You’ll miss Obama when he’s gone: Why Obama will be remembered as a good Pres. and maybe a great one

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    If Trump becomes president, we'll be longing for Calvin Coolidge to dig himself up and take the oath again.

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    Alter is paid to pimp Obama.

    Seriously.
     
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    Much could be said in rebuttal, and when I began, I let out a Sigh...
     
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    I knew you would love it!
     
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    The only reason I clicked on this bait was to see MarAzul's reply. I was sooooooooooooo disappointed.....but nice try Sly.
     
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    Obama will always be to conservatives what Bush will always be to liberals: a very handy target.
     
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    History will look back at him as a good president that accomplished more than he's given credit for now. The political spin against him started the moment he took office and took so much priority that Congress stopped working at all to focus on discrediting him.....now they have Trump as an alternative which is pure karma
     
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    I have hardcore Republican family and friends who vilified Bill Clinton from the day he took office. They spent every day of his tenure calling for him to be impeached and/or jailed. They swore he would be the end of our country. All these years later, virtually everyone of those folks will concede....sometimes grudgingly....that Clinton was far better than they gave him credit for. Sometimes it takes the perspective of distance. And everyone of those folks will tell you that GW Bush was one of our worst presidents. This after they blindly supported him at the beginning. Somehow the perspective of distance is unlikely to put a similar shine on Dubya's "legacy".....
     
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    Being POTUS is like being the head coach of a professional sports team: in general, you're hired to be fired. You're going to be hated by someone, and those that hate you are often the loudest, which makes it look like group of "haters" is bigger than it really is.
     
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    It went the other way for me. I voted for Clinton his first term. Geez! What a mistake, the dude didn't even know how to use a cigar.
     
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    How did you know about the cigar at the time of his reelection?
    Are you MonicaAzul by any chance?

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    I am sure I didn't.
     
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    Full disclosure......I voted for Clinton the first time, but felt conned by the end of that term. I actually voted for Dole in '96. The first....and probably the last.....time I ever voted Republican in a presidential election. And even then, I was more for Libby than Bob......Bush forced me to see the error of my ways.....
     
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    I voted for Clinton both times, which will shock no one, but in 92 he was my last choice in the primaries. Can't remember who my first choice was but I remember not liking Clinton.

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    Where is Ross Perot when you need him?
     
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    It's going to be all right now UCD....you've seen the error of your ways and that's what counts...a wise house painter once told me Bushes should never be allowed anywhere near a white house....discolors the foundation and causes dryrot
     
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    The difference is that Bush pleasured himself by blowing up the giant Clinton surplus that would have had this nation out of debt by now, and starting unprovoked trillion-dollar torture wars. Then Obama was tasked with digging us out of that hole. Since Obama was unable to do so, the irresponsible Republicans call him a failure. After all, Clinton bailed us out of the Reagan deficits, so they expected Obama to do the same.

    There's just no equivalence between e-mail/Benghazi "scandals" vs. killing a million Iraqis to carve a popular secular government into religious dictatorships. Bush is more than just a domestic political target; he's reviled worldwide as the scum of the Earth.
     
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