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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How in the hell did this country overwhelmingly reelect Barack Obama less than EIGHT YEARS AGO? What has happened to us?[/quote]

Funny the tricks the memory plays.

In 2012 the election results were 51.1% versus 47.2%. That was not "overwhelmingly" if we use, for example, Reagan's 59% landslide in 1984 as overwhelming.

[b]It is perfectly feasible to be opposed to Obama without being "racist" however you define the term[/b]. He wasn't that impressive as a president, was aloof, and his administration was not particularly progressive on the financial front, firmly siding with the establishment classes and screwing over the working classes with massive bailouts of the rich following 2008. [/quote]

DP.  It is feasible, yes, and I can believe that of you.  But for everyone else, when McConnell remade the R party into the Party of No, the last minute turnabout in the vote on Obamacare after so much (apparently bad-faith) negotiation, etc.  That wasn't because he was a D.  It was for a lower reason. [/quote]

Were there people upset by a black man in the WH? Absolutely. But nowhere in the numbers some of you might be dreaming of. MAGA had no problems voting for Tim Scott or Herschel Walker. Obama was a deeply flawed president who was not the genius his loyalists believed him to be, he shied away from the dealmaking that goes with politics and [b]Obamacare allowed health costs to explode.[/b] Ideologically, conservatives would be opposed to many of Obama's platforms, so they have reasons to say no to him and to vote against his appointees. And many of his appointees weren't great. Sotomayor is a good example. She's not a first rate jurist and even Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law, probably the most famous and important legal scholar in America (and no right winger, har har) wrote a letter to Obama saying Sotomayor was a bad choice and not very particularly bright. The big shift towards identity politics happened under Obama and he encouraged its growth throughout American institutions, which is a major factor behind the current polarization of the country today. And let's not forget Obama beget Trump. [/quote]

The previous health insurance regiment in the US was completely unsustainable, so while costs may have risen for some people, for others, it was a godsend.

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