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It was obvious when he was president that he's a terrible person. Not sure how you're struggling with it now. He's just a guy like anyone else. Not special. We shouldn't deify presidents. I didn't vote for him in 2008 because I thought he was too inexperienced. I didn't vote for him in 2012 because he continued the war of terror.

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I didn’t say any of this. I think you are responding to Your own thoughts and not mine.

>As a dyed in the wool leftist I more and more struggle with Obama legacy from common core to regulation to his utter selling out the American people to the cia.

You're struggling now but presumably weren't struggling then even though it was obvious at the time that he was a bad person just like the rest of them.

I actually strongly considered voting for McCain.

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