Legacy of Obama

[Kat Kid]

The murder rate is going up in some major cities, but overall crime is generally down.   Quite possibly thanks to the growing surveillance state and still ongoing incarceration nation. 

"Generally Speaking" in terms of world peace.   Sure, if your litmus test is that the world isn't in a collective hot war.   But that doesn't dismiss the greatest humanitarian crisis since WWII (the U.N. High Commission on Refugees words) in Syria, entirely inflamed and made worse by U.S. policy under the Obama administration.   That doesn't change the fact that conflict in the middle east has now engulfed a much greater swath of territory under Obama, and now includes a substantial part of North Africa.   What was the headline awhile back, the U.S. was bombing someone or something in 7 countries within the span of days?   Perpetual war creep was an absolute fact under Obama.  It's also a fact that relations among the worlds Nuclear armed nations is as contentious as its been in decades.

My critique of Obama's foreign policy is almost exactly the same, too many bombs/drones.  Wrong side of the conflict in Libya/Syria/Egypt.

I think you should absolutely watch Adam Curtis' film "Hypernormalisation" and tell me what you think of it.  You won't like all of it, but it is pretty compelling.

[CNS]

^ I think even you have done this on the football board.

gE'ing on a football board isn't a fair comparo.

[sonofdaxjones]

I'll check that out KK.

Obama's 1.47% average GDP growth is the fourth worst of any U.S. president, ever.   It's the worst of any Post WWII, U.S. president.  Obama is also the only U.S. president ever to not deliver a single year of GDP growth 3% or above.

[LickNeckey]

i'd like to remember Obama as the guy who caused Dax's perpetual butthurt

[sonofdaxjones]

I don't really want to talk about Obama's legacy unless it's all good stuff

[Asteriskhead]

I will remember him as the president who killed a US citizen with a robot. I will also remember him for his entertaining public persona. I will also remember him as the president who made a lot of racists mad.

[star seed 7]

I did not know dax pre-obama but I'm going to assume dax's perpetual butthurt started sometime in the early 1960's

[SdK]

Thanks a lot, dax.

[420seriouscat69]

Dax is still mad at the 1942 Chiefs for not drafting a QB. No one knows his real age or where all of this started.

[Emo EMAW]

^ I think even you have done this on the football board.

gE'ing on a football board isn't a fair comparo.

Fair enough.

But, politicians have been leveraging fear fooorever.  Since before the birth of Christ.

[CHONGS]

No, dax is clearly someone who had his formative years during the late 70s and early 80s, and this is the major lens through which he sees culture, politics, and world events.  That would put him in his early 50s I would suspect.

[star seed 7]

No, dax is clearly someone who had his formative years during the late 70s and early 80s, and this is the major lens through which he sees culture, politics, and world events.  That would put him in his early 50s I would suspect.

55 is my guess

[Tobias]

49

[chum1]

There isn't a man, woman, or child alive who doesn't hear Obama's name and then immediately take a moment to somberly reflect on Yemen and the eradication of American credibility.

[_33]

Of course some irrational fears of the right helped trump get elected.  Which led to irrational fears on the left about a Trump presidency.  Everyone is irrationally afraid.  Pretty hilarious.

[Emo EMAW]

 I'm afraid of being so afraid of irrational fear that I won't be afraid when it actually is appropriate.

[Asteriskhead]

I'm afraid of being so afraid of irrational fear that I won't be afraid when it actually is appropriate.

maybe just don't be afraid?

[sonofdaxjones]

Weird series of posts, but I would say that Lib's constant projection and related inability to deal with his internal rage about current events, is, dare I say, a bit unnerving at this juncture.   

[sonofdaxjones]

There isn't a man, woman, or child alive who doesn't hear Obama's name and then immediately take a moment to somberly reflect on Yemen and the eradication of American credibility.

Most American's can't even properly describe our form of government and it's various mechanisms let alone anything related to foreign policy, besides good and bad (based on who tells them what to think).   

[Emo EMAW]

I'm afraid of being so afraid of irrational fear that I won't be afraid when it actually is appropriate.

maybe just don't be afraid?

I dunno, pretty steep downside to not being afraid when appropriate. 

[Asteriskhead]

I'm afraid of being so afraid of irrational fear that I won't be afraid when it actually is appropriate.

maybe just don't be afraid?

I dunno, pretty steep downside to not being afraid when appropriate.

If you're experiencing fear, you're doing something wrong. I'm not arguing that one should live in a bubble, either.

[CHONGS]

The only thing we should be afraid of is being afraid of things that we shouldn't be afraid of.

[sonofdaxjones]

Dax is still mad at the 1942 Chiefs for not drafting a QB. No one knows his real age or where all of this started.

Weird Post WackyTuck, everyone knows that the Chiefs weren't around in 1942 (and neither was I), try to stay somewhat relevant here, friend.

Thanks buddy.   

[chum1]

I'm pretty much only scared of heights. I'm sure there are other scary experiences. I just never have them.

[CHONGS]

I am pretty claustrophobic