Obama. Straight ticket dem except for judges.
Obama has disappointed me on civil liberties. I don’t support the CIA drone campaign, both because of its civilian costs and its overall strategy. I think Obama should have pushed harder for single-payer in Obamacare, I think he should have went after the Bush admin officials who sanctioned torture, and I think he dropped the ball in many ways regarding his insistence for “bipartisanship.”
But he has still accomplished much more for progressive causes than any president in my lifetime. Obamacare, for all its flaws, expands the social safety net and ends insurance company abuses. Obama ended the Iraq War responsibly, is ending the Afghan war responsibly, and has handled Libya and the Arab Spring incredibly well. He has drastically reduced
He also saved the economy from a depression, and (despite Republican opposition) put us on a path towards recovery.
And Obama has appointed supreme court justices that will uphold civil rights and Roe vs. Wade, and he’s appointed professionals to head departments like FEMA and the Fed, rather than ignorant crony ideologues that ran these orgs under Republicans.
I think people need to take their disappointments with Obama in context, and compare his term to other actual presidents rather than ideals that have never existed in American politics.