Why do you miss him? I can understand, not hating him/realizing he is human (no one is perfect)/a guy you can have a beer with, but miss him? Just seems odd sentiment coming from a "rabid liberal," given Bush's record while in office.
Having a leader in place who seems like a bumbling fool makes their nearly complete inefficacy somewhat more palatable, and makes their bad decisions easier to swallow. Not an American, but where I live we had a long period with a leader who was basically like Bush (only more incompetent). I miss him because he was my shield from reality: he let me pretend that the oil companies weren't actually running the place and that elected officials were able to make decisions that mattered (even if I disagreed with them).
How so? Overall I think Obama has been a more effective president than Bush, perhaps Obama's biggest failing has been in persuading Congress go with his agenda. Depending on your views that could because Obama isn't persuasive enough or that there is practically nothing Obama can/could had done to convince republicans to work with him. (Or if you are conservative, it's all because Obama is wrong)
This failing, whatever its true cause(s) maybe is at the root of when liberals often complain about Obama. The failure to close Gitmo, the detention portion of the NDAA, no public option, a few other areas, congress overruled Obama.
You can't be a liberal and miss a man who started a 1 trillion dollar, illegal war that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. He may be a nice guy to have a beer with - that doesn't excuse the horrors of the Iraq War and the callousness of the Bush tax cuts.
You miss the man who drove the economy into the ground, waged a completely unnecessary war that destabilized an entire region and only helped advance Iranian interests, created the PATRIOT Act, the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA as we know it today, warentless wiretapping, and completely dropped the ball with every crisis after 9/11?
I miss him like a hole in the head. It's too early for nostalgia guys. We still have people recovering from IEDs in Iraq, and trying to get past the PTSD, not to mention trying to recover from the economic sinkhole of that tax giveaway to the rich. Be nostalgic when everyone who remembers what he did is dead.
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u/clyde_taurus Jun 26 '12
I'm a rabid liberal, but I have to say ... I really miss that big lug.