Obama was a worse president than Biden IMHO but better than Clinton or Bush 1 or 2, and far better than Trump. Obama's main weakness was his poor ability to work with people in Congress, especia… (View Post)

Yes that is a good point - to have sacrificed so much in the civil war and then allow slavery or at least abject racial discrimination to be reestablished via Jim Crow seems like a terrible mistake. … (View Post)

He comes across as elitist and out of touch, because he is. (View Post)

The government's mistake was in trying to source accommodation that was shitty enough to satisfy their desire to punish refugees and appeal to their voters while not so shitty that it would actu… (View Post)

I've never spoken to him but I can listen to the words coming out of his mouth and the tone with which he employs them. I'm sure he can seem very nice in person, almost all politicians do, … (View Post)