My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror (2018)

Post by pstuart » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 9:04 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #102

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Obama was one of our better Republican presidents....

That's a pretty fatuous statement when you consider the goals of the GOP over the past 38 years. Did Obama work with the GOP to privatize entitlement programs? Did he pass a major tax cut? Did he appoint pro-life judges? Did he move towards transforming the Department of Education to state block grants?

Post by pstuart » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 9:58 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #132

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My comment was somewhat tongue in cheek. I'm well aware of the goals of the GOP, thank you very much. I'm also very much aware of the fact that the GOP was obstructions to his agenda, effectively neutering his work. (Also hopeful for the destruction of the GOP once Mueller is done with his work). That said, Obama's support for the fiasco in Afghanistan is not "liberal" in any way, and his failure to even bring up the…

Well, that, or unwilling to see millions of Americans put out of work simply so he can make a vain statement about his principles. But tomato/tomato.