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  What did he do to, "reimagine policing and public safety in this country?" What bills were signed into law, what executive orders were issued? And even if he did push something that was overwritten by Trump (something Trump was prone to do) would Obama mention that? Wouldn't he say, "We have to go back to the effective policies that were enacted during my administration?" Remember, this guy had an army of volunteers who helped get him elected, and he left them on the White House lawn as soon as the inauguration was over. Wouldn't they have come in handy in enacting police reform? In the end, this is all Obama has: optimistic platitudes. He tends to oscillate between this and squashing and true movements from the Left (both of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns, the NBA wanting to boycott the 2020-2021 Season over George Floyd's murder, etc.)

According to one of his sons, he never wanted the job .

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Well, everything else about the election was a fantasy for them, so why not this ?

From TPM: The website that refused to believe in the 2012 presidential election polling data has now spawned a website that refuses to believe in the vote count .

Bonus : Jon Stewart chimes in .

The answer may surprise you .

From The Man himself : Even though preliminary estimates suggest that Democrats received somewhat more votes than Republicans in Congressional elections, the G.O.P. retains solid control of the House thanks to extreme gerrymandering by courts and Republican-controlled state governments. And Representative John Boehner, the speaker of the House, wasted no time in declaring that his party remains as intransigent as ever, utterly opposed to any rise in tax rates even as it whines about the size of the deficit. So President Obama has to make a decision, almost immediately, about how to deal with continuing Republican obstruction. How far should he go in accommodating the G.O.P.’s demands? My answer is, not far at all. Mr. Obama should hang tough, declaring himself willing, if necessary, to hold his ground even at the cost of letting his opponents inflict damage on a still-shaky economy. And this is definitely no time to negotiate a “grand bargain” on ...

Whether they are threatening to fire their blue collar employees for voting in their best interests, or just outright saying that they'll kill the president , their voices need to be heard!

Their private bubble (where t hey had Romney winning by a landslide ) was burst in spectacular fashion . Karl Rove, Mr. " We Won Florida in 2000 Fair & Square So Get Over It Liberals " h ad a political heart attack . Mainly because he took a lot of shady money from rich Republicans and didn't deliver. RedState is reacting like they normally do , TBH. The Romney Campaign was apparently hypnotized . Here is the bottom line, GOP, as this Daily Kos diarist put it : There are not enough angry white men left, have you got that? However there are plenty of young women to keep you out of office for the foreseeable future. I would modify this to say: There are not enough angry heterosexual Christian white men left . Until you start accepting women, gays, Muslims, African-Americans, Latinos, bisexuals, Atheists and others, your tent will get smaller. Your fiscal and social philosophy needs to modify on a state-to-state level. It's not because "you...

The common denominator is money .

It was wrong for Barack Obama to use his experience as Commander in Chief against Mitt Romney during the Foreign Policy debate last night...and BTW, what Obama did is nothing like how I used my military experience against him during the Foreign Policy debate in 2008 .

It's not anything about the 47% or the bailouts. It's not directly directed to abortion or same-sex marriage. It's only tentatively connected to foreign policy. The question that needs to be posted to Mitt Romney is this: " During your run for Senator for Massachusetts, you claimed to be a liberal-to-moderate Republican. During this Republican Primary, you said that your were a 'severe conservative.' I believe the American people need to know for sure: are you still a conservative Republican, or are you now a moderate Republican again ?" It has to be phrased in that manner, because there are only really three responses: " I am a Conservative Republican :" This means that Romney is accountable for everything the right-wing base of his party is saying and pushing. Women's Rights, Tax Cuts for the Rich, Saber-Rattling. Follow Bill Clinton's advice and tell the public that Romney plans to re-introduce the policies of Bush/Cheney. ...

To be honest, Robert Reich speaks on it better than me.