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How much of his killing of foreigners was because he lusted for Muslim death, and how much was it because he was trying to appease the far right and avoid large(r) scale white domestic terrorism/a military coup/an authoritarian despot successor (oops). Have to imagine Republicans gave him a quota of foreigners he had to kill each day in order to prevent the right from calling for outright insurrection. The MIC is a rabid dog, and Obama was the last relatively sane person to hold the leash. Cool that we can at least visit historic Communist Cuba for a little bit before it gets annexed Crimea style and becomes half prisons and half beach front Trump hotels.
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Feb 1, 2017 18:56
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hes got a p nice rear end
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Feb 1, 2017 18:56
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Terrorist Fistbump posted:I'm not gonna call the dude a spineless coward, but I will say that I'm pissed we got a uninspired bureaucratic manager instead of the grand visionary that was promised by his 08 campaign. but worst of all its loving insufferable attempting to communicate any of this to liberals and idk why i bother other than that everyone i know is basically a liberal. i legitimately think the world would be in a much better place if lloyd blankenfein and jamie diamon etc had been hanged drawn and quartered in zuccotti park but im a crazy person so w/e
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Feb 1, 2017 18:58
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 also lol that guy on the right knows hes getting presidentially cucked
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Feb 1, 2017 18:59
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I'm just glad that Obama wasn't president during the Truman era because you KNOW he would have dropped a ton of atom bombs on Korea
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Feb 1, 2017 19:19
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The most amazing thing about Obama is that I think he actually believed all the stupid poo poo that other US politicians reflexively say to keep their constituents in line. Like, I think Obama actually believed in the need to control deficits, or the rightness of American foreign policy, or the importance of bipartisanship. I think he actually believed his advisers that stabilizing Wall Street and making a few prudent technocratic reforms would actually fix the economy. He was also a morally compromised and it's implausible he made it through the Chicago political machine without being genuinely corrupt on some level but I think he was fundamentally a guy who thought that despite all his compromises that he was fighting for that Steven Spielberg vision of America you get in high school civics, and that eventually people would come around to his view and that after his policies worked (because he actually thought neoliberal economics would work) that he'd be vindicated. All of which puts him in the running for biggest loving moron to ever sit in the Oval Office. Fratboy George Duya and literally senile former actor Reagan might not have talked as fancy but even they weren't that naive.
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Feb 1, 2017 19:19
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a missed opportunity in the sense that he would have made a better president if he ran in 2016 or 2020 rather than 2008 the precursor to Trump because of the disappointment with him the failed reformer, who meant well, did do something for the American people but it wasn't enough
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Feb 1, 2017 19:29
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funny way to spell posted:better than Bernie at destroying the democratic party
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Feb 1, 2017 20:20
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tricked a lot of gullible idiots into thinking he was going to go fight for whatever lib jerkoff cause was hot at the moment
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Feb 1, 2017 20:28
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Typo posted:a missed opportunity in the sense that he would have made a better president if he ran in 2016 or 2020 rather than 2008 Well if you wanted to see what an Obama campaign in 2020 would look like then good news cause Corey Booker is gonna run.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:43
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yeah run and get his poo poo pushed in, cant wait. and maybe neither can he lol.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:48
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mods, please rename this thread to the obama hot take thread.
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Feb 1, 2017 21:56
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We didn't go backwards really and that's something I miss already
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Feb 2, 2017 01:00
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White Privilegist posted:How much of his killing of foreigners was because he lusted for Muslim death, and how much was it because he was trying to appease the far right and avoid large(r) scale white domestic terrorism/a military coup/an authoritarian despot successor (oops). Have to imagine Republicans gave him a quota of foreigners he had to kill each day in order to prevent the right from calling for outright insurrection. The MIC is a rabid dog, and Obama was the last relatively sane person to hold the leash. Cool that we can at least visit historic Communist Cuba for a little bit before it gets annexed Crimea style and becomes half prisons and half beach front Trump hotels. This would make sense if he didn't champion a robust military intervention in Syria while Republicans were like "noooooo what the gently caress are you doing?!?!"
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Feb 2, 2017 01:11
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his failure to personally rip up the constitution and implement full communism now means he is a personal enemy to me, along with the op
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Feb 2, 2017 01:41
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VikingSkull posted:This would make sense if he didn't champion a robust military intervention in Syria while Republicans were like "noooooo what the gently caress are you doing?!?!" Wow, your parallel universe's Obama was a lot different!
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Fallen Hamprince posted:Wow, your parallel universe's Obama was a lot different! quote:“I’m prepared to give that order,” Mr. Obama said in a hurriedly organized appearance in the Rose Garden as American destroyers armed with Tomahawk missiles waited in the Mediterranean Sea. “But having made my decision as commander in chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I’m also mindful that I’m the president of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/world/middleeast/syria.html
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Feb 2, 2017 03:01
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Bombama.
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Feb 2, 2017 03:12
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VikingSkull posted:This would make sense if he didn't champion a robust military intervention in Syria while Republicans were like "noooooo what the gently caress are you doing?!?!" Republicans generally aren't fans of supporting proletarian revolutions.
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Feb 2, 2017 03:27
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White Privilegist posted:Republicans generally aren't fans of supporting proletarian revolutions. bwahahahaha
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Feb 2, 2017 03:31
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*extremely serious leftist voice* thank god the republicans intervened to stop that terrible warmonger obama
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Feb 2, 2017 03:36
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Captain_Maclaine posted:That supermajority contained Blue Dogs who were functionally Republicans when it came to implementing Obama's agenda in the House, and it effectively didn't exist in the Senate due to obstruction in getting Franken actually into his seat and Kennedy's downward health spiral.
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Feb 2, 2017 04:35
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VikingSkull posted:This would make sense if he didn't champion a robust military intervention in Syria while Republicans were like "noooooo what the gently caress are you doing?!?!" republicans claiming to be on the exact opposite side of an issue that Obama worked on? wow!!!!!!!
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Fullhouse posted:republicans claiming to be on the exact opposite side of an issue that Obama worked on? wow!!!!!!! lol remember that time Romney had to disown and condemn his most significant policy achievement as Massachusetts governor because Obama tried to implement it nationwide good-rear end times
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Feb 2, 2017 05:09
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VikingSkull posted:bwahahahaha good av + post combo
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Feb 2, 2017 05:14
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C. Everett Koop posted:his failure to personally rip up the constitution and implement full communism now means he is a personal enemy to me, along with the op What could have been: 
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Feb 2, 2017 05:22
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Captain_Maclaine posted:What could have been: Now that's the president I voted for. 
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rudatron posted:That's a bullshit cop out, it was Obama's responsibility, as leader of his party, to pull the rest of his party in line, by hook or by crook. Parties aren't hippie love fests, there are things the leadership can do to backbenchers if they don't want to follow the party line, and Obama should have used every single tool in his arsenal to gently caress them over until they complied - intimidation, threats, etc. remember when joe lieberman actively campaigned for McCain in 2008, and then the dems let him keep his committee chairmanships because they were afraid he'd go caucus with the Republicans instead? and this guy was Gore's VP pick
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