Would have been nice had he been less of an institutionalist and more of a working-class-people president. Transformative? Nope, not at all. I had hope, but that dashed after that feckless ACA insurance boon. He came in with a mandate but as usual, Democrats squandered that for the donor class.

👆. Didn’t agree with all he did, but the above is 100% correct.

I know I was never more proud to be An American! Now I feel only shame and heartache

Should he run? Trump is terrified of him.

Trump is the best president

You’re probably a child molester

Get help!

You need it more

Nah, I'm European and we see Hitlers playbook all over again......this not going to end well little buddy...get help to open your eyes....

His biggest guilt was being black

I'm a big Obama fan. Sadly, at least part of Trump's rise was a backlash against Obama. Racists could never accept a black president much less a brilliant, talented one like Obama was. I foolishly thought that the worst of racism was behind us once Obama was elected. Now the racists are in control.

The President that lives rent free in Chumps head 😏💙

I miss him.

He’s the GOAT

Hehehe, and the Nobel peace prize. 🤭

you right, he was pushing the Nazi's & Soviet Russia's backup plane, according to the ex-KGB agent. to take down the USA and Yes, he is the President you wanted.

some say he's still working on those groups planes by putting black ageist white, woman ageist men, the LGBTQAI+ ageist straight none LGBTQAI+ people and by backing DEI. after all if you had incompetent ideologies people that don't have the skills in a job, it's easier to take down the USA.

but what do I know, I'm Just Goblin.

He set the bar high.

But he’s a black

People love Obama because he was a brilliant orator and forget he was a neoliberal puppet for the big banks.

I was so proud of our country during his presidency…

AIPAC WHORE + killed a lot of Palestinians + incarcerated latino migrants But we won't mention all that cause he's the bestest

1 Nobel Peace Prize.

if trump can run for a third, or more, terms so could Obama be worth hearing him talk about it just to watch trump and the gop implode

Don't sleep on #Biden, he brought us back from the brink...and he was at the end of his political career.

Yes. He was a great POTUS.

Miss him EVERY DAY!

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Nostalgia is poison. Did he codify Roe when he had the chance? Did he close Guantanamo? Did he stop cruel deportations? Did he de-fang the military or prison industrial complexes? Did he hold Wall Street accountable? No. Quit putting mediocre lesser evils on pedestals.

and never named himself head of the olynpics or the Kennedy center and kept the oval office from looking like a pimps bedroom like drumpf did

Most definitely!!!

Let's not forget never plead the Fifth

Those were the days that won’t come back again

TRUMP will never be Obama and it lives rent free in his pickled demented brain 🧠

WE NOW HAVE ILLITERATE PEDOPHILES VOTING FOR TRUMP WAVING VOTING CARDS LIKE THEY'RE GRAD SCHOOL DIPLOMAS FROM MIT... REQUIRE COMPETENCY EXAMS TO VOTE.... THESE REPUBLICAN ASSWIPES SHOULDN'T BE MAKING DECISIONS FOR OUR COUNTRY.... IF YOU SEE THESE PEDOPHILES ON THE STREET LET EM KNOW IT !!!!!!👊👊👊

This was a time when America was respected. When decency, respect, honor, integrity were all qualities that were held by a President who cared deeply about fellow humans. Unlike the current felon that is shaming America.

A great President and a classy human being.

Omg how we miss him and Michelle. ❤️❤️

Obama turned me in 2012 😁

America is a bipartisan Warocracy

He should be speaking out against SHITLER's TURD REICH! So far... crickets.... 🦗🦗

Why?

Silence is complicity!

But why should a Black man be the one speaking out? And why is he the only one you think should speak out?

Aren't you guys the same ones who told him to "STFU and move aside!"?

He has been here is one example

??? Obama was FUCKING TERRIBLE - Bailed out the banks - Gave us a republican healthcare plan - Massive drone strikes

Wasn't that Bush who made the deal with the banks?

Please! He was no hero. He bailed out the banks during the housing crisis. They got parties, I lost my house. Obama just worked for different rich people. He was for the corporations just like any other politician.

I was and still am very proud of President Barack Obama.

Definitely. The US went from the sublime to the ridiculous. The upside, if there is one, is that the bar is now under ground so future presidents, assuming there are any, don't have to do much to best the orange menace.

💯

I’ve said this multiple times, but is Obama better than Trump? Yes. But a guy who says “The 1980s called they want their foreign policy back” about Russia is a foreign policy blunder that’s pretty bad and nothing to be proud of.

He also is one of two presidents, both Democrats, who actually did so much to pay the debt down. (R)s only spend like money is made on trees and blame (D)s for their failures.

Only ONE tan suit.

👍🏻👍🏻

Every Dem since Clinton has basically cleared the runway for this shit to happen. The Republicans move further right, and the Neolibs followed them. The Overton Window shifted, and now Republicans are outright fascists, and the core of the Democratic Party is to the right of Ronald Fucking Reagan

White supremists could literally NOT be proud of him, but all the rest of "we the people" could be and are.

White supremacists aren't Americans—they go against everything America stands for.

I agree, except that when you consider "everything" America stands for, there's a lot of pretty bad, ugly shit in there too.

I’m glad I don’t belong to a party where the leader uses fear to control me.

The WORST white president of ALL the presidents will NEVER come close to being compared competitively, in any positive metrics, to the only black president.

Except that he has black skin, right MAGA dummies?!!

Still is and so is Joe

My favorite president ❤️

Where were you back in 2010 when the GOP took back the House setting the course of obstruction-including the theft of HIS SCOTUS choice, while they were bailing out big banks, but denying poor people a bailout and universal healthcare ?! 😡 trump’s not alone in rewriting history!

Someone told me recently that the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital was an accident

It was not.

I asked em how you accidentally bomb a hospital and they blocked me lol

Sounds about right for the kinds of sleeping shitlibs who heap praise and get warm-and-fuzzy over a war criminal

But he wore a tan suit!

💙🩵🤍

He destroyed Libya , turned Africas most progressive country into an open air slave market, caused mass migration into Europe which in turn fueled the rise of the fascist right but he's still somehow better than trump which proves all Americas presidents are evil or stupid

From memory, President Obama never took the 5th. Nobody around him took the 5th. I could be wrong

We just gonna ignore all the drone strikes now?

That's why chumpers Maga shifty pants can't stand him he's honest a rarity in DC

Obama is brilliant. he CARES about US.

Trump took his picture down and hid it. Obama is living rent-free in his mind.

I hope he keeps living there. It's only going to make Trump's already obvious mental and cognitive decline even worse and we'll see it every time it happens.

I didn't agree with all of his policies. I saw him as clinging to the mistakes of the recent past. But I did absolutely respect the man. He was honorable. Something trump has only ever heard of. And in the end he did turn against some of the faults of the past and try to fix things.

It's nice to have the press on your side, when you let Banksters rob 5.1 million Americans out of their homes. He didn't uphold the rule of law for past crimes, and gave us a Conservative healthcare plan. He constantly did extrajudicial killings, including American citizens. We've never recovered!

And now millions will have NO health plans! Trump is on the edge of pardoning a sex trafficker he’s buddies with. Talk about not upholding rule of law for past crimes!

Obama's refusal to hold Bankers, and the Bush crimes accountable built the freeway Trump is driving on. His election meddling is what kept giving us Trump. Like Einstein, Trump is standing on the backs of giants, but of a different kind!

You’re partly correct, this has been in the works for decades! At least since the Powell memo in the 70’s, which was the beginning of citizens united. We have been pushed farther & farther right ever since. It’s all part of project 2025, before it was called that.

Clinton had a huge hand in what Reagan only started, leading to the 2007/8 collapse, working people never recovered from. That's why education ceased to matter. Power no longer needed smart. Smart are liabilities. Business is no longer economically accountable, ever since. We ceased functioning.

Yep, the move into neoliberal capitalism has been apocalyptic

The next train station stops at fascism. I think we may be just arriving. Better hold on to your luggage!

We have arrived! 🚉

I urge state, county, and local, governments to have contingent plans for no Federal government.

He was cool, no doubt....but he was a weak and Ineffectual President...He NEVER went after Corporate Criminals in 2008...he lost both the House and the Senate because his timing for pushing the Affordable Care Act was bad...and he let Russia STEAL the Crimea from Ukraine without a challenge....

Yeah but I have to wonder if I can let you guys live down following him with this fucking thing.

I wish he would fight for us. A few snide remarks are not enough.

Fun Fact: The same assholes that got the rug pulled from under them and are crying on tiktok did nothing but complained

I want him back

I believe most of the civilized world would agree with that statement.

Wait, zero crimes? Are you sure that's a president? Did he ever brag on Howard Stern about ogling naked 15 year olds?

How does a country go from Obama to a Trump?

And this record is why Trump keeps moving his Portrait out of eyesight in the White House. Men of very small stature like Trump don't want a historical giant like Obama reminding him of his historical shortcomings every day he walks through the door to his office. Petty, petty little man.

Trump is a monster but so was Obama. Don’t praise a war criminal

substack.com/@ellenmitche...

Iraq

Tall, fit chap, who looks good in a Tan Suit.

Unforgiveable.

That’s why tRump and MAGAt are attacking him right now.

I don't understand why our top Democratic leaders are so very quiet. We need the Obamas now more than ever, where are they. Where is Harris ? As far as I'm concerned Harris should be travelling with Bernie Sanders around the country. Where the F**k IS EVERYONE !!

Yes, and where are the ones serving in Congress right now? Oh yea, fighting Mamdani.

I'm gonna be nice, and say...They have their heads up their asses, that's where they are !!

When he was in office many of us thought he was about as progressive as a moderate Republican. Now, we know. You have to preside over the country you have. And now there is no moderate Republican and his Presidency seems very progressive, indeed.

❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗. AND- - WE WERE!!!

Zero divorces. Zero anchor babies. Zero trips to Epstein's island.

President Obama did NOT: DEPLOY our MILITARY TROOPS into any America’s Cities! DESTROY any Federal Agencies! TAKE CONTROL of our Kennedy Center or decide who gets its Medals of Honor! REWRITE our American History at all our SMITHSONIAN MUSEUMS! IGNORE States Rights! OBAMA WAS A *PRESIDENT*!

He also has a Nobel Peace Prize and Trump hates him because he knows that he will never get one.

Felon shouldn't get one but his sycophants, including Netanyahu the Nazi have nominated him for one. 🤦

and yet where is he now? occasionally posting mildly worded chastisement of the regime, safe in the security he has the money and means to bail himself and his family out of here if necessary. he also has the power and platform to stop the downfall of the us, as do many others, and they aren't.

Obama also never tried to stage a coup with crazies like President Pedophile either.

By their INACTION & TACIT APPROVAL the American GENERAL PUBLIC have watched The Regime’s Blatant Financial Corruption, Human Rights Abuses of children & Innocents, Desecration of your Constitution, Extortion of Law Firms, Universities and Media And Now Armed Soldiers on the Capital’s streets SO?

One wife, mother of both of his kids.

Still don't agree with his economic centrism. The lack of an infrastructure bill in place of a tax cut stimulus was painful long term.

The drone king...

Ok lets not forget how he handed the country over to vig banks and droned the hell out of the Middle East. Just because Donald is the worst of the worst, doesnt make Obama an angel. Although, domestically overall, Id say Obama was a solid C+

And his wife has never been seen nude by the rest of the world.

One TAN suit. Disgraceful!

The Deporter in Chief? Yeah, super proud of him unlike Trump with his war on immigrants....

Remember when Faux News had to make up scandals and not cover ups? I may not have agreed with EVERY action My President took in office, but I never truly feared for my life, future, or dignity.

Don't fool yourselves, he took part of the population control, like those before and after him. ➡️ chng.it/hF7YK55Kqq

👍💯💯

Okay but why Wasn’t Trump charged when Biden in Power he had his chance and blew it. I ask why. The people definitely voted for Trump only one reason. Greed.

Obama's dedication to making affordable health care for all is one of the most consequential accomplishments by any president. Notwithstanding ending two world wars managed by FDR and then Truman with help from our allies. All about saving lives. That is America's mission. Let's not forget it.

TRUTH

Great years for America

Ohh...how I miss that man.

He'd be a pretty cool dude if not for letting the guy who started a fuckin torture program off scot free with no consequences and then going on to kill a bunch of kids with his own war crimes Other than that though, definitely a chill guy!

8 beautiful years… 2920 days of joy and sunshine ☀️

Truth and respected by all countries and people love to be invited to his parties

how about a coup and he takes over?

👍🏻 👌 ok

I sure do miss Obama and his family. Sanity and humanity. Now we are living in a Bosch painting.

AND a Nobel Peace Prize!!

But most white Americans are neo fucking Nazis and voted for a rapist/pedophile in response to having a black president. America is hands down the most racist country on the planet

and Biden was even a better President with higher metrics across the fucking board but you far left fucking sacks of shit betrayed him to try and force a fucking pile of dog shit like Kamala Harris on the country and instead put Trump in power. There is no one to blame for Trump except liberals.

I really didn't like him for the extra judicial killings of American citizens with drone bombs, or the escalation of drone bombings itself. But your points are valid. I still think every president should be put in front of a tribunal after they leave office and made to justify their actions.

This is how a President should be not anything like the guy currently in our white house.

Not only that, but Obama never had to plead the fifth. How many times has felon-rapist-traitor-president had to take the fifth? More than 400?

That is really a fact

I miss him a great deal

He loved going to war

That's because Obama was a decent human being. FLOTUS is a lying rapist embezzling embarrassing fraud traitor.

Except he was Blick. As white South Africans call their indigenous population. MAGA hated Potus Obama with the same Passion they love trumpie. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

Absolutely 💯

Impeach tRump, be proud

He's literally a war criminal. Americans always reminding the world that they only care about themselves.

He secretly couped multiple democracies, drone struck more human beings than Trump has so far, bombed a hospital and a wedding, refused to close gitmo or end any wars, deported more migrants than any other president until Trump as of 2 months ago. Speak for yourself, this war criminal gets the noose

Is every president a war criminal?

Yes. Definitionally, historically, and potentially legally.

Sucks to be you

You fucking stupid or something?

I dunno, but it didn't take me 6 days to read a post, so...

And that is what makes DJT so made and hateful

Tenthousand, quentillion, drugillion, steptillion, brogillion likes...

Look at the difference between what they stood for when they were younger. That really does make a difference...

Except red neck, illiterate, racist Maga, greedy old white billionaires and a certain narcissistic sociopathic devil’s spawn…... Whose collective heads exploded because an educated , classy, black man won….

People all around the world respect him 👍

But you voted for the fat orange Hutt.

Just googled what National Guard deployments Obama did during his 8 years, and nothing came up about using them to control American citizens or take over major metropolitan cities here in the US. Fun fact.

All for naught after endorsing Joe Biden because it was his turn.

Also Zero prosecutions of the Banksters that crashed the economy in 2008. It was all like "You pay this token fine which is about 10% of money you stole and we will call it even." Millions of people lost everything, and the crooks that caused it got bailed out. Too big 2 fail they said.

War crimes. We deserve better.

Trump is the prime example of a puny little butthurt jealous man of the only Black and Great President that 1 of 3 Presidents ever won a Nobel Peace Prize. Being the racist avenged narcissist twerp that he is has set out to get revenge on all of USA for trying to impeach and imprison him for crimes.

And Trump hates him for it.

Good morning friend 😎👍👍👍

But he droned innocent people too. Americans can't be proud of no president of the current USA

But he wore a tan suit. Also, Michelle’s arms and the “terrorist fist bump,” a/k/a a fist bump.

I just miss politics being boring and also not having to know the names and faults of every single cabinet member. 😠

unlike trump Pres Obama NEVER said ‘i HATE Republicans’ ‘the only good republican is a DEAD republican’ ‘I HATE Ted Nugent’ (trump on Taylor Swift) or filled the DOJ, FBI, Homeland Security with bloodthirsty leftwingers hellbent on arresting as many of their political enemies as they can

This is why the orange old fart is using a scam investigation. He wants to tarnish Obama's legacy, oh yeah, and distract from the Epstein files!

Australia here. 🐨 Can you guys get THAT guy back? We’re really kind of worried about the new guy blowing up the planet. 🙀 Just saying’. 🫣

I miss him so damned much.

And not one time did he have to plead the Fifth, nor did any of his administration.

Obama has never pleaded the fifth

This is my Patriotic Brilliant President!! 🌷

Yes!

That's why I'm laughing out loud when I hear Trump wishing to lock him up while no Judges will sign on an arrest warrant without no possible charge except "I don't like this guy" EVER

Hear! Hear!👍🏻☺️

If Trump somehow manages to get the ban on a president serving more than two terms lifted I'd vote for Obama in a freaking heartbeat, if he'd run. Then again, right now I'd vote for any ~ decent ~ human being in a heartbeat.

Obama made it possible for my children to have the healthcare that made a decent life possible for them. For people in countries with universal healthcare, a translation: if you have no money you get no treatment, no medicine unless you can pay for them at exorbitant costs. Or you get sick and die.

So he fixed the American healthcare system then? The only thing he really did was continue to protect healthcare profits by subsidizing them with government money. He didn't fundamentally change the system in any way.

Before Obamacare my daughter had no healthcare once she aged off my insurance. With several life-long, life-threatening conditions requiring medication. Her health was declining, until Obamacare. She's living a relatively normal life now. So worlds better than before, yes. Perfect, no. But better.

It's not better. It was better for you and your daughter at that moment in time. That doesn't mean that anything was fixed at all. Hence why it was so easy for Trump to destroy what little progress was made.

Everyone has opinions. It's still better for us. Until it's not. My preference would be universal healthcare, such as found in many EU countries. But since it's a business here, that won't happen.

And again, I think Obama did a world of good. Within the boundaries of what it was possible for him to do in the political climate of the time. It's not like a President can just wave his hand and make something happen. Oh, wait, did someone tell Trump that yet?

We perhaps disagree about what the boundaries of possibility were, not only for Obama but the Democratic Party more generally. They dropped the bag and got us here. Trump is a great example of testing the limits of executive power in a way the Dems never would, and yet it's what was needed of them.

I dunno. I think that may be a little simplistic, a little too easy, blaming it all on the Dems. It kind of absolves everyone else in the country who could have also been working towards a better end. But they stuck with the two main parties instead. There were other options they ignored.

Dunno; business will not go quietly. It's not like it was when they put Social Security into place - that was not replacing a system. Only thing I can think of is a parallel voluntary system - like in the UK. Which we've been doing with Medicaid, sort of. But again, corporate interests....

Luigi them all then? idk There's still no point in lionising Obama for pyrrhic achievements.

And ONE wife he is faithful too.

The crime of being born with dark skin is the only reason they kept denying President Obama agenda. Racist Republicans made things hard while Obama was in office to keep him from succeeding. His success would have lead to the Middle Class & minorities gaining some hope.

I remember this effing balding *itch, is she still around? That pic. shows a bleach blond balding trash displaying no class vs an intelligent, calm, rational, dignified man not *itch slapping her.

youtu.be/i7QG9PXLbXk?...

Seriously With a man so vile; To the point he’s character is so chopped up , his spirit so numb .The reason why people are obsessessed with someone so severly criminal says is a wonder.?It reveals a lot about our society & this form of diviance.

Just wish he was hawkish on Russia.

I don't think he'll know how much he's missed 🥲

Which is why the fascist MAGA scum hate him.

Didn't cheat on his wife Only had one Only procreated with one

And actually loves spending time with his family

And actually loves his kids

Don't get me wrong but it seems that his greatest achievement was that he didn't screw much. Yet he also didn't do much good (or anything for that matter) either so a pretty low bar to jump over. I could still list a number of things he screwed but it all pales in comparison to what's happening now.

How did we go from the sublime to the ridiculous??

Because people lost their freaking minds when he was elected. If a minority is put in charge, the other minorities might think they can do it, too. 🙄

Back lash for electing the first black President. The GOP 2010 gerrymandering road map as well as McConnell's constant obstruction were just some of the things they did because he was black.

Thinking Obama was sublime IS ridiculous.

🤦‍♀️ I’m not that smart/stupid

Very proud indeed. Except for the part when he was so terrified of Putin that he broke our commitment to defend Ukraine and incentivized the second invasion. Or when he was too stupid to get single payer universal health care when he had near super majority margins in both chambers. Or when he ...

By « stupid « you mean sell out

I don't dispute that characterization. The ostensible reason he gave amounted to "we can't have it because don't have it now." That strikes me as a position that could only be sincerely advanced by someone with sub par cognitive abilities. "Sell out" which goes to motivation, captures part of it too

Excuse me. Clearly you don't remember that THAT MAN, wore a tan suit, while president. and let's not pretend that he didn't order "fancy mustard." If yellow mustard isn't good enough for you, then you have no right being president.

But….but… but… that tan suit!

You can be proud of anyone/anything you want. Being proud of Obama isn't as pathetic as being proud of Trump, but it's still pathetic. Like Trump, his main accomplishment was how he made people feel. Beyond that, his presidential performance was mediocre.

Amen 🙏

Not a pedophile either.

No impeachments too!

And he's Black too just so you racist bitches know ugly ass stupid ass Orange looking ugly tanning Bad hair stupid voice supporters

I mean he’s a great person but the democrats were pretty mediocre under his presidency

Well, if the orange turd runs for a third so must Obama

Heck, I'm a 47yo Aussie, and whilst I may not agree with all of Obama's policies (who agrees 100% with any politican?) President Obama was a statesman and leader. I'd call him the finest US President in my lifetime. Integrity. Valour. No Aussies would show up to protest Obama visiting down under.

Watch if Trump comes down under, Aussies will come out in force and tell Trump to f off back to MAGALAND. This is Australia. We don't take kindly to fwits like Trump. Doesn't mean I agree with all Obama did, but he was a leader. Trump couldn't lead a horse to water.

Looking at some of the Australian politicians FriendlyJordies has reported on, you take quite kindly to plenty of right wing fuckwits electorally.

After landslide victories to the Labor Party in state & federal elections post Jan 20, its more accurate to say we have a very loud right wing fuckwit minority aided by the most ownership-concentrated media landscape in the first world. Sorry about Rupert Murdoch though (no returns!).

Thank You for your support. We need ALL of it, from anywhere, we can get! 🤗 🆘🇺🇸🆘

Always the best.

After all these years it's become evident the best thing about Obama was he was sane. He was reasonable. He was logical. I miss that in a president.

Trump threatens arrest. He’d have the biggest revolt this country has ever seen.

Racist Christians went fucknut crazy and started over 800 hate groups! Not Muslim! Not Jewish! Christian’s did this! Jesus did NOT teach hate!

Christian Fundamentalists are a strange lot, they passionately long for the End of Days, but while they're still here, why not support a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, accused pedophile, and a notorious liar.

I remember the Joy I felt watching Kamala fill Stadiums. When do we prove Elon rigged the election??

Obama was a really good President. Having said that, is it not an awful indictment on American politics when a President is good because they didn't start a war or be involved in criminal activity?

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017...

I guess you never heard about Obama's Disposition Matrix any of the resulting war crimes he directly ordered. Like bombing hospitals in Afghanistan, or the extrajudicial murders of American citizens abroad? If you're proud of Obama then I sincerely believe you deserve your current leadership.

This is the black president Trump is so jealous of that he needs to banish his official portrait to a stairwell. Trump is not fit to polish President Obamas shoes.

He's such a guy with the most beautiful smile in the world 😍

Indictments -> TBD