Obamas failure is looking to be so complete he will [hand] the Republicans the white house for another 8 years.
[2] Shortly after the Republicans gained control of the House in the U.S. midterm election of 2010, liberals and Democrats repurposed the meme to blame Obama satirically for disparate societal or economic ills.
[2][3] One notable[4] example came in 2012, when a picture of a man spilling food with the "Thanks Obama" caption was popular.
[8] On the January 19, 2017 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Obama's last full day in office, Stephen Colbert's original conservative character from The Colbert Report used the phrase to express gratitude to Obama for helping the Republican Party find a message of united opposition against him and succeed electorally again, only to later plead in fear for Obama to stay in office.
[9] In 2022, the Twitter account for President Joe Biden (who had served as vice president in the Obama administration) posted the phrase in response to a tweet by Obama acknowledging the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.