Barack Quote by Nat Hentoff

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

— Bill Ayers

I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be…

— Ato Essandoh

[Regarding President Obama] Yeah, yeah, yeah, I talked to him. I sorta, I guess, helped him get elected.

— Ralph Stanley

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being…

— Bill Ayers

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

— Noam Chomsky

I think people need to remember what the situation was when President [Barack] Obama came into office.

— Hillary Clinton

“I think people still want to like Barack Obama but are a little puzzled and even, sometimes, disappointed to discover that actually, all things…

— Alex Massie

I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do.

— Bill Ayers

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

— Nat Hentoff

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

— Noam Chomsky

Barack Obama was amazing, but he wasn't perfect. We all know that. He was the closest thing to perfect America's ever had. We were…

— Beth Ditto