Obama is the sixth post-World War II president to serve a 27th quarter in office.
27th quarter average
Reagan averaged 47.0% approval, slightly better than Obama's 45.9%
Implications
Americans' opinions of Obama have been steady this year, holding near 46%. If his approval ratings do not improve dramatically during the remainder of his presidency, his full-term approval rating average, currently 47%, will rank among the lowest for post-World War II presidents, tied with Gerald Ford's and better than only Truman's (45.4%) and Jimmy Carter's (45.5%).
http://www.gallup.com/poll/186335/ob...campaign=tiles
27th quarter average
Reagan averaged 47.0% approval, slightly better than Obama's 45.9%
Implications
Americans' opinions of Obama have been steady this year, holding near 46%. If his approval ratings do not improve dramatically during the remainder of his presidency, his full-term approval rating average, currently 47%, will rank among the lowest for post-World War II presidents, tied with Gerald Ford's and better than only Truman's (45.4%) and Jimmy Carter's (45.5%).
http://www.gallup.com/poll/186335/ob...campaign=tiles
Bill Clinton hits at Obama's record as he says president 'painted a beautiful picture' but too many Americans 'can't find themselves in it'
24 February 2016
Bill Clinton said today at a rally promoting his wife's presidential campaign that there's 'frustration' among many Americans right now because they're not benefiting from the economic recovery President Barack Obama has been touting.
Clinton had just finished summarizing Obama's January State of the Union address - which he called 'a great speech' - when he offered the diagnosis.
'Why is there so much frustration?' he said. 'Because that beautiful picture that President Obama painted of the future, and the present, so many Americans look at that picture and they can't find themselves in it.'
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Bill Clinton said today at a rally promoting his wife's presidential campaign that there's 'frustration' among many Americans right now because they're not benefiting from the economic recovery President Barack Obama has been touting
- Clinton had just finished summarizing Obama's January State of the Union address - which he called 'a great speech' - when he offered the diagnosis
- 'Why is there so much frustration?' he said. 'Because that beautiful picture that President Obama painted of the future, and the present, so many Americans look at that picture and they can't find themselves in it'
- Bill told the Virginia audience: 'Hillary's running for president to put everybody in the picture of America's future'
24 February 2016
Bill Clinton said today at a rally promoting his wife's presidential campaign that there's 'frustration' among many Americans right now because they're not benefiting from the economic recovery President Barack Obama has been touting.
Clinton had just finished summarizing Obama's January State of the Union address - which he called 'a great speech' - when he offered the diagnosis.
'Why is there so much frustration?' he said. 'Because that beautiful picture that President Obama painted of the future, and the present, so many Americans look at that picture and they can't find themselves in it.'
+3
Bill Clinton said today at a rally promoting his wife's presidential campaign that there's 'frustration' among many Americans right now because they're not benefiting from the economic recovery President Barack Obama has been touting
They were talking about Drumpf, you idiotic Brit Twit.
Like 'Hitler'? How world leaders see Donald Trump
Oren Dorell and Jessica Durando, USA TODAY3:10 p.m. EDT March 16, 2016
(Photo: Jeff Kowalsky, European Pressphoto Agency)
WASHINGTON — Foreign politicians are responding to Donald Trump's unvarnished world views with equally undiplomatic candor.
Three detractors — all current or former Mexican leaders — compared him to Adolf Hitler. Russian President Vladimir Putin and far right-wing politicians in Europe have praised the Republican presidential front-runner for his blunt style, forceful personality and anti-immigration views.
Such reactions from world leaders are unprecedented, said historian James Thurber, who studies U.S. presidents at American University in Washington.
“I cannot recall a time when anyone spoke out during the presidential election, and especially in the primary election,” Thurber said. “This has to do with outrageous statements (Trump's) made relevant to the war in Syria, Muslims, Spanish-speaking countries, immigrants and trade. ... He's really alienated a lot of people."
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto delivered one of the harshest rebukes Monday, telling the Excelsior newspaper that Trump's "strident tone" is reminiscent of dictators Benito Mussolini and Hitler, populists who rode a tide of economic discontent to power.
"There have been episodes in the history of humanity, unfortunately, where these expressions, this strident rhetoric has only really been (a) very fateful stage in the history of mankind," he said. "That's how Mussolini got in, that's how Hitler got in."
Peña and other Mexican politicians are furious over Trump's vow to build a wall to keep Mexican migrants out of the United States — and make Mexico pay for it.
"I'm not going to pay for that (expletive) wall," former Mexican president Vicente Fox told Fusion's Jorge Ramos last month. Fox and another former president, Felipe Calderone, also compared Trump to Hitler.
Clearly, the possibility of a Trump presidency has provoked "a feeling of desperation" in Mexico, said Bill Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
It's not just Mexico worried about the prospect of a Trump presidency, said Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Trump's promise to “Make America Great Again” represents an isolationist policy that reflects the frustration of many American voters, but it is a viewpoint that worries world leaders, Richardson told USA TODAY.
“The world laments that because, despite our faults, the world wants us to lead," Richardson said.
Negative reactions to Trump have also come from some of the United States' most stalwart allies, including Canada, Ireland, Britain, France, Germany, Turkey, Israel andSaudi Arabia.
The unpredictable and candid things Trump says drive his popularity with voters but concern foreign leaders, who want to know where the United States stands on issues that affect them, Thurber said.
Also, 65% of Canadians said they feared a Trump presidency, according to a February survey by Canadian polling firm Leger.
Thurber said he thinks Trump will moderate his positions if he gets into office, but “it’s going to be difficult to work with leaders who’ve openly criticized him. "Still, “we’re the United States of America, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world so they’ll have to deal with him.”
Presidential historian Jeffrey Tulis at the University of Texas said some world leaders expressed concern about Ronald Reagan's competence when he ran againstPresident Carter in 1980. But the criticism was not as withering as that directed at Trump.
World leaders are coming to grips with the possibility of a president who sounds like "an autocrat from a tinpot country," Tulis said.
Whether for or against Trump, world leaders should butt out of American politics, said Danielle Pletka, a Republican and foreign policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
“It’s none of their bloody business,” said Pletka, who rejects Trump's worldview. “This is our election, not theirs.”
Among the critics:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
On Sunday, he criticized Trump's approach toward immigrants and refugees. “Ultimately being open and respectful towards each other is a much more powerful way to diffuse hatred and anger than … big walls and oppressive policies,” Trudeau said on CBS' 60 Minutes.
A day later, Trudeau softened his tone. "I'm not going to pick a fight with Donald Trump right now," he told the Huffington Post. "I'm not gonna support him either, obviously. But I am watching very, very carefully to see this, I think, important moment in the United States, in the greatest democracy in the world," Trudeau said.
German Vice Chancellor Sigma Gabriel
In Europe, which is coping with a migrant crisis, Gabriel said Trump and "all these right-wing populists are not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development." Gabriel lashed out in an interview with German publication Welt am Sonntag on Sunday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron
In December, Cameron said Trump's remarks calling for a temporary ban on Muslims to the U.S. are "divisive, stupid and wrong." Some members of the British Parliament want to bar Trump from visiting their country.
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
In the Middle East, the Saudi prince said Trump should withdraw from the U.S. race.
The pair got into a social media war in late January after Trump tweeted a photoshopped image of Fox News host Megyn Kelly standing next to the Saudi prince and claimed erroneously that the prince is co-owner of Fox News.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Trump also had a run-in with the Israeli prime minister. The candidate called off a planned visit to Israel to meet Netanyahu after the Israeli leader criticized Trump's plan to ban Muslim immigration to the United States.
Ecuador's leftist president jabbed Trump, saying he would enjoy a Trump presidency because "it would be very bad for the United States."
“His discourse is so dumb, so basic, that it would ... help socialist politicians in Latin America, Correa told the Ecuadorian newspaper El Dia.
Trump's admirers include:
Russian President Vladimir Putin
Putin, among the few to praise Trump, called the American business mogul "an outstanding and talented personality."
Jean-Marie Le Pen of France
The former leader of France's far-right, anti-immigration party, the National Front, tweeted: "If I were American, I would vote Donald Trump."
Geert Wilders of the Netherlands
The anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, tweeted that Trump would be "good for America, good for Europe. We need brave leaders."
Like 'Hitler'? How world leaders see Donald Trump
Oren Dorell and Jessica Durando, USA TODAY3:10 p.m. EDT March 16, 2016
A longtime director of the Anti-Defamation League called it a fascist gesture. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
(Photo: Jeff Kowalsky, European Pressphoto Agency)
WASHINGTON — Foreign politicians are responding to Donald Trump's unvarnished world views with equally undiplomatic candor.
Three detractors — all current or former Mexican leaders — compared him to Adolf Hitler. Russian President Vladimir Putin and far right-wing politicians in Europe have praised the Republican presidential front-runner for his blunt style, forceful personality and anti-immigration views.
Such reactions from world leaders are unprecedented, said historian James Thurber, who studies U.S. presidents at American University in Washington.
“I cannot recall a time when anyone spoke out during the presidential election, and especially in the primary election,” Thurber said. “This has to do with outrageous statements (Trump's) made relevant to the war in Syria, Muslims, Spanish-speaking countries, immigrants and trade. ... He's really alienated a lot of people."
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto delivered one of the harshest rebukes Monday, telling the Excelsior newspaper that Trump's "strident tone" is reminiscent of dictators Benito Mussolini and Hitler, populists who rode a tide of economic discontent to power.
"There have been episodes in the history of humanity, unfortunately, where these expressions, this strident rhetoric has only really been (a) very fateful stage in the history of mankind," he said. "That's how Mussolini got in, that's how Hitler got in."
Peña and other Mexican politicians are furious over Trump's vow to build a wall to keep Mexican migrants out of the United States — and make Mexico pay for it.
"I'm not going to pay for that (expletive) wall," former Mexican president Vicente Fox told Fusion's Jorge Ramos last month. Fox and another former president, Felipe Calderone, also compared Trump to Hitler.
Clearly, the possibility of a Trump presidency has provoked "a feeling of desperation" in Mexico, said Bill Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
It's not just Mexico worried about the prospect of a Trump presidency, said Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Trump's promise to “Make America Great Again” represents an isolationist policy that reflects the frustration of many American voters, but it is a viewpoint that worries world leaders, Richardson told USA TODAY.
“The world laments that because, despite our faults, the world wants us to lead," Richardson said.
Negative reactions to Trump have also come from some of the United States' most stalwart allies, including Canada, Ireland, Britain, France, Germany, Turkey, Israel andSaudi Arabia.
The unpredictable and candid things Trump says drive his popularity with voters but concern foreign leaders, who want to know where the United States stands on issues that affect them, Thurber said.
Also, 65% of Canadians said they feared a Trump presidency, according to a February survey by Canadian polling firm Leger.
Thurber said he thinks Trump will moderate his positions if he gets into office, but “it’s going to be difficult to work with leaders who’ve openly criticized him. "Still, “we’re the United States of America, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world so they’ll have to deal with him.”
Presidential historian Jeffrey Tulis at the University of Texas said some world leaders expressed concern about Ronald Reagan's competence when he ran againstPresident Carter in 1980. But the criticism was not as withering as that directed at Trump.
World leaders are coming to grips with the possibility of a president who sounds like "an autocrat from a tinpot country," Tulis said.
Whether for or against Trump, world leaders should butt out of American politics, said Danielle Pletka, a Republican and foreign policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
“It’s none of their bloody business,” said Pletka, who rejects Trump's worldview. “This is our election, not theirs.”
Among the critics:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
On Sunday, he criticized Trump's approach toward immigrants and refugees. “Ultimately being open and respectful towards each other is a much more powerful way to diffuse hatred and anger than … big walls and oppressive policies,” Trudeau said on CBS' 60 Minutes.
A day later, Trudeau softened his tone. "I'm not going to pick a fight with Donald Trump right now," he told the Huffington Post. "I'm not gonna support him either, obviously. But I am watching very, very carefully to see this, I think, important moment in the United States, in the greatest democracy in the world," Trudeau said.
German Vice Chancellor Sigma Gabriel
In Europe, which is coping with a migrant crisis, Gabriel said Trump and "all these right-wing populists are not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development." Gabriel lashed out in an interview with German publication Welt am Sonntag on Sunday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron
In December, Cameron said Trump's remarks calling for a temporary ban on Muslims to the U.S. are "divisive, stupid and wrong." Some members of the British Parliament want to bar Trump from visiting their country.
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
In the Middle East, the Saudi prince said Trump should withdraw from the U.S. race.
The pair got into a social media war in late January after Trump tweeted a photoshopped image of Fox News host Megyn Kelly standing next to the Saudi prince and claimed erroneously that the prince is co-owner of Fox News.
The Saudi prince, who is a minority investor in Fox News' parent company, complained about the image, pointing out that in the 1990s he helped bail Trump out of financial difficulties.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Trump also had a run-in with the Israeli prime minister. The candidate called off a planned visit to Israel to meet Netanyahu after the Israeli leader criticized Trump's plan to ban Muslim immigration to the United States.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa
Ecuador's leftist president jabbed Trump, saying he would enjoy a Trump presidency because "it would be very bad for the United States."
“His discourse is so dumb, so basic, that it would ... help socialist politicians in Latin America, Correa told the Ecuadorian newspaper El Dia.
Trump's admirers include:
Russian President Vladimir Putin
Putin, among the few to praise Trump, called the American business mogul "an outstanding and talented personality."
Jean-Marie Le Pen of France
The former leader of France's far-right, anti-immigration party, the National Front, tweeted: "If I were American, I would vote Donald Trump."
Geert Wilders of the Netherlands
The anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, tweeted that Trump would be "good for America, good for Europe. We need brave leaders."
America has been run for nearly a decade by a clever incompetent. It's hardly surprising that the voters are revolting
11:00AM GMT 13 Feb 2016
How seven years of Obama created Trump and Sanders
Obama is the creator of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. If one of them becomes president – and I wouldn't rule it out – and the world doesn't like it, they know whom to blame.
Obama is clever and has a way with words: but his words contained little.
Racial tensions, which a black president was supposed to heal, seem worse than ever – remember Ferguson – and Mr Obama’s interventions have often been clumsy and grandstanding.
The morning after Barack Obama was elected, in November 2008, I put the television on in my hotel room in New York to watch the reaction. Fox News was putting on a brave face, though the sourness and anger were barely contained: but MSNBC, an avowedly liberal network, was in a state of almost convulsive ecstasy.
As dawn broke a woman, interviewed outside her run-down house somewhere upstate, shed tears while telling an interviewer what the victory meant for her. “I now know,” she sobbed, “that my house won’t be foreclosed on.” I hope she was right: but the evidence of the seven years since Obama the miracle-worker took office suggests she may have been disappointed.
America was angry after two terms of George W Bush. Though he could not stand, his party’s candidate would be punished for how Mr Bush and the lunatics around him had made America an international pariah. The financial crisis of 2008 – the collapse of Lehmann Brothers came between the conventions and polling day – was the last straw.
I had seen Obama at the primaries, and at the Democrat Convention. I had waited for him to speak intelligently and practically about the state of America and how he would put it right, but I waited in vain. The cliché at the time, which became more relevant later, was about how he campaigned in poetry but would govern in prose. Some prose can be magnificent: but not his.
His stump oratory – especially his convention speech, delivered from a preposterous mock-Grecian stage set in Denver – was vacuous. He is clever and has a way with words: but his words contained little. He entranced audiences, first in his own party – which is why he beat Hillary Clinton, arrogant and boring then as now, for the nomination – and then in the wider electorate. John McCain – old, white, Republican and with the media’s hate figure, Sarah Palin, as his running mate – didn’t have a prayer.
As Lehmann’s sank, political leaders, including potential presidents, met to discuss what to do. Mr Obama said nothing: and the liberal media praised him for his silence, suggesting it showed his wisdom by reserving judgment on so complex a matter. Perhaps it did. Or perhaps it showed he didn’t have a clue. America’s slow, stumbling path to recovery, and its awesome level of debt – just under $19 trillion, or 104 per cent of GDP – suggest the latter. The great stimulus the Democrats then engineered disappeared and achieved nothing.
The sobbing woman in upstate New York was white and middle-aged. To glimpse how little Mr Obama has done for his own constituency – the poor blacks – it is worth reading an instructive article in the latest New Yorker. It is about evictions in Milwaukee, a city that is 40 per cent black. An industry exists to service evictions – courts, lawyers, removal men, bailiffs – and operates full-time, dealing with masses who cannot pay their rent, or their mortgages.
Mr Obama was elected promising to end such misery: but he hasn’t, and he never would. America has astonishing wealth: it also has astonishing deprivation and squalor, because there isn’t enough well-paid work to go round. I don’t know Milwaukee, but am familiar with cities such as Baltimore, Newark and Trenton on the east coast, which have square miles of squalor on a scale unknown in Britain. Detroit teeters on the verge of extinction: in thriving cities such as Los Angeles and Washington DC pockets of affluence sit cheek-by-jowl with areas of appalling poverty and crime.
Racial tensions, which a black president was supposed to heal, seem worse than ever – remember Ferguson – and Mr Obama’s interventions have often been clumsy and grandstanding. He has failed to control immigration, even though (unlike in Britain) he has the sovereign power to do so. And America has largely rejected Obamacare, which displays all that can go wrong with massive state intervention.
But if Mr Obama’s economic legacy is poor, his other achievements – or failings – are alarming. He has largely removed America from international conversations. After the disastrous interventions in the Islamic world after 2001 it is quite right it should think more deeply about such expeditions: but that does not mean the superpower’s global responsibility can be abdicated completely. The Kerry intervention in Syria last week was typically, and tragically, late. Mr Obama’s international legacy is the repulsive sight of Vladimir Putin, whom he underestimated, ruling the roost, the barbarians of Isil (for dealing with whom he had no strategy) and a Europe mired in introspection.
It was interesting, after Donald Trump triumphed in New Hampshire last week, how many of his voters complained of feeling that America was being kicked around in the world. A great nation that is being forced to confront its global impotence is one for whom the bombastic Mr Trump holds inevitable appeal; and an America with such deep-seated social and economic problems is one that will look to Bernie Sanders. After all, everything else has been tried, so why not what he calls “democratic socialism”?
Barack Obama created neither the poverty, nor the suspicion and loathing with which America was regarded in the world after George W Bush. However, he promised to cure the first, and has been found wanting; and he has used the second as an excuse to do nothing except withdraw. His role as President is now little more than as a spokesman for the bleeding heart and the bleeding obvious. When he is gone no one will miss him, least of all the one-time allies who feel he has spurned them. He has made America much less relevant.
Since George H.W. Bush left office in 1993 America has been ruled by a spin-obsessed sex addict, a dangerous halfwit and a clever incompetent. They all bore the imprimatur of their respective party machines. For much of America, Barack Obama is the last straw. He is the creator of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. If one of them becomes president – and I wouldn’t rule it out – and the world doesn’t like it, they know whom to blame.
11:00AM GMT 13 Feb 2016
How seven years of Obama created Trump and Sanders
Obama is the creator of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. If one of them becomes president – and I wouldn't rule it out – and the world doesn't like it, they know whom to blame.
Obama is clever and has a way with words: but his words contained little.
Racial tensions, which a black president was supposed to heal, seem worse than ever – remember Ferguson – and Mr Obama’s interventions have often been clumsy and grandstanding.
The morning after Barack Obama was elected, in November 2008, I put the television on in my hotel room in New York to watch the reaction. Fox News was putting on a brave face, though the sourness and anger were barely contained: but MSNBC, an avowedly liberal network, was in a state of almost convulsive ecstasy.
As dawn broke a woman, interviewed outside her run-down house somewhere upstate, shed tears while telling an interviewer what the victory meant for her. “I now know,” she sobbed, “that my house won’t be foreclosed on.” I hope she was right: but the evidence of the seven years since Obama the miracle-worker took office suggests she may have been disappointed.
America was angry after two terms of George W Bush. Though he could not stand, his party’s candidate would be punished for how Mr Bush and the lunatics around him had made America an international pariah. The financial crisis of 2008 – the collapse of Lehmann Brothers came between the conventions and polling day – was the last straw.
I had seen Obama at the primaries, and at the Democrat Convention. I had waited for him to speak intelligently and practically about the state of America and how he would put it right, but I waited in vain. The cliché at the time, which became more relevant later, was about how he campaigned in poetry but would govern in prose. Some prose can be magnificent: but not his.
His stump oratory – especially his convention speech, delivered from a preposterous mock-Grecian stage set in Denver – was vacuous. He is clever and has a way with words: but his words contained little. He entranced audiences, first in his own party – which is why he beat Hillary Clinton, arrogant and boring then as now, for the nomination – and then in the wider electorate. John McCain – old, white, Republican and with the media’s hate figure, Sarah Palin, as his running mate – didn’t have a prayer.
As Lehmann’s sank, political leaders, including potential presidents, met to discuss what to do. Mr Obama said nothing: and the liberal media praised him for his silence, suggesting it showed his wisdom by reserving judgment on so complex a matter. Perhaps it did. Or perhaps it showed he didn’t have a clue. America’s slow, stumbling path to recovery, and its awesome level of debt – just under $19 trillion, or 104 per cent of GDP – suggest the latter. The great stimulus the Democrats then engineered disappeared and achieved nothing.
The sobbing woman in upstate New York was white and middle-aged. To glimpse how little Mr Obama has done for his own constituency – the poor blacks – it is worth reading an instructive article in the latest New Yorker. It is about evictions in Milwaukee, a city that is 40 per cent black. An industry exists to service evictions – courts, lawyers, removal men, bailiffs – and operates full-time, dealing with masses who cannot pay their rent, or their mortgages.
Mr Obama was elected promising to end such misery: but he hasn’t, and he never would. America has astonishing wealth: it also has astonishing deprivation and squalor, because there isn’t enough well-paid work to go round. I don’t know Milwaukee, but am familiar with cities such as Baltimore, Newark and Trenton on the east coast, which have square miles of squalor on a scale unknown in Britain. Detroit teeters on the verge of extinction: in thriving cities such as Los Angeles and Washington DC pockets of affluence sit cheek-by-jowl with areas of appalling poverty and crime.
Racial tensions, which a black president was supposed to heal, seem worse than ever – remember Ferguson – and Mr Obama’s interventions have often been clumsy and grandstanding. He has failed to control immigration, even though (unlike in Britain) he has the sovereign power to do so. And America has largely rejected Obamacare, which displays all that can go wrong with massive state intervention.
But if Mr Obama’s economic legacy is poor, his other achievements – or failings – are alarming. He has largely removed America from international conversations. After the disastrous interventions in the Islamic world after 2001 it is quite right it should think more deeply about such expeditions: but that does not mean the superpower’s global responsibility can be abdicated completely. The Kerry intervention in Syria last week was typically, and tragically, late. Mr Obama’s international legacy is the repulsive sight of Vladimir Putin, whom he underestimated, ruling the roost, the barbarians of Isil (for dealing with whom he had no strategy) and a Europe mired in introspection.
It was interesting, after Donald Trump triumphed in New Hampshire last week, how many of his voters complained of feeling that America was being kicked around in the world. A great nation that is being forced to confront its global impotence is one for whom the bombastic Mr Trump holds inevitable appeal; and an America with such deep-seated social and economic problems is one that will look to Bernie Sanders. After all, everything else has been tried, so why not what he calls “democratic socialism”?
Barack Obama created neither the poverty, nor the suspicion and loathing with which America was regarded in the world after George W Bush. However, he promised to cure the first, and has been found wanting; and he has used the second as an excuse to do nothing except withdraw. His role as President is now little more than as a spokesman for the bleeding heart and the bleeding obvious. When he is gone no one will miss him, least of all the one-time allies who feel he has spurned them. He has made America much less relevant.
Since George H.W. Bush left office in 1993 America has been ruled by a spin-obsessed sex addict, a dangerous halfwit and a clever incompetent. They all bore the imprimatur of their respective party machines. For much of America, Barack Obama is the last straw. He is the creator of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. If one of them becomes president – and I wouldn’t rule it out – and the world doesn’t like it, they know whom to blame.
IN QUOTES
Barack Obama
On the 'N' word: "We are not cured of [racism]. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'n-----' in public"
On war: "I'm not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars"
On Isil: "Isil is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents"
On hope: "The absence of hope can rot a society from within"
On his wife: "The rock of our family and the love of my life... Michelle Obama"
On fatherhood: "I know I have been an imperfect father. I know I have made mistakes"
On interviews at breakfast: "Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”
On his favourite food: "Broccoli"
Barack Obama
On the 'N' word: "We are not cured of [racism]. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'n-----' in public"
On war: "I'm not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars"
On Isil: "Isil is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents"
On hope: "The absence of hope can rot a society from within"
On his wife: "The rock of our family and the love of my life... Michelle Obama"
On fatherhood: "I know I have been an imperfect father. I know I have made mistakes"
On interviews at breakfast: "Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”
On his favourite food: "Broccoli"
RE 
OST #6
Jane Guesser Fonda.
You are such an imbecile, you fall into the trap every time.
Its the red mist comming over you Jane, just count to 4 , time for you to think, before posting.
We know who the world leaders are talking about, when they are asking Obama 'What is happening to America'. It is obvious they are referring to what is going on in the nominee race.
But the point is, which with your tunnel vision you fail to see, due to the red mist, that comes over you. The point is what is happening to America is because of the 2 Obama terms. He has created divisions, he is responsible for the emergence of both Trump and Sanders. He is responsible for the support they have from the electorate. The electorate is protesting at the abyss that America has fallen into due to 2 terms of Obama.
OST #6Jane Guesser Fonda.
You are such an imbecile, you fall into the trap every time.
Its the red mist comming over you Jane, just count to 4 , time for you to think, before posting.
We know who the world leaders are talking about, when they are asking Obama 'What is happening to America'. It is obvious they are referring to what is going on in the nominee race.
But the point is, which with your tunnel vision you fail to see, due to the red mist, that comes over you. The point is what is happening to America is because of the 2 Obama terms. He has created divisions, he is responsible for the emergence of both Trump and Sanders. He is responsible for the support they have from the electorate. The electorate is protesting at the abyss that America has fallen into due to 2 terms of Obama.
Um, not exactly. Negative reactions to Trump have also come from some of the United States' most stalwart allies, including Canada, Ireland, Britain, France, Germany, Turkey, Israel andSaudi Arabia.
Obama is just reporting these Countries's concerns with the joke the Drumpf is making of our POTUS nomination, and potentially the office itself if he gets in. They are rightfully concerned.
hno:
Most of those countries are concerned mostly about no longer getting to deal with an imbecilic pushover like Obama. Many of them also speak in the language of political correctness, meaning they agree with a lot of what Trump says but won't admit to it - yet. And lastly Joe nailed it. Presidents like Obama lead to candidates like Trump. And that other moron on the far left.
Casper hasn't nailed anything but a guy in the purple flower patch. No responsible leader agrees with anything the moronic Drumpf says. He would be destroyed on the International stage, with his simplistic nonsense. He's already a laughingstock internationally. You used to know he was a moron, but are you falling in line with the crazies?
You said multiple guys nailed him in the purple flower patch. Now you say he nailed 'a guy'? Who is doing the nailing, and how many times?
Now you must realize you could insert Obama's name in place of Trump with the rest of your missive above. And can you honestly say I've ever "fallen in line?" If you name most any poster here there will likely be an issue upon which that poster and I disagree. And another topic we agree upon. You may not be able to say that about any other poster here.
I'm talking about your seeming new acceptance of Drumpf re: falling in line. Previously you properly recoiled in horror at that prospect, and recognized him for the incompetent jerk he was.
I certainly don't realize that about Obama. He's not a clueless buffoon who knows nothing about how the world works. While I disagree with plenty of his foreign policy, I don't doubt his knowledge about these things.
Still can't admit if there's one lone wolf here at this site it's me huh Guesser ;-)
I don't have a new acceptance of Trump. I've criticized him plenty. But comparing him to Hillary or Bernie, even admitting he may be a disaster as president.... looking at things right now I'll take a broken ankle over cancer or heart disease. Maybe he's an asshole who cares only about himself. Maybe he's an asshole who also cares about America. He's an Asshole, and it's a gamble. But compared to a self-serving bitch who claims to be "working for you my whole life" and a man who lives in an imaginary world.... Well I'm out of choices now.
