r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d 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/RemarkableWave8066 1d ago

Obama wore a tan suit once and the Fox News goons had aneurysms for a solid week

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u/Raoul_Duke9 1d ago

You guys remember "terrorist fist jab"? That one was the one that pissed me off the most.

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u/gatsby712 1d ago

Remember that time Bush got us into two wars because of 9/11, but it wasn’t until Obama that the guy who caused it was killed. I member. Turns out the Republicans didn’t care about justice, they just cared about using the crisis to make some oil money for their VP and President. 

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u/ScrewAttackThis Montana 1d ago

Bush admin shut down task forces that were set up to track down Bin Laden. They also allowed him to escape into Pakistan by not committing more forces to Tora Bora. Then followed this all up a couple years later by launching a war by presenting falsified evidence to the public (despite what anyone will say now, the invasion of Iraq was widely supported by the public).

They never wanted to capture him. They wanted the wars to drag out to divert tax dollars to the execs of defense contractors and oil companies.