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sperrico87 on 05 November 2012
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the2real4mafol said:
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Just keep to your promises this time, don't let the republicans seemingly walk all over you!


LOL!  He had a supermajority in the Senate that routinely overruled Republican filibusters in his first two years, AND control of the House until January 2011.  Or are you just talking about the last 21 months?

I heard there was a republican majority in the house of representatives, i guess that was more recently


Obama had control of both houses of Congress up until January 2011...so that's January 2009 - January 2011.  So that whole "Republicans kept blocking him OMG!" argument really doesn't work at all.

Well what was the "vote for change" in 2008 all about, nothing has changed at all

Good question.  The real reason is that people who supported Obama in 2008 were voting for an idea that was never going to occur.  Voting for a person and expecting everything to turn into pretty roses is not a rational or reasonable expectation.  Race had a lot to do with it too, and it still does to this day.  If you were to ask the vast majority of African-Americans what it is they like most about Obama, they wouldn't be able to tell you without admitting that they voted for him because he was black.  Most people don't find that to be an acceptable answer.