OldLady
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Seems to me we survived him and his reckless, ill conceived and dangerous policies like the ACA, banking control, environmental regulations and a successful pushback against ISIS --- just fine. Trump is still basking in the glow of taking credit for a lot of his successes.I hated his politics, and his Marxist Socialist Bent, but he was charming and smooth. No one should say otherwise, but his policies were so Reckless, so Ill Conceived, DANGEROUS even, that I sometimes wonder if he was THAT INCOMPETENT, or INTENTIONALLY UNDERMINING AMERICA IN ANY WAY HE COULD.I liked Obama. I didn't agree with everything, but having a bit of an academic bent myself, I could appreciate the Professor President. I got how he was thinking.[Q
For about the thousandth time on this board, I AM NOT A DEMOCRAT. I've always been an Independent and I vote like one.
So as much as I'd like to see both parties behave better (damned Repubs have a LOT of 'splainin to do, electing that Orange pigheaded fool) I don't have a whole lot to say about who the Democrats nominate or what they develop for a platform, except to correspond with my Democratic representatives in Congress. In my state, I'm not even allowed to vote in the primaries.
The Democrats have a lot of 'splaining to do electing that worthless affirmative action asshole Obama and then nominating a corrupt, incompetent and dishonest shithead like Crooked Hillary.
Hillary might have been a possibility in 2008 but promising her 2016 and honoring that promise was the biggest mistake the Democrats have made in a long time. Way too much baggage by then. I never liked her, anyway, but Holy Toledo, that was some smoke-filled backroom politics there, and they paid for it big time.
Obama is the strongest speaker/leader they have had in a long while, and now that he's gone, there's nothing left but shallow ghosts way past their prime. At least so far, that I've seen.
But as a conservative, you would feel differently. I don't think any of those things were perfect, but neither will a Republican's presidency be.