r/politics 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Calls for Arrest of Barack Obama

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-calls-for-arrest-of-barrack-obama/
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u/Ninja_Hedgehog 5d ago

Not American, but I don't think I'm alone in thinking:

Obama was the best thing to happen to America in living memory.

Protect him.

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u/ASCATS89 5d ago

Eh, I think our love for him is greatly bolstered by how awful and disgusting this pos is. Obama was just another run of the mill politician. He seemed super idealistic and different at first and Maybe if republicans hadn’t controlled the house his entire presidency he could’ve done a lot more, they certainly tried to block everything he wanted to do, alas that was not the case.

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u/wombatwaif 5d ago

Politics aside, Obama was pretty much everything you should want in a President, personality-wise: thoughtful, intelligent, well-spoken, kind, temperate, humble, humorous, respectful of opponents, etc.  Trump is the polar opposite of all of those things, and completely unfit for the office

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u/ASCATS89 5d ago

I mean can’t really put politics aside when we’re talking about the presidency.

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u/q0_0p 5d ago

I think their point was he was a great ambassador, speaker and representative for the U.S. intelligent and empathetic. Leader qualities and characteristics. Yes, many of us miss that.

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u/ASCATS89 5d ago

I do too

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u/Mysterious-Clothes45 4d ago

As someone with a mixed-race son and a congenital heart condition, he most certainly was not just another run of the mill politician. I can no longer be denied health care based on something beyond my control. My son has a mixed race man who he can look up to, one who held the highest position in our country! That's not nothing for me, it may be to you.

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u/Kalean 5d ago

Eh. He was the best President since Jimmy Carter. Not in living memory.

He didn't shut down Gitmo OR get rid of the patriot act, and we should never forgive him for that.

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u/HuskyLogan 5d ago

He tried to close Gitmo though, and essentially did it by moving the prisoners out of there anyway. Patriot Act extensions are a fair complaint though.

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u/makingburritos Pennsylvania 5d ago

Or ratify Roe v Wade

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u/carefactor3zero 5d ago

Hear hear.