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Did Obama fail the promise or did a significant segment of the country show us who they were?

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Obama is history. I didn't vote to extend his legacy. Lol!

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Obama will have a great legacy. The Republican Presidents are doing the heavy lifting to enshrine Obama as a great President.

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How was Obama a great president? A funny feeling running up and down your spine? Due to the white rage I personally encountered, I began to pack a.45 ACP, even on the golf courses. Lol!

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That's definitely f'ed up, but it had nothing to do with Obama's performance as president.

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Obama is history and blacks are worst off. Obama is still laughing all the way to the bank, one billion dollars richer. Black violence and illegitimate births are continuing on steroids. How many children do you have out-of-wedlock before we advance our discussion?

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I don't have any kids but simply asking such a question, which has nothing to do with the question at hand, doesn't bode well for any sort of discussion you wish to advance.

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1 – Rescued the country from the Great Recession, cutting the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.7% over six years

2 – Signed the Affordable Care Act which provided health insurance to over 20 million uninsured Americans

3 – Ended the war in Iraq

4 – Ordered for the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden

5 – Passed the $787 billion America Recovery and Reinvestment Act to spur economic growth during the Great Recession

6 – Supported the LGBT community's fight for marriage equality

7 – Commuted the sentences of nearly 1200 drug offenders to reverse “unjust and outdated prison sentences"

8 – Saved the U.S. auto industry

9 – Helped put the U.S. ontrack for energy independence by 2020

10 – Began the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan

11 – Signed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals allowing as many as 5 million people living in the U.S. illegally to avoid deportation and receive work permits

12 –Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to re-regulate the financial sector

13 – Dropped the veteran homeless rate by 50 percent

14 – Reversed Bush-era torture policies

15 – Began the process of normalizing relations with Cuba

16 – Increased Department of Veteran Affairs funding

17 – Signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act

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Black people, especially the ones in the Mississippi Delta still without adequate sewage disposal? The area that the UN declared worse than many third-world countries. The black group's wealth of 1/2 of 1% didn't change. The black-on-black violence in Chicago didn't improve. Immigration isn't in the best interests of black folks. The 1965 immigration law has been a disaster for blacks. Hordes of well-to-do/skilled Asians and unskilled/poor Hispanics entering America to displace and replace blacks? The threat of the buffer class in erasing blacks?

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All you say is true. Obama had enough accomplishments to be considered to have a positive record. Rescuing the economy and saving the auto industry are things of noe. No one benefitting from the ACA would willingly give up coverage.

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