r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 16h ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/DisfavoredFlavored Canada 15h ago

I remember the moment he announced Bin Laden's death. Dad and I were just watching the news like"welp, he just got 4 more years."

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u/gatsby712 15h ago edited 15h ago

Bush got 4 years just for waving a loudspeaker around a disaster site and promising to get revenge. It isn’t hard to get re-elected unless you’re either mismanaging a pandemic or old as shit. 

Edit: oh and for coasting on Bill Clinton’s economy and government surplus for a few years before the economy crashed. Kind of like Trump coasting on Obama’s stable economy too. Wait. I see a pattern here. 

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u/Ohnoherewego13 North Carolina 15h ago

Whoa there. You can be old as shit as long as you're orange. It's a special qualifier.

I wish I was joking.

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u/Easy-Round1529 14h ago

Or bernie tho too lol

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u/UncIe_John 13h ago

Trump got 4 years for throwing paper towels at Puerto Ricans

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u/Pizza_Low 15h ago

You forgot brownie you’re doing a heck of a job. During the after math of Katrina when he totally botched the pre hurricane evac and the rescue

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u/styr 13h ago

There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again.

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u/ApprehensiveRemote84 13h ago

Clinton sold us to China if I remember correctly. That was the start of his oh look they’re buying 5000 Jeep Cherokees and we’re going to buy 500 billion in goods from them once they get and keep the manufacturing jobs. I didn’t mind Clinton but economic policy not my fave.

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u/ScrewAttackThis Montana 14h ago

2 days before that he roasted Trump at the correspondents dinner and he released his birth certificate 3 days before that. Was a pretty wild week of him bitch slapping conservatives lol.

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u/Sleepy_cheetah 12h ago

How I miss those days. He just handled shit.

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u/dhuntergeo 9h ago

The good old days of competent presidents being rewarded