The ACA was trash, and I can't think of many things he did.
Relaxing the restrictions placed on Cuba (if only a bit) was good I’d say. Should have been a full removal of the embargo but relative to previous presidents that was at least a step in the right direction.
Being president of the US of A makes you (almost) automatically evil. For sure he did some good things, but it really doesn't matter. The evil things he perpetrated, especially when considering the human cost, make him a war criminal.
While the ACA was trash if you go back and look, R’s took a ton of the good stuff out, like the public option or whatever. If Obama wanted to be remembered for more than being the first black president, he should have used the supermajority he had the first 2yrs in office and created universal healthcare and not used Mitt Romney’s plan and got the troops out of the Middle East.
Rs didn't take put the public option. It was quietly shelved by the Democrats after Joe Lieberman put up a fuss. Joe Lieberman denied it a 60th vote (I think Ben Nelson opposed it too?).
But they didn't even need that 60th vote because they could have passed it via reconciliation (this was openly discussed in corporate media) and had 55 votes, plus a pledge by Obama to sign it, plus overwhelming house support
It was just dropped with zero fanfare and memory-holed one day, and libs came back later on insisting it was republicans.
Remember: Dems enjoyed a supermajority in senate, the house, the presidency, and huge popular support. There is quite literally nothing you can blame the republicans for during Obama's first 2 years
I’m not sure the exact things R’s changed in the ACA, it’s not hard to research I just don’t have the time. But that definitely seems like something R’s would force to be put in.
He did improve relations with Cuba, removed some sanctions... for a bit, until Trump and Biden ruined it.
Helped to rip the mask that covered the inherent racism in the USofA that the right wing and liberals had been doing a good job keeping in place for decades in front of us millennials.
Shit, I might never have found my way to places like r/cth and hexbear dot net if it weren't for all the liberal newsy/politics/opinion sites not going full on racist dog whistles during the Obama/Hillary primary contest.
After that I, started noticing more when the liberal sources I had relied on to help me see the world would use framing of "i agree that the right wing/police/foreign military intervention is bad BbbUUuuUUttTT... "
He read Marx, Fanon, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Woolf which is good and he also read Marcuse and Foucault which is good (but to a lesser extent, at least in my opinion.)
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