he joined them when he gave Lieberman a pass and begged for Republican acceptance.

>They rode a Black man to the White House, then when (oh
>shit!) he wins, they all play grab ass and CYA cause they knew
>what the backlash would be if they supported him too strongly.
>

He went along with it, taking on Larry Summers, firing Shirley Sherrod and giving Republican stuff they didn't ask for in budget negotiations.

>He had control of Congress for 2 years out of 8, and it was
>tenuous control at that.

Yes it was short and rough but you can't put this

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/obamas-failure-to-mitigate-americas-foreclosure-crisis/510485/

"No Republican sign-off was necessary for Obama’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). The Treasury Department alone decided to run it through mortgage companies that had financial incentives to foreclose rather than modify loans."

or this

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/obamas-faith-in-white-america/510503/

"That kind of empathy may be why Obama could look at years of pictures of his wife and children drawn as apes and decades of white backlash to perceived black socio-economic gains as racial, albeit not racist: “I’m careful not to attribute any particular resistance or slight or opposition to race."

on Republicans or Democrats.