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HipHugHer said:
Are Democrats really throwing Barrack under the bus? I thought they viewed him as a good president, measured, intelligent, etc., the kind we need more of.

I didn't see the debates, don't have CNN, was watching "Washington Week" on PBS (hardly a "right wing" source) and they made it sound as if everybody was criticizing Biden for policies during that era, etc.

Towards the end they also surmised Trump and his tariff and trade deal stuff and the farther left candidates with their more protectionist ideas of labor and things may have more in common than opposing, at least in terms of "how things oughtta be" if not how to get there.


Granted, I was busy wiring together some hay feeders for my bunnies and didn't really focus on every single statement but it was playing plenty loud enough to not ignore and felt like I was in some alternate dimension.
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Yep. I said the other day I thought I was watching Republican debates. Attacking the Obama administration constantly and like Trump in 2016 debates promising everyone everything for free. It was a joke.
 
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It’s a matter of perspective.

For a lot of democrats, Obama didn’t keep enough promises he had made during his campaign(s) (nobody keeps all their promises) and what resulted was a centrist, at best. By today’s standards, he’s almost a conservative of days past.

He tried to be accommodating to too many segments of the population and ended up pissing off a lot of his supporters in exchange for support from people who would never support a darky in the first place.

Besides that, it’s the way of politics. Republicans running in ‘08 weren’t exactly running on Bush 43’s platform.
 
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Immigrant said:
It’s a matter of perspective.

For a lot of democrats, Obama didn’t keep enough promises he had made during his campaign(s) (nobody keeps all their promises) and what resulted was a centrist, at best. By today’s standards, he’s almost a conservative of days past.

He tried to be accommodating to too many segments of the population and ended up pissing off a lot of his supporters in exchange for support from people who would never support a darky in the first place.

Besides that, it’s the way of politics. Republicans running in ‘08 weren’t exactly running on Bush 43’s platform.
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Bush wasn't popular when he left office. Obama has a 97% approval rating among democrats in a recent poll. But yeah, spend your debate attacking the popular ex president from your own party instead of the idiot from the other party who is currently in office. That's definitely a winning strategy. Brilliant campaign managers.
 
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Bush wasn't popular when he left office. Obama has a 97% approval rating among democrats in a recent poll. But yeah, spend your debate attacking the popular ex president from your own party instead of the idiot from the other party who is currently in office. That's definitely a winning strategy. Brilliant campaign managers.
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Ha. Was gonna say pretty much this but you already did.

Best thing any Republican could do then is distance themselves from Bush. Throw in the economy crash and Wall st. bailout stuff a month before the election and the deal was sealed. There was nothing left a Republican count point to and say "I'm gonna bring you more of that".

Obama left office hugely popular with his party. Criticizing that in some attempt to take jabs at Biden is just dumb.
 
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If I’m locked in a room and you come in once a day and stick your dick in my eye, then after eight years you come in and for the next 2.5 years, you piss in my mouth, I’m going to look on those eight years of dickeye with relative fondness.
 
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