I am so glad you posted this as an OP, Niagara. My thoughts exactly on this man, our President. I was an Obama supporter for more than eight years. I do miss him.

His legacy will live on.



PS...thanks for the tag.

as an OP. There is so much I miss about him and his family. We will make sure his legacy lives on, we have to.



PS...You're very welcome

Pretty deserted now...we don't need that protection anymore. However his supporters loved him there.

I will definitely check it out

asked why we didn't keep him. She is in first grade. We spent an entire family dinner talking about the limits of terms for president. She seemed confused since FDR had more then 2 terms. She seems to think we, her family, screwed up.

When first graders notice, you know it's bad.

Hi, Trixie.

it's difficult to explain things to them at that age but just keep explaining it to her. She'll get it and she'll realize her family isn't the ones who screwed up

When the kids were her age we started showing time by pieces of paper. Paper comes in 500 reams so we would put 1 sheet down for her brother who is 1 and 7 sheets down for her. Then we would jump to her parents who are 36 and then to us who are 50s, finally to her great great Aunt we would put down 92. We then would look at a history book of say the middle ages and put down a ream of paper. She got it.

Explaining the size of her family to millions will be harder so we keep showing marches, protests and such.

I miss everything about the President and FL Michelle, too.

Gotta catch a bus!

Mahalo

Very nice OP. I'm glad you stopped lurking and decided to join in.

I will always think of him as the best in my 70 year lifetime.

💐💐💐🇺🇸💐💐💐

These days, I look at our "leaders" and I already know that I'm better than they are.

PS: Welcome to DU!

Of his administration.

Even his biggest "scandals" were nonsense - after all he looked good in the suit and Grey Poupon is delicious on a bacon cheeseburger

mustard and a suit. Oh the horror.

I miss almost everything. I wish he had pardoned Leonard Peltier and not appointed Vilsack and had kept Howard Dean on and left Rahm at home.

Hard to praise President Obama's steadfast loyalty and knock him for being loyal to a long standing ally.

Now I suppose we could knock his judgement in having Mr. Emmanuel as a long standing ally, but...

Even that is a bit of a stretch given that at the time Rahm's role was the "bulldog" political operator that the Admin needed - At least that was the spin

But wow what a disappointment as the Mayor of Chicago. Truly an arrogant bullying shitheel of a politician when left alone

does not work as top dog.

Rahm's greatest blunder was in his pushing Dean aside. Dean had united this country and gave Barack his victory and Rahm shit on him.

who could speak extemporaneously on any subject. I miss a man that comported himself with dignity and who radiated decency.

and going to sleep with worry. It is affecting my health. I am not the only one!

His legacy will not be erased. They tried that with Jimmy Carter, and it has not worked. Obama contributed so much more in his two terms.

K&R Niagra!