Is obama still revered as a god today?

The man grandstanded on undoing all the wrongs of Bush. He was elected on this premise.

Then spent the last five years expanding Bush's policies.

Because of space constraints, and the attention span of the youth that dominates this site, I'm not going to list the menagerie of scandals he's involved in, but they include everything from circumventing Congress to wiretapping allies and citizens...all of which American media works overtime to dismiss and distract from.

Bush's wet dreams could only touch on what Obama's succeeded in. Absolute power with virtual state-run media support.

Now? He's hell-bent on attacking Syria. A country ruled by an evil dictator who's facing a rebellion. The rebels? Well...they're sworn enemies of the U.S. Radicals and terrorists bent on exterminating the Jews and eradicating the "Great Satan."

Assad is evil. No doubt. Most likely gassed his own people. What's going to happen if we intervene, as we've done in years past, and help the rebels? Obama wants to rescue "innocent people" from wmds? What will happen when Al Qaida wins...with our help...and gets ahold of that stockpile? We can all hold hands then...and sing "Kumbaya."

How do those of you who vehemently supported him now feel? Are you still right? Are you sure?

Hardcore Bush supporters did...right to the bitter end as I smugly sat back and mocked them.

Did Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, or is he a warmonger?

Yes. I swore to him my soul. He will rule this world!	4
He's not so bad.	11
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myboyfriendsbitch

10 years ago

Where I come from he's mostly revered as "that damn nigger".

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disthing

10 years ago

Of course he didn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. That decision totally undermines the credibility of that accolade. It should be a reward for hard work, not a pre-emptive pat on the back for some nice ideas.

But Obama is only the mouthpiece of the party, there are huge teams of people pulling the strings, making decisions, gleaning and feeding information. He can't be solely held responsible for any wrong doing by the US government - he is only one part, albeit a prominent one, of the system in which he functions.

As for Syria, it differs from Iraq and Afghanistan. It's so difficult to know what to do. I certainly don't think that the use of chemical weapons should be the catalyst which motivates any country to action - Assad has been massacring innocent people since the civil war began. But then the question is if there is a viable, preferable opposition party to usurp Assad? Would ousting him result in an equal or worse 'evil' coming to power? Also, if the UN or other coalition don't move to support the rebels, are they allowing countries like Russia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and so on to control the situation on their own, from afar anyway? I mean, Russia is assisting Assad already (not for honourable reasons I might add). They've already become involved, hence why they would not wish any other country, especially the US who is against the Assad government, to dip their fingers in the pie. I don't blame Obama's administration for wanting to involve themselves exactly because of this. But whether an outright attack would be the best strategy is another question.

Anyway, I'm not a US citizen, so I only have limited knowledge regarding Obama's policies.

I don't think he is looked upon by so many with rose-tinted spectacles any longer. You still get those who blindly revere him regardless, especially a large percentage of black Americans. But I don't see the same level of worship in the media as I did in the beginning.

From a non-US-citizen perspective, I think he is preferable to most of the opposition. Ron Paul seemed like an interesting candidate, but all the others I saw were either morons or too right wing.

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- robbieforgotpw
  
  10 years ago
  
  To OP
  
  He was never revered in that manner but Chris Matthews gets a tingling feeling in his leg, I'm not sure about him
  
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- Sog
  
  10 years ago
  
  As expected, the non-US Citizen has the most keen insights.
  
  From your perspective I don't know if you realize this, but there is a large segment of this population that views Obama though the opposite of rose tinted glasses (whatever the term for that is). Literally everything he does, they try to argue that it's the worst thing in the universe.
  
  These kinds of people would demand that cameras be installed in the White House bathrooms to be sure that Obama isn't hiding anything in there, and then shriek that he uses the wrong hand to wipe his ass. Scandal!
  
  But anyway, a strike in Syria is a necessary power play for the US to make. We can't allow countries like Russia to take control of the UN because that makes this country so much weaker in virtually every aspect.
  
  The people who are most against a strike in Syria really have no idea how global politics works, or more specifically how tied together our standing in the world is to our economy. These people falsely believe that we can make our socio-economic problems go away if we just put ourselves in a bubble.
  
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  - Anonymous Post Author
    
    10 years ago
    
    Both sides do this Sog. Let's call them "shit tinted goggles." Democrats and Republicans both use them.
    
    I'm always impressed by the hypocrisy of either side. When you refuse to adhere to either party...it's really amusing to watch. Could Bush have done anything right in your eyes? He was a retard...no doubt, but step back and look at the glass house that you live in before you cast stones.
    
    Eight years of listening to Bush supporters blaming Clinton for everything that was wrong...while Democrats said "enough!" Now the Obamatites blame everything on Bush, while Republicans scream "foul!" They use each other's playbook...and get pissed when the other side plays by their rules.
    
    ...let's get past that now...
    
    Al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood make up the rebellion in Syria. The American people, who are against a strike in Syria, don't want to defend those who murdered over 3000 innocents in New York and D.C. 12 years ago. Plain and simple.
    
    I have to ask which side "your" guy is on? When I see him make a teary-eyed speech on 9/11...I have to ask, "then why do you want to help these demons gain control of Syria and their wmds?"
    
    Sorry...that's the epitome of evil. Stay out of Syria. Neither side is good. Neither side is right...and we have no business in another Middle East war...fighting another unjust cause.
    
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iEatZombies_

10 years ago

See, I just don't involve myself with stating a political opinion because I don't believe many people should have any opinion except for this- I am unsure of the agendas of our political figures, whether good or bad, because we, the people, are entirely mis-informed on both sides of the story. We hear half-truths and non-truths and, as a whole, cannot differentiate them. It's too much risk to trust politics. We have to remember; We have no friends in Washington.

So that being said, nobody knows what we should do about Syria because nobody knows what's going on. It will be unintelligible and rewritten later. The only thing that is certain is that are going to war and we will be lied to about why. To say anything else would be to play pawn to someone elses game.

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casualcrow

10 years ago

This isn't the Huffington Post or Politico. God...I used to love this site way back when I first discovered it years ago. Now I log in for the first time in a long while and it's full of you people. If you wanna talk about Obama go complain on Youtube, don't turn this site into your personal political propaganda right-wing rhetoric spewing machine. And if you wanna shit on the youth of this site why are you even on here talking about the president and foreign policy? I think there's a site called The Guardian that you should be on.

Now, to answer your question since I'm commenting already. Your tone which suggests that Obama is revered as a God is played out and just makes people not take you seriously. If you have a single brain-cell in your head you must know why people were so excited for the guy in 2008. He is BLACK! The first black guy to be president ever. Electing him would send a message to minorities all over the country and all over the world that America is moving forward (even though crazy conservatives talking about "legitimate rape" that "God intended to happen" isn't really helping that point)

Where were you and the rest of the crazy's when Bush was "wiretapping citizens"? All this unrest over "scandals" that have been going on since 2006 seems kind of weird to me. Oh wait, but now it's serious because it's worse than before huh? What makes it worse? That a black guy doing it? One has to wonder.

I agree with you on Syria and the Nobel Peace Prize however. We shouldn't be getting involved and he shouldn't have gotten it until he actually did something.

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- iEatZombies_
  
  10 years ago
  
  OP can post whatever they like. It's an opinion and OP wants to see what we think. Whether we like the opinion or not, (s)he gets to have a voice here.
  And for the record, this site is meant for adults- not the youth. The fact that we don't report them and get them banned is a privilege to them, not an obligation. So then OP could retaliate that if they don't like it then they should leave, as they don't actually have any 'right' to be here.
  Unless you and OP are speaking of 18+. Which I don't consider youth, based on what society expects you leap from between 17 and 18. Though I don't think you are. If you both are, you can disregard the paragraph.
  
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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  10 years ago
  
  ...yet, it was approved, much to my surprise. I'm sorry that you're so offended by "us people," those with a voice speaking reason and questioning leadership. Shame on "us people." More Americans should follow like sheep led by a biased, state-run media.
  
  Your second paragraph says all I could never say. If you voted for any man because of the color of his skin, rather than the content of his character, then you are a racist. Dr. Martin Luther King, a man I respect deeply, would be disgusted.
  
  To answer your question in the third paragraph, I was writing my Representatives, expressing my distain with their infringements upon my 4th Amendment Rights. What were you doing? Beating a drum, chanting "anyone but Bush?" Well...we got "anyone." Now what? If you actually read what I originally posted, I think I made my opinion of Bush pretty clear before I emphasized that this creep expanded on Bush's legacy...regardless of the irrelevant color of either's skin.
  
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  - casualcrow
    
    10 years ago
    
    It seems you (not surprisingly) misinterpreted the second paragraph about race. Did I say I voted? Did I say that I was excited because he was black? Please...lets be grown ups here and not pretend like there was another reason for the inundation of new voters and the general exuberance experienced in the 2008 election. You can believe what you want but all the excitement was because finally a person of color, specifically a BLACK person, was being voted in. How did you not understand that that was what I was trying to say? Oh right, because out of a reactionary sense of indignation you hastily replied to me without having fully understood the comment to which you were replying.
    
    "Hardcore Bush supporters did...right to the bitter end as I smugly sat back and mocked them."
    
    Wow, pretty harsh jab at Bush there. Somehow I highly doubt you were making this big a fuss during Bush's term when the "Patriot Act" was enacted which is pretty much what allows the NSA to do what they do. In your original post you say Obama "scandals" include circumventing congress to wiretapping. I seriously LOL'd for real when I read that. This is why "us biased folk" bring up Bush all the time. Because there was hardly a peep out of you guys when he did the EXACT SAME THINGS, and you can't deny that.
    
    You keep talking about the "state-run media bias" yet you don't mention how the media basically shits on Obama 24/7. Fox News loves to brag about how they're the "#1 Cable News Network in the Nation!", well? I guess that must mean a whole lot of "sheep" are being fed their right-wing propaganda. And don't forget Obama won the election basically by 50%, you know what that means? That means the other 50% DOESN'T LIKE HIM. So I don't wanna hear about media bias, the guys approval rating is in the shitter. Get a grip pal.
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      10 years ago
      
      Ah...so you're saying you didn't vote. Enough said...and I'm the one who needs to be a grown up? hahahahaha!
      
      You absolutely missed every point, and then accused me of doing so.
      
      I also appreciate the accusations, denying that I opposed Bush and did what I could to deny him passage of the PATRIOT act. I did...in fact. Every representative from my state got calls and emails.. and...I vote. Voted against Bush every time as a matter of fact. What'd you do...smoke another bowl and bitch about Bush?
      
      I thought my original post very clearly stressed the fact that Obama expanded on Bush's overreaching policies...but you obviously missed that.
      
      ...maybe next time I'll type it in Crayon so you can understand it better.
      
      As I've said to Bush supporters...those of you who support "your guy" to the bitter end, will never cease to amaze me.
      
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      - casualcrow
        
        10 years ago
        
        I never said I didn't vote, you keep making assumptions because you're so desperately trying to win this argument and make me look like a racist but it's just making you look like the child (the argument's been over ever since my first reply btw). I voted in both elections. I was just stating that a lot of people voted for him because he was black, that's a fact. And there's been nothing in my comments that insinuates that I support "my guy till the bitter end", again putting words in my mouth. I'm done with this now.
        
        Also, when you resort to Ad Hominems to attack me personally and try to insult me by using stereotypical references to "pot smoking" (I take that as a compliment btw) it just makes you look like the bitter, angry, "drugs are bad", right-wing conservative prude that oh so defines you people.
        
        P.S. It's so cute you think you're little phone calls and emails are making a difference LOL!
        
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        10 years ago
        
        hahaha! I love it!
        
        now...you voted? Keep changing your story li'l one!
        
        Of course the argument's been over since your first reply. 'Cause...you stomped your foot and said so.
        
        ...and of course it makes sense to make-yet another assumption...that I'm a bitter, right wing conservative that thinks all drugs are bad 'cause that defines "us people."
        
        Keep 'em coming kid! I'm eating this up! hahaha!
        
        Oh...and while I was making little phone calls and emails...what were you doing to fight tyranny and oppression? Still haven't answered that.
        
        Thought so.
        
        Fire another one up...
        
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pantyrose

10 years ago

He was never "revered as a God."

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  10 years ago
  
  I take it you never read, watch, or listen to American media? If you do, I'm going to say you do so with blinders on.
  
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filiasan

10 years ago

What do you mean "still"? His elections were based on the fact that he was seen as better than the alternative. But he's nowhere near 'god'.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  10 years ago
  
  Tell that to the media. No matter how absurd his preachings are, they make excuses for him. Throughout both elections they...literally...painted halos on him in their photography.
  
  The media paint him as a god. Angelic...never question the great deity...or you're labeled a racist.
  
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  - filiasan
    
    10 years ago
    
    The media doesn't reflect what people think. That's what I call mindless drivel. :)
    
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      10 years ago
      
      That's right, the media don't reflect it, they tell people what to think. Those who don't question it accept their mindless drivel.
      
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[Old Memory]

10 years ago

Never trust a politician.

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- anti-hero
  
  10 years ago
  
  ...and never thrust into a mathematician.
  
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    10 years ago
    
    Never met one.
    
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RomeoDeMontague

10 years ago

I have a feeling I know who wrote this. Anyways I have no opinion on the issue.

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- anti-hero
  
  10 years ago
  
  Then STFU.
  
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thegypsysailor

10 years ago

He has let this country down, totally, IMO.
It's not that I supported him particularly, but he was the lesser of 2 evils. McCain terrified me with his talk of staying in Iraq for "a hundred years, if necessary". I had high hopes that Obama would keep his word to the American people. But in the end he is just another lousy politician, making sure that the rich get richer and the rest of us can starve for all he cares. I'd bet dollars to donuts that he's sent more aid overseas than he has dispersed to Americans in need.
We are in for Republican administrations from now on, with them rigging the elections and all their other tricks, so I guess it's going to be a one party system pretty soon.
I'm glad I got out and hope never to return. Sixty years of watching a truly great country fall into the violent, bankrupt, war mongering beast that it has become is very depressing. There hasn't been a candidate for president since Kennedy IMO that wasn't the lesser of 2 evils and I'm pretty sure that was not the intention of the founding fathers.
Maybe, if some nation had come in on the side of the British in our revolution, or the south in our civil war, we'd be better off now? Who knows, but one thing I do know; this country is so broken.

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Is obama still revered as a god today?