President Obama is the greatest president of our time. Are you surprised?
Well look at the competition.Since I was born just before JFK was elected, his term was cut short, so we don't have a large body of work to review.So LBJ?Nixion? Resigned in disgrace.Ford? Pardoned Nixon.Carter? Nope, fine man but not a great President.Reagan? Destroyed the evil empire, but mired in shady Iran-Contra affair.Bush #1? I was ok with the 1st Gulf War, but to much other shady stuff. Guess that goes w/being Director of CIA.Clinton? Monica Lewinsky.Bush43? Oh Please.Well that leaves Obama and the current resident of the White House. Need I say anything else?
Are Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Richard Nixon the worst presidents we've ever had?
No. None of the three break the top five. Nixon is the only one of the three to even commit genocide. When you have people like Andrew Johnson - the person most responsible for the current state of the South - and Andrew Jackson - populist demagogue / well known genocidal maniac - in the running, none of these three even seem bad.Let’s look at foreign policy for a second.Obama’s main crime seems to be…being slightly to the left of the average American? Being black? I mean, sure, his policy of extrajudicial assassination across the globe is pretty bad, but when you consider the things America has done since its inception - let alone in the last thirty years - it barely even registers, and since the majority of his critics are pro-War I can’t really imagine that’s what led to this question. Bush committed multiple war crimes while in office, but again, America has done some Ridiculously terrible things. Jimmy Carter supported a regime that was committing one of the worst genocides of the past century, knowing full well what he was doing, and no one bats an eye. Nixon…did several awful things, including his “Anything that flies on anything that moves” bombing campaign in Cambodia which had a death toll approximately a third of what the Khmer Rouge did over the course of what many would consider one of the bloodiest regimes on Earth at the time, so, he was pretty bad, but again, the guy barely even makes the top ten.In terms of Domestic Policy?The massive recession, unfortunately, was more of a failure of free market neoliberal ideology than anything a generic republican replacement would have done differently from George W Bush. Obama’s time in office has been marred by frankly absurd obstructionism by the Republican party, but he’s still managed to do multiple good things, including an attempt at competent healthcare reform. Nixon, again, isn’t great but at the same time doesn’t compare to the absolute worsts in American History.
Is the US-India relationship at an all time low under Obama?
I think that all time lows between the US-India relation was in 1971 when Nixon was the President of US and Indira Gandhi was the PM of India after which relation between the countries has only improved. I think US under the democrats has always tried to extend good relation with India, whether It was Bill Clinton earlier and Now Obama.
Was president Nixon more trustworthy than 0bama in your opinion that is?
Sad to say, but yes.. I would trust Nixon before I would trust the Obama traitor!
Did Nixon get a Raw Deal at Watergate?
whats the big F-ing deal that he lied!?! Presidents do it all the time. Clinton lied to us all on TV abput his afair with that chubby white chick Barrack sent his puppets out to tell the American people that our ambasdador got killed because of OUR anti-islamic utube videos.... So what was so much worse about Nixons lie that he had to get impeached in shame? I personally could care a lot less about some office geek getting his stamp book stolen than i do our ambassor getting sodomized and left for dead
Is Obama the first president in your life time that you respect and support?
No, I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Carter who is a good man and was a much better president than he’s usually given credit for being. Presidents before his term were figureheads in my childhood (except for Nixon with his Watergate scandal. I was so bored with that!) Bush I was, in my opinion, a much better, much more responsible president than Reagan or Bush II. Clinton was pretty good, outside his personal lifestyle, but his challenges were a lot lighter than the ones faced by some of the other presidents.If I live to be 100 I doubt I’ll ever see a president I can like or respect the way I respect Barack Obama. What’s probably more important, I found it much easier to respect and admire the American people who chose Obama than I do those who elected Trump, Reagan, or Bush II. We learned as we matured, we chose well in Obama, and then, I think, we failed horribly, following the worst campaign season I’ve ever seen. So far, though, the wheels haven’t come off the buggy yet. I think that’s due in great part to the Obama administration (including some legacy economists from Bush II during the crisis of 2008). For all the whining about the unfairness of the bailout, any alternative I can think of would have had much worse consequences. Then a Donald Trump (or something worse) would have had fertile ground from which to sprout a true fascist regime.I think John McCain was a good man, but I don’t think he would have been a great president. I don’t think he had the intellectual integrity for the highest office, though he would have given it his all. He never stood taller than when he shook his head and refuted a supporter’s claim that Obama was “a, ah, a, Ay-rab or something.” I think John Kerry is also a good man who has served his country long and hard, but who is also not made of the stuff of greatness.
Did our only Quaker President, Nixon, have to prove himself...?
Quaker Presidents - Two Presidents, both Republicans, were lifelong members of the Religious Society of Friends. Herbert Clark Hoover(1874-1964) 31st President of the United States (1929-1933) Richard Milhous Nixon(1913-1994) 37th President of the United States (1969-1974) "It is not easy for me to take this position. It happens that I am a Quaker; all my training has been against displays of strength and recourse to arms. But I have learned through hard experience that, when you are confronted with a ruthless, dictatorial force that will stop at nothing to destroy you, it is necessary to defend yourself by building your own strength." - Richard Nixon, 1950 "Oh, I suppose it is the stress on privacy. Friends believe in doing their own thing, not making a display of religion. That's why I never use God's name in speeches, or quote the Bible. I suppose Quakerism just strengthened my own temperament here. I'm an introvert in an extrovert profession." - Richard Nixon, 1972, when asked by Garry Wills what effect his Quaker background had upon him.