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/Lurkkin 18h ago

Man I’m not trying to argue, we’re on the same “team” but I don’t think the Bush Admin would have hesitated for a fucking second if they were able to get Bin Laden. You don’t try to delete a mountain range of the map (Tora Bora) unless you’re trying to kill the guy & frankly Bush wasn’t the best president, but the more I’ve of seen him, I genuinely believe he’s a good person and I can’t see him dragging out a war for oil & $.

Sure Cheney would have sighed at the Halliburton $ no longer being made, but it would have been a huge win for them politically.

Like if we’re making silly arguments, the CIA was ready to kill Bin Laden during the Clinton admin, had a guy (Billy Waugh) living in the house next door to him and everything, and Clinton didn’t want to do it, so it’s actually the Clinton’s fault right?