Hey, are you, folks, watching Obama’s press conference? It’s really good. I don’t even mind my Dr. Phil being displaced by it because he’s saying valuable stuff on both domestic and foreign affairs.
Obama’s Press Conference
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Whoa!!! Did I just hear Obama claim that world opinion about the U.S. was LOWER when he took office than it is today??????????
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Of course it is.
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On the whole, I’d rather be watching Dr. Phil…
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It was a good episode, too, with a bunch of really crazy folks.
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I’m not watching the press conference. But I can almost guarantee that there is no way that the world community has a lower opinion of Obama than of GW Bush. Agree or disagree with him Obama is a legitimate head of state. Not a clownish buffoon like GWB.
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Oh yes. W was something else. What a crying shame that was.
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So what has Obama accomplished internationally during his years in office?
He’s thoroughly squandered American prestige worldwide, abandoned our allies, embraced our enemies, allowed Putin to treat him like a helpless child, and reduced American international influence to its lowest level in a century.
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Every single part of this started with Mr Dubya.
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When did Bush abandon our allies and rush to embrace our enemies?
His genuinely disastrous mistake — and one for which I believe history will hold him fully accountable — was to start two wars that he wasn’t prepared to win.
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And to tongue kiss Putin, allowing him to invade Georgia. And permit the most horrifying terror attack to happen in the US and fail to punish the perpetrators. And turn the country into the international but of every joke. And wipe out any international prestige the US had abroad. And push the planet into a global economic crisis.
Add all that to two useless wars, and we’ve got ourselves a fellow who was even worse domestically, impossible as that may seem.
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I figured that you’d bring up Georgia, but the situation there was a bit different than in the Ukraine. A full-scale war quickly developed in Georgia, and that would have required direct NATO military intervention against Russia to stop it.
Bush did go after the perpetrators of 9/11, with his incompetent invasion of Afghanistan, and he kept Bin Laden on the run and out of action. (Yes, Obama finally got him.)
Presidents have very little direct control over the domestic economy, so you won’t hear me blaming Obama for our agonizingly sluggish recovery since he was elected in 2008.
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