Comment on Majority of French, Germans and British think Trump is a 'dictator'
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoI remember 2008, and stated how I remembered it.
We have both shared our priors (biases).
What I was essentially asking: who was saying that Obama would be worthy of ridicule, especially compared to Bush?
And by posing it more directly, I remember that our current president was being a racist birther at that time. I also knew some other racists at that time, and by recalling these have answered my own question.
I remember that the international community of politics was more on the side of ridiculing Bush and welcoming Obama, regardless of what was said domestically.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I was living in New York in 2008.
I remember picking up a copy of Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post days before the election, and reading the op-ed page.
There were two pieces that particular day. One said a vote for Obama was a waste, because he was just a warmed over neoliberal who’d push conservative ideas weakly. The writer thought that instead of a wishy-washy softy it was better to have a real conservative.
The other writer, on the same page, felt that Obama was a fire breathing leftist; a revolutionary who’d destroy America if he had half a chance.
The GOP was throwing everything it had at Obama, regardless of whether it made any sense whatever.