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Conservative columnist: I would take Obama back in a nanosecond.A conservative columnist for The Washington Post on Friday wrote that the current political climate makes him miss former President Obama, saying he would take the Democrat back in a nanosecond.
Max Boot was a foreign policy adviser in both of the Republican presidential campaigns against Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Despite his criticisms of the former commander in chief, Boot wrote that Obamas presidency now appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned.
Boot wrote that he gained a new perspective on the Obama administration after watching him deliver a speech in South Africa on the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandelas birth.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/398112-conservative-columnist-i-would-take-obama-back-in-a-nanosecond
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Tarheel_Dem
(31,237 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)But I'm on a Kindle at the moment, so it's like using the web with one hand tied behind my back.
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Raster
(20,998 posts)...Compared to the tRump* era, Obama's Presidency certainly looks like a "Golden Age" for American politics.
And I totally appreciate the Kindle comment... good for reading most books, not so good for surfing the Web.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)K&R
ETA: I missed it yesterday. Glad you posted it again tonight.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)persons like Max Boot, who I have usually considered to be a stark raving rightwing lunatic, now looks wistfully back on our last President
Since the alliances we may have to form to undue Trump's damage are likely to make me nauseous, I am going to try very hard to remember that this is not all about me
JI7
(89,262 posts)they are more about being globalists/internationalists types. likely to support war but also humanitarian aid .
stopbush
(24,396 posts)and looked objectively at the Obama presidency while he was still in office. Imagine if they had pushed Rs to work with Obama, rather than fighting him at every turn.
Imagine where our country would be today had conservatives any semblance of ethics and morality during the Obama years.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)JI7
(89,262 posts)To sanity Mr. Boot.
Vogon_Glory
(9,127 posts)That you dont know what youve got til its gone.
Theres a lot of that going around. I still clench my teeth so I wont scream WHAT IN HELL WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU VOTED FOR THOSE PEOPLE!!!.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Max Boot. It sounds like a James Bond arch-villain.
"Mr Bond. I am Max Boot. And... you... are about to dieee."
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Beartracks
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UTUSN
(70,725 posts)I, without high flown credentials, contacts, resources
Azathoth
(4,611 posts)Literally every conservative who hates Trump -- Max Boot, Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, David Frum, Eric Erikson, etc. -- hated him since before he was president.
I can't think of a single conservative (other than the batshit Ralph Peters) who publicly supported Trump and then publicly decided it was a mistake.
Aristus
(66,440 posts)Just what exactly were you doing during his eight years in office that would have increased the chances of his successor possessing the qualities you now would have him back for?
Hot air is all it is...