Is this how conservatives felt when Obama was president?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

Clinton is a better analog. Clinton was pure trash, top to bottom, who was inexplicably popular only because he pandered to his base's every irrational desire.

My strongly Republican, moved-to-a-red-state, voted three times for Trump parents voted for Clinton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just get on with your life people. Who the president is and their policies don't really affect real people much day to day.

I’m a fed and my husband works in biotech and our child has an IEP so I fully expect this administration to affect us day-to-day if things continue on the current planned trajectory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

Clinton is a better analog. Clinton was pure trash, top to bottom, who was inexplicably popular only because he pandered to his base's every irrational desire.

Clinton was re-elected with one of the best economies in history. The 90s were awesome after high unemployment and 18% mortgage rates in the 80s. The economy crashed around 2008 after two terms with Bush Sr. Obama cleaned up the economy and created a program that allowed more citizens to have health care. 15 years later Republicans have not been able to make citizen’s health care a priority. White people want non-white people to keep coming in to the Country, they want a White nationalist America so they voted for Trump. It’s not hard to understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t vote for O the second time around. I started to feel divisive vibes and it turned me off. The POTUS is supposed to protect it’s citizens, not divide them.

I hope this means you didn't vote for Trump.

If you did, maybe you can explain how Obama was divisive but Trump isn't?

[Anonymous]

Nope. I’m a conservative and the dread I feel for a Trump presidency far exceeds my disgruntlement at having a Democratic president who I often disagreed with on issues.

I’m a conservative who voted against both Clinton and Obama. I felt both were taking the country in the wrong direction (although I did support Obamacare). Moreover, while I have always had a lot of respect for Obama as a person, I think Clinton was a slime ball.

As a conservative, I not only felt compelled to vote against Trump, but I voted a straight Democratic ticket. While I still think the Democrats are guiding the country in the wrong direction on a lot of issues, I think they will protect the essential character of our country as a free nation, governed by rule of law, within the framework of the Constitution. Trump and his MAGA cronies and acolytes have demonstrated by both word and deed a contempt for and threat to our Constitution.

P.S. I think Trump is a much bigger slimeball than Clinton ever was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

Grow up.

Grown ups take responsibility seriously and don’t go around destroying things out of spite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.
I'm coming at this as someone who voted republicanuntil 2016.
I didn't agree with Obama on everything at the time. Looking back I think he did a good job.

And during his presidency I did not feel that his decisions were prioritizing himself over America.

I didn't feel like he was beholden to a foreign power.

I felt that he had respect for the laws of our land and our traditions.

I felt he conducted himself with pride and presented us well to the world.

You see it on this board as well. There's no discussion from pro-Trump voters about how he's going to make people's lives better. It's all about how he's going to make other people's lives worse.

[Anonymous]

The EIGHT Obama years were an amazingly disappointing stretch. He couldn’t have achieved less if he tried, & squandered an incredible opportunity to improve race relations. He ran as an inspiring reformer, but turned out to be a race-baiting empty suit.

Like when he attacked the people who suspected that kid had a bomb, when it was a radio or something. That put the “See something, say something” policy in the toilet.

And what did he do for urban public schools in EIGHT years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

Clinton is a better analog. Clinton was pure trash, top to bottom, who was inexplicably popular only because he pandered to his base's every irrational desire.

Bill Clinton?

He presided over the best economy in the last 50 years and other than a blow job, was probably the best president in anyone reading this lifetime.

+1000 and Obama wasn't far behind. Why? Because elite leadership skill is the most important trait a POTUS can have and Clinton and Obama were elite leaders. Trump and Biden have proven to be very poor leaders and that fact more than any policy position is why Trump and Biden have been very unpopular presidents.

[Anonymous]

I voted for Obama first election, not the second. Regret the first as all the cop hate he caused has created a mess with most cities having a very hard time finding people willing to take a position. DC is perfect example, they need 3000 police officers, they have about 2000 and crime is through the roof, I don’t care what the FBI stats say. I have had a crew robbed by gunpoint, a Real Estate Attorney Steal payoff money for a house I purchased, Multiple break ins on properties I own and someone threaten to attack me with a pipe. I was not able to file a police report in any of these cases, because no officers there to do it.

[Anonymous]

Obama had more support and tried to unify. Obama never called people the “enemy within”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I voted for Obama first election, not the second. Regret the first as all the cop hate he caused has created a mess with most cities having a very hard time finding people willing to take a position. DC is perfect example, they need 3000 police officers, they have about 2000 and crime is through the roof, I don’t care what the FBI stats say. I have had a crew robbed by gunpoint, a Real Estate Attorney Steal payoff money for a house I purchased, Multiple break ins on properties I own and someone threaten to attack me with a pipe. I was not able to file a police report in any of these cases, because no officers there to do it.

What did Obama do to cause cop hate in his first term?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I voted for Obama first election, not the second. Regret the first as all the cop hate he caused has created a mess with most cities having a very hard time finding people willing to take a position. DC is perfect example, they need 3000 police officers, they have about 2000 and crime is through the roof, I don’t care what the FBI stats say. I have had a crew robbed by gunpoint, a Real Estate Attorney Steal payoff money for a house I purchased, Multiple break ins on properties I own and someone threaten to attack me with a pipe. I was not able to file a police report in any of these cases, because no officers there to do it.

Pretty sure the cops created that hate on their own. Please don’t take the side of LE when MAGA were beating cops on J6.

- daughter of LEO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Republicans acted like Obama was the worst thing to ever happen to America. Just showed me that Republicans are clueless drama queens who believed every stupid thing to come out of the mouths of Rush Limbaugh and others.

You mean like democrats are doing now?