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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump’s domination is teaching us one thing: we’ll miss Obama
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/01/trump-domination-us-election-miss-president-obama-strengths<snip>
Where a proposed ban on all Muslims entering the US, a call for 11 million migrants to be deported and an alpha-male brag about the size of his penis all failed, a demand that women face some sort of punishment for having an abortion might just succeed.
Its as if Donald Trump has been playing an extended game of chicken these last few months, piling insult upon offence upon sheer grossness, daring the Republican electorate to repudiate him. So far those Americans have refused to blink, repeatedly favouring the real estate mogul with their votes, no matter what garbage comes out of his mouth. But his suggestion this week that women be sent to the ducking stool or be stoned in the public square he was hazy on the details might finally prove too much.
Well know soon enough, as the carnival-cum-horror-show that is the 2016 primary season enters its decisive stretch. Meanwhile, somewhere offstage, cloistered in the relative obscurity of the White House, is the man who is president of the United States. So intense has been the global gaze on Trump and his rivals, Barack Obama has been all but forgotten.
Yet, quietly, the process of assessing his record and divining the meaning of the Obama presidency has begun. The April edition of the Atlantic magazine carries a 20,000-word essay on The Obama Doctrine, based on a series of in-depth, unashamedly philosophical conversations between the outgoing president and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. And on Tuesday BBC2 will broadcast the final part of Inside Obamas White House, a riveting series made by the acclaimed filmmaker Norma Percy and anchored in interviews with every key player of the last eight years, from Obama downwards.
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Donald Trump’s domination is teaching us one thing: we’ll miss Obama (Original Post)
malaise
Apr 2016
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Turbineguy
(37,206 posts)1. Hell,
we're gonna miss Bush!
malaise
(267,784 posts)2. I prefer the ubiquitous bush
as opposed to anyone related to Prescott