The man can pluck heart strings like no other before him. It's like he has them stung in the National Harp and it's his night in Carnegie Hall.
Libertarian view of Obama. http://reason.com/archives/2017/01/10/goodbye-obama Goodbye, Obama The outgoing president leaves a loaded gun in the Oval Office. As a presidential candidate, Obama made clear that, along with "dumb wars," he firmly opposed unauthorized wars. That December, in a candidate survey on executive power conducted by reporter Charlie Savage, Sen. Obama stated plainly: "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." As Obama gained on Clinton in the following months, she was reduced to carping: "I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House.…Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." And yet that speech turned out to be instrumental to Obama's winning the nomination, and thus the presidency. ... "Shut the fuck up!" Obama reportedly exclaimed on the early morning of October 9, 2009, when press secretary Robert Gibbs woke him with the news he'd won the Nobel Peace Prize. In retrospect, it might have spared everyone a lot of embarrassment had Obama pulled a Bob Dylan and gone AWOL on the Committee. A week before the announcement, after all, Obama had ordered 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, and by the time he hit the podium at Oslo to acknowledge the "considerable controversy" the award had caused, he'd already launched more drone strikes than George W. Bush managed in his two full terms. In the years to come, the U.S. military's "operational tempo" would grow steadily more frantic, as Obama surged troop levels to 100,000 in Afghanistan, launched two undeclared wars, deployed U.S. Special Forces to 85 countries around the globe, and tallied 10 times as many drone attacks as his predecessor. Over Labor Day weekend this year, while Americans stocked up on Bud Limes and burger rolls, their government launched nearly 70 airstrikes across six countries: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya. As the end of Obama's tenure approached, The New York Times noted, he was poised to become "the first two-term president to have presided over a nation at war for every day of his presidency." Lots more good stuff at the link.
Just curious. I am the only one that see Obama as speaking on an emotional level, about almost every issue he choses to speak out on?
Politics is literally about people's lives. But you have to actually care about those that look completely opposite of you to relate.
You mean he sounds elitist and condescending? Like he knows better than you about what's best for you?
Maybe that's it, but he does seem to bath every issue in how we should feel about it or how he feels about it. I don't do that, and I often don't care.
Of course he does. He's a Liberal and a Democrat. That's what they do. They're not concerned about FACTS. The only things that matter to them are Trump's tweets, inanimate objects like guns, and basing their opinions on feelings and emotions instead of logic and reason.
It must have triggered you if you're so butthurt about it. Maybe I can grab Rasta's pacifier for you and your safe space. Would that help?
Obama isn't my dude, so I'm not trying to defend him, but what politician doesn't act the way you just described? Aside from maybe The Bern. But for realz, you pretty much laid out a simple description of every politician.
Oh bullshit. Obama had condescension, arrogance, and elitism down to an art form unlike any other president in modern times. I don't recall Bush Jr or even Clinton addressing people so arrogantly during speeches. Bush was too stupid, and Clinton just didn't give a fuck about anything.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I find Obama's arrogance and elitism to be appalling on a level I never saw with Bush, or even Clinton.
