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/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/WIZARDBONER Arizona 1d ago

The craziest part is that this mentality has not changed at all for the GOP. It's literally all about appearance. They look "strong". They are white. They are male. They are a "Christian" (lol).

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u/DrawThink2526 1d ago

They live together in “dorms”. Now THAT is just plain fucking WEIRD.