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In reply to the discussion: My son, who preferred Obama over Romney had some pretty startling things to say............ [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)I don't think GWB was the worst; Ronald Reagan holds that place for me.
Better than GWB doesn't mean much. Obama said some things before he got to Washington that he didn't back up when he got there when it comes to war in the Middle East. He said some other things on the campaign trail in '08 that horrified me; the concept of unilateral action in Pakistan, for example.
He continued too many Bush II policies, including the bogus "war on terror." That's not as bad as starting that war, especially the way it was started, but it's not the foreign policy I want to see, and I'm okay with saying so out loud.
I can dislike or disagree with some of Obama's policies without it being about GWB. That's how we get the whole concept of voting for the lesser evil; every time someone points out something bad, somebody else has to throw a boogie man up to compare, instead of just addressing the point. It's a masterful distraction, and it has allowed the Democratic Party to devolve, in my opinion.