He could've been a bit more aggressive in his 2nd term but the burden placed on him in disingenuous.
Obama breaks silence on 2nd Trump presidency: "Imagine if I had done this!”
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You're too intelligent for this. It's ok to back a candidate, but you paint your ownself into a corner when you act like it's all or nothing. You can agree with someone you didn't support/vote for on an issue, just like you can disagree with the candidate you supported.
Obama, in his second term especially, could have done a lot more than he did. Asking "what if I did that?" now, all these years later, just makes him look weak, in my opinion.
If he was gonna go into an office like the Presidency with the intention of "playing it safe" then he wasn't the man for the job. i didn't vote for trump, but he's shown what has always been possible if you stop concerning yourself with what people are going to think.
A good portion of the country showed its ass when Obama was elected. He had control of both houses of Congress, didn't he? At least for a time. If nothing else, he could've signed an executive order protecting us from the abuses of law enforcement. He wouldn't even do that.
a controversy rooted in nothing. if that kinda shyt affects you and you're the president you don't need to hold that office. i would've worn a tan suit everyday and fist bumped until my knuckles bled and let the media cry as loud as they wanted to.
RennisDeynolds
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
Obama only cared about his legacy at a certain point, he wasn't about pushing boundaries 
The ACA isn't what it should be and that was his only big deal.
All the zombies from his administration are still kicking around running the democratic party and that's the problem today.
The ACA isn't what it should be and that was his only big deal.
All the zombies from his administration are still kicking around running the democratic party and that's the problem today.
Worthless Loser
Blackpilled
Uh, an Executive Order would only have power over federal law enforcement agents.
Most of black people's run its with law enforcement are with city, county and state officers. The only way to address that would be through the US Congress or State Congress.
I don't want any president "taking notes" from how Trump operates. Yeah Obama could have pushed a lot harder on the progressive agenda, but what Trump is doing is against the law. It's just that there's no one who can stop him so long as Republicans in Congress and SCOTUS cosign everything.
well then that would've been something. but he did nothing. he could've done the same thing trump is doing - threatened to withhold federal funding from states that refuse to address the situation through legislation.
he could've had his lawyers look into what could be done and what couldn't, and the legal ways to apply pressure. the fact is he did nothing.
Bunchy Carter
I'll Take The Money Over The Honey
Obama supported and pushed the DACA programs, but was like fukk your reparations for FBA's
Via: Barack Obama explains why he doesn't think reparations to black people are practical | History News Network
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Via: Barack Obama explains why he doesn't think reparations to black people are practical | History News Network
12-21-16
Barack Obama explains why he doesn't think reparations to black people are practical
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An interview in the Atlantic with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Barack Obama: ... Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it’s not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument. But as a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation’s resources over a long period of time to make that right. You can look at examples like postwar Germany, where reparations were paid to Holocaust victims and families, but—
Coates: They lost the war.
Obama: They lost the war. Small population, finite amount of money that it was going to cost. Not multiple generations but people, in some cases, who are still alive, who can point to, “That was my house. Those were my paintings. Those were my mother’s family jewels.” If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn’t come in the form of a formal reparations program. You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn’t fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.
So the bottom line is that it’s hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year. So how do Latinos feel if there’s a big investment just in the African American community, and they’re looking around and saying, “We’re poor as well. What kind of help are we getting?” Or Asian Americans who say, “Look, I’m a first-generation immigrant, and clearly I didn’t have anything to do with what was taking place.” And now you start getting into trying to calibrate—
Coates: Isn’t there just—not to cut you off—isn’t there, and this is out of the role of U.S. president, I’m almost speaking to you as a law professor now, an intellectual, in fact—
Obama: Well, that’s how I was answering the question, because if you want me to talk about politics, I’ll be much more blunt about it.
Coates: I figured that. I thought that was what I was getting.
Obama: I was giving the benefit of playing out, theoretically, how you could think about that.
Coates: And I appreciate that. And the question I would ask is in that situation, to the immigrant who comes here, first generation, and says, “I didn’t do any of this,” but the country is largely here because of that. In other words, many of the benefits that you will actually enjoy are, in fact, in part—I won’t say largely—in part here because of the past. So when you want the benefits, when you invoke the past, that thus you inherit the debt, too—
Obama: Yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess, here’s the way—probably the best way of saying it is that you can make a theoretical, abstract argument in favor of something like reparations. And maybe I’m just not being sufficiently optimistic or imaginative enough—
Coates: You’re supposed to be optimistic!
Obama: Well, I thought I was, but I’m not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people. So to restate it: I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader’s ability, to mobilize the American people around a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to help every child in poverty in this country than I am in being able to mobilize the country around providing a benefit specific to African Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow. Now, we can debate the justness of that. But I feel pretty confident in that assessment politically. And, you know, I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now, and—...
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Scustin Bieburr
Baby baybee baybee UUUGH
To Trump whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies. The repercussions are striking: Trump is the first president to have served in no public capacity before ascending to his perch. Perhaps more important, Trump is the first president to have publicly affirmed that his daughter is a “piece of ass.” The mind seizes trying to imagine a black man extolling the virtues of sexual assault on tape (“And when you’re a star, they let you do it”), fending off multiple accusations of said assaults, becoming immersed in multiple lawsuits for allegedly fraudulent business dealings, exhorting his followers to violence, and then strolling into the White House. But that is the point of white supremacy—to ensure that that which all others achieve with maximal effort, white people (and particularly white men) achieve with minimal qualification. Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that in working twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive—work half as hard as black people a"nd even more is possible.
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-Coates 2017
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Retired Hoodrat whisperer
The coli:
-Obama didn’t do enough
Then
-Bernie would’ve did too much
Now
- We need a democratic Trump
-Obama didn’t do enough
Then
-Bernie would’ve did too much
Now
- We need a democratic Trump
Fanservice
Bih call me senpai
Killing Obama would have made him a martyr. They definitely wouldn’t want that.
Maximus Rex
Superstar
Obama would've been in prison if he tried the shyt Trump does, MAGA crowd is in a cult, so they are gonna rewrite their brain to justify why Trump is great.
Recca Gatsby
LWO
Y'all wanted Obama, who got slandered for even the slightest thing, to jump out the window--much less anywhere near this maniac we got feeding off white nationalist energy.
Scustin Bieburr
Baby baybee baybee UUUGH
You seem to be under the impression that racists are intelligent.