Were We Too "Unfair" To Barack Obama?

So later today, the United States will be inaugurating a new president and it has caused me to reflect on the last years of Barack Obama. To be quite honest, Barack Obama was just, okay. He was far from being the worst president, but he also wasn't the best. If I were to rank him amongst all of the presidents we have ever had, I would put him somewhere between number twenty and twenty-five. I thought that he was a class act and had some good ideas by curing unemployment and bringing in a healthcare system, but at the end of the day, he was not strong enough to get what he wanted to get done, he still kept money with big businesses and continuously bailed them out and he made a lot of militaristic mistakes. Finally, at the end of the day, something about him and his administration has caused a lot of people to move on from him and vote for either the Republican candidate or not vote at all.

However, the real question is, were we too unfair to Barack Obama? The answer to that question is a resounding yes. Here was a guy that showed so much class and seemed to respect everyone and all about half of the country did was spit in his face when he probably would have invited them into his house and given them a bed to sleep in. This was since the beginning too. I remember certain people NEVER gave him a chance and was sitting there dogging him since the very beginning when he didn't even deserve it. And while he wasn't perfect to no stretch of the imagination, he would do something that the previous administration did and suddenly they would be against it, for some reason. I don't know, they always had a deep seeded hatred for Obama and never trusted him. This is why I laugh when they say "Donald Trump is the president, you must respect him, or leave this country!" Okay, so you know you complained about our previous president, non stop, for eight years and you have the audacity to tell people how to act when it comes to a guy they don't like? It is like they don't practice what they preach, it is pretty funny.

Because of this, I want to go through the top TEN predictions and claims that Republicans made before Obama was elected and during his regime that never came true. Now some of them were completely crazy when they made them and now that it is the end and we can now look back at how hilarious and crazy these claims were. So sit back and laugh at what stupid people thought would have been:

Number 1: Barack Obama is a Muslim

Now I know that his name is Barack Hussain Obama and it sounds like Osama Bin Laden, but Barack Obama was not a Muslim for a single day during his presidency. Barack Obama was raised by his single mother and his Christian parents, both his father and his step father were Muslims to a certain point. However, he is currently a practicing Christian and definitely not a Muslim. I think that he is definitely more open to other cultures and other backgrounds and people aren't comfortable about that.

Number 2: Barack Obama was born in Kenya

I remember back in 2009, President Elect, Donald Trump and Glenn Beck spearheaded the movement to have Barack Obama show his birth certificate because they thought he was born in Kenya. Barack was actually born in Hawaii in 1963, which was four years after Hawaii became a state in the United States. Republicans and Conservatives had their panties in a huge wad about this because they knew that if they could prove that Barack Obama wasn't born in this country, then they wouldn't have him as their president and therefore would be content with him not being there. Barack Obama eventually showed them his birth certificate, but the opposition still didn't believe him.

Number 3: Barack Obama supports terrorism

Because Barack Obama was "once" a Muslim and because people thought he was born in Kenya and because people thought he was soft on Islam and Terrorism, idiots thought that Barack Obama was not only a terrorist and that he supported terrorism because he refused to torture supposed terrorists and because he didn't trade people for the life of a reporter that was beheaded. However, the facts are that Obama has been a decently strong force against Islamic Terrorists and has dropped hundreds of bombs on Muslim countries where suspected terrorists are being housed.

Number 4: Barack Obama is a Communist

Absolutely ridiculous seeing as though he continued to bail out private companies. Yes he created the "Affordable Care Act", but that surely doesn't make his a Communist. The goal was to make healthcare more affordable for poor people that didn't have money for health insurance. While the act was not as affordable for the middle class and that is why they got mad at him, it didn't stop people from complaining about it without trying to change it.

Number 5: Barack Obama will raise gas prices

Now this is a tricky one. I remember that before Barack Obama was elected, gas prices were around five dollars where I lived. I remembered that liberals blamed George W. Bush's administration, but we all know that gas prices have almost nothing to do with who the President of the United States is. However, when Barack Obama became president, for some reason, gas prices plummeted and in the same place, gas prices are $2.89 in the same area that I lived in. So no, gas prices in Santa Clara California did not go higher than six dollars like people said it would. However, when Bush was president, Republicans said that the president wasn't in control of gas prices, but they all said that Obama magically would be.

Number 6: Barack Obama will take our guns

Let me just say that while Barack Obama was for banning automatic and semi automatic guns, but he wasn't in favor of taking guns away from responsible gun owners. The problem in this country is the fact that we clearly don't have much regulations on who gets firearms. You can be considered a flight risk and you can still get a gun because the mentality is to give guns to as many people as possible. This is because the gun industry is a business that doesn't care who gets the weapons in the first place. If the NRA and members of government took the time to make sure that crazy people didn't get guns, then the amount of mass shootings would go down.

Number 7: Barack Obama will destroy our economy

The jury is still completely out on this issue. On one hand, Republicans will tell you that he has destroyed our economy and brought us further into debt, on the other hand, Democrats will tell you that he saved the economy by lowering the unemployment and making jobs. Either way you put it people will argue and it is usually because they like Obama or they hate Obama. However, I don't think that Obama destroyed our economy, I mean, I feel better than I did in 2008, besides being eight years older and on my own...

Number 8: Barack Obama had a part in 9/11

Yes, there is one poor chap who thinks that Obama a big reason for September 11th, 2001 when two 747's crashed into the World Trade Center. The guy actually said that it was because "he wasn't around enough, he wasn't in the office." I know this might have been a good troll job, but I was just looking for a stretch. Which brings me to the number 9 thing that people wrongly say about Obama...

Number 9: Barack Obama was always on vacation

Barack Obama has been on vacation a lot, but is he always on vacation? The answer is no. Barack Obama has been in the white house for eight years, that is around 2,918 days. During that time, he has taken 28 vacations and spent 217 days on those vacation. On the other hand, George W. Bush spent the same number of days as president, but actually took 88 vacations that spanned exactly 533 total days. And these are the same people that supported Bush, but hated Obama, while at the same time telling him that he took too many vacation days.

And finally...

Number 10: Barack Obama is the worst president that we have ever had

Lets just forget the fact that we have had presidents that owned black slaves, we had presidents that forced Native American Indians on a trail of tears off of their land, we have had presidents that cheated on their wives with their secretary, we have had presidents that were found guilty of espionage, we have had presidents that nuked Japan, we have had presidents that cheated on their wives with hot, model, movie stars, and we have even had presidents who forced Japanese people in concentration camps. Has Obama ever done those things? Nope! So how is he the "worst president we have ever had"? We had a president who was such an impulsive gambler that he gambled away the white house China, his name was Warren G. Harding, are you telling me that Obama was worse than him? Because if you do, you are either joking or you are just plain biased.

To me, in all honesty, I think that there were many reasons why Republicans NEVER gave Obama a chance. One of them might have been because Democrats HATED George W. Bush. And while George was a good ol' boy that was unintentionally hilarious, he was a pretty bad president himself. I think it is that reason why Obama was never excepted. But while Bush had bipartisan support for basically his whole presidency, Obama didn't for some unexplained and mostly selfish reason. The fact is that Republicans lost and they hate losing. So what did they do? They spent the next 2,918 days complaining about it, but now, the complaining is over and now it is time for Democrats to complain for 4 or 8 years, who knows? Here restarts the never ending cycle of people complaining when the person they wanted to lose, wins.

And if you are a Republican that doesn't believe that other Republicans complained about the president, look at Fox News complaining for a total of 100 days after Obama became president:

Now I have no problem with them doing that. It is their right, if they don't like the ideals of the president and they want to expose the president, they are allowed to do so just like people should be allowed to criticize Donald Trump as well. However, the next time someone tells you not to complain, just show them this video because everyone does it. I wish we could all sit here and consider ourselves lucky that we had a guy in the white house that was respectful to all and would lift the shirt off of his back in order to help someone in need. I wish we could consider ourselves lucky that we had a guy in the white house that didn't insult people and didn't lash out at people when he was attacked. Finally, I am glad that we had a guy that was relatively relatable to me at least and strove to try to make this country better.

I know a lot of people will look at this and go "you love Obama and this proves it and you are an idiot for loving him!" On the contrary, I had many criticisms for the guy, I never voted for or against him and I knew he wasn't perfect. Lets all hope that in the end that Donald Trump does his best for this country and adds to the positivity of this country and everyone in it. I am not going to protest Trump, I am not going to wrongfully criticize him and I am not going judge him for what he did in the past. However I will say whats on my mind and call him out to keep him accountable and if any of his supporters don't like this, they can eat my shorts because that is exactly what I am going to do and be proud of it. You want to tell me to move to Mexico or Canada for it? Okay, so why didn't you move? Please tell me, why aren't you in Mexico or Canada right now for criticizing our former president? Oh thats right, you didn't, so sit down and listen to me complain, criticize, this, that and the third. And that is what Jesus... Barack Obama, I mean... Gandhi would have done. I hope everyone has a safe day at the inauguration and I hope everyone who attends wears their Trump Stamp! And a final, thanks Obama...