I'm going to risk saying a little more, because I think I do owe you a direct response on what I think of Obama's actual accomplishments. I approve of them. Some I think he could have been more forward on, like health care and same-sex marriage (into which he was pushed by Biden and Duncan), but they're steps in the right direction and I approve.
Middle Eastern policy is more dampening. I don't believe there exists a good and productive policy there. All we can aim for is a least bad policy, and I think Obama has been aiming at that. I approve.
Then there's normalizing relations with Cuba. That one's pure A #1 +. The reversal of a truly stupid counter-productive policy that nobody else had the guts to cancel. Obama did. I cheered. That's the Obama that I voted for.
I am not anti-Obama. I am not anti-Hillary. I just think we could have done better, in the ways I've already irritated you by describing. I don't expect Bernie to win the nomination, I don't expect him to be able to accomplish much of his agenda if he does somehow become president, and I'm totally embarrassed by finding myself in the same camp with a bunch of sexist pigs who hate Hillary (apparently) because she's a strong woman. (Those guys should be Republicans and back Trump.) I'm supporting him because his goals are my goals.
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Date: 2016-02-05 06:19 am (UTC)Middle Eastern policy is more dampening. I don't believe there exists a good and productive policy there. All we can aim for is a least bad policy, and I think Obama has been aiming at that. I approve.
Then there's normalizing relations with Cuba. That one's pure A #1 +. The reversal of a truly stupid counter-productive policy that nobody else had the guts to cancel. Obama did. I cheered. That's the Obama that I voted for.
I am not anti-Obama. I am not anti-Hillary. I just think we could have done better, in the ways I've already irritated you by describing. I don't expect Bernie to win the nomination, I don't expect him to be able to accomplish much of his agenda if he does somehow become president, and I'm totally embarrassed by finding myself in the same camp with a bunch of sexist pigs who hate Hillary (apparently) because she's a strong woman. (Those guys should be Republicans and back Trump.) I'm supporting him because his goals are my goals.