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Could we have this guy back, please?
Nah, he might seem reasonable here but his foreign policy scatterbrain pattern is part of why Ukraine is in such dire straights now. Man hesitated to stand up to Russia when they went into crimea, the point when they could have been stopped, and where Ukraine could have been swept into the EU orbit with far less bloodshed.
Obama standing up to Russia during the Crimea invasion would make for some interesting alt-history.
With Russia under stronger sanctions earlier, perhaps they would have less opportunity to feed and fund the alt-right to the same extent as it has been.
Please, they've been stirring shit up on a shoestring budget for decades. It's almost impressive what they've been managing to do.
They should run a frugal youtube channel and teach the CIA how its done.
The “lead from behind” guy who delivered $4 billion in cash by US military to Iran? No Thanks
The guy whose quantity of melanin drove Bubbas insane?
"It's the WHITE HOUSE!"
The guy who doesn't understand that genocide is not at all complex? The guy who bombed a wedding and a hospital? And intentionally targeted American citizens with drone strikes? No thanks.
The drone strike guy who didn't close gitmo?
What israel is doing in Palestine is what oBomber did during his entire presidency.
Let's judge people on their actions instead of hollow words. Even the walking orange did better than Obama when it comes to foreign policy by withdrawing from Afghanistan.
Don’t forget the tan suit and bicycle helmet!
Worst president ever, ever!
/S
Obama is a Centrist-Democrat. Right-wingers AGREED with his policies enough that all they complained about was how much melanin his clothes lacked and lack of head protection. That meant the policies and actions were favorable to Right-wing nuts :-( Cancelling student debt, bailing out families in need, reinforcing the Social-Security, VA, CDC, EPA, FDA and making Roe-Wade into law ( along with the ACA ) in so many ways were sidelined and ignored while 2008 taught the lessons that werent learnt, 2019 hit so hard and so fast nothing could have been effective at stopping the long plunge into the depths.
Centrists do nothing except maintain the status-quo while silently allowing everything that failed to stay broken, while the next cycle of things to break happens over and over again until that deep dark pit becomes the new reality.
Do you think anyone outside of the 30% of Confederate descendants in the US agrees with you?
I'm a leftist and I agree with him. Sure, obama wasn't as bad as Bush or Reagan, but he was still pretty shit.
I judge by results, and he's right that even trump was better on foreign policy than Obama. Staying in the forever wars for his entire 2 terms is completely unforgivable.
You forgot the /s. https://www.cfr.org/timeline/trumps-foreign-policy-moments
I guess unless you are unironically admitting to being a racist xenophobe.
Literally scoreboard. Trump got us out of the forever wars, Obama made them worse. Sure, he took 4 years to do it when it should have taken 3 months, but doing it is strictly better than not doing it. And Obama didn't do it.
Got it. Racist xenophobe confirmed.
You libs are so fucking stupid. Learn to question what you're told, institutions lie all the time.
This is the exact comment I would expect from a racist, sexist xenophobe who is scared of the world.
I'd love to hear why you think im a racist, sexist xenophobe.
You support Russia, want all Israelites dead, and think Trump's foreign policy was great. You're right, we can take sexist out (although the Trump support is suspicious) but you are definitely a racist and xenophobe. "I'm a leftist". LMAO exactly what an idiot fascist would say on social media. Nobody's buying your two bit bullshit.
I think Trump's foreign policy was dog shit, it's just better than Obama's because it didn't directly cause the deaths of thousands. Nothing you said implies I'm a racist. So basically, I'm a xenophobe because I think we need to kill people committing genocide? So then you also think the Russia/Britain/America faction in WW2 was a bunch of xenophobes, right? They also wanted to kill genocidal people.
If you were a real leftist, you wouldn't blindly support the actions of the extremely far right American government. No true leftist supports Obamas foreign policy.
I'm not a leftist and I'm also not a racist and a xenophobe. Interesting that you think you are defending your bigotry. FYI nothing you say will change my opinion of you at this point.
I don't give a shit what you think of me, I was just waiting for you to admit that all of your beliefs are based on bullshit. It's very big of you to admit it.
Lol. Apology accepted.
Pro-tip, if you want to pretend to be a leftist on the internet, it helps to not call trump better than Obama.
Good luck!
He's been programed since birth to worship tough guys, i.e., The Czar.
Leftists don't actually like Obama. Did you not know that? I'm a socialist, and on this particular issue, trump was very obviously better. He didn't commit nearly as many war crimes.
Isn't it sad that you're so fixated on defending "lefties" that you're willing to ignore that Obama was a warmonger that indiscriminately targeted civilians to further US imperialism?
But keep going about the repubs vs dems circlejerk.
Isn't it sad that you ignore that the Republican presidents didn't close gitmo either and that Trump actually increased the drone strikes?
Lol I hope you're getting paid to do your farcical trolling. I said nothing about repubs vs dems - YOU did. I just mentioned the racists, sexists and bigots that are the only ones on your side of this argument.
I'm sorry was my side the one supporting a racist apartheids state akin to literal Nazi's?
No, your side are actual Nazis.
Which side is that? Your only rebuttal is tu quoque but I haven't declared support for any party.
Or is it a law of nature that if you criticize precious GenocIde Joe that you must vote on the elephant logo?
"genocide joe"? Wow. Found the Trumper.
Does noise constantly echo in your empty skull?
No because the words of western leaders are so hollow that the echo cancels out. You should try taking both your eye patches off.
No. I need my left eye patch. I'm a pirate. You're a loser.
bloppydee dooo dee dooo! lmao
Is it hard keeping up with all the accounts you're in charge of at The Troll Farm, tovarisch?
Not really since every rebuttal I receive here cannot seem to reason past the level of ad-hominems.