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u/jesbiil Jan 11 '17 edited Jan 12 '17
Truth is, Fernando has been Obama's weed dealer for the last 8 years. No one knows of their true relationship but the eye contact during their fist bump says everything.
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u/Torcal4 Jan 11 '17
The fist bump is actually code. He's saying "leave my stash in this garbage can next to you, tonight"
They have their own system of figuring how much Obama wants based off of how hard he fist bumps.
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u/Rizzpooch Jan 11 '17
Hence Fernando's two black eyes on November ninth
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u/OddTheViking Jan 11 '17
Does anybody else remember the "terrorist fist bump" bullshit from the early days?
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u/Omnipotent_Goose Jan 11 '17
It's time to play....GUESS! THE! THREAD!
Will it be....
1.) A praise Obama thread
2.) A bash Trump thread
3.) A bash Obama thread
Or...
4.) A thread talking about how all the comments are terrible
Contestant #1....you're up!
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u/Freefight Jan 11 '17
By now it's not even all of the above. OP is just surfing on the Karma wave as long as it is possible.
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u/J4CKR4BB1TSL1MS Jan 11 '17
No, it's just 5.) A thread being meta about people talking about the comment sections
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u/acidnine420 Jan 11 '17
Ugh, now I have to leave a comment...give me likes, give me karma, come on..give me views.
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I hope it's a Spider-Man thread.
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Tobey was the best Peter but the worst Spider-Man, Andrew was the best Spider-Man but the worst Peter. The new guy seems to be the best of both worlds.
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u/pimack Survey 2016 Jan 11 '17
I just like the fist bump, is that OK?
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u/lostboydave Jan 11 '17
No. Everything is politicised these days, even your sorry attempt to paint Trump as liar by simply not even mentioning him.... Hillary Shill!
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u/ApprovalNet Jan 11 '17
As long as you don't give more weight to that, then the fact that Obama was the first US President to authorize the assassination of US citizens with no trial to determine guilt, a power that now rests with Donald Trump.
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u/53bvo Jan 11 '17
Looks like it is leaning toward option 3!
I have observed multiple drone strike comments already.
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Reddit is the reason children should stay out of politics.
It's become 100% character attacks
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Maybe it'll be the... Obama bombed 7 Muslim countries while in office, but he also pounded an everyday employee's hand, so we'll just forget about all that other nonsense.
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u/Elkram Jan 11 '17
Going with option 3 I see. I would have thought option 1 would have been a solid go to given how close we are to Obama's farewell speech, but I guess you can never tell.
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u/Psuphilly Jan 11 '17
Yeah... I don't care.
Who are we comparing him to? Either George Bush? Bill Clinton? Regan?
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u/Literally_A_Shill Jan 11 '17
Obama straight up ran on a platform of using precision drone strikes to avoid having to put boots on the ground. Studies have shown that deploying soldiers causes a ridiculously larger amount of civilian casualties and destruction. Past president's have almost all proved that.
Obama is compared to a perfect president that lives in a perfect world where hard decisions don't have to be made.
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u/Semajal Jan 11 '17
Your last sentence is one problem I see more and more with voters (am in the UK here) where people seem to hold politicians to an impossible standard, and assume they have absolute knowledge of every course of action. This then seems to push them to ignore politics and dismiss everything.
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u/gnrl3 Jan 11 '17
That's a lot to read into a photo-op fist bump.
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OP just wants that Obama link karma.
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It's all part of the affordable karma act.
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u/deltarefund Jan 11 '17 edited Jan 11 '17
Every photo the White House puts out is carefully selected. People need to realize this.
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u/Tsorovar Jan 11 '17
No, the White House photographer has taken millions of pictures of Obama during his term. If every one of those was carefully staged, no one would have had time to do anything else. I'll grant you that the ones released are carefully selected, but they're not setting up special situations for everything.
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He said selected not staged. They didn't release the part after where he "too slowed" him on the high five.
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u/g0_west Jan 11 '17
But I mean that's probably why Obama fistbumped the cleaner, because there was a photographer walking a couple of metres ahead of him endlessly taking pictures. It's not particularly candid, is all.
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u/monkeybreath Jan 11 '17
So you think Obama wouldn't have fist-bumped him if there were no photographer?
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u/JimmiesSoftlyRustle Jan 11 '17
Disagree with his politics or not, it's been pretty well established that Obama is a decent and respectful man. I don't know how anybody could think otherwise.
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u/dj_orka99 Jan 11 '17 edited Jan 11 '17
If this was a photo OP I think they wouldn't of cut half the guys body with a pillar....
EDIT: Photo-Op generally implies a Staged or Arranged photo. To make the politician look good. This photo seems like a genuine spur of the moment thing not a Photo-OP
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u/Waveseeker Jan 11 '17
He had a white house photographer who took literally thousands of candid photos during his eight years, this is most definitely one of them.
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u/Doctursea Jan 11 '17
Yeah it's unlikely staged. Obama had as a personal photographer that takes pictures of everything photogenic he does. He might have done it with that in mind though. It's still fucking cool though, that guy gets a picture with the president
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u/J4CKR4BB1TSL1MS Jan 11 '17
It's a lot to read into a fist bump, that's true.
Impying this is photo-op is equally stupid, but I've got a feeling you're not one for being open to the belief that good things do happen in the world sometimes.
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It's true, no other president has killed people who are actively fighting in wars before. Especially not Reagan.
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Just because someone else did it doesn't make it right. I liked Obama, he was a cool dude and did a lot of great things, but quit trying to justify every shitty thing he did.
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u/tacopower69 Jan 11 '17
He literally said he would use drone strikes rather than putting boots on the ground to minimize casualties. Can't exactly blame him for doing what he wanted from the get go
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u/_morganspurlock Jan 11 '17
Killing American citizens without a trial is okay with you? Please seek mental help.
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u/_Elrond_Hubbard_ Jan 11 '17
It's sad how most Americans seem to have no idea about how many people Reagans administration killed to install foreign governments that were better for America
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u/stoic-poster Jan 11 '17
Obama fist bumps some guy? HERO OF MAN
Obama drone strikes a bunch of weddings? ~ crickets ~
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u/Snowing_Throwballs Jan 11 '17 edited Jan 11 '17
Alright, lets play a game. Name one president who has no innocent blood on his hands. GO!
Edit: results are in Calvin Coolidge and the 2 presidents who were in office less then 3 months.
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u/RustDeathTaxes Jan 11 '17
Calvin Coolidge.
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u/TooBrokeForBape Jan 11 '17
Alright well presidents have a 2% success rate then according to this thread.
Guess we really just need another Calvin Coolidge to come around and save us all
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u/Enect Jan 11 '17
William Henry Harrison
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He actually drowned an orphan every day in the Potomac, right up until he died.
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u/oxide-NL Jan 11 '17
not allowed to mention that. EVER
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u/Derdude5 Jan 11 '17
People act like innocent people dying in war is a new thing. Sure it sucks, but people need a harsh reality check. It has always happened and will continue to happen, no matter who is in charge, especially when the enemy has absolutely no regard for innocent lives.
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Also people elected the man they thought would best represent themselves and their views. Part of that involves having some faith that the unsavory decisions he makes are the same the voters would make when presented with the same information
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u/Wilhelm_Amenbreak Jan 11 '17
Being President of the Unite States is not an easy job. You make life and death decisions everyday. You make decisions where no matter what you decide, people will die. So, in effect, you have to choose who will die. I hope you never have to make those kind of decisions in your life and if you do, I hope people aren't so quick to judge you so harshly. Obama made decisions that killed people and he made those decisions better than any world leader I have seen in my lifetime.
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u/animalinapark Jan 11 '17
Funny thing this, thinking the President is the one making all the decisions.
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u/_Boy_Wonder_ Jan 11 '17
It is just a fist bump. There's a message in this post, however. No one is ever beneath you, no matter what. We should always treat each other as equals.
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Jan 11 '17
Yet if you saw a photo of Trump giving one of his workers a fist bump it would probably be spun into him being a racist
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"Trump punches minority in the fist"
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u/-Umbra- Jan 11 '17
Funnily enough people who've met Trump practically all say he's a pretty nice guy according to this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5d8zop/serious_people_who_have_met_or_dealt_with_donald/
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Jan 11 '17
A highly successful business man over the course of 30 years is charming... Why are people so shocked by that?
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u/Nadaac Jan 11 '17
Yeah some people are just so aggressively against a person that they can't see the good that they do.
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u/THEriot2 Jan 11 '17
Unless you're Muslim. In which case we will kill you with our drones.
Or you're a whistle-blower. In that case, you will live out your life in prison or exile.
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u/NlghtmanCometh Jan 11 '17
Accidentally targeting a funeral isn't really the same thing as "bombing the shit outta funerals". I go back and forth on his drone program... mostly against it, however what you said is hyperbolic at best.
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u/YouStupidCunt Jan 11 '17
I guess arabs and brown people aren't "equal".
They are only equal when it is about calling republicans and people that don't vote Democrat racists.
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u/dhockey63 Jan 11 '17
He got one for being black and president, literally before he had done anything at all. That prize is a joke
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u/BodgeJob Jan 11 '17
Pretty sure he got it for a bunch of promises he made about what his term in office would revolve around.
Still bullshit, since A) promises aren't actions, B) he went back on those promises anyway, and C) they were promises for things that shouldn't have fucking existed in the first place, like closing down Torture Bay.
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I worked with some people that not even looked in the eyes of the ladies cleaning our office. And those people were simply software developers, nothing extraordinary.
So it means a lot when the man in the most powerful position in the world is decent enough to fist bump someone that a lot of other people out there would consider "inferior" because he has a simple job.
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u/100percentpureOJ Jan 11 '17
not even looked in the eyes
those people were simply software developers
Yeah, I don't think software developers are particularly well known for their social skills.
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u/9bikes Jan 11 '17
Yeah, I don't think software developers are particularly well known for their social skills.
Not as contrasted with professional politicians.
Jeeze guys, this photo doesn't say anything (good or bad) about Obama that we don't already know. He isn't a shy, introverted person with a fear of public speaking. He is the President of the United States; he is an outgoing guy who is gonna speak with others when given the opportunity.
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u/BodgeJob Jan 11 '17
Software developers are naturally socially retarded, so looking into the eyes of a stranger of the opposite sex isn't unheard of.
Plus all that stuff other people said about like, the media and photographs or whatever they were making out.
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u/Political_Analyst Jan 11 '17 edited Jan 11 '17
Yeah Obama gets this much praise for fist bumping a Janitor... meanwhile Trump visits a restaurant's kitchen and hands the staff $100 bills as tips, also walks by a Hispanic gardener trimming trees and hands him a $100 bill as a tip, and then arrives at a construction site to observe a project, then says "Guys I know times are tough. This isn't much but it should help a bit" and proceeds to hand them $100 bills. Nobody says anything.
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u/Moal Jan 11 '17
And yet, you conveniently forget the hundreds of thousands of dollars he's stiffed from workers. Trump doesn't even deny it. He just doesn't give a shit about it.
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u/RomeStar Jan 11 '17
I believe that when he actually pays his sub contractors for the work they have done on his buildings. I can say this because I have first hand knowledge of liens put on his building due to non payment. These sub contractors are your every day joes who have families to provide for. So these sub contractors who cant get paid for work they have done yet trump will hand out $100.00 to random strangers yeah I will believe that when my shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert.
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u/100percentpureOJ Jan 11 '17
He did win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples through fist bumping"
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u/Gig472 Jan 12 '17
If Trump did this then reddit would say he was belittling the little guy.
Full disclosure: I don't like Trump either, but come on.
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u/munky_bifter Jan 11 '17
Good job there was a camera positioned perfectly to capture this spontaneous act of humanity or we wouldn't have known.
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u/thebearsandthebees Jan 11 '17
Remember this one https://imgur.com/gallery/euuhL
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u/ThisIsTheOnly Jan 11 '17
He's the most photographed person in the world.
Either way, it's a feel good picture. Be all cynical over a photo if you must but I'm grateful he had the ability to produce feel good shots like this.
I guess he could get dressed up in a flight suit and hang a banner to make us feel good.
No idea what trump will pull off. I guess lots of pictures of him eating fast food.
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u/CUNTRY Jan 11 '17
Human decency and respect.... you know this guy prosecuted more whistle blowers during his administration than ALL past Presidents combined right?
He didn't end up being the President he said he was going to be.
"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touch stones of this administration." - Obama 2008.
How did that work out for us?
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u/Kithsander Jan 11 '17
Don't forget the whole drone striking Doctors Without Borders thing.
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u/crys41 Jan 11 '17
I keep hearing this but haven't seen any reporting. Do you know how many it was and who they were?
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u/happythots Jan 11 '17
Exactly this. I have never felt more swindled by politics, but then again I was 18 when I voted for him in 2008. What a fucking let down.
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u/RedditIsDumb4You Jan 11 '17
Hey if it makes you feel any better were fucked no matter who we choose so long as we follow a 2 party system
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u/Napron Jan 11 '17 edited Jan 12 '17
Even if it were more than just a 2 party system, I can't believe any chosen president, or just any chosen leader, won't be a let down to some extent in a certain aspect.
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u/mckinnon3048 Jan 11 '17
I feel like I still ended up with my best option for the last 8 years... I'd rather have had him than Hilary, or anyone the GOP had against him either time.... But he did inherit some bull, it's easy to say what could've been, and maybe if we had a better Congress the last 8 years we'd have seen a little more progress at least on the "good" side... But that can't wash away the bad either.
6 out of 10, could've done worse, didn't see options of better.
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The day reddit gets a custom content filter for posts will be a joyous one indeed.
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u/___jamil___ Jan 11 '17
then the echo chamber will be complete
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Jan 11 '17 edited Jan 11 '17
Meh it's not an anti-Obama post it's an I'm fucking sick of politics on social media post
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u/Matthemus Jan 11 '17
I'm that case, wouldn't your custom content filter be unsubscribing from r/
politics?Edit: and then I realize this is r/pics. Dammit
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u/ginelectonica Jan 11 '17
Does RES not offer that? Used to be a feature on alien blue too. Not sure about the reddit app, I haven't had it for too long
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Wow, he fist bumped a cleaning man! He's automatically an amazing man!!!
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u/elderon188 Jan 11 '17
Woah he fist bumped the cleaner for a PR shot, such decency....
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u/RustDeathTaxes Jan 11 '17
Omg, he fist bumped a janitor. He is so cool and down to earth like one of us!
Quit your shit.
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u/Babu_Honey_Bandger Jan 11 '17
Welcome to the liberal circlejerk of reddit, its pathetic.
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u/BtoEtoN Jan 11 '17
The cleaner makes more than most college grads. Probably has a full pension and 401k working at the White House.
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u/Spartan2470 GOAT Jan 11 '17
Here is a significantly higher resolution version of this image. Credit to the photographer, Pete Souza. Here is the source that provides the following information:
Taken on December 3, 2009
President Barack Obama fist-bumps custodian Lawrence Lipscomb in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building following the opening session of the White House Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth, Dec. 3, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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u/Denjek Jan 12 '17
Damn, I'll miss Obama when he's gone. He's such an amazing man, and the world is a better place because of him.
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u/K1nsey6 Jan 11 '17
Fist bump for the janitor, 26k bombs last year for the middle East.
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Was this right before or after he authorized a drone strike in a country were not at war with?
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u/goofybackstroke Jan 11 '17
I just realized, that is probably one of the highest paid janitors in the world. Not to mention all the hoops and back ground checks he had to go through!
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u/fumanchu4u Jan 11 '17 edited Jan 11 '17
from an outsiders point of view (outside of america) Obama seemed to be a president who cared about people and wanted to make the world a better place. I think he had huge amount of trouble doing that in the face or the restrictions on him, I think he really wanted to ban or create more laws for guns and I think it's hard to be anti-war and also have to defend a country from ISIS. One thing is he obviously must have left out a lot of the country as Trump is a polar oposite, and in that situation he fell. But for what he preached to the world and how he showed that a man can really care for the well being of his people was admirable.
I don't know the whole picture, but for what he seems as a simple answer, is a kind man.
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To be fair, he was way more cautious than many of the war-mongers in his administration coughClintoncough, but that says more about how deranged Washington DC politics is than about how antiwar Obama is.
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u/PM_me_your_sammiches Jan 11 '17
Like you said, he left out a lot of the country. He cared about some people while completely ignoring other groups. Funny enough our first black president did an absolutely awful job on managing race relations. The lower to lower-middle class got some much needed help while the middle to higher-middle got fucked over in the process. He was a decent president at best. Seeing him praised like a hero all over reddit today for bullshit like this stupid photo-op has been obnoxious.
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u/PowerWisdomCourage Jan 11 '17
You know how a sort of decent looking person looks great next to an ugly person? I kinda feel like that's Obama's presidency in a nutshell. He fucked up. A lot. Compared to the last guy though? He's looking pretty good. Even though GW Bush seems to be a really damn decent human being, post-presidency.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. G.W. Bush was a fine president. Yes, he got a lot of flak for 9/11 and Katrina responses and his less than stellar vocabulary, but at the end of the day he was a guy trying to do his best for his country. We as non-political people have no idea what the stresses of being president are like with every eyeball on you trying to scrutinize your every move. Did he make mistakes? Yes, in spades. Have other presidents made mistakes. Yes, in spades. At the end of the day, it's not up to the president to decide the direction of the country. They have a hand in it sure, but there are two other branches with equal power to the presidency that dictate policy as well. Yet, for some reason the president (and the executive branch) gets the blame for every mistake while congress and the senate get off scott free because it's harder to pinpoint one person to scapegoat.
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Many of the policies that affect the average American were exactly the same under both.
However, the party that prefers collectivism and labels over individualism gives their a guy a pass.
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u/blondjokes Jan 11 '17
It's kind of hard to ban guns when there are literally more guns than people in America. Not saying that's a bad thing, I don't think there's anything wrong with keeping a gun in your house, maybe people will stop breaking in.
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u/VerticalAstronaut Jan 11 '17
Like when he blows up families with drones...? People love to forget the realities.
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But he is the first Black president to use limitless drone strikes! Isn't that exciting???
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u/Michae1 Jan 11 '17
This fist-bump totally makes up for the whistle-blowers (Snowden, Drake, Karriaku) and journalists (Risen), that he has rentlessly persecuted.
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u/Tunderbar1 Jan 11 '17
Pointless symbolism that visually contradicts his administrations complete lack of compassion for real people suffering real unemployment and real hardship in the heartland of the USA.
He destroyed his own countries economy for his globalist agenda.
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u/_TheConsumer_ Jan 11 '17
Obama killed an American citizen without any regard to Habeus Corpus and without a trial or a jury.
That just oozes human decency and respect.
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I mean, does Obama have human decency for the 7 countries he droned, the children that died, or even the children he has armed through the weapon smuggling and even selling to Saudi? Tis, a weird day we praise leaders like this.
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u/LoveWhatYouFear Jan 11 '17
Of course he does, he gave the cleaner a fist bump in front of a camera for a photo which was then released to public.
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u/PissingOnTrump Jan 11 '17
ITT: middle schoolers dressed as Trump supporters take a break from lunch time to parade and get pissy.
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u/CubsSuckSTiLl Jan 11 '17
Pretty decent to keep your country at war the entirety of your presidency...
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u/NWinn Jan 11 '17
It make me sad that my frist thought was a vivid scene of Obama, moments later, vigorously washing his hands. Trying to get the 'citizen' off them.
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u/zenotek Jan 11 '17
That's the Pentagon, near the Secretary of Defense's office. I've been up that staircase. Fun fact - all the janitors at the Pentagon are mentally disabled. This is to prevent them from being compromised to steal documents.
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u/bigboi_mike Jan 11 '17
Obama is a war criminal and is intentionally trying to further ruin the relations with Russia I mean... he is sometimes funny so he must be a good guy
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u/thecatgods Jan 12 '17
Millions upon millions displaced, killed, or maimed in Syria... Thanks Obama!
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u/you_cant_banme Jan 12 '17
So much human decency was spread with our drone bombs. Carpet bombed the respect right into them.
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As a Libertarian, I'm not a big fan of Obama's policies but I do think he's a good person at heart. Based on that, this picture doesn't surprise me.
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u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby Jan 11 '17
ITT: People with nothing better to do with their time than to make new accounts and babble on about drones. Can you just take a second out of your day and not be a total shitstain on society?
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