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title: "8 Obama Left Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 8 Obama Left quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Obama Left sayings and thoughts."
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> [African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alveda-king/african-americans-who-might-have-disagreed-with-candidate-obama-s/)

[Alveda King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alveda-king/)

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> [“Obama was left with but a single task: Negotiate a new status-of-forces agreement (SOFA) to reinforce these gains and create a strategic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-was-left-with-but-a-single-task-negotiate-a-new-status-of/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

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> [“by pointing to the agencies without mentioning any misjudgments of his own, Mr. Obama left intelligence officials bristling about being made into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/by-pointing-to-the-agencies-without-mentioning-any-misjudgments-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5f/anonymous-1_quote_by-pointing-to-the-agencies-without-ment_917237.jpg)

> [Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-aaron/sure-this-country-has-a-black-president-but-when-you-look-at-a-black/)

[Hank Aaron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-aaron/)

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> [Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-prager/virtually-nothing-barack-obama-has-done-has-left-america-or-the-world/)

[Dennis Prager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-prager/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23b/dennis-prager-631_america_virtually-nothing-barack-obama-has-done_1012480.jpg)

> [ Even in these tough economic times, Barack \[Obama\] has left the VA budget as is so that they're prepared to deal with… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-obama/even-in-these-tough-economic-times-barack-obama-has-left-the-va/)

[Michelle Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-obama/)

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> [While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/while-liberals-had-embraced-obama-as-someone-who-had-left-wing/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-aaron/sure-this-country-has-a-black-president-but-when-you-look-at-a-black-2/)

[Hank Aaron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-aaron/)

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