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fun n serious

(4,451 posts)
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:09 AM May 2016

Obama’s Legacy Is Bigger Than You’d Ever Believe

He signed into law a comprehensive national health insurance bill, a goal that had eluded progressive presidents for a century. He got surprisingly tough reforms to Wall Street passed as well, not to mention a stimulus package that both blunted the recession and transformed education and energy policy.

He’s put in place the toughest climate rules in American history and signed a major international limate accord. He opened the US to Cuba for the first time in more than half a century, and reached a peaceful settlement to the nuclear standoff with Iran.

I want to add.. Obama is the first President to endorse marriage equality.

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/environment/obamas-legacy-is-bigger-than-youd-ever-believe/

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Obama’s Legacy Is Bigger Than You’d Ever Believe (Original Post) fun n serious May 2016 OP
If Hillary had won in 08 we'd still have DOMA and DADT. Bluenorthwest May 2016 #1
I voted for Obama so I agree. fun n serious May 2016 #2
I made my point. Bluenorthwest May 2016 #3
Democrats who vote disagree.. fun n serious May 2016 #4
That's ugly verbiage typical of your cohort. I am a Democrat and always have been. Bluenorthwest May 2016 #5
What smears? fun n serious May 2016 #7
Don't play coy, it looks tacky in an adult context. You claim 'Democrats who vote' favor Hillary Bluenorthwest May 2016 #8
Not only that -- but I think he will be the most amazing and effective ex-POTUS we've ever seen aikoaiko May 2016 #6
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
1. If Hillary had won in 08 we'd still have DOMA and DADT.
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:40 AM
May 2016

So very glad Obama won in 2008. That's a very excellent point you make, that if we'd elected her then, we'd not have Obama's legacy but hers and hers would not be the same as his nor as good.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
3. I made my point.
Wed May 4, 2016, 10:04 AM
May 2016

She was not the right choice then, not the right choice now. She's the candidate who has sketchy grasp on the basic elements of our national history, much less LGBT history. She's the candidate who says that Reagan was the original AIDS activist, bravely doing the work gay people refused to do. She's still second choice, better only than the Republicans, same as in 2008.

 

fun n serious

(4,451 posts)
4. Democrats who vote disagree..
Wed May 4, 2016, 10:07 AM
May 2016

Bernie was not pro marriage equality until 2009 AFTER Obama. IMO.. Clinton is better than Sanders and that is why I am voting for her this time. I live in Portland btw

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
5. That's ugly verbiage typical of your cohort. I am a Democrat and always have been.
Wed May 4, 2016, 10:12 AM
May 2016

And you are not being honest about anything you are saying about Bernie, just as you are doing nothing but hurl mendacious personal insults at me.

Sad that your cohort can't discuss policy and fact and has to instantly resort to dishonesty and invective and smears. Of course your transparency page is not an accident....

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
8. Don't play coy, it looks tacky in an adult context. You claim 'Democrats who vote' favor Hillary
Wed May 4, 2016, 10:44 AM
May 2016

even as Bernie wins Democratic Primaries. That's shitty and insulting. It's hateful and uncalled for. You have no standing to speak that way to anyone, no one has that right.
Pushing your bullshit links at me is just more nastiness. You insulted me, then you ask me to read your links? No wonder your transparency page is getting to be as long as a Russian novel.

aikoaiko

(34,173 posts)
6. Not only that -- but I think he will be the most amazing and effective ex-POTUS we've ever seen
Wed May 4, 2016, 10:15 AM
May 2016

I think he'll take a break to finish raising his daughters into adulthood, but I expect the President Obama will bring community organization to a new level American politics hasn't seen in a very long time.


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