Statiscally, around the world, Donald Trump is despised.
But I’m curious what the opinion of Barack Obama was back in the day. And even George W bush if your old enough
Edit: today I learned Brazilians really hate Obama lol
Statiscally, around the world, Donald Trump is despised.
But I’m curious what the opinion of Barack Obama was back in the day. And even George W bush if your old enough
Edit: today I learned Brazilians really hate Obama lol
Comments
Good man Obama.
Obama is just another war criminal
Just another piece of shit.
He declared a lot of wars but won the Nobel Prize for Peace, if it weren’t for a left-wing bastard he would be in prison
I think they are all war criminals.
But most people here think Obama was a good guy, some associate him with Lula.
George Bush is kind of the OG enemy of the left and the face of imperialism and also I dont remember ever seeing anyone who liked him, even in the right
We miss him. Even during his presidency he was pretty well respected.
He was a great president. He was charismatic, he talked like an adult, behaved like an adult, reasoned like an adult. The completed opposite of Trump.
I love Obama! I got his blue and red “Hope” poster tatted on my arm
Just another war criminal, but with a democrat disguise
In Brazil, ppl liked him a lot. I feel like thats because it was before these culture wars that we see these days and before these behemoths we call social media.
We had Orkut but wasnt monetized or full of algorithms feeding you content you did not ask for.
Brazil was growing and there was a feeling the world was in a right path or sth.
I remember the Brazilian right movement was starting to gain traction and there were ppl who, following the rightwing in the US, would reproduce some of the things that were said about Obama in the US: “he is not American, he is a guy put there by the extremists muslims and so on”.
But this was more of a niche thing and was very embryonary when Obama was in power.
Edit: Im not saying I agree or believe in any of these claims. I tried my best to just describe how ppl saw things rhose days.
Now with flair
Not sure what the general opinion from my compatriots is, but I think he’s just another war criminal that will die unpunished for his atrocities, just like every US president.
I remember George Bush & thought there would never be anyone worse than him and his cronies, especially Dick Cheney. They really got the surveillance state going full on, implemented homeland security, illegal war, etc. When Obama was inaugurated I was visiting Uruguay and saw on the news that Bush’s daughter, Laura Bush, was in the Pantanal buying up land in the watershed.
I guess it depends on who you ask. We have hard right people that will hate anything hard right media tells them to. Others will just have a faint memory of his time in office, so not much there. A minority will respect him for his achievements and share some of his views
Personally I like him. He is your average center left politician, but with a lot of charisma. Also, he seemed authentic, especially during the Sandy Hook shooting.
Two variables, there are people who consumes US media and its affiliates propaganda who thinks he was great and well respected
Then there are people who read actual news and knows he was the president who deported more people, attacked as much as he could a ton of other countries and all the usual war criminal stuff, for them he’s just another US president just like the rest of them
Overrated. I hate politicians whose “mistakes” and crimes are totally ignored just because they are charismatic and/or great speakers.
Was he miles better than his successor and predecessor? Yes, of course, no doubt.but that’s an unbelievably low bar.
to be us president, you basically have to be a cynical bastard. trump, obama, clinton, doesn’t matter. you guys keep screwing over our countries.
Still american, just another war criminal
Obama and his wife Michelle are both smart I really like them
i make zero delineation between US presidents, in my perspective they all represent the same agenda and i hate them all equally
He was very famous here back then. I remember 2 guys visiting a favela and stop everything around here.
Michael Jackson and Obama.
Obama and Bush, two war criminals.
Curiously, of the two, Bush was the one who had the best relationship with the Brazilian government (which at the time, as today, was presided over by Lula, a “center-left” figure).
I venture to argue that for most people Obama happened a century ago and no one cares at this point.
Dems are bad as well, they just do a great job of hiding it, they want to be perceived as being ethical while not actually being ethical, they are the thoughts and prayers type
Obama and Clinton both wanted Biden to have a 2nd term, same with AOC, they dont actually care about the american people, they care about their cult, i mean party
Its essentially similar to US and Mexico, Mexico is well know to have shady practices in government, with bribes and i dont think they hide that fact
The US pretends they are all above board and everything is happening ethically
He has one of the best PR teams ever in history, still to this day.
My opinion is that he was a president. And he was black. End of my opinion.
Obama intensified and expanded the illegal Bush wars after campaigning against them, forced Americans to give their money to insurance companies instead of funding public health for all as he promised, and bailed out Wall Street while ignoring Main Street as millions of pay-check to pay-check families lost their homes to foreclosure. His foreign policy was worse than Reagan’s. The man was a goddamn disgrace.
Honestly the last US president I think was really good was Clinton
Another hypocrite warmonger exactly like anyone else who ever was president in that country since the big stick politics.
I can’t say much about his government because I’m not that familiar with his policies, but he seemed like a serious president who knew what he was doing.
He will also be remembered in my country for being part of one of the best “Piñericosas”.
He war criminal but he was the most peaceful one actually made some progress toward peace with countries like Cuba, Russia and norcorea was not even a thing when he was in power, I personally think that any other president that would’ve serve under his same period would’ve make things worse specially in the middle east.
Not as bad, but still bad. All US presidents are war criminals.
Personally, I think he was yet another cog in the imperialist machine that is the United States.
Very reasonable, comparing with all the latest presidents.
He was miles better at public speaking.
He managed to get elected while being black, in a country with lots of racists, that says something about his likeability.
By himself, all the meddling on other countries and wars are despicable, but I guess that would have happened with another president, too.
His administration did good thing to help everyday people, that’s a plus.
The republican party doesn’t have a decent president since Bush Sr.
Overall, it is a very positive image, which doesn’t mean approval of everything his administration did.
What’s with more than half the comments coming from Brazilians?
War criminals
Anyone that likes obama here should learn about PROMESA. He fucked us over.
People that say Obama was “just as bad” need a reality check imo, he was bad due to the nature of being the leader of an imperialist war machine BUT he didn’t have the entire world spiraling into a crisis every couple of days because he had said some dumb shit.
Most of Latin America have been coup’ed at some point. All of them backed by US. Some were dems presidents, some were republicans. Meaning the US is always the same shit, and only fools think there’s a difference. Ask a Syrian what they think about Obama. Or Trump.
Like this.
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Obama trued to do the right thing when it comes to immigration. He deported a lot of people with criminal records. A friend of mine was losing a roommate every month to ICE, then he tried to give documents to kids and hardworking families. The republicans went there and F’ed everything up.
Peeping Tom and another warmonger. Personally? It doesn’t matter if Republican or Democrat – both are rotten to the core and both parties behave like my country and all of South America is their backyard.
Fuck’ em both and I hope you gringos get a severe political renovation soon, where there will be way more than 2 viable options that are just different cuts of the exact same cloth.
Opinions about Obama were mostly positive, especially after the unpopular George W. Bush. At the time of Bush invasion in Iraq, it was perceived back then as an attempt to get their oil. That invasion hit a nerve to some people in the region because the United States has a not-so-nice history of interventionism in Latin America.
On a more personal level, (as some who follows US internal politics) he’s my favorite US president in my lifetime. With 20/20 hindsight, I can now see that he and his party made some big mistakes that led to the current political situation in that country.
By the way, most millennials in Argentina could watch 9-11 live from their homes. September 11th is Teachers’ Day, so there’s no classes and we were mostly at home that day.
Ah yes, the deportator in chief. Other than the fact that for some god forsaken reason Cubans are republicans to death (not me!!!!! Never me!!!!), many, many of us don’t like him because he was the one to put an end to the dry foot wet foot policy.
He is a good speaker, charismatic without falling into the cult leader territory, and his thinking seemed mostly logical (at the very least it never seemed hatred-filled?).
As a Cuban, I don’t like what he did to us. As a political discourse professional, I think he truly is one of a kind. One time I gave a discourse and someone said it reminded them of Obama’s speeches. I almost cried in joy.
Totally overrated, blew up as many people as any republican president.
AKA Deporter in Chief Obama. I’d say the opinion is overall neutral.
As If he was any better
I think here in South America people see “US President” ~ Obama ~ Trump ~ Bush
There’s a language and geographic barrier that makes people not look at the person in charge but the government as a whole
People here are answering their personal opinion of Obama instead or their country’s opinion.
In my experience most Brazilians don’t really care much about him. Many kinda apolitical people see him as a charismatic guy with a smile.
The only American presidents I personally see the Brazilian right admire are Reagan and Trump.
The Brazilian left despises Obama and all America presidents. They see America’s existence as the fault for our country problems. Lula (our current president) blamed America for an anti-corruption probe who put him in jail claiming it was all a US plot to steal our resources. But you as an american have to keep in mind that a lot of leaders in poor countries like to use America as a escapegoat for their failures and the people believe this.
Same as any other US leader
The recovery from the 2008 Great Recession was slow and he didn’t seem to have a very coherent foreign policy. Obama’s foreign policy was Bush 2.0 particularly in the Middle East. His bombing of Libya and plan to bomb Syria (before he backed down) were weird, since he basically campaigned in 2008 against the idea of US interventionism. A lot of people have erased this from their memory.
His greatest legislative initiative, the ACA or “Obamacare”, was a success, though.
I think, just by being the president of the USA, you are necessarily a person who will watch silently and oversee while your country does a lot of very bad things. It just goes with the position.
That said, as far as presidents go, Obama was one of the least harmful ones. Things kept getting worse during his time (the transfer of wealth and power from the poor to the rich inexorably advances), but even with the best intentions, he would have had little power to stop it and I believe it would have been far worse under most other potential presidents. I can’t read his thoughts, but maybe he was genuinely a good guy who accepted a super evil job because he thought he could make his country less horrible.
Bush was incredibly unremarkable. Just a cookie-cutter republican from that period, there to make sure that the aforementioned transfer of wealth and power from the poor to the rich keeps happening as planned. He was a thoroughly corrupt and evil person, but at least he wasn’t crazy.
That’s more than I can say for the clown republicans currently in charge. Those people aren’t just super evil, they’re incompetent, shameless, and they’re nuts. They’re super corrupt religious extremists, white supremacists and ultranationalists who miss the good old days of slavery and colonization. Absolute monsters.
All of them are just on a continuity of agenda. Only their colours change.
Barack “no middle eastern child left undrone-struck” Obama
Obama was cool i guess, and Trump can be a bitch but not get me wrong, your country havent give a fuck about LATAM not now not ever. So for me they are all the same thing.
Another genocidal war criminal. Also spied on our former president and the US backed the lawfare campaign during his administration
At least he looked like a serious person and behaved the way you’d expect a president to. I think he at least thought things through and analyzed them, wasn’t as impulsive as Trump. He had more diplomacy and wasn’t as confrontational or populist.
He also had a political and educational background, unlike Trump, who was simply a businessman and a media figure.
But I don’t fully know everything he did in his own country or abroad, so my opinion probably isn’t very well justified.
Good opinion just for his charisma
He was involved in a lot of wars across the world.
Obama is a pragmatic. He works for the United States of America. He doesn’t care about anyone else besides the United States of America (his job description).
He won a Nobel Prize without doing nothing in concrete… he seems cool as a person, but he is an American politician.
I don’t like the background and ideas of those supported Obama. I’m not into woke liberalism.
He is a democrat.
He’s well liked or people just don’t have enough of an opinion, he’s certainly seen as the last “normal” US president so rose tinted glasses I guess
He committed war crimes like any other president, but he was a good one and did a lot of recovery after Bush.
He was a true neoliberal. But as any other president of the US, he was to keep the military industrial complex running.
Have to say he has the best PR I’ve ever seen. You mix that with the biggest propaganda machine in the world and you get the perfect president, also impresive that a black guy won in a country obsessed with race to an insane degree.
All american presidents are monsters (except maybe Kennedy) but Obama was the most down to earth of them all. I think he had one of the biggest amount of drone strikes during presidency and the kid cages was started under his presidency with Biden as VP I believe? Who cares, it’s a black guy in a suit! (The US will never change no matter who sits in the oval office)
Fun fact: ignoring any bullshit propaganda chavismo ever said about him. I remember hearing a nickname for him that I still laugh like an idiot and is “Obamamawebo”
No american president is good news for latin america.
I think Obama was the epitome of the contradictions that make up America. He was undoubtedly committed to the liberal values that founded the US at home. Abroad, he was still committed to American hegemony at any cost, which necessarily require containing emergent powers, including in LATAM. That’s why you see most of the commentaries here cynical about him.
Trump is in many senses his opposite. He’s a fascist through at through, and his domestic agenda is appalling. He’s also an imperialist, but of the XIX century type. His foreign policy makes the US act like a regional power, instead of a global hegemon. I think the world will be a more unstable and dangerous place because of him, bit unlike most liberal Americans, I will not miss the old world order either.
I hope any new international order that follows after the defeat of this new wave of fascists is built upon real democratic values, and real commitment to the development of humanity as a whole, rather than an order with s liberal front, but in service of protecting the interests of the imperialist powers of their time.
A fake black man, son of a white woman, married to a man, a war criminal who works for the 1%
The black guy who wouldn’t be considered black in latino américa but just a mulatto?
For some odd reason my country likes him. I guess because he didn’t pay any attention to him and he’s pretty well spoken. He’s basically a likeable Trump. All of his policies are Trump’s policies.
Great public speaker, fucking awful warmongering politician.
That’s the best way to describe him.
Many people criticize trump over how ice handles shit yet little do they know Obama is who initiated most the bs ice takes part in such as putting children in cages like cattle. Remember that media fiasco when they blamed trump over those images taken long before his announcement to even run for office?
Well I sure do.
As an American, he led us to trump. He could have done SO much more his first two years.
Enough, you hate Trump, we directly don’t care about him, do not put us in your imaginary group of “trump haters” that crap doesn’t work in our countries, specially having worst leaders like mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Colombia presidents
I like trump