Yesterday's Left Twitter was reminding people that Obama was pretty terrible. That's not quite right. Two things are true: 1) Obama's record was mixed and there's lots to criticize. 2) Obama was unquestionably a top 10 president and arguably a top 5 president.
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The only presidents that were clearly better than Obama are FDR, Lincoln, and Washington. After that, it's debatable. I'm not really a "rank the presidents" guy, but there's plenty to criticize from the left about every single president.
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And as for FDR--every single piece of New Deal legislation was called a sellout compromise by big parts of the left in the same way that everything Obama did was seen the same way. It's our memory of FDR that clouds what things were like in 1935.
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Replying to @Chopsssss_ @ErikLoomis
Okay and FDR arrested thousands of US citizens and put them in camps on the basis of their ethnicity
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He signed off on numerous acts of brutal violence during the war, such as the firebombing of Dresden, and only doesn't get remembered as the first and only President to nuke another country in war because he died first (Truman did it because he knew FDR would've done it)
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