It is literally heartbreaking to see the last few days of the obama presidency

[La Lioness Priyanka]

I will miss this man and his family, his love of his country, and his grace under such disgraceful obstruction, more than I ever thought possible.

i cannot believe the depth of shit he had to endure without getting any of the shit on himself.

I really hope I live long enough to see another president of this caliber again. I suspect though that this a once in a lifetime type of thing.

[Stellar]

1. Beautifully said!

[Ava]

2. I spent the first few days after the election

grieving for Clinton. Then I became angry for months. And I'm still angry. But only in the past week has the deep sadness and realization that he's leaving office next week set in.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. I'm angry and sad. We got cheated out of a great president

seeing obama leave would always hurt, but not this much if he had left it to HRC.

[Ava]

4. exactly

[Lucinda]

6. That we did. n/t

[Hekate]

7. Damn. That cartoon just made me all teary-eyed.

How in hell did we do this to ourselves?

[secondwind]

11. Comey and Sanders supporters who refused to vote for Hillary, that' is what happened. n/t

[StevieM]

15. She ran a great campaign. She had to in order to have the whole race won decisively with 11 days

to go.

Even with the fake email scandal having been sold to the American people, the media's refusal to cover her policy proposals and the devastating effects of the primaries, she still had a decisive victory coming.

Not even the Russian hacking and their misinformation and manipulation was enough to beat her.

Then Comey and the FBI decided to step in to rig the election. There was nothing she could do.

[dionysus]

22. Lol, uh huh. THANKS BERNIE!11!ELEVENTY!

[Grey Lemercier]

24. Simple. Racism, sexism, homophobia, greed, all underpinned with fundi xianism.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. That cartoon made me cry.

[Lucinda]

5. KNR

[still_one]

8. I agree Priyanka. I couldn't watch his farewell speech, it was making me too sad what we are

losing

Was the best President in my lifetime

[Hekate]

9. It is heartbreaking. At 69, I just hope I can live to see my country survive the Trojan Horse

[trixie2]

10. So true!

I get emails from all over the world saying the same thing by our friends in our ally countries.

[sheshe2]

12. I haven't been here much, yet stopped in for your thread.

I will miss his humanity.

Thanks Pri~

[lambchopp59]

13. We hold these truths to be self evident...

I believe we have just had the most true to these words president I've ever seen.
And now: Our new despot doesn't care about election rigging that he won.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
2.8 million voices silenced by gerrymandering college.
and... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-election-really-was-rigged/2016/11/29/c2ed58d8-b666-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html?utm_term=.60ea7863995a

[yuiyoshida]

14. Probably the best President ever...

to be followed by the worst... Damn!

[StevieM]

16. I think Obama is great but what about Lincoln and FDR?

LBJ would have been one of the best if not for Vietnam.

[yuiyoshida]

17. well just my opinion but to me ...

Obama will always be the best. AS FOR FDR he ordered THE JAPANESE INTERNMENT, that's negative points with me.

[StevieM]

18. It is a horrible stain on his legacy, no doubt about it. I actually discussed this on FB recently.

It is so sad that we must remember that as part of his presidency. It is so sad that the Internment happened.

But there is no denying all the good the FDR did. He prevented millions of people from starving to death. And he played a big role in stopping Hitler.

[yuiyoshida]

19. still, putting Japanese Americans, those who were born here

like GEORGE TAKEI, behind barb wire fences with armed guards, and search lights that swept the ground, while someone had to go take a pee, in an outhouse... THIS is no way to live!






but damn!! They were just Japanese...

[StevieM]

20. Agreed. It is a national disgrace.

And it is sickening to live in an era where textbooks in Texas seek to whitewash it.

[yuiyoshida]

23. IT was more than that...

IT WAS ENCOURAGED.

[bettyellen]

28. That and the NewDeal basically shutting out women and POC....

We could benefit only at the benevolence of that WWC man. It's still all about him and people don't get why we're fed up.

[StevieM]

34. I don't disagree that there was a lot of injustice back then, and there still is a lot of prejudice.

We certainly saw this in our last election.

But there is no denying that the New Deal made an enormous difference in the lives of so many people. And the things that were done completely shattered previous ideological norms.

[bettyellen]

35. Praise for the new deal should ALWAYS be tempered with the acknowledgement....

That it also PROMOTED INEQUALITY. It shut out more than half of America to bolster the other, it depended on us being free and very low wage labor to be successful.
So flat out cheerleading for it is incredibly problematic to more than half of our current population.

[StevieM]

36. Our society was extremely sexist and patriarchal back then. Much more so than today.

It is not like the New Deal backtracked on previous progress IMO. If you have information that I don't have, and believe that it did backtrack, then I would be very interested in learning it.

That doesn't excuse the injustices that existed in our society at the time or the injustice and inequality that accompanied the New Deal.

My point is that the New Deal prevented millions of people from starving to death.

[bettyellen]

37. Ha ha- it WAS sexist and patriarchal? The New Deal perpetuated and enshrined racist and sexist

Policies that yes, already existed. What part of giving a big leap forward to white men only do you think the rest of us should celebrate. For us, it promoted inequality.

I feel like I'm spinning my wheels, suffice to say if you can't have enough empathy to realize it was tainted by bigotry I don't know what else to say to you.

[StevieM]

38. I don't see why you seem to be upset with me. I don't think I am lacking in empathy.

I agree that our society is sexist and patriarchal. But it is less so today than it was in the past. That is why I used the word "more."

Of course New Deal America was tainted by bigotry. Our whole society was back then. The New Deal did not change that, nor did it set out to.

I can't dismiss its importance to our people because it prevented mass starvation.

[dionysus]

21. Hey, he'll be around for a long time to come! He did America proud...

[Uponthegears]

25. We will never see a president

Like him again.

Without the least reservation I consider him the greatest president in our nation's history.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. I say top 3 for sure and given the obstruction, his not being white in a white

supremacist country, maybe you are right, maybe he is the best.

Lincoln and FDR is who I put above him but nobody else.

[Uponthegears]

39. Cannot agree more nt

[JHan]

27. This says it all for me :(..

[The Polack MSgt]

29. I'm walking around pissed and grumpy already missing him

My wife keeps listening to speeches from the President and 1st lady, and watching the Medal of Freedom presentation to VP Biden - and then she cries.

[Doreen]

31. I think the true America is leaving with him.

[ismnotwasm]

32. K&R

[LeftInTX]

33. I agree. He has been the best in my life.

I've lived through 11 presidents

[La Lioness Priyanka]

40. I have vague recollection of Clinton, clear ones of bush and obama

[Jamaal510]

41. It just makes me mad

that he'll be replaced with his sworn enemy; a guy who hounded him for his birth certificate and who lied about him being a foreigner. It's one thing to be from a different party, but it's another to be a total dickhead. It feels like an injustice to have this ignorant, loudmouth bully as the next president.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

42. Yup

[Initech]

43. We entered a golden age under Obama. We're going to enter the dark ages under Trump.

And it will take decades, centuries even to recover unless he is stopped.