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TopicDid people think the world was laughing at us when we had Obama?
MrMallard
05/21/19 8:56:48 AM
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Rebel_Patriot posted...
Probably. Obama gave off an essence of weakness

Nah. George Bush was perceived as a blithering moron over here, and his plan of action that consisted of hunting nonexistent nukes drew my nation into the destabilisation of Iraq. We're still over there thanks to Bush's WMD hunt.

And none of us took Trump seriously, because we perceived him as slow. Not the same kind of stupid as George Bush - monotone, one-note, lacking in substance and unable to compose a single calm, thought-out sentence. All the things that people know him for are repeating his bullshit pie-in-the-sky Wall rhetoric, complimenting himself and attacking anyone who criticises him. He's the king of deflection, because it's always someone else's fault and he's always in the right - his primary skill is agitating the public. Trump has always lacked integrity in the public eye, at least in my neck of the woods. His intended pardoning of a war criminal only further serves to illustrate this.

Barack Obama was a lot more well-spoken than both, from the first day of his campaign. From day one to the end of his presidency, he made an effort to be civil, respectable and well-presented, and even with his downsides, he represented the best of America with his presidential attributes. In hindsight, there are a lot of shitty things that happened overseas and in America during his presidency. But he was almost always a reasonable voice in global politics, and he gave America an air of dignity on the global stage.

Trump gives America an air of weakness, having such a feeble-minded agitator at the helm of the world's greatest superpower and holding the government funding of said superpower hostage untill he gets billions of dollars for a poorly thought-out wall. George Bush was a laughingstock, but I can't say I don't respect the guy for keeping shit together during 9/11. Regardless, there are global repercussions of his leadership that have persisted to this day, and a lot of it is tied to how he went into Iraq in search of non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction. Barack was a voice of reason and a strong image of America's strengths, at least where I come from.
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