he was a nice meme but thats about it

make america great again

I'm pretty sure Obama was someone who had a strong image even if most didn't see it. I don't think it was possible for him to do anything about the countless existing problems of the states, but he still tried to at least deal with some of it. Obama care was still free care, so people complained about it being not as friendly as when you pay with your own insurance. 

In any case, can you find me another president that kills a mosquito and still look very intimidating?

The memes.
Oh boy the memes.
Politics asides, Obama was a pretty cool person.

Regardless of political positions, Obama at least had basic competence and wasn't a foreign relations disaster.

I'm a conservative, and Trump's credentials and first three weeks have already made him our worst president. The only comparable president would be Andrew Jackson, who was equally fascist, racist, and destructive.

yoshirulez!: Trump is awful. I will assume you're young. Please continue your education.

What I will miss about Obama...nothing. He was a weak president,ego-driven,offered ridiculous deals to our enemies,among other things.

Loveless,I will pretend I did not see that.

The Joebama meme obviously

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Well there is one thing I'll miss about him... Watching him walk out of the white house and leave the premises. That was my fondest memory of him. :V Best thing I've seen on a news station regarding the white house — or anything else for that matter — in...well...ever!

 
What I'm about to say is more of an observation as I'm personally far from religious and don't think it should play a big role in politics. I find it ironic that many conservatives accuse Obama of being an atheist, muslim or even the "antichrist" when he is probably one of the most openly Christian presidents the US has had (while at the same time being a pretty strong advocate of religious freedom). One can disagree with his interpretation but religion was clearly an active part of his life and it was obvious he had studied the bible and was comfortable in discussing it. Perhaps even more ironically the person many of these same people wanted to succeed him is one of the least religious US presidents to date. I wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't even read the bible based on interviews leading up to the election. I'm sensing some sort of racial prejudice here. 

All things taken into consideration I would argue Obama is one of the better presidents the US has had. When he came into office he stabilized the US after the financial crisis left by the Bush administration and reduced unemployment, hunted down Osama Bin Laden, ended the Iraq war and brought many troops home. He allowed for the advancement of scientific research by lifting restrictions on stem cells and took steps in the right direction when it came to building a more environmentally sustainable America. Despite Obamacare creating more complications for some than it helped (in my opinion) it also resulted in people getting coverage that couldn't afford it before and showed a willingness to want to improve conditions for the American people. He fought for what he believed in.

The losing side always like to hate on the most recent administration or at least exaggerate its faults and hail it as the worst. In my personal opinion it just goes to show that people are biased and will actively try to find faults once they've made up their mind about not liking an administration.  It happened with Obama and it's happening with Trump as well. However in the long term Obama will likely be remembered more fondly than many other US presidents. Does that make him a good president? That is debatable, I think there has been few presidents if any at all that are widely agreed upon to have been an objectively good president. People often base it on who aligns with their views most and will therefore find ways to ignore or explain away mistakes certain presidents made. The truth is there has been no perfect president, and there likely never will be (unless Kanye West runs in 2020, can't spell Amerikanye without Kanye ).

I agree with basically nothing he did while he was in office. I can't get behind anything he did in any official capacity, but one thing I respect him for is believing in what he does instead of being 100% money driven. I'll respect an ideologue long before a sociopath, and on a personal level, he actually seemed pretty chill.

I loved Obama. I support like 80% of what he did or was trying to do.

Was he perfect? Hell no (nobody is perfect, people need to wake up if they're still looking for the "perfect president"), but he was way better than what a lot of people make him out to be. Heck most people over here love the guy.

I'll also miss Michelle Obama as first lady. 

Furret : You seem to be forgetting the possibility of the great Kanye West running in 2020. You can't spell Amerikanye without Kanye.

Furret is posting in the debate forum, now I truly have seen it all.

"White House unfair! Obama is in there, standing at the concession, plotting our oppression!"

Blaming Obama for things and setting up intentionally false conspiracy with an angry voice is one of the funniest things to me. Going TRUMPH -insert blah blah here- doesn't sound as good as going OH-BAHM-A.

Aside from jokes, it was nice to occasionally agree on something good a president did instead of whining about it. 

Zlinqx :

Please don't even state that possibility. The Simpsons made a joke about Trump becoming president and look what happened.

Txgangsta:

So you're basically calling him stupid because of his age and opinion? That's pretty low. He's around the same age as some of the mods on this site. Also a possibility that he may have been joking, and I will say that I don't think jokes like that should belong in a debate thread.

Even so, you shouldn't belittle someone because of their opinion/age. We may be young, but we're old enough to understand what's happening around us.

Txgangsta : I'm fairly certain that the thread wasn't in the debate forum when I made my post. I could be wrong, of course. If I was, then I give you my most sincere apology.

But I don't think that warranted your somewhat demeaning reply to me, and in short, I think you need to chill out.

Lexatom : Which is the exact reason I'm bringing it up.

Zlinqx : Please,in the name of all that is good and holy,DO NOT even joke about that. Kanye is more ego driven than Obama could ever be. Not to mention we would get instead of a First Lady,we would get a First Skank. I do not think Kanye would even consider it,because it would mean he actually has to do something,besides being a $hit artist. And do you want Kim Kardashian,who is famous for nothing except a sex tape,reality TV,and her @$$ as a First Lady?

Oldschool777 : Well, tbh its not like Melania Trump is much better.

Zlinqx : Well the thing is most people I know in real life didn't think that most of the positives you listed were positive. Health care reform did MUCH more harm than good (literally, I watched my mom nearly die because of it), the troops being pulled back was not a good idea for national and global security reasons, and I strongly oppose stem cell research.


Then the financial crisis.
I know what the media says, but take it from someone who lives in the US and has no reason to push any certain agenda (like a boss telling me what to say): Obama did NOT stabilize the economy. The unemployment rate went down, but employment didn't go up. Take my city for example: I watched business after business pull out and/or close down, yet our unemployment rate according to the media went down. Why? There are fewer employed people here now than there were before. One reason for the deceiving results is that the unemployment rate goes down when someone just gets tired of looking and stops, or when their unemployment check account runs dry or for whatever reason they can no longer draw.

And the Bush administration came in on the tail end of the Clinton administration which I was also here and alive for, and I can attest to the fact that Trump was at least factually accurate in his comment that Bill Clinton destroyed our economy with deals that favored everyone but America. Obama wasn't trying to play cleanup for Bush, he was trying to fix what Bush had spent his presidency fighting the aftermath of: the Clinton fiasco.
Am I bashing Obama for the economy? No. I'm simply saying that Clinton is the one to blame for the recession. Bush could have done a better job recovering it, but he didn't do nearly as bad as the media says.
You're a reasonable guy, and you try to open mindedly consider the facts, so let me ask you to do this one thing: look back at the presidents from the relatively recent past and see if the news articles, columns, etc. that you find archived don't make it a habit to trash a Republican president and blame him for everything, and praise (or at least say less evil about) a Democrat president. Policies vary by president, regardless of party, so we can't honestly say that this is due to the fact that Republican policies are bad etc. it's a serious bias. I'm not a conspiracy theorist as you know, I'm just telling you what I've seen firsthand as a citizen under the past three presidents.

Spicy : I would rather have Melania Trump over Kim Kardashian any day of the week as First Lady. At least Melania has class,Kim is nothing but rich,white,entitled trash.