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/Perpetually_isolated 1d ago

What?

There have been plenty of old white Republican presidents. This shit would never fly.

This is a trump/cult problem. Not a race thing.

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u/VanceKelley Washington 1d ago

Bush 43 launched an illegal war against Iraq in 2003, joked about how he made up the WMD thing, got thousands of US soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, and America re-elected him to the White House in 2004.

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u/Orangecuppa Ohio 1d ago

I was too young to vote then but I recall asking my cousin why he voted for Bush and he told me "because John Kerry has a long face and I don't like that, Bush looks like someone I can have a beer with".

That was literally it, Policies be damned.

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u/Darmok47 1d ago

Ironically, Bush doesn't drink.

Obama is pretty much the only President in the last 25 years who you could actually have a beer with (Biden. Bush, and Trump don't drink)

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u/Serious_Distance_118 1d ago

Too bad he gave up coke, he was probably a riot.

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u/Disgustipated2 1d ago

If I really wanted to get inebriated with orange man I would have to take some amphetamines

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u/cheapdad 21h ago

Obama is pretty much the only President in the last 25 years who you could actually have a beer with

https://i.cbc.ca/1.1888655.1380779414!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_1180/li-obama-beerrtr2zi11.jpg