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Did Obama actually said that? I don't know if it's true, but I heard that Obama told Bernie that he can't be the good guy and be president.
Corruption aside, once getting into position of political power, it is actually harder to maintain it because of different stakeholders involved. Take the military industrial complex, for example. We rightly chastise its profit taking motive by artificially inducing wars. But the sad truth is that they are jobs providers to peripheral places where there are little to no opportunities for many, especially in the desert states in the American Southwest and in isolated regions of Scotland and Northern England in the case of UK. No politicians want to be branded as jobs destroyer.
Even without the opportunity for personal corruption, balancing genuine concerns and interests is a hard juggling act for any politicians. And that's not even including campaign financing and its trap of being beholden to the donor. Unfortunately, there is strong correlation between electoral success and how much money is thrown into the campaigning. It is one factor as to why the Citizens United was allowed by the US Supreme Court.
Absolutely he did. He stood aside when Occupy was brutalized. He did nothing meaningful to help consumers during the foreclosure crisis. He gave the MIC seven wars at once during his presidency. (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Libya.) He made sure the big banks got their bailouts. His promise of universal health care morphed into 'access to health care', which of course, only existed if you could absorb being price-gouged for your insurance.
Hell, he walked into Flint and pretended to take a drink of water as a political stunt, when he and everyone in that room knew their water was still poisoned with lead.
Obama was a massively corrupt president, and one of the biggest disappointments in American history.
The last time i tried to get insurance on the exchange, they said it would be 5 thousand dollars.
I said "5000 dollars a year? that seems high"
they said "Oh, no sir. 5000 dollars a month"
I said "Goodbye" and hung up.
Wtf? I thought 500 a month was robbery.
“And I continued not having health insurance because that’s true compassion in a Christian nation.”
Yep. Still no health insurance. Everything out of pocket, and because its all out of pocket I only go to the doctor once a year, and ignore any issue that isnt worth an ER visit