If Obama Is So Great Then Why Did We Elect Trump?

On the occasion of former President Obama's 57th birthday, Twitter trended with #ObamaDay.

The tweets went along these lines:

Dr. DaShanne Stokes:

Hearing President Obama speak... I so greatly miss sanity, leadership, reason, and dignity.

Dirk Blocker:

We celebrate the best president in our lifetime!

Bishop Talbert Swan:

Reminiscing on the days when Americans could hold up their heads with pride about the POTUS. Whether you agreed with him or not, he was intelligent, articulate, honorable and dignified. My, how times have changed.

No one has more contempt for President Trump than I, but I do not long for the days of President Obama.

Where others see sanity, leadership, reason and dignity, I see petulance, mendacity, demagoguery and prickliness.

Anyone who says President Obama is the best Commander in Chief of our lifetime hasn't lived very long.

There's no question Obama and Trump deploy different styles. But when both Obama and Trump compare themselves to Abraham Lincoln the substance is the same.

If Barack Obama is as great as all these people say he is then why did we elect Trump?

Don't give any excuses about the Russians? Yes, they interfered, but no one forced people to pull the lever for Trump. And don't give me excuses about Hillary getting 3 million more votes. If you want to abolish the electoral college then amend the Constitution. 

The fact that we elected Trump is a reflection of failure on the part of Obama. It was Obama who said if you liked your health insurance you could keep your health insurance and then denied ever saying it. It was Obama who drew a red line in Syria and denied he ever said it. It was Obama who called ISIS the JV squad. It was Obama whose fiscal policies doubled the national debt.

For all the praise we've heard on #ObamaDay it has been short on achievement. Not that Trump is any better. But if Obama had achieved anything meaningful, Trump would have been a mere footnote in American presidential history.