# Too Big to Fail? Why Obama's Presidency Sucked (G&R 507) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/too-big-to-fail-why-obama-s-presidency-sucked-g-r-507 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/too-big-to-fail-why-obama-s-presidency-sucked-g-r-507.md Podcast: [Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547) Published: 2026-06-26T10:42:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/Too-Big-to-Fail--Why-Obamas-Presidency-Sucked-GR-507-e3l8jbu Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/121965374/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-25%2F98550c87-154f-0091-e2fc-bdc3b55f4122.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/too-big-to-fail-why-obama-s-presidency-sucked-g-r-507 Duration seconds: 3243 ## Resource πŸŽ‰ Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. Last week, they opened the Obama library in Chicago. You saw speeches by Barack and Michelle Obama, and all the living ex-presidents and first ladies celebrating the event. But all the fanfare left out his never ending support of neo-liberal economics, brutal wars abroad and how his progressiveness faded away quickly after "Hope and Change" propelled him into the White House. In our latest, we dive deep into the presidency of Barack Obama. We discuss his 2008 campaign, his bailout of the banks, tax cuts, Obamacare, how he handled the climate crisis, his foreign policy and war management and how he derailed Democratic politics and created the conditions that led to the rise of Donald Trump and the far right. -------------------------------- Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody πŸ”— Links 🌐 G&R: Noam Chomsky on Why the Democrats Suck (https://bit.ly/4pwg6AD) 🌐 G&R : The Democrats are a Party of War! Liberals and the Military-Industrial Complex (https://bit.ly/3D8LXEC) πŸ’š Support the Green and Red Podcast πŸŽ‰ Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast β˜• One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR πŸŽ™οΈ Follow Green and Red πŸ”— Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 🌍 Our Networks 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org πŸ“’ Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork πŸ“» Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org ✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/ 🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/too-big-to-fail-why-obama-s-presidency-sucked-g-r-507/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/too-big-to-fail-why-obama-s-presidency-sucked-g-r-507.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.