[bjoli]

He managed to fudge a largeish consensus to close Gitmo. When he became president, the former president and McCain had voiced will to close it

He could have let them be tried in civilian courts, but chose not to do so because some of the inmates had evidence against them "tainted by torture" and that they were better held in indefinite detention.

If we learned anything from interviews with officials after Obama's presidency was that he, after the first failures in 2008-2009, never considered any alternatives to indefinite detention in "Gitmo North, Illinois".

Point 2-4 has nothing to do with my first points. On point 2 I would say he is the only president in recent times that actually cared about health care decency. In a recent comment here in HN regarding the Mr. beast video with him paying people's cataract surgerys I said that USA is the richest country in the world, yet some people can't afford not to be blind. Why this doesn't upset more democrats and even republicans is completely beyond me.

And regarding point 4 some people argued that the increasing lethality of the war on terror under Obama was due to a reluctance to detain people...

As you might have guessed I stand quite a bit to the left compared to mainstream American politics. I still prefer Obama to all other recent and not so recent presidents.