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You think Obama didn't accomplish anything? He was some kind of completely helpless nobody in the face of a Republican party that didn't control anything for two years of his term?

This is exactly the reason the Democratic party is being dumped on so hard these days, and deservedly so. They don't even do the right thing when they are handed the power to do it on a silver plate. They insist on "compromise" with a party that brooks none.

Shutting down Guantanamo would have been effectively irreversible since it's Cuban land. Cuba doesn't recognize the American claim that they have a lease on it, so as soon as it's shut down it's never coming back.

During the first two years of Obama's presidency Congress was also controlled by the Democrats.

If someone breaks into my house and there's a huge amount of evidence showing who did it, and I present that evidence to the police, and they do nothing and then the thief comes back and breaks in again, I'm going to be super mad at the police. They failed at their job.

Mad at the thief too, of course. But also mad at the police. I can be mad at two different groups.

You realize there's plenty of blame to go around, that it's possible for more than one "side" in this to be doing bad things and making mistakes?

I'm not. I'm blaming them for not doing anything to prevent the actions of a republican president.

If only one of the several Democratic presidents that had been in power since Gitmo was established had gone ahead and closed it down like they said they wanted to.

Because a lot of people feel like the world is getting shittier, and so they're voting for the parties that tell them "the world is shitty and we have the solution. It's simple and straightforward and someone other than you will bear the brunt of it."

If the left wants the far-right to stop gaining then it has to defuse this argument. They should be working to make people feel like the world is less shitty, convincing people that they have solutions for the world's shittyness, and ensuring that those solutions are simple and straightforward and put the brunt of the effort on someone else.

This is the downside of democracy, you have to do what the people want. Sometimes that's kind of annoying and difficult.

Why do you think he's American to begin with?

I was at the bedside holding the hand of both my brother and my father as they died. I actually had a voice recorder in both instances and had it running, in case anything important was said that I needed to go back and review for whatever reason.

But I don't really recall the specifics of what was said, and I didn't go back to listen to those recordings out of some form of curiousity. I didn't believe that there was anything particularly profound about the last words that were being spoken at the time, by either me or my dying family member, aside from of course trying to express some sort of reassurance and/or expression of love to ease any distress that was being felt.

The important words are all the ones we spoke to each other during our lives. Saying "I love you" in those last moments is nice, of course, but the important "I love yous" were the ones spoken over the years prior to that.

If you've got something important to say to someone, do it now. Or, if you really want to ensure that it's only heard after you're gone, make a recording and put it in a clearly labelled box.

Heaven forbid an open protocol see adoption.