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/CAD_Chaos 1d ago

Brother, I could vote then and I shit you not, that was common sentiment at the time. I remember how completely flabbergasted I was that he won a second term. When the Patriot Act passed and the sentiment of you either for the war or against America was prevalent it seemed like crazy times , but what is happening right now makes that seem like Sesame Street.