Well, it that time. America is in transition. In with Trump and out with Obama. There are some people who couldn't be happier, because President Obama had a "negative impact" on the nation. Some have even gone so far as to say he's the worst president ever. This writer has one question though. Was President Obama really the worst?
Yes, President Obama did some boneheaded things, but every president has. They're only human. Looking at his whole of work as a whole, what exactly makes him the worst? Did he start a war over a lie and run the American economy into the ground? No. If anything, he saved the economy that Bush the second seemed so determined to destroy. He went against his own advisors (looking at you Hillary Clinton) to kill Osama bin Laden, while Bush the second let him roam free. Yet people tried to give Bush the second credit. Bull. Stuff.
People say the Mr. Obama didn't keep a lot of promises. This is true, but he was hamstrung by Republicans the whole time. They openly said they wanted to sabotage his presidency, but Obama's critics conveniently forget that. They wouldn't even let him pick his own Supreme Court justices. How are these people not in jail for treason?
Some say President Obama did nothing for them, but he did more than people will admit. Gays say he did nothing when hemade it some that gays could get married. He's done more for gays than anything president in history, yet he's done nothing for gays. Give this writer a break.
Women, Latinos, and other demographics joined in on saying he's done nothing, but they all got something. The only people that didn't really get anything of note were Blacks (the demographic most solidly behind him). Under Obama, Blacks enjoyed 20% unemployment and being shot by police and random people who just felt like shooting a Black person, and (this writer's personal favorite) told to stop eating Popeye's Chicken. That's right. Of all Americans, Blacks (his biggest supporters) are the only people who got nothing but insults, joblessness, and death from him. If nothing else, that is blind loyalty.
Then you have the racists pushing the idea of a race war. "The N-words are gonna do to us what we've done to them," a youtuber said in response to Obama's victory in 2008. Then you have people like Dylan Roof, who drove hundreds of miles out of his way just to shoot up Blacks in a church.
This doesn't include the personal insults that the Obama family took (gracefully, this writer might add). He had to sit back while watch he daughters be sexualized and his while wife receive death threats be called an ape and Moo-chelle. Personally, if this writer were him, the Secret Service would have been paying some visits and busting some heads. Just saying. Speaking of the Secret Service, remember when a man hopped the White House fence with guns and didn't get shot to death. Even his own 'bodyguards' were against him.
They are a lot of things this writer didn't have time to get to (perhaps in a potential part 2). This writer will remember him as a good president. Not a great one, not a bad one, but a good one. A president who gave stuff to the people, only to have those people slap him in the face. Finally, he was a president who turned his back on his biggest supporters, while catering to people that hated his guts. Looking at his whole body of work, this writer can't seriously call him the worst.
Until next time...
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