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by llm_trw 622 days ago
He also got it for being half black since by the cutoff date he'd been president for all of 11 days. Had they waited a year they would have had the pleasure of finding out he ordered 50% more drone strikes than Bush did.

Content of his character indeed.

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We're well into flame war territory here, so I apologize, and am treading carefully.

The list of war crimes I can pin on US during that time is mostly indefinite imprisonment in Guantanamo if you allow for the efforts Obama made to reduce torture.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/01/09/barack-obamas-shaky-lega...

Drone strikes are not war crimes according to this definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime#Definition