To quote someone:
People's love affair with Obama is mainly rooted in sensationalism and celebrity worship rather than actual analysis of his policies.
Everyone loves Obama! Meaning everyone excuses the fact he...
bombed seven nations which caused families having to literally sleep in the same room so if there’s a drone strike they would die together
Joe Biden is trash, too, and I should bring up what he did since we're talking about Obama and he's pretty relevant and gets the same "best VP ever!!!!" treatment BS. Got a bit tired of bullet points though, so let's switch back to paragraph form.
So to start, I'd like to remind y'all that Biden was instrumental in the very first steps which the US took towards neoliberal authoritarianism, back before 9/11.
Biden drafted the 1995
Omnibus Counter-terrorism Act in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombings, which created the legal framework for terrorism offences. It allowed federal authorities to selectively enforce that framework according to the subjective beliefs of those accused, it provided for the setting up of secret courts, it relaxed the laws governing wire taps, and it authorized detention without trial.
He claimed credit six years later when the PATRIOT Act(which he also voted for) was passed, saying during debates that it was "my bill." In many ways, the 1995 bill was more crucial than the formalization and extension of that near-limitless remit and all that flowed from it - from mass surveillance to rendition and torture, to Guantanamo Bay - in the aftermath of the atrocity at the World Trade Center. Ironically, the citation for the Presidential Medal of Freedom could not be more apt for Biden’s stalwart advancement of the US military-surveillance state’s interests: “An especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States”.
Also, he's responsible for the bill that stops student debt from being cleared by declaring bankruptcy. Unable to deal with you student debt? Biden’s the reason why you’ll carry it with you for the rest of your life. Speaking of banks... he's got a close relationship with credit cards.
He was one of five Democrats in March 2005 who voted against a proposal to require credit card companies to provide more effective warnings to consumers about the consequences of paying only the minimum amount due each month. Obama voted for it.
Biden also went against Obama to help defeat amendments aimed at strengthening protections for people forced into bankruptcy who have large medical debts or are in the military; Biden argued that the amendments were unnecessary because the legislation already carved out exemptions for those debtors.
This summarizes both cases quite nicely.
And he was one of four Democrats who sided with Republicans to defeat an effort, supported by Obama, to shift responsibility in certain cases from debtors to the predatory lenders who helped push them into bankruptcy.”
Anyways, my point is folks latch on to the most minuscule progressive notions of politicians and refuse to actually examine the damage they do, and it's infuriating. We flush our chances at democracy down the drain further if we allow political narratives to be dominated by nice old men getting all choked up after being given a medal or cracking jokes on TV. It all comes back down to this bizarre preoccupation with how nice and polite someone seems rather than the content of their ideas and their overall goals.
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I guess I didn't explicitly say it, but to answer the question: I'm not a fan.