RE: Favorite US President
September 1, 2021 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2021 at 12:48 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 29, 2021 at 8:57 am)Spongebob Wrote:(August 29, 2021 at 4:56 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Barack Obama. He represents american presidency’s only excursion into making the vaguest actual attempt at an hesitant movement in the very approximate direction of the destination it always pretended to have largely arrived at right near its beginning.
This excursion was one which, incidentally, the American presidency effectively took pains to repudiate as soon as it could.
That explains why you approved of Obama being elected but it doesn't explain why you liked him in particular. Was there anything about the man or how he did the job that commanded your respect?
he was given 2 chances but he failed miserably each time to rise up to the 21st century american standard of political hypocrisy, craven partisanship, and indifference to structural health of national institutions.
He might be last excuse posterity looking back on american history might find for investing in the deflection of an asteroid headed towards DC.
but seriously, he stands a decent chance of being seen as the “last good president” of a presidential republic that has been in decline since 1964, and whose rate of decline has accelerated in the 21st century.
