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In reply to the discussion: Eleanor Clift: Will Obama Ever 'Fess Up to His Merrick Garland Mess? [View all]DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)He was ready to abandon healthcare until Pelosi pushed him into resurrecting it, he was ready to strike a "grand bargain" on the federal budget with Boehner, he went along with cracking down on immigrants/immigration and he wasn't bold enough in informing Americans of what Russia was doing to interfere with the 2016 election. Those are just off the top of my head.
Near the end of his terms, Obama got a more forceful, but, imho, too little, too late. There's no question Obama stopped a lot of stuff the GOP would've liked to have done. And he did inherit and have to dig out of the great recession of 2008.
Obama's personality is what it is. I just think it was a bad fit for the blatant partisanship of the GOP and that they took full advantage of it.