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Is Barack Obama considered one of our Greatest Presidents?

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SW-User
I've always been a fan. Of course, many Americans never forgave him for being black.
SW-User
@SW-User that’s not it! Herman Cain would have made a great president! It was his policies....
SW-User
@SW-User I respectfully disagree.
@SW-User black had nothing to do with it. it was the policies why people didnt like him.
SW-User
@winchesterbros See my previous response.
redredred · M
@SW-User Hes as white as he is black and 100% asshole
@winchesterbros Being black had [b]everything[/b] to do with why several actually [b]hated[/b] him, like Trump and the “birthers”. 🙄
SW-User
@SW-User Had it not been for many white voters, he’d never been put in office! He had much of the white support!
SW-User
@redredred 100%
@bijouxbroussard well i dont think it was that it was because he was a democrat. the right seem fine if the person is black and conservative.
SW-User
@winchesterbros Like Herman Cain and that surgeon what’s his name? Oh Ben Carson yeahhhhhh! 🇺🇸
Rocknrod · 61-69, M
@SW-User 💩
SW-User
@Rocknrod 😂stop it!
@winchesterbros The right supports white supremacists. They [b]tolerate[/b] black conservatives and use them to claim they’re [b]not[/b] racist (“where’s my African American ? Oh, [b]here[/b] he is.”) 🙄
Rocknrod · 61-69, M
@SW-User ok sorry
SW-User
@Rocknrod 😎😂hahahahaha
@bijouxbroussard actually theres white supremacists on both sides. thats why im an independent. only liberals keep saying supremacists are only a right issue. '
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@winchesterbros right! I’m independent too!
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/ku-klux-klan-grand-dragon-will-quigg-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/26/klan-leader-claims-kkk-has-given-20k-clinton-campa/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/7/david-duke-praises-rep-ilhan-omar/
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@SW-User He was half white. So, they never forgave him only fifty percent of the time.
and yet blacks kept saying he wasnt black enough. thats pretty racist.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@winchesterbros That's us Americans for you.
thats why i dont understand people. lol
@winchesterbros [quote]actually theres white supremacists on both sides. thats why im an independent. only liberals keep saying supremacists are only a right issue. '[/quote]

This [b]president[/b] supports them. He's had several opportunities to [b]firmly[/b] disavow their actions--with the same strong language he uses to criticize everything else he disagrees with. he won't do it.

[quote]https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/ku-klux-klan-grand-dragon-will-quigg-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president[/quote]

Did you read [b]this[/b] part ?

[quote]"Based on his past statements, it doesn’t appear highly credible that he has changed his effusive allegiance to Donald Trump,” Brian Levin, a former New York police officer who is director of the Centre for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino, told the Telegraph. “The timing seems suspect. I think this is a function of not wanting to undermine the Trump campaign.” [/quote]

[quote]https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/26/klan-leader-claims-kkk-has-given-20k-clinton-campa/[/quote]

Again, did you read the entire article ?

[quote]Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwein disputed the grand dragon’s claim and said the former secretary of state has rejected the group’s endorsement.
“This is completely false,” Mr. Schwerin told Vocativ. “We want no part of them or their money and vehemently reject their hateful agenda.”
The Clinton campaign has “not received anywhere close to $20,000 in anonymous donations in total, [so] it is impossible that they are telling the truth,” Mr. Schwerin added.
According to Vocativ, Federal Election Commission filings suggest the same.
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[quote]https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/7/david-duke-praises-rep-ilhan-omar/[/quote]

As a Klansman, David Duke would be an anti-Semite. He's trying to paint Rep Omar as one because she's Muslim and critical of some of Israel's policies. But being critical of Israel or Netanyahu does not make one an anti-Semite---plenty of Jewish people in the U.S. disagree with the man.

[quote]and yet blacks kept saying he wasnt black enough. thats pretty racist.[/quote]

Nobody black with any [b]brains[/b] says that. And 96% of the black voters supported him in 2008, 93% in 2012. They supported him both because he was a Democrat and because they liked what he had to say. Obviously a majority of people liked his platform.
A few might've hoped for some special favors, but that would've been their ignorance with a president elected to represent [b][b]all[/b][/b] Americans. So anything done to help people on fixed or limited incomes, like healthcare, or improving the economy, employment, would help [b]everyone[/b]. And Obama's policies pulled the U.S. out of a recession.