Obama Should Fool No One With His Bipartisan Mask.(Barack Hussein 0bama, Who Is The Worst President Ever!!!)

I urge those who still indulge the fiction that former President Barack Obama is a uniter and great statesman to read the transcript of his Democratic convention speech with an open mind and discerning eye.

Obama proudly violated the long-practiced rule that former presidents shouldn't attack sitting ones. But he's Obama, exempt from the rules, and he was attacking President Donald Trump, whom the left considers fair game for any smear anytime anywhere, no matter how deceitful and malicious.

Obama was petty, personal, dishonest and strikingly divisive while pretending to call for unity. He showcased the very qualities for which he torched Trump.

To address every objectionable aspect of this speech would require a full book chapter, so let me just highlight some of its most noxious parts.

Obama said: "I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously, that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care. But he never did. For close to four years now, he's shown no interest in putting in the work, no interest in finding common ground, no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends, no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves. Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't. And the consequences of that failure are severe: 170,000 Americans dead, millions of jobs gone while those at the top take in more than ever, our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished and our democratic institutions threatened like never before."

I honestly don't know how even the most rabid Trump haters can deny he takes the job seriously, even if he occasionally gets in the mud with his detractors. He clearly recognizes the gravity of the presidency and reveres our system, which happens to not be a democracy but a constitutional republic.

Obama is confusing President Trump with himself. Trump is nothing if not an energizer bunny, tirelessly working to advance his pro-America agenda. Every day, he demonstrates his love for the United States and his commitment to ensure that it remains the world's greatest nation.

No, Mr. Obama, you and your party are the ones assaulting our system, while Trump is trying to protect it. He is the immovable force on our side standing in your way, and, boy, do you and yours loathe him for it.

Trump is committed to appointing judges who will preserve our constitutional system, instead of exercising the wicked prerogative of dismantling it through judicial legislation. He further seeks to uphold the integrity of "our democracy" by safeguarding the integrity of our voting process and opposing myriad Democratic efforts to thwart it --plans to undermine the Electoral College; stack the Supreme Court; block voter ID measures; lower the voting age to 16; and push schemes to transfer power from duly elected congressmen to an unelected, unaccountable, power-mad administrative state.

Obama's criticism of Trump for showing "no interest in finding common ground" is a bad-faith cliche. Progressives like Obama routinely accuse conservatives of divisiveness without proof, assuming the charge will stick because they've long categorically demonized us as bigots. But, in fact, Trump has repeatedly reached across the aisle and only abandoned his efforts when Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi consistently snubbed him and blocked almost all bipartisan initiatives he proposed, including those they had earlier embraced, such as a border wall. They even obstructed a COVID relief stimulus package to keep Trump from getting any credit.

Sadly, Obama is the one who drives an ongoing wedge between groups of Americans on the basis of identity. Trump has not only appealed to all Americans and specifically to minorities; his policies, in stark contrast with Obama's, have dramatically improved their economic circumstances. Shouldn't those real results matter far more than inflammatory, condescending rhetoric aimed at perpetuating an atmosphere of minority victimhood?

Obama and his fellow travelers have no proof that Trump is using the power of his office to enrich himself, unlike some in Obama's orbit. They simply throw charges against the wall, and the media piles on to complete the libel, never providing evidence -- only vicious, unsubstantiated innuendo.

If all this weren't audacious enough, Obama also blamed Trump for every single COVID death -- as if heads of state can eradicate the coronavirus with a magic wand or cruise missile. To the contrary, Trump has been on this problem from the beginning, and we must emphasize that he has rigorously followed the advice of his medical team, Democratic sweethearts Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx. Critics can't have it both ways. If Trump was wrong, they were wrong. Also, beyond mostly following their medical advice, Trump aggressively tackled COVID at the federal level, utilizing his private-sector executive expertise to design a plan to postpone the spread of the virus; and marshaling public and private resources to develop testing and fast-track the development of vaccines and therapeutic treatments.

Obama's most surreal claim was that Trump has caused the economic problems brought on by the virus. From the start, Trump has been urging America to get back to work, while Obama's party has fought to keep America locked down.

On top of all this, Mr. Obama, President Trump has rescued this nation from your lead-from-behind foreign policy and restored us to a position of respect in the world.

Poor taste or not, Obama certainly has the right to use his undeserved stature to excoriate President Trump, but many of us would appreciate it if he didn't insult us by masquerading as bipartisan in the process.

> Bush had 9/11 which he handled pretty well. <

I don’t even know about that. The people who attacked us on 9/11 were all radical Islamists. Then a few days after 9/11 Bush told us that “Islam is peace.”

Can you imagine that if after Pearl Harbor, FDR had told the nation that the Bushido code is peace?

I deeply regret my vote for Bush in 2000. And I will say that I voted third-party in 2004. Kerry was no good. And Bush was a disaster.

If I had to go back to 2000, I would have voted for Gore. No doubt about it. At least Gore probably would not have invaded Iraq. It was that invasion that destabilized Syria. And that destabilization caused the mass Islamic immigration into Europe.

George W. Bush ruined Europe. And he caused much damage here in the United States. He might be a nice person, and a good neighbor. No matter. He can still go to hell.

Are you aware of this?

On August 2, 1990, at about 2 a.m. local time, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait, Iraq’s tiny, oil-rich neighbor. Kuwait’s defense forces were rapidly overwhelmed, and those that were not destroyed retreated to Saudi Arabia. The emir of Kuwait, his family, and other government leaders fled to Saudi Arabia, and within hours Kuwait City had been captured and the Iraqis had established a provincial government. By annexing Kuwait, Iraq gained control of 20 percent of the world’s oil reserves and, for the first time, a substantial coastline on the Persian Gulf. The same day, the United Nations Security Council unanimously denounced the invasion and demanded Iraq’s immediate withdrawal from Kuwait. On August 6, the Security Council imposed a worldwide ban on trade with Iraq.

On August 9, Operation Desert Shield, the American defense of Saudi Arabia, began as U.S. forces raced to the Persian Gulf. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, meanwhile, built up his occupying army in Kuwait to about 300,000 troops. On November 29, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq if it failed to withdraw by January 15, 1991. Hussein refused to withdraw his forces from Kuwait, which he had established as a province of Iraq, and some 700,000 allied troops, primarily American, gathered in the Middle East to enforce the deadline.

At 4:30 p.m. EST on January 16, 1991, Operation Desert Storm, the massive U.S.-led offensive against Iraq, began as the first fighter aircraft were launched from Saudi Arabia and off U.S. and British aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. All evening, aircraft from the U.S.-led military coalition pounded targets in and around Baghdad as the world watched the events transpire on television footage transmitted live via satellite from Iraq. Operation Desert Storm was conducted by an international coalition under the supreme command of U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf and featured forces from 32 nations, including Britain, Egypt, France, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.

During the next six weeks, the allied force engaged in an intensive air war against Iraq’s military and civil infrastructure and encountered little effective resistance from the Iraqi air force or air defenses. Iraqi ground forces were helpless during this stage of the war, and Hussein’s only significant retaliatory measure was the launching of SCUD missile attacks against Israel and Saudi Arabia. Saddam hoped that the missile attacks would provoke Israel to enter the conflict, thus dissolving Arab support of the war. At the request of the United States, however, Israel remained out of the war.

On February 24, a massive coalition ground offensive began, and Iraq’s outdated and poorly supplied armed forces were rapidly overwhelmed. By the end of the day, the Iraqi army had effectively folded, 10,000 of its troops were held as prisoners, and a U.S. air base had been established deep inside Iraq. After less than four days, Kuwait was liberated, and the majority of Iraq’s armed forces had either surrendered, retreated to Iraq, or been destroyed.

On February 28, U.S. President George Bush declared a cease-fire, and on April 3 the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 687, specifying conditions for a formal end to the conflict. According to the resolution, Bush’s cease-fire would become official, some sanctions would be lifted, but the ban on Iraqi oil sales would continue until Iraq destroyed its weapons of mass destruction under U.N. supervision. On April 6, Iraq accepted the resolution, and on April 11 the Security Council declared it in effect. During the next decade, Saddam Hussein frequently violated the terms of the peace agreement, prompting further allied air strikes and continuing U.N. sanctions.

So all what President George W. Bush did was to free the Iraqi people from their dictator when he was finally caught in the hole that he was hiding in.

He was executed by hanging on December 30^th 2006

> So all what President George W. Bush did was to free the Iraqi people from their dictator when he was finally caught in the hole that he was hiding in. <

I understand and respect what you’re saying. But three points, please.

1. I certainly agree that Saddam Hussein was a monster. And maybe the Iraqi people are better off today without him. But I can only say “maybe” there. At least 100,000 Iraqis died in the war and in the bloody sectarian violence that followed. And who knows what Iraq will look like 10 years from now.

John Quincy Adams once said that America “does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” Well, that’s exactly what Bush did in Iraq.

And suppose tomorrow Trump ordered a ground invasion of North Korea to remove Kim Jong Un. That would be a horrible mistake. And it would be no different than what Bush did in Iraq.

2. Saddam provided a counter-balance to Islamic Iran. That counter-balance is now gone.

3. The invasion of Iraq took our eyes off of Afghanistan. Resources that should have been deployed there went to Iraq instead. We will lose the war in Afghanistan. No doubt about it. The Taliban will re-occupy the capital as American helicopters take off from the U.S. embassy roof.

LBJ is responsible for the Vietnam debacle. Not Nixon. Not Ford. Vietnam is all on LBJ. Likewise George W. Bush is responsible for the coming Afghan debacle. It’s all in him. I cannot forgive either man.

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