Obama was a warhawk, so points against personally. I get that the US is in the business of war. If it wasn't Ukraine it would be whatever cause we could enmesh ourselves in first to pump money out of that situation. 

That said, I think Obama was qualified, and participated in decision making, as well as surrounding himself by good advisors in consideration of his aims. 

I don't have rose colored glasses about any former president, but one underplayed thing I found extremely impressive was when the Obama admin rounded up all the disused government properties, put them up for sale, and created a simple Zillow-type website to sell them off. The attempt to eliminate government waste AND raise money in any way other than stealing from taxpayers....👩‍🍳👄

He's what we should expect and demand in a leader. Roosevelt was out there with his Rough Riders and Andrew Jackson was engaging in pistolas at dawn. To give an example from the last 100 years, at least HW was a career spook and avoided anyone twigging to that for way too long. Well done. 

I hear every president gets read in and learns some bonkers shit which may influence their policy, but I agree about your AI point. Biden is just doing exactly whatever his handlers tell him to. Maybe he was what the US wanted to steer us out of the covid situation, but ugh. My friends called me excitedly after the 2020 election and asked what I thought... My thought was his first act was to sign an executive order to rawdog Title 9. They did not want to hear about that. Unfair, since I had to listen to four years of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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 Obama was the Murder Drone King. He loved death at a distance. No coincidence for his Third Term, we see more drone attacks on Russia. 

 

That said, I think Obama was qualified, and participated in decision making, as well as surrounding himself by good advisors in consideration of his aims. 

I think that’s a good word:  “participated.”  Obama didn’t set the agenda based on his own ideas of good governance (save a few things like maybe the selling of disused properties), but he participated.  He shared the party’s goals;  he had to, in order to have been nominated.  So does Biden, but he’s less of an active participant in decision making.