Presidential bully pulpit use, both good and bad.
His overall stance on drugs and drug crimes was a nice use of the bully pulpit. You could argue he could've done more, but his overall attitude on the subject was a good thing imo.
Gay marriage, I know he had no direct hand in, but he also didn't use the pulpit to denounce or decry it or tell us all that we were going to hell. It happened under his regime and that was overall a good thing.
Osama is dead and that's good.
But on the issue of Islam in general, I feel as though he was about as bad as can be without being an avowed Muslim himself. There is a simple reality at work that he simply will not acknowledge. The Islamic tradition and the American tradition cannot coexist. America was created as a bulwark against certain types of systems and modes of thought, and Islam is exactly the sort of thing that America was trying
not to be. But we are not Germany and the threat posed by this misunderstanding is not nearly as immediate so I suppose his confusion on this issue isn't quite as big of a deal in the big picture. But when I have 20-something white girls tell me, "The word Islam means 'Peace'!" I want to gag. That sort of shit gets people killed and Obama did not help in any way on that front. Sucking Ahmed's little cock was also retarded on a whole other level. Obama needs to read the Quran. Like, actually sit down and read that dumb shit.
Race relations are absolute shit right now. I was unplugged from current events during the Trayvon case but I paid close attention to Mike Brown. For me, this image:
was almost shocking for me to see. It came in the aftermath of Mike Brown and I really couldn't believe it. I knew Obama was black but I didn't care when I voted for him. That was the whole point! His blackness didn't matter. He was supposed to be a young and smart not-Bush and I really did think he was more enlightened than to have gotten caught up in Sharpton-esque race pimping bullshit. This image, to me, said that the Obama administration thought that the Mike Brown case was not about cops and robbers or about police use of force. To them, it was about controlling narratives and pimping race. Fucking race. /picard. They let Sharpton worm his way into the national and executive narrative and I consider that to be a total catastrophe. 'Hands Up Don't Shoot' is
still a thing. Obama's reaction to Brown was amateurish and it legitimized the entire Sharpton movement. It was a disaster in my opinion and it is one of the main reasons I have begun to turn my back on the Left.
As someone else said, he did nothing to help curtail the prevalence of the ideas of 'hate speech' and 'hate crime'. Those words translate into 'thought crime' and it is not a direction a freedom loving people should want to go in.
He did give us the best looking first lady of all time though so that's a +1.