today, I was asked what has Pres. Obama ever done for the African-American Community

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30. There's a part of me that was frustrated by Obama's no drama persona

and the fact that he's a true moderate centrist ideologically which is way too far right for my tastes. But dammit he has gotten a SHITLOAD of done in the face of historic hatred directed against him, without the margins in Congress that other great progressive POTUSes had (and a lot of his "Democrats" were Blue Dogs who were ideologically more like 1990s conservatives, and may well have been just as racist as the GOP opposition, or at least had to respond to the racism of their districts).

I just wish he had pushed the Senate to pass the Public Option via reconciliation though, and I wish his stimulus had been bigger and had less tax cuts and I feel he could have pushed harder and taken more risks here and there. But those are relatively small potatoes, not the dealbreakers that other people on the left make them out to be. A lot of his shortcomings were a product of the political system we live in, not a product of him.