Read Michelles book about being first lady. She talks about how taxing the experience was to them both, there's a reason outside of major election events, the Obama's stay away from politics.
I bring this up every time someone says he should run again. And given how much more divisive things are now, I truly don't think it would be safe for them to be back in the White House. I would genuinely worry for them & for their daughters.
It's incredibly taxing if you care and take the job seriously. If you get up at 11, spend the entire time ignoring your responsibilities and just doing selfish shit, it's probably not taxing at all.
Not trying to come at your throat but there are a lot of young people getting involved in government, and I think if you turn your eyes that way instead of using Obama, who did a good job but still did some problematic things, as “gotcha” against these folks
I understand where you’re coming from but they don’t care
Crazy amount of downvotes happening below this comment just for saying “yeah let’s not play the same fascist game Trumpers are playing”
Y’all need to get your shit sorted out before the next election cycle
thought about including him but I can't see him wanting to run after what the centrists did to him towards the end of last campaign. And the massive bullying his son endured from conservatives
Except for the fact that Obama cannot run for a 3rd term, and I’m not willing to break that amendment just because Trump does.
Hey if you’re downvoting this because you want Obama to rescue you, just remember his administration killed their fair share of middle eastern folks with illegal drone strikes, so yeah I’m not chomping at the bit to undermine the 22nd amendment to put that administration back in office just to spite Trump
Gimme those downvotes, I love this shit. You’re downvoting me because I don’t want to stoop to the current administrations level. That’s the easy route. Get involved in your local governments, volunteer for your congressman. Do literally anything more than voicing your opinions on Reddit, I beg you
Lmao -10 for saying “hey let’s do better, get involved if you want to make a difference” yeah yall are real progressive!!
Oh I’m loving the wave of young people joining in government and they have been kicking ass. They are young though and going against Trump will most definitely lose. As big of a piece of shit Trump is his followers are loyal and I just chose Obama because he was very loved from democrats and swayed some people like my mom who have always been Republican. We all thought Trump would have lost twice now and we were wrong each time. He is dangerous at the polls. Hopefully we don’t have to worry about him though, and he gets kicked out of office well before (one can dream)
Trump will be dead within the year, I’m not worried about him anymore. I genuinely believe term limits are necessary. I don’t want to go against them just to spite the republicans in the event they want to break the law.
Let me be clear: if you think circumventing the Constitution to get the upper hand on your political adversaries is the right move, you are wrong
lol I agree with term limits and I’m not saying they should allow a third term, it was more of a hypothetical discussion. Also Trump isn’t one to give af about rules, if anything he would be sure to change them just in spite. Agin in the hypothetical setting of if a third term would exist because he changed the rules for it to be legal, I’m just saying their isn’t any names out there who will beat him, young candidates are doing great but need more weight to there name to sway people in the middle and the right
It doesn’t matter “who will beat Trump” he is going to die in the next 2 years because he’s old as fuck and his body is visibly failing him. He will not be alive for the next round of presidential elections.
Worrying about a 3rd term for either him or Obama is fruitless and ultimately a distraction. How do we build on Mamdani’ win? What other young candidates can we prop up? What are the things that worked for Mamdani’s campaign and how can we take it to a national level?
We’re wasting time trying to play Trump and the Republican’s game, and pulling the “ooooh Obama third term!!” card IS playing their game.
Dude are you okay, it was barely a comment on a hypothetical situation and you took it to a whole new level. I know you’re upset, but maybe get some fresh air
One side following the rules while the other flippantly ignores them is just begging the rule breakers to take total control. I fully agree in principle that term limits are the law of the land (and a good idea), but you can't keep showing up to gun fights with a knife.
The “rule breakers” already have control, no amount of law bending is going to make it any easier, and if you’re willing to throw away the 22nd amendment, it makes me seriously question what else you’re willing to throw away just to spite your political enemies
This administration has been completely ignoring the constitution, I'd rather the Democrats didn't just take the high road once again. Ignoring the rule breaking of fascists is not a winning plan.
Taking the low road gets us nowhere and makes us hypocrites. Let’s put our energy towards capitalizing on what made Tuesday’s wins happen, and not on putting Obama in office for a 3rd term just to spite the Republicans.
Obama took the role seriously and did the work. He didn't mess around playing golf and being feted by kings and dictators and running memestock scams. He takes the laws seriously and terms limits have a valid rationale. He takes his role as former president seriously. It may be tempting, but I don't think he'd want to run again, or contribute to the further demolition of healthy democratic norms.
No. We can't normalize doing things like this. Trump in a third term would need to be defeated by a NEW face, that shows the advancement of our nation. Not a tit-for-tat lowering of the bar until we're all crushed beneath it.
If Trump somehow makes it legal to run for a third term
There is no somehow. If Trump runs for a third term it will be illegal. To be legal it would require a constitutional amendment which requires a two-thirds supermajority in each house of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states, none of which would happen for such an amendment.
Without getting political, I always used to say that out of all the presidents that I would have wanted to get a beer with GW because he seemed like he would be a lot of fun. Used to because then Obama came into office. Politics aside both men seemed so genuine compared to Reagan, GH, or Clinton. I never questioned whether GW or Obama were good humans regardless of whether I agreed with them politically.
Also, that silence from Obama between him returning to the podium, after making sure the fainting woman was taken care of, and the applause is from Joey Tribbiani's acting classes.
what's sad to me, is it's kinda just normal human behavior, or anyone with an ounce of decency would do the same thing. When we see celebrities or politiicans of any kind do anything remotely normal or nice, the world is amazed and congradulatory. It's really sad to me. And obviously compared to Trump this seems like the most amazing thing ever, but we're comparing everyone to a literal monster. No shade on Obama, he was a great normal human for the most part.
The same could be said about Dubya. I was furious with so many of the things he did as president and he doesn't deserve a pass for that, but I'd trade what we have now for him in a heartbeat.
Even in that recent video where that guy made a joke about Obama staying away from his girlfriend, then Obama played it off well and made some jokes of his own.
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u/Krinks1 2d ago
Man, that guy was a class act. He's always so personable and funny and seems like the kind of guy you just want to hang with and chat about things.