Articles are not up-to-date, and the claim is slightly off, as a federal judge only found it “likely” to be unconstitutional. That mass surveillance remains and is still expanding is, I hope, not something I need to prove.
Obama used war powers to charge and imprison journalists and whistle blowers:
https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/cjp_report_on_us_press_freedom.php
https://apnews.com/general-news-dbba6eaf984a4be08cc235f66fd36a8d
https://freedom.press/issues/obama/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Whistleblowers:_Free_Press_and_the_National_Security_State
Obama bailed out the banks rather than their victims,
leading directly into the housing crisis:
The best source for this is Joseph Stiglitz’s excellent book, The
Price of Inequality. I recommend it to all.
https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
People lost their homes, which were then bought up by Blackrock and others, who have since pushed up rental costs, creating a housing crisis in a nation with empty homes.
Obama failed to prosecute criminal actions of the prior administration or the
banking executives who caused the collapse.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/23/untouchables-wall-street-prosecutions-obama
https://features.marketplace.org/why-no-ceo-went-jail-after-financial-crisis/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aide-obama-wont-prosecute-bush-officials/
Obama was also well paid afterwards, in what other parts of the world would prosecute as accepting a bribe:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39710529
Obama’s ICE was described by the ACLU as monstrous:
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/border-patrol-was-monstrous-under-obama-imagine
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/aclu-report-cites-mistreatment-minors-border-patrols-obama-years/
Obama campaigned on codifying Roe vs. Wade when running for office. He said - on camera - that it was not a priority when he had a supermajority.
https://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-blasted-not-codifying-roe-v-wade-democrat-failure-1719156
Likewise, thanks to Wikileaks, we know that Obama had already negotiated away a public option with the insurance companies before starting his "transparent" negotiations with the same.
This one is harder to find, so either not knowing about it or denying it is a bit understandable. I confess that, while I could find a source for the claim that the public option had been negotiated away early on, I didn’t feel like going through Wikileaks to substantiate the claim that they are the source of the original reveal.
https://www.salon.com/2010/10/05/public_option_24/
This was interesting, though:
Glenn Greenwald has broken down how Democrats kept changing their stance on a public option to ensure that they didn't have enough votes to pass it.
https://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/
The early photos of "Trump's ICE" detention centers were taken under Obama, when Obama was president.
https://qz.com/1291470/photos-immigrant-children-detained-at-the-placement-center-in-2014
This stuff is all well documented. Google is a thing.
Personally, I believe that Obama's rhetoric when running the first time was his actual position then. But once he got in power, he clearly saw which way the wind was blowing. Political Compass tracks his early centrism to the upper Right/Authoritarian corner during his two terms.
The last decent person to be president was Carter, whether or not you think that he was a good president. If you think Obama was a good president, then you should go to Libya to make that case.
Denying reality to defend political operators is no different when the politician is Trump or Obama. It isn't worth doing.
