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President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did" (www.realclearpolitics.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have this really wierd take where I judge things based on the other things in their group. A sort of realtive judgement based on my experience of reality. As opposed to what I feel it should be in an ideal state in my head. I would like to get to that ideal state but it has not come to be yet. Once again I will say that biden was the best president of my lifetime. I get a lot of flak from that but so far no one has taken a president from the last 50 years as an example of how much better they were than him or gave me a run down rank putting him at the bottom below reagan and bush and trump and such.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem with comparing Presidents is that you have to consider the times they were in power, and what did get done vs. what could have been done. Sorting Democrats above Republicans is the easy part, but the caveat is that they could have been so much better, but settled for better than Republicans. And of course parties over time change as well. Neither party resembles the past version in many ways.

I'm surprised you put Biden above Obama or Carter though. What major achievement did he do that gives him top level?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

actually its because as you say considering the times. obama had two terms and in the first term he wasted a lot of time trying to work with republicans. as such the aca was the only thing to come out of it and he had a very nice initial setup congression wise. Biden had a very adversarial situation and managed to do quite a bit of useful thing. beyond the omundsman bill was the no surprise billing and not allowing college loan debt to rise above principle, have payback relative to means and discharged after 20 years of payments (the income driven plan). This is keep in mind the compromise action after knocking down many other more comprehensive discharging and despite a complete lack of appreciation on this platform for it from many folks. he was like a bulldog coming back and getting at least something done for all of his stuff. Getting more people overtime when miscategorized as exempt. I still give him credit for the no compete even though the courts blocked it. It at least as made it an issue. Don't get me wrong I like obama like as far as stats. well spoken, well educated, just downright cool and a leader you could be proud to have. One that makes other countries jealous. Again though he sorta wasted the first term. I do keep in mind that biden did better because of his experience under obama though so its a bit unfair but its results that matter. Similarly carter did not get a lot in his term and unfortunately it was because he was to good for the job really.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Once again I will say that biden was the best president of my lifetime.

And lots of people say trump was/is...

That's because it's an opiy, and everyone is entitled to their own, no matter how few agree with them.

but so far no one has taken a president from the last 50 years as an example of how much better they were than him or gave me a run down rank putting him at the bottom below reagan and bush and trump and such.

He's below Obama, and Bill...

Those are the only two Dem presidents to compare him too.

While ignoring that Biden was just a figurehead for the neo liberal wing that stopped Obama from doing more...

That's the important distinction, Obama wasn't perfect but tried to do more and failed.

Biden drug his feet and reluctantly did some small things, but the people who decided it was Biden's turn and gave him the "victory fund" when Hillary was done with it have the pull they could have gotten a lot done.

They just didn't want to

And I know all this goes over people's heads, and they're likely just going to get upset because Biden has the right letter by his name.

But how can you say Biden was better than Obama considering that?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Laughs in student loan debt relief…… Which was coincidentally the only reason i even swallowed my pride and voted for this centrist billionaire puppet.

Sick and tired of voting for the “lesser of two evils” when its clear both of which have puppet strings leading directly to blackrock, state street, vanguard and all the other war profiteering mutual fund wall street billionaires. The us political landscape has become a joke of blatantly fascist imperialism.

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