"Conservative columnist: I would take Obama back in a nanosecond."

[Beartracks]

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 Obama’s 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 Mandela’s 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]

1. Posted yesterday.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210903220

[Beartracks]

3. Ah, thanks. Tried to look around for it, didn't see it.

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]

4. No worries! Post it again and again AND AGAIN...

...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]

2. Nice article.

K&R

ETA: I missed it yesterday. Glad you posted it again tonight.

[struggle4progress]

5. It seems a symptom of just how much we have degenerated, that

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]

8. he was a neocon but they are often either neutral or even liberal on social/domestic issues

they are more about being globalists/internationalists types. likely to support war but also humanitarian aid .

[stopbush]

12. Imagine if conservatives like Max Boot could have taken a deep breath

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]

6. Hillary is nearly the same as Obama, compared to the Orange Doufus. That was OBVIOUS in election. nt

[JI7]

7. he voted for Hillary

[ouija]

9. Welcome

To sanity Mr. Boot.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. Don't It Alway Seem To Go

That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.

There’s a lot of that going around. I still clench my teeth so I won’t scream “WHAT IN HELL WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU VOTED FOR THOSE PEOPLE!!!”.

[Dennis Donovan]

11. I know he's a conservative, but he has the coolest name!

Max Boot. It sounds like a James Bond arch-villain.

"Mr Bond. I am Max Boot. And... you... are about to dieee."

[kwassa]

14. Kinda like Max Headroom

[Beartracks]

15. C-C-C-Catch the Blue Wave!

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[UTUSN]

13. Question for BOOT: How come a nobody like me knew at the time what your "new perspective" is now?!1

I, without high flown credentials, contacts, resources

[Azathoth]

16. It's always the same small group of never-Trump conservatives

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]

17. I don't really care, do U?

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...