Conservative columnist: ‘I would take Obama back in a nanosecond’

[justincase]

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.

“I was moved nearly to tears by his eloquent defense of a liberal world order that President Trump appears bent on destroying,” Book wrote.

Obama appeared to offer wide-ranging criticism of Trump in the Tuesday speech, saying “those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning."

Boot said Obama’s speech was not full of self-praise or name-calling like many from Trump.

“Obama has a far better claim than Trump to being a ‘very stable genius,’ but he didn’t call himself one,” Boot wrote. “The sentences were complete and sonorous — and probably written by the speaker himself.”

“Imagine Trump writing anything longer than a tweet — and even those are full of mistakes,” he added.

Obama’s White House was also not full of the scandals seen in the current administration, Boot pointed out.

“Can you believe that an Obama-era scandal was that the president wore a tan suit or put his feet up on the desk?” Boot asked.

He pointed to a September 2013 headline from The Washington Times that read “Obama’s foot on Oval Office desk sends shockwaves around the world.”

“Oh, to have those days back again — before we had a president who was involved in indecent relationships with a Russian despot and (allegedly) a porn star,” Boot wrote.

Thinking about the current president can be “depressing,” he said.

“He reminds me that just 18 months ago — can you believe it was so recently? — we had a president with whom I could disagree without ever doubting his fitness to lead. We can have one again,” wrote Boot, who, like fellow conservatives George Will and Joe Scarborough, left the Republican Party over Trump.

He said he wants Democrats to retake control of both chambers of Congress during November’s midterm elections.

The GOP is now a “white-nationalist party with a conservative fringe,” Boot wrote in another column for the Post earlier this month.

“If you’re part of that fringe, what should you do?” he asked.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/398112-conservative-columnist-i-would-take-obama-back-in-a-nanosecond

[Oscar_LaVista]

it confirms what Hillary said about Trump voters- not as she is quoted, but what she really said about a "basket of deplorables."

"I know there are only 60 days left to make our case -- and don't get complacent, don't see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, well, he's (Trump) done this time. We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people -- now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks -- they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America." 

exactly right.  as time goes on, all the warnings and observations she made about Trump and his voters show how correct she is. 

even today, the vast majority of people who could vote for Trump despite how bigoted and crass and sexist and incompetent he was during the campaign, look at all the weird, sick shit he has done since being elected and refuse to see how corrupt and awful he is for this country and the world. 

[emilyB]

I would agree that the political climate is unbearable, downright unpleasant, vile and not a place anymore where you can agree to disagree.  It is like living on the brink of civil war and the hatred is palpable.  Ask yourself who has made it that way?  It is the discontented that care for party more than country and who have not got over the shock of the past election and have whipped up enough hate against one man to make life a misery.  I'm not a Trump lover - neither am I a hater.  I wouldn't have wanted to see power hungry Hilary as President either, but I can almost guarantee you wouldn't have seen the other side show off in an eternal display of assaults and riots until she was brought down, locked up or even killed.  Get over it - you don't always get what you want.  The wild tantrums will eventually backfire!

[Oscar_LaVista]

fuck you.  there was just as much hate shown towards obama, who did not deserve it, and a lot of it based on race and perceived being a muslim, and most of it goddamn lies.  the hate directed towards trump is because he is such a fucking bigoted piece of shit asshole.  he lies all the goddamn time.  he is in bed with putin and doing his best to uplift russia and hurt this country and its alliances.  we are telling the truth about Trump and you stupid fuck trump voters refuse to believe.  you stupid fuck trump voters lied about obama. get it, stupid?

[Oscar_LaVista]

[Jim]

"when reason and morality reigned.”
 
Really? 
You think all this Racism going around looks anything like reason and morality?
You think all the riots in the streets looks anything like reason and morality?
Do you think calling everyone who disagree's with you NAZI'S looks anything like reason and morality?
Do you think Leftist radicals like AntiFA looks anything like reason and morality?
Do you think shutting down Free Speech on campuses looks anything like reason and morality?
Do you think Obama and Maxine Waters telling their followers to get in their faces looks anything like reason and morality?
Do you think Leftist radicals like like those who attacked Sarah Sanders looks anything like reason and morality?
Do you think Leftist radicals like those who block traffic on expressway looks anything like reason and morality?
Do you think Obama saying he's going to be "Fundamentally Changing the United States of America" looks anything like reason and morality?
 
How is that "Fundamental Change looking right about now?  Do you find it palatable?
How about that Reason and Morality?  Really nice - eh?

 

[Jim]

 
"One More Damn Time" - Oscar....  #WALKAWAY.   
Yeah, its real - and its happening in big numbers.

Why?  Because people (your people) are sick and tired of all your made up name callings and hate just because you were not mature enough to withstand one loss.  They are sick and tired of the Democrat Party that endorses radicalizing groups of violence to go after others they disagree with, and they are slamming the door on the way out. Can ya hear them?


Here's the deal:
If you want to remain ignorant of this movement thats going on all around you, and affects you, then by all means Don't watch any of these. 

#WalkAway WARNING: Contains Red-Pills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeLus9UneNM



"Please forgive me Trump Supporters" #WalkAway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhPbO7CoBF8



#WalkAway Hollywood Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAsgfxBcdLk




Lifelong Democrat SJW explains why she's #WalkingAway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwxJOzN1ur8



why i chose to #WalkAway , my story !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQccCGYJvAA



#WalkAway Feminist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJJzsiTClg

[D2D]

Justincase, Max Boot talks like a Communist not a conservative!

It is clear he has no real values!

You can have him!

[Oscar_LaVista]

how many memes have you seen where trump's mom is shown nude and/or claims she was a whore for all the black activists in hawaii?  or that trump was some other german communist's son?  or that trump was raised a muslim?  or that he was not born here?  that no one remembered him, that he had a foreign student card, all that bullshit? the pics of a well-known nude model from the 50's who looked a little bit like Obama's nerdy bookworm mom have been shown here many times and claiming it was obama's mom.  wavy still does it.  and the Planet of the Apes memes.  along with all the other sickening photoshopped pics of obama and his wife and even his kids.  and this place is a microcosm of the whole right wing community at large. you tell lies about obama, still.  so all this shit about unprecedented hate shown towards trump IS BULLSHIT.  what internet myths have been told about Trump that are anything similar to obama not being born in Hawaii?  or a secret muslim?  or being gay?  or being a foreign exchange student?  or some kind of apology tour and fundamentally changing America into some communist haven?  name something any of us non-trump cultists say about trump that is not true. 

and the walk away movement is bullshit.  when you have george will, bill kristol, steve schmidt, ana navaro, nicolle wallace, james comey and several other well-known conservative/republican commentators and leaders not only walking away from the GOP because of Trump but telling people to vote democratic so the GOP can rid itself of the stain of Trump and his bigotry and corruption, plus all the republican legislators, not that old, who have decided to cash in their chips and retire mainly because of their dislike of Trump and what the GOP is today, THAT IS A MOVEMENT.  not a few youtube videos of some wacky bozos. 

and again the antifa crap.  they are not even a real group! no website, no leader, no membership, no nothing.  but your right wing media leaders have decided to make them appear as organized and as numerous as the various white nationalist groups out there and you believe it.  what riots in the streets?  for every college that disinvites some nazi or neo nazi asshole because students do not want the college to pay some asshole to come spew that right wing shit, which has occurred maybe 5 times so far since Trump has been elected, there are 6 that have these type clowns speak and nobody notices.  again, complete overreaction by the right wing media and their stooges believe it. again with maxine waters telling people to be rude with Trump and his closest advisors in public, which no democratic leader endorsed or did not condemn, is supposed to be a big ass deal when Trump used to urge punching out protesters at his pep rallies all the damn time and promise to pay their legal bills!!  how can you complain about Waters but not about Trump? Trump calling the mothers of players who kneel during the anthem bitches, in public, at one of his pep rallies...and you complain about what democrats are doing that is rude? Trump calling Chuck Todd's mother a bitch...can you imagine Obama calling Sean Hannity's mom a bitch in a public speech?

like Adlai Stevenson said, I will stop telling the truth about my opponent if he will stop telling lies about me. 

no one is lying about trump.  he is an asshole.  all those lies about obama were just that- lies.  he was not perfect, but he was not a liar.  he was not a corrupt, greedy, sexist pig who paid off porn stars and models and then lied about even knowing them.  he had no bizarre connections, along with almost all his closest staff and even family members, with so many russians with ties to Putin.  he was not a bigot, trump is.  i don't really care if trump is wrong about gutting the EPA or wanting more tax cuts for the rich and big corporations, you expect that from republicans.  but it his immoral, corrupt, dishonest, ego-driven bullshit that is so awful...and the fact putin apparently has him under his thumb.

[warrenpees]

YouTube videos prove the existence of the Walk Away Movement!

[Oscar_LaVista]

YouTube videos prove the existence of the Walk Away Movement!

damn!!  i hoped no one would bring up those 14 you tube videos!! 

[emilyB]

People like you Oscar make my point.  There has never been anything like this display of permanent hate, no matter how you rant, rave and pretend it was just like this when Obama was President.  There is no comparison  and Obama supporters were never damned to eternity and called traitors.  So don't lie. It will backfire on you.  Here on this Board you are a nasty verbal bully, so you've lost before you start.