"Granting that there are limitations on the positive impact that Obama will have in American society"

Who is talking about "limitations on the positive impact Obama will have"? Hultner listed four specific "impacts" of Obama's government which have been unrelentingly negative, not a "limited positive impact" but actually actively making things worse — and (1) his repeated bailouts of failed financial corporations and the incestuous relationship between his cabinet and major Wall Street firms; (2) Obama's constant lethal "impacts" on several different Muslim countries with drone missile strikes; (3) his ongoing imprisonment and torture of a whistleblower (who happens to be gay) for exposing the full extent of (1); (4) his deportation of over 1,000,000 undocumented immigrants during his first term, making him numerically the single most destructive President in American history for undocumented families. If this is not an example of people's rights being well and completely trampled, I don't know what in the world would be. By any standard of justice, compassion or simple decency his record has been appalling.
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"YOUR ability to create change is completely meaningless beside the actual changed caused by this election …."

The recent vote resulted in the re-election of the incumbent President of the United States. Now maybe you think narrowly maintaining the same status-quo composition of the governing party in Washington is a good thing. Maybe the alternative would have been far worse. But for better or for worse, very narrowly managing to keep the same people in power for the next 4 years who have been in power for the last 4 years is hardly an example of making social "change," unless the word "change" has simlpy been revised to mean "Whatever outcome seems most preferable to voting Progressives," whether this actually involves moving one way, or moving another, or staying in exactly the same place as you've been for the last 4 years.

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Here you go, I wrote a song for you. All together now.

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Oh I cheered when Obama was chosen,

My faith in the system restored!

But then I wept when obstructionists made him

Deport millions, make kill lists and fight wars

And well I know these years haven't been perfect

But just think what he can do with four more!

Oh

Love me, love me, love me

I'm a liberal.

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#WithApologiesToPhilOchs

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