardless of their service experience. Its been a LONG time since Teddy Roosevelt. Clinton tried very hard to avoid war and Bush was fine starting multiple wars.
$9 trillion dollars worth (doubling the national debt).... and not too much to show for it.Not consequential? Getting us out of the great recession and coming out on top of every major country to boot? No big deal.
Passing the biggest health care reform law ever? No one talks about transformative laws in history class!
Killed the top terrorist in US history? He's a nobody former president Bush said so!
Getting equal rights for gays? No one will remember that!
Getting Iran to sign a nuclear deal? That's child's play!
Signing on to a global climate initiative? No big deal, if this planet dies there are like a bazillion more we can go to!
Normalizing relations with Cuba? It's a small insignificant country, history books already don't talk about the tiny country's US relationship!
Oh and he was the first black president, something I'm sure the history books will simply whitewash! /s
Which was perfect because every bad thing obama did could be countered by screaming racism. If you have not noticed but race relations in the country have been set back 30 years... all starting with obama's idiot cop beer summit.
Why does Obama get credit for doing "OK" after the disastrous Bush years, while Reagan doesn't get credit for doing "OK" after the disastrous Carter years?
$9 trillion dollars worth (doubling the national debt).... and not too much to show for it.
Reagan does get some credit, but Carter doesn't deserve as much blame as he gets. Carter inherited the inflation issues that caused the economic crisis in his term and the oil issues were a continuation of oil issues that had occurred a few years before he took office. Reagan gets credit for reappointing Volcker, a man originally appointed by Carter and the man most responsible for fixing the economic issues Reagan inherited. Unfortunately for Reagan, the amount of bad shit he did (failure to address AIDS crisis, treason in Iran Contra, Reaganomics which have caused SO, SO, SOOOOO many economic problems since) vastly trumps his few good actions. Reagan was also blessed with an opposing party that was far more willing to work with him than the clusterfuck of obstructive dipshits that the GOP has been under Obama.
I'm going to ignore all the other dumb shit you posted because this one ranks supreme. Since before he was ever even the Democrat nominee, and increasing heavily once he was elected, the far right has been unabashedly racist towards him no matter what he does. He honestly has done good things for race relations himself, but the far right sees anything positive for minorities as a negative for them.
In just curious, how many Republicans did you vote for during the last seven years?