You have to go back a long way before you find someone who had
less political experience before they become President than Barack
Obama. Bush II was governor of Texas. Clinton was governor of
Arkansas. Bush I was Senator, CIA head, lots of things, Reagan,
Ford, Carter, Nixon, Kennedy, Eisenhower was general which is
debatable, but still a world class player on the world stage. Now,
Truman had pretty little experience. No, you'd have to say Obama
how very little experience, just a tad more than Trump.
You'll not hear me touting Bush's experience, just that he had it.
He also should have been indicted for insider trading - so was
counteracted that experience was the fact that he was the elite
political group that works the system for their own profit.
Whatever Obama is, his lack of experience led him to pull a lot
of insiders into his adminstration, like from Goldman-Sachs and
the like.
No question Obama was a very smart guy, but he sat through the
Presidency and did nothing for the Democratic party. He talked a
lot, and but - and this is hindsight, he did nothing to challenge the
rise of the fascist-right, and now he is paying for it, or rather the
country is paying for it while he collects half-million dollar speaking
fees.
I know you want to defend him, but I no longer can. He and the other
living Presidents ought to be doing something in the background to
remove this fascist dictator-wanna-be from office. I seriously doubt
he is though. Obama works with his eyes on the prize, and the prize
is him and his own family - not the American people.
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sleepingtiger (712)
8 years ago
Brux:
I just posted about Obama's experience---I don't know why you keep saying he didn't have any experience when he was elected. Since when the hell is being a state senator and a U.S. Congressman not having any experience? And claiming that he didn't do any thing but sit in office----come on, you know how ignorant that sounds,because it's not true. I agree with you on the other things you said, but to sit here and say that Obama "didn't do anything" as presidents a complete and utter lie. All you have to do is look up the info on what he did, like I did. You give that idiot Bush, who pulled us into an unnecessary war some credit for the little experience he had, but yet you completely ignore Obama's experience? Come of of it,please, because you sound like a ridiculous trumpfhead on that point.
And you seem to have your facts confused,and aren't making any sense---Obama is no longer in office. He is now a private citizen,free to take whatever fees he chooses,and where. I don't see you complaining about the hefty fees Bush got paid when he left office and did speaking engagements. Oh, I guess you conveniently forgot about that,too, but to you trumpfheads,everything's Obama fault. Yeah, right,whatever.
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brux (14729)
8 years ago
I did not say he did not have ANY experience, he had very
little experience. He was a junior Senator not even through
his first term.
Usually it is desirable for someone to have work experience,
business experience, maybe military, executive such as
mayor or governor, and legislative. Obama was very inexperienced
compared to most of our other leaders.
If I said he didn't do anything it was a bit of an exaggeration. He
has a law degree, but I don't think he ever worked as a lawyer.
Obama did very well considering his lack of practical experience
and support network in politics. But, there were a lot of things he
got wrong because of that lack of experience.
Bush had experience as well, yes, but he also had a lot of red flags,
so do not mistake my discussion of experience for support. Bush was
privileged rich kid with little character. He was a liar and a poor
governor. He was also a two time loser in business and ripped his
investors off at Harken Energy - and would have gone to prison except
for his Dad was President. I told people at the time about Bush, but
people do not seem to care.
I don't sound like a "Trumphead" because there is nothing I recommend
or like about Trump. Don't you have anything more productive to do
than rant about this nonsense? Obama was the reason such a marginal
number of undecided voters decided to try Republican and Trump - because
Obama behaved like a Republican.
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