For those of you old enough to remember, what did you think when Obama was elected?

For those of you old enough to remember, what did you think when Obama was elected?

>be me, 19 years old
>entirely ignorant to politics
>my mom was dying of cancer, loved him, lived to see him win and be inaugurated
>watched his acceptance and inauguration speech
>thought he would legitimately be a great president, was persuaded
>mom passed away, years passed, my politics changed
>grew to hate the fucker
>hope my mom would have felt the same way but know she wouldn't
>Hate Obama, voted for Trump

Hope you forgive me, Mom.

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I wasn't even born yet

Same, aside from the voting and dying mom part.

I'd report you but I think you're shitposting and bumped me so thanks.

Never thought he would win - legitimately didn't believe the USA was ready for the first black president.

After he won, didn't think he would do a good job - he was too young, too idealistic, too inexperienced.

Became entirely disillusioned with the press for their blatant shilling for him.

I did expect him to beat Romney though, despite doing a bad job for four years. what a garbage candidate Romney was.

I was in middle school when he first got elected. Obviously at the time I didnt give a shit about politics but I remember all the teachers put his inauguration on tv when it was happening and were being very serious about it. I got out of doing any school work that day so that was pretty cool

I was 18. It was my first time voting.

at the time, people were sick of Republicans because Bush had fucking ruined the brand with the war on terror, and general neocon bullshit.

McCain seemed too old compared to Obama to me, but he seemed experienced. I would have been ok with him winning, if not for Palin, who was clearly retarded, and single handedly sank his campaign.

voted Obama because of his hope and change stuff. The man knew how to deliver a good speech. Most people who voted for him felt like he had great potential.

Being the first black president was just a bonus, I didn't really care about that, he just seemed the right man for the right time.

I voted for him again in 2012 because Romney wasn't very appealing, and he really fucked himself over with that 47% or whatever it was- speech that got leaked. That was unacceptable.

Also he was mormon, and fuck that noise.

Eventually though, maybe around '12 or '13, I started noticing that things started shifting.

At my college, we get the New York Times for free. And I started noticing some wonky articles starting to pop up. Really dumb heavy left leaning articles and op eds that didnt know what they were on about, criticized republicans blindly and praised obama.

I was on board with the "fuck the tea party" stuff still. (I still feel the same way about them. ) It seemed like the Republicans were determined to sabotage his presidency, and that didn't seem right to me.

then Obama himself started going really far left in '14 and '15. Culminating in the monster we saw in the last 2 years of his term, where he was basically not even trying to hide his cultural marxist tendencies.

he invited BLM to the white house, went full anti-white, really he jumped off the deep end, and I found myself, a guy who in high school called himself a Democrat, and a centrist in early college, all of a sudden, I was right wing, and being driven further right.

Voted Trump, plan on doing it again.

I was your same age OP, I knew he was going to be elected no matter what because he was black. I didn't vote because I knew I didn't know enough to vote the right candidate in but I knew enough to know that he would win without a problem because of the historical influence. Which was, by the way the reason why Hillary was running this time to try to use that same approach and failed miserably.

>McCain seemed too old compared to Obama to me, but he seemed experienced. I would have been ok with him winning, if not for Palin, who was clearly retarded, and single handedly sank his campaign.

Fucking this. I thought the same thing. Even back then, it seemed to me that Palin was suicide in his campaign. I remember someone at one of his rallies telling him that Obama was a Muslim and McCain said something like "No, he's not, he's a good family man." I thought that was admirable to defend his opponent in front of his base. Probably would have voted for him if not for Palin. Now I hate that neocon fucker and I'm glad for what I've learned.

That everyone was voting him to be cool. Obama soley won on his race alone. That's not going to be able to get moderates ever again.

>depending on parent for political opinion
Wtf is wrong with you? Become your own man, not some emulation of what your parents think.

same, thought he would be a good president, what a disappointment

the lure you in and often keep their promises the first term..... its the second term you gotta watch out for. thats when they push their agenda.

Need a way to easily impeach a president in their 2nd term when they pull this shit

I voted against him both times, for McCain and Romney, Hated him from the start and was sure he would be a crappy president. Was not at all surprised to see him win either time though, because I could tell people were suckered in by his story as the first black president.

I look back now and laugh at myself for ever believing that the fuckers I voted for would have been the least bit better.

This is accurate, Obama won in 2008 because upper class American whites wanted to virtue signal how not racist they were. He won in 2012 because of how fucking terrible Romney was

my liberal mum was crying tears of joy that he was the first black president and I was telling her that it doesn't really matter who the US president is since they're really controlled by corporations since I was already woke af

I was 11 years old and loved him. I memorized the inauguration speech and oath. My homeroom teacher said he was going to make us stay inside during lunch recess to watch the inauguration. No one in my class thought anything of it since he brainwashed us into supporting Obama. My class let it slip to our art teacher that he was keeping us in for lunch. On the day of the inauguration he said he can't technically keep us in so we were free to leave. I stayed in and watched obama become president like a good little goy. The only other thing I remember is him saying obama would be speaking at the opposite end of where Martin Luther King Jr gave his speech and his symbolic that was. No idea of that was true.

I voted for him the first time and left the slot for president blank the second time. I really liked his speeches and felt like his name was a sort of apology for all the shit we had stirred up in the ME.

But then he voted for the Bailout, didn't close Gitmo, maintained foreign wars and passed that horrible health care thing. Ended up feeling like voting was a joke, so didn't vote during 2012 election.

Then Trump came along and everyone was saying how terrible he was and how crazy he was and what a bad choice he would be. When I looked at the guy, I saw an extremely successful individual who was gauche and kind of a jerk. I wouldn't want to be his friend, but I genuinely believe he wants what is best for US and is capable of bringing it to fruition.

Seeing America since his election has thrown me as far right as any of you fuckers.

Knew who Obama was long before he was elected. Press started shilling for him after 2004 election. Hard shilling. Newsweek cover: Seeing Purple. Big picture of Obongo. Saw who he was. Associated with Jeremiah Wright and other anti-American radicals. Also something fishy about the fact that he was a first term senator and was suddenly running for president. No experience except community organizer. I knew he was bad news but too many people fell for his hollow speeches and dark skin.

I voted for W first time when i was 18. Voted in 2004 because my bro was in Iraq and we were all patriotic n shit. Voted for Obama because my brother died in Iraq. Voted for Obama again because I still believed and Romney was a cuck. I voted for Trump in primary and general with the hope that he would burn the whole fucking thing down. I don't regret one minute of supporting him.

I remember it vividly because I was 27 and deeply politically aware since early high school.

Kerry vs Bush was very very similar to Trump vs Clinton last year right down to the first time I'd seen waves of celebrities openly and desperately shilling for a candidate.

Despite no WMDs, despite casualties rising in Iraq, despite everything W was not only given a 2nd term but also given Congress on a platter by voters.

Karl Rove had devised a brilliant strategy at the time of character assassination on Kerry via questioning his service in Vietnam and endlessly running Swift Boat Veterans for Truth spots. He also didn't knock W out during the debates.

The rage and tears of Dems were unrivaled until last year.

Bush and Republicans thoroughly squandered his second term and total government control. Republicans have a hard time agreeing on anything together and they tried to ram amnesty for 11 million illegals and tried to put people like Harriet Myers on the Supreme Court.

The whole country was literally done with Republicans by the time the next election came around. Even if Hillary was the nominee there was no way McCain or anyone could have beaten her, it was a suicide mission.

Obama was brand new, a novice, no real experience and young and black. He won entirely because he was not a Republican + young and black.

He campaigned entirely on Hope, Change We Can Believe In.

When they announced he took it all there were black people celebrating all over the country by honking horns, being on TV saying Obama is going to give them everything for free, etc.

It was like an overnight takeover and everyone I knew was a little stunned by hopeful that he wasn't as radical as an adult as his past.

Sadly, that wasn't the case. He greatly diminished our power and standing overseas instead of restoring it after Iraq. Governed with a underlying hostility to normal American families. We knew what he was as soon as he had that first beer summit shaming a police officer

How old were you? What lead you to this assessment? I wish I was so informed back then.

During his election night and inauguration speeches I actually felt persuaded that he was going to be the guy who shook things up and made change in the Government. Had no fucking idea.

I was 14, didn't know of Sup Forums then, and it was already clear to me that he only got elected because he is black. People here in Germany were going nuts for him and I absolutely hated all of them for it.

I was very unsure of an unkown and laughed at the Democrats for hiring such a rookie.
Said to my wife at the time
" Well at least that'll end any racism left in America. "
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
What a divider.

I read your post, but stop being so transparently Reddit.

Obama is a dirty nigger. Plain and simple.

>was okay with Ron Paul even though I didn't know much about him at the time
>thought McCoward was a sneaky neocon
>supported Obama for the sake of seeing what would happen
As shit as Obama was, at least he wasn't McCain

Did you not like Palin or did you not like the SNL caricature of Palin. Because I think many millenials never knew who palin was. They just knew tina fey Palin. A lot of people were duped by the snl/John stuart/Colbert cabal. Fortunately those "comedians" have lost most of their influence.

Literally all the major news networks and journalists were drooling all over themselves talking about how we now had a post-racial country.

Then the very same people and their President did everything they absolutely could to make everything about race and about how normal people were bad, law enforcement bad, responsiblilty bad, everything is discriminatory

The last eight years weren't Bush, but they weren't any better.

Bush and Obama together have really harmed us as a society.

Still thought politicians would do the things they said they were going to do to get elected. Saw quite literally the exact opposite the entirety of his reign. Pretty much confirmed my suspicious about the DNC, which were further enforced, and actually proven with emails... by this election.

I know know for a fact both republican and democrat are just two sides of the same coin playing off our tribalism instincts to root for a side.

i was in elementary school. Didnt know shit, so ill talk about me dad. he initially thought that obama would eb a good nigger and fix economy. Obongo then kills osama, and my father is happy asf. Votes for him again in 12. Then obamacare happens, and my father started calling obongo a muslim rape baby an has even started namikng the jew. Still supports israel tho cuz they kill muslims

I remember shouting "fucking nigger" right in front of an anti-racism faggot. He just laughed at me.

I agree with Trump saying Romney had a real chance.

Obama's shine had really worn thin in just four years.

Romney's problem was he did not attack Obama hardly at all and let the press savage him every day. Especially with his 47% comment.

He should have doubled down on it and really taken the gloves off at his press conferences and the debates. He didn't, he was too much of a "gentleman" or "statesman".

Trump truly showed Republicans how to win and be winners.

I never get tired of him giving it to the press, politicians and others, Republicans literally haven't had anyone to stand up for them or themselves since Reagan.

Trump is what fighting back looks like.

I think it's pretty normal desu, if you have parents that are politically active, that also actually try to raise you, instead of abandoning you to the schools and television.

Of course you should go your way as you grow into adulthood and form your own opinions - nothing should ever go unquestioned - but I'd bet that 90+% of people who are serious about politics emulate the beliefs of their parent (s) in their early years.

I grew up in a solid conservative family for example, and eventually drifted further right than my parents, more towards nationalism/populism, with Natsoc sympathies. Everyone has to start somewhere.

I legit cried when he was elected the second time.

>be in 4th grade
>every teacher says he's wonderful
>"first black president"
>go to my parents, tell them how wonderful he is
>mom explains socialism to me
>fuck Obama, he sucks
>watch inauguration speech in class
>dude can't even say fucking oath of office correctly
>be me, laugh
>teacher's eyes bug out, and she calls me to her desk
>"You're being racist, user".
>introduced to liberalism
>disgusted by liberal cucks
>thought for myself
>the end

Of the shit he did, 40% was ineffectual and didn't matter to hardly anyone, and 60% was a continuation and expansion of W's policies. Ran as a radical, decided to lead from center, got shut out by congress because he ran as a radical, duh, proceeded to pursue bipartisan measures, resulting progress was slow as fuck but should have been stable.

Didn't matter, Trumps only directive underlying his actions in office has been to go after everything Obama did and undo it, fire anyone who worked in government while Obummer was in office, or move them to irrelevant positions and wait for them to quit, replacing them with radical conspiracy nuts, inexperienced kids, and empty seats.
>tfw the dems will now do the same thing to erase Trump
>and the republican after them will do the same thing to them

Only way forward is the destruction of about half the population of the country by use of force. Which half depends on what weapons each half employs. That's all I'm waiting for at this point. Everything the US ever was or was working toward is dead. Time to burn it down

This genuinely tripped me out considering what he did as prez

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The only good thing he has done was keeping the Plan Colombia that Bush started.

I didn't like Palin, still don't as a person. In the election she a number of things working against her

>came off as an idiot, sounded like an idiot
>governor of a state that isn't mainland that people forget is a state
>wasn't a good governor
>tried to rally on likeability and her "charm" but had none
>was clearly retarded

bad choice

I got you, senpai. I was an adult, and I was excited. It was an exciting time. We were all tired of the recent "post 9/11" times, and Bush and Cheney. Plus finally a black (ish) president. I was proud

For a party and voters that screech about women, misogyny, sexism etc they sure forgot about all that and went nuclear on Sarah Palin.

He was still better than McCain or Romney. What a disaster of a presidency though. It took all the way up until he lot the white house up in rainbow colors but I came to despise him. I'm glad Trump is reversing his shit.

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Mother in law was dying of OCD. With the whole healthcare push getting that fucker elected she and her husband pinned hopes that his election might give her a chance to get a lung transplant or something. Instead healthcare was fucked worse than before. She died before that son of a bitch was out of office. Her husband, a lifelong democrat, will never vote democrat again.

I don't think Romney was a bad candidate, but he wasn't as charismatic and the media wore him down

Sorry to hear about your brother, bro

I couldn't wait to see him get in.
Boy do I certainly not feel that way now.

>Promised to shut down Gitmo (was a libcuck child who hated warcrimes)
>promised to stop mass surveillance

I didn't really care about all the economic stuff, but I was a fan of these civil liberty positions, and became disgusted with the man as he proceeded to destroy the 4th amendment and warmonger even more.

Do peiple really believe Obama is a Muslim and wasnt born in America?

>He was still better than McCain or Romney

Agreed, and he was perfect to lead us to what we needed. Obama couldn't have been topped in terms of precursors to Trump.

>Do peiple really believe Obama is a Muslim and wasnt born in America?
Yes, we do

I think, all things considered, it's not like he did a bad job, like the right memes, I just don't like his politics. I think what upsets me more is promised to do so many things that he just sold out on. I mean, he won a fucking Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign promises and then went on to fucking destroy the Middle East more.

He wasn't born in America and hes a Muslim.

>I was 18. It was my first time voting.
As was I. Voted for ol' Ronnie in aught eight and '12

Obama's publisher at the Harvard Law Review said he was born in Kenya to make him appear more exotic desu. I wanna believe arrpaio but its not even really worth arguing at this point. Obama shouldn't have roasted Trump so hard at the Correspondents Dinner smdh

I was 16 at the time, but my parents were very political, and pulled me into politics early in life. I was 8 when I started paying attention, with Bush V Gore.

Voted for him. Legitimately thought we would turn a page after Bush. Blacks were merely affable Will Smith types in my head.

Time, wisdom, data, and life experience later, now I'm a white nationalist who realizes that jews are parasites.

McCain is pretty based. Nice guy. Decent politics. What's really a shame was he was narrowly and surprisingly beat by Bush in the 2000 primaries. As much as I like Bush as a person, I like McCain just as much and he would've been a better president. 2008 just wasn't his time. Maybe if Clinton had won the nomination, but there was no way he was beating Obama, especially after Palin.

>someone at one of his rallies telling him that Obama was a Muslim and McCain said something like "No, he's not, he's a good family man."
I remember that too, it was just kind of pathetic desu. Conservatives being afraid to get their hands dirty and treat leftists with the same contempt leftists show them is one of the reasons they keep losing the culture war

I was a Ron Paul teenager so I could tell he was shit.

I can remember back to Clinton first being elected

This is roughly my evolution too. I couldn't imagine being here in 2013.

>I couldn't imagine being here in 2013.
It was amazing. You honestly missed out

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>For those of you old enough to remember

there shouldn't be anyone here who isn't old enough to remember Obama being elected for fuck sake

I knew Obama was going to win as soon as he didn't fall flat on his face campaigning. America blatantly longed for a black president and got one. I was excited. I wanted him to be the idealist we needed, bold and fresh enough to advance the cause of liberty. I wanted him to spark a race blind era of opportunity.

The only part that worried me was his Chicago origin... Which eventually became the seed of my dominant impression. He didn't get us out of war and he didn't roll back surveillance. Not as far as I know, at least.

Romney, man. I don't even hate you. The Republicans were so out of touch when they put you up.

>mccain based
>bush good person

i feel sorry for you if you’re being serious

>mccain
>based

He's a pedo soros pawn

Exactly. I fell into the same trap 10 years ago, but I was only a teen. I remember people chanting "Obama!" at my school... I was too young to give a fuck, so I went along with it and bought into the hype. It wasn't til my later teen years that I started questioning the bullshit that was forced down my throat. If you'd have told me 10 years ago that I'd be a white nationalist, I'd have called you crazy.... Weird how we change, eh?

Are you me?

I remember in 2016 we were all on Sup Forums listening to Rush Limbaugh discuss Trump.

I actually posted something along the lines of

>if you told me 6 years ago I'd be listening to Rush Limbaugh and supporting the Republican nominee, I'd have thought you were nuts.

So many (yous) saying the same.

Sup Forums all seems to be developed in the same way, at about the same time.

>I make all of my political decisions based on 30 second soundbite clips of speeches and whatever I read on twitter
>the only thing important to me in selecting the next leader of the country is whether or not he presents himself as a "nice guy"
you'd better be shilling or role playing faggot, I refuse to believe any human being who made it to this board is actually this dumb.

Obamaleaf is that you?

didn't vote for him and hoped he would do well.
his foreign policy was essentially just a continuation of the neocon policy until it got worse during his 2nd term and made a ton of weak decisions.
Hated the ACA before it even made it into law hate it even more now.
on his inauguration I was at a bar with friends and we yelled holy crap they're actually letting a black man be president, much triggering occured.

For most of his second term it felt like he was absent totally.

I was going to a community college for classes at the time. I remember that I was there on Inauguration Day and in class when halfway through the teacher made us all go downstairs to watch on tv. They were having an inauguration party with balloons and shit and I kid you not everyone was forced to stay and watch. They said it was part of the class and if you left you would be marked as not there for the day.

It was fun to watch Nige wave him away forever

There was genuinely a sort of messiah complex surrounding Obama during his campaign. So many of us felt that a sort of new politics and a new and better age had arrived, and genuinely bought in to the "hope" message. It wasn't just that the Bush administration had been a total disaster, it was a belief that Obama would be different to all the rest.

Ron Paul getting fucked in 2012 was my first redpill into how kiked everything actually was.
I voted for Aleppoman because I figured he still had a moonshot in winning and I still supported the libertarian party at the time.
Voted for Trump this time, plan on doing so again in 2020.

This was only 9 years ago, you fucking toddlers

>Ron Paul getting fucked in 2012 was my first redpill into how kiked everything actually was.
Me too, the Iowa primary and the Convention fuckery sent me into nRx and moldbug and 5 years and a few meme wars later, here we are. What a long strange trip its been.

I was pretty stoked.
Was working in a kitchen while I was in High School.
McCain was a warhawk back then too.
That being said I didn't agree with everything he did.
Should have done a full pull out of the middle east and redirected any money from it to building up our defense grid and domestic counter terror agencies instead of drone striking in lieu of on the ground occupation.

It's honestly a little hard for me to understand why everyone cares about our politics to such insane degrees. Being interested because we're the Hegemon makes sense but I listen to the BBC world news service sometimes and it's almost 100% about the USA.

>this is terrible from all ive read about this dude, he seems like a total globalist especially from what i've heard from alex jones, this will just be a continuation of NWO bush policies

>2 days later
>bombs the shit out of pakistani civilians, breaking american and international law

welp

Just turned 17 and remember telling my best friend at the time(fuck you BTW if you read this) and my dad
>America is walking into a massage parlor, expecting a massage, but gets kicked in the nuts, and then handed the bill for said nutkicking.

I thought "CIANigger with no work history or parents. A nowhere man from nowhere land." All anyone new about him was he showed up in Chicago politics one day. Then he was elected and proceeded to wage war on white conservative America. He pushed public policy that further crippled the already crappy economy and his foreign policy was more sand box invasions but with his signature limp wrists faggot style. Just more of the same shit as with Bush and Clinton but now it was blatant anti-white too.

im sure the CIA wouldn't engineer racial division in America!

>In middle school
>No one likes McCain
>People's parents won't shut up about the economy
>WaMu is apparently gone, big deal
>"A black president or a female president, either way we make history!" - liberal teachers
>nigger gets elected
>parents upset a Republican didn't win but they say it was a "lesser of two evils" anyway
>sees speech
>fuckingboringdude.png
>not exactly MLK
>ok go to bed
>time goes by, entertainment is nigger-tier dogtrash shit, YouTube gets ads (fuck that)
>become a recluse
>Occupy becomes a thing
>dad calls out Obama, etc etc

Honestly the most boring president in modern history.

I remember at the time that I wasn't super into politics but was interested that a black dude actually got elected. I had almost zero experience with the black parasite at that time and was fairly insulated from their cancer in my nice Midwestern city. I think his presidency was one of the most fascinating because of what it spawned.

Obama was an absolute demon. He basically was the antithesis of his platform and managed to fuck up any part he got through. But oh man did everyone just LOVE to say how amazing he was. He was so great, america looks so amazing. I did honestly liked the part of him that was obliterating towlheads daily with drone strikes.

But the best part to me, was that he was basically a Dubbyah light, but the media treated him like the son of God. I use to think that it would be good to try to have the basics in society free - try to get everyone a good education, fed, clothed etc (but still supporting the death penalty etc). Obama's race baiting bullshit exposed me to the absolute cancer of his race, and by the time Trump was elected I had gone from identifying as somewhere on the left in 08 to a deep right winger.

I voted for Huckabee in 08. I've met him a few times, solid dude. Then skipped the general. Skipped 2012 primaries and general.

Looking back, he was such a classy guy. Especially compared to the buffoon currently occupying the White House.

Hated it. My (brown) classmates all called me a racist for it. I was 12 and knew nothing of politics, but my father told me John McCain was much better than Obongo.

>I voted for Huckabee in 08
how old are you?

I had a wait & see approach during the night he was elected. I never liked him, but I didn't know who he was either so I was hopeful that he'd be gud.

I still remember when King Nigger was reelected. I was in college at the time and I recall a bunch of niggers asking everyone who passed by them if they voted. I didn't vote and they got fucking angry at me. I'm like wtf. I didn't like Romney either but these faggots were treating me as if I voted for him. It's shit like that which caused Trump, because I knew from the moment that King Nigger was reelected that I was going to vote for whomever was most likely to cause the most chaos from the Republican side. Of course that ended up being Trump. I just didn't want to go through another nightmare of a day of hollering niggers. Too bad that's exactly what it led to by voting in Trump. Except now it's not just Niggers. It's Sand Niggers, Spics, Wimmin, Niggers & Progressive hussite people who are constantly yelling at me.

Except this time it's satisfying because I did vote for Trump. It sucked during last election because I was getting yelled at by angry coons as if I voted Romney. I'm not a huwite gai, but I'm not a nigger or a spic either. I know first hand that Libturds will start shit with you if you don't bow to their lord & savior King Nigger. Watch, the next DNC canindate is going to be Barrack's husband Michael Obama.

I don't understand why everyone calls King Nigger classy. He's faggy, not classy. Looking at your flag, you're another Eurofag so King Nigger probably fits right in with you bitches. Liberals always brag about how European and gay they are.

I was 16, and Anarghist at the time.Of course for me, America having a black president was the best thing that could happen.

>hurr if I base all my opinions off what Sup Forums tells me I'm intelligent, rather than those other sheep
Nice meme, faggot.

nigger

such lovely people

I watched how amercians were screaming on streets like in some NK. Change, change.
Then Obama goes on euro tour and everyone there is acting like it's second coming
Then he comes to Moscow and our people are like eh whatever.
And then i read ((articles)) about how russians are a bit too slow and can not grasp the true greatness.