Re:Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out
by braveo on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:34PM
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Obama was supposed to be the change candidate, it's what he ran on, but he didn't really do anything.
That's part of why Trump won. People have been wanting significant change for that long, yet we never got it.
Re:Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out
by chaostheory on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:47PM
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Obama may have sounded like he was an outsider in his first presidential race, but he's proven otherwise repeatedly over the years even during his first term. To be fair, Sanders would have probably been the same had he been elected.
Trump was the only major party choice in the last election though other choices of change were Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. To be clear, I am not advocating anyone; I'm just differentiating candidates who will uphold the status quo and others who won't.
Obama was the change candidate that didn't have a long history in congress. He gets labeled "establishment" by Bern victims out of propaganda. It's kind of funny how there's an anti-establishment candidate every 4 years that has a long history of being part of the establishment. At some point people have to start realizing that "anti-establishment candidate" means underdog who wants his small donations to add up.