what are barack obama's flaws?

LOL @ "A viral 100-second video of Obama has popped up on my feeds. I assume this is all he's done since 2016."

yeah he also got a netflix deal and bought an expensive house, and he's writing a book that will come out next year, and he's planning his centre in the south side of chicago. he also travels and golfs and stuff. oh and you can book him to speak for $400k

Serious Tubmans

Obama believes the lesson of his presidency is that he tried for too much radical change too quickly and it caused a backlash. That is objectively wrong but it's what he believes.

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) November 16, 2019

I mean, sure, on a couple of levels the results of the 2010 elections and everything that followed are "objectively wrong" I guess?

I get Pareene's point (hint: it was tribalism / racism / jade helm shit) but once again Twitter is a stupid venue to try and express anything remotely complex

if running for the presidency as a black man in America and winning the election an be construed as trying for too much radical change too quickly, then he's right. the backlash began about six weeks before he took the oath of office.

AP's tweet thread apparently based on a big NYT profile I haven't read yet

as u were

that is, go away and stfu

Obama wades into the 2020 race, warning of the dangers of listening to “certain left-leaning twitter feeds” or “the activist wing of our party.”

“Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision we also have to be rooted in reality," he said. https://t.co/OioCWy4pbv

— Lisa Lerer (@llerer) November 16, 2019

We must be bold, dynamic, and even radical in appearance

I think some folks are overreacting to a pretty anodyne Obama analysis on the basis of a somewhat misleading tweet summary https://t.co/6otBAxUutr pic.twitter.com/SYuvJ1B8aa

— *Palpatine voice* UNLIMITED DADPUNS🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 16, 2019

yep people simply don’t read before jumping to conclusions

are we talking the quotes, the NYT story, or the lickass NYMag treatment?

"‘Hey, that’s great Obama did what he did,"

OK boomer

Given the timidity of the democratic Congress he worked with for two years, followed by the relentless hostility of the Republican Congress he was saddled with for six years, I'd say Obama was not the only locus of the problem, morbs.

They had a supermajority and barely passed ACA.

warning of the dangers of listening to “certain left-leaning twitter feeds”

Obama hate-reading Dennis Perrin

He only reads the executive summary prepared by his aides.

Nobody reads Dennis Perrin

if only that were true

Obama has aids?

He only reads the executive summary prepared by his aides.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, November 18, 2019

and Obama?

um, the joke was that tweets would require summarizing because tweet are already very short (chuckles mirthlessly)

interesting thoughts by david maraniss, biographer of both obama and bill clinton:

I’ve analyzed Barack Obama. He grew up, came out of nowhere, and out of dysfunction. He spent about nine years of his young adult life, from age 17 to 27, really trying to figure himself out. Who he was politically, racially, philosophically and emotionally.

I think Obama did a pretty good job of figuring out how to become an integrated personality. That journey helped to propel him to the White House. But it also got Obama in trouble politically because he sort of reasoned, “Well, if I can figure out all the contradictions the world threw at me, why can't everybody else?” That led to his famous 2004 speech about blue America and red America and a mentality that did not allow Obama to see the full dimensions of the power that was being used against him and his idealistic notion of humanity. This lack of understanding was going to lead to trouble in different ways — even though Obama has a very honorable way of looking at the world.

Who is Barack Obama in his own narrative?

I believe that President Obama thought of himself in a heroic context. He came to think of himself that way when he started getting into politics. It was a type of savior mentality. I have talked to several people who know Obama and they told me they have seen him come close to saying such a thing a few times in unguarded moments.

https://www.salon.com/2020/01/03/biographer-and-journalist-david-maraniss-on-trump-obama-and-history-turned-upside-down/

hard to believe assassination by drone could be used to start a war

murdered Iranians

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/13/iran-lifesaving-drugs-international-sanctions

Wrong thread

The Obama/Biden Administration is the most corrupt Administration in the history of our Country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020

Very timely, sir!

you mean Obiden/Bama, sir

could have vetted his personnel better

People are saying that he didn't produce enough Coronavirus vaccines when he had the chance.

Coronavirus losses would be way lower if his death panels had done their job

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/97ddd627-c3f2-456b-878b-45715782bf03

I posted this in the SNL thread but should put it here--first time in ages Baldwin's Trump has made me laugh: "This virus, that remember, was started in a lab in Obama..."

The level of projection here is just incredible pic.twitter.com/1rzNgKl9Qa

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 17, 2020

Saw this today and I still can’t comprehend the levels of sociopathy. pic.twitter.com/Rrony9uF54

— Omar Sheriff🏅 (@OmarSheriffHD) August 20, 2020

Music has always played an important role in my life—and that was especially true during my presidency. In honor of my book hitting shelves tomorrow, I put together this playlist featuring some memorable songs from my administration. Hope you enjoy it. pic.twitter.com/xWiNQiZzN0

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 16, 2020

this one is somehow even lamer than his previous music/book lists

i love thinking how madd spotify is that he didn't do this as a spotify playlist given that they have a podcast deal with them

'they' = michelle and barack

That Gloria Estefan single is...so unexpected I have to think he loves it (as a survivor of Hurricane Andrew but not "Always Tomorrow" I demur).

"My Favorite Things" is a great, not-obvious choice. The rest is the rest.

That's pretty obvious to me

I will search out a metric for obviousness and report back.

"My favourite things" is a very canon choice (?)

this might be a dumb question, but what does "songs from my administration" mean in this context?

You call it "a promised land playlist" and yet the Springsteen song on it is.. "The Rising."

Curious.

map room jams

A bad Stevie Wonder song balanced by a great one. Still triangulating even out of office.

brooks and dunn are ass