'How I Miss Obama'

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/

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Max Boot: “I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s ‘lead from behind’ foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.”

“Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.”

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[spanone]

1. hey max, you assholes didn't deserve Obama. 'arrogance' my ass

[Doreen]

2. You made that decision a lot to late you MOFO!!!!!

[hibbing]

3. Lead from behind - rw bullshit phrase

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. Gives meaning to the old addage that "hindsight is 20/20". The whole world misses Obama. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. More from the original op-ed at the Washington Post:

The first thing that struck me was what was missing: There was no self-praise and no name-calling. Obama has a far better claim than Trump to being a “very stable genius,” but he didn’t call himself one. The sentences were complete and sonorous — and probably written by the speaker himself. (Imagine Trump writing anything longer than a tweet — and even those are full of mistakes.) The tone was sober and high-minded, even if listeners could read between the lines a withering critique of Trump’s policies....

Can you believe that an Obama-era scandal was that the president wore a tan suit or put his feet up on the desk? (Actual Washington Times headline from Sept. 4, 2013: “Obama’s foot on Oval Office desk sends shockwaves around the world.”) Oh, to have those days back again — before we had a president who was involved in indecent relationships with a Russian despot and (allegedly) a porn star....

Conservatives accused Obama of hating America and going on an “apology tour.” Obama never claimed, however, that poor relations with Russia were the fault of “U.S. foolishness and stupidity” rather than Russian wrongdoing. Obama may have been naive in trying to “reset” relations with Moscow, but he did not say that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “fine” person — and he did not endorse the Russian’s lies over the truths unearthed by the U.S. intelligence community. The Iran nuclear deal was flawed, but it was infinitely stronger than the non-agreement Trump reached with North Korea. Obama even looks like a fiscal conservative compared with Trump, who is ushering in trillion-dollar deficits.

It can be depressing to think about our current predicament under a president whose loyalty to America is suspect but whose racism and xenophobia are undoubted. However, Obama’s speech gave me a glimmer of optimism — and not only because he cited Mandela’s “example of persistence and of hope.” He reminds me that just 18 months ago — can you believe it was so recently? — we had a president with whom I could disagree without ever doubting his fitness to lead. We can have one again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.8e244f0d6b81

[malaise]

8. Ah well

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They were warned

[Gothmog]

6. I miss having a real POTUS

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Hillary is nearly the same as Obama, compared to the Orange Doufus. That was OBVIOUS in election. nt

[tman]

9. Lot's of backhanded compliments.

But yeah ok...lol

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "All of his faults, real as they were,"

Fuck Boot. He still hasn't suffered enough yet but he will.

You arrogant SOB you OWN Drumpf.

[GoCubsGo]

11. We all miss him, Mr. Boot.

But, fuck you for contributing to creating the climate that got us where we are now. Take your whining and shove it up your ass.

[eShirl]

12. I never got why they said he was "arrogant"

but I think another word for what they meant is "uppity."

[applegrove]

13. I posted it because it was a republican. Obviously drinking a little kool aid

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over the years. And yeah. I don't get why the GOP picked to call someone as down to earth as Obama 'arrogant' beyond it being the dog whistle you say it is. Reminds me of Pence calling Trump's leadership 'broad shouldered' during the 2016 electiin when Trump was running against Hillary Clinton, a woman.