(07-29-2018 01:29 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Do you guys really think there was not a large portion of people that opposed Obama just because of who he was? Be that because he was a democrat, because he was black, because he from Chicago, because he went to Harvard, and on and on?
Similarly to Trump, Obama oversaw sustained economic growth, began reducing the deficit, and so on and plenty of people never gave him credit in the same way there are plenty of partisans not giving Trump credit.
I literally never said anything about anyone posting on this board falling in that category - but way to project that. I don’t project and think OO is talking about me when he says there are plenty of partisans who won’t give Trump any credit because he has actually seen me do that. For some reason, though, Owl#’s decides to say I was one of those partisans...

I did not like Obama because I spent a military career fighting communism, and he was way too close to that for me.

As far as “sustained economic growth” he took over at or slightly after the bottom of a recession, and starting from that point in the cycle it would have been pretty difficult not to have faster growth than he did. By the way exactly what did Bush do to cause the recession and what did Obamado to turn it around. And “reducing the deficit” is true if and only if you attribute the 2009 budget, signed by Obama, to Bush. I believe that as of the end of Obama’s second term, the nine largest budget deficits in our history were all Obama budgets.

And as far as the partisan comment, perhaps you could refer me to your comments that do not fit that description. I am having trouble finding them on my own. If you want to call me partisan because I did not praise Obama, that is your right. But it is not because I'm too partisan to give him credit. It's because I have a hard time finding any good that he did. I think many of his supporters have the same problem, which is why they are so quick to give him credit for things that he did not do.