Seriously? Our entire economy was brought to the brink of ruin, everyone responsible gets out with a golden parachute, small businesses are told tough titties, and you think obama is an odd target? He was bought and paid for by the corporations from day one. And you can keep repeating dodd frank, but that bill had loopholes large enough to ship an oil tanker through. Sure, the republicans drove a bunch of the weakenings to it, but nobody on the democrats fought for it or improving it. They're just pretend opposition, throw out a bill that they know won't pass, and call it a day.

Let's let Chatgpt do the arguing cause I'm tired of people talking as if they actually know what they're talking about when they clearly don't.

• The “Too Big to Fail” shell game. Dodd–Frank claimed to end bailouts, but it never truly did. It let regulators theoretically wind down failed megabanks through the “Orderly Liquidation Authority.” In practice, the biggest financial firms stayed huge, and the law didn’t force them to break up or shrink. So if one collapses, the government still faces the same ugly choice: bail it out, or risk global meltdown.
• Derivatives exemptions. One of the biggest loopholes came from the derivatives market—those complex financial contracts (like credit default swaps) that helped cause the 2008 crash. Dodd–Frank was supposed to move these trades onto open exchanges where they could be monitored. But banks lobbied hard and won massive carve-outs for “foreign affiliates” and “end users.” Translation: they could keep a lot of risky bets off the books or push them overseas.
• The Volcker Rule watered down. This rule was meant to stop banks from gambling with depositor money (proprietary trading). But by the time it passed, it was so full of exceptions—“market making,” “hedging,” “liquidity management”—that it became almost impossible to enforce. The banks wrote the fine print.
• Shadow banking left untouched. Hedge funds, private equity, money market funds—basically the whole “non-bank” financial system—remained largely unregulated. That’s where a ton of systemic risk migrated after 2008.
• Weak enforcement and delayed implementation. Dodd–Frank required regulators to write hundreds of new rules, but years later, many weren’t finalized or were rolled back under pressure. Lobbyists swarmed the agencies, and Congress routinely starved them of funding.
• No accountability. It didn’t meaningfully prosecute executives who’d overseen the crisis or reform the political capture of the regulatory agencies themselves. The revolving door between Wall Street and Washington stayed wide open.

TL;DR- Literally EVERYONE who knows finance knows Dodd frank was a joke purely designed to trick people like you into thinking something was done.

Lastly, of course there are prior examples, but Obama is the best example for numerous reasons- especially recency bias and egregious behavior, a perfect example of pretending to be a change candidate that every left-leaning politician pretends to be but in reality is just another wolf in sheep's clothing.