Joe Scar - "I disagreed with Obama. But what Trump has done makes those differences insignificant."

[DirtEdonE]

OK, for a guy who, back when his ratings were slipping, supported trump and kept him in the race with an open invitation to call in to his show anytime - Scarborough now wakes up to the threat he helped to create?

Up is down and down is up. repubican family values.

Read on:

I disagreed with Obama. But what Trump has done makes those differences insignificant.

By Joe Scarborough
March 19 at 6:14 PM

"As it was with George W. Bush and every other president who preceded him, Barack Obama made policy decisions I found troubling.

Obama once described the driving principle of his foreign policy as little more than “don’t do stupid s---.” That reflexive reaction to Bush’s military adventurism led to U.S. inaction in the face of some 500,000 Syrian deaths and the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Domestically, Obama failed to pass a significant piece of legislation during his final six years in office.

And yet, 100 years from now, Obama’s presidency will be hailed as the most transformative of our lifetimes, and Donald Trump’s will be viewed with the same scorn that followed the Dred Scott decision. Like that pre-Civil War Supreme Court case, Trump will forever be condemned as a racial reprobate whose words and actions inspired white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

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That’s why any policy differences I had with Obama now seem so insignificant. Americans who still have faith in the upward arc of King’s moral universe should be grateful for Obama’s presidency and the way his election exposed the white racism that is still at large in our land. If changing the Constitution and reelecting Obama two more times would break the fever that now ravages Trump’s Washington, I would cheerfully champion the passage of that constitutional amendment, slap a “Hope and Change” sticker on my shirt, and race to the nearest voting booth to support the man historians will remember as the most significant president since Abraham Lincoln.""

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-presidency-will-be-hailed-as-transformative-trumps-will-be-viewed-with-scorn/2019/03/19/c4ba3742-4a7c-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html?utm_term=.8dbacaed5d13

[woodsprite]

1. I don't trust what he says, and truthfully, I'd like to slap him.

Him changing his mind and his rhetoric won't influence any Trumper. They'll just call him a traitor and any other derogatory term that they can think of but may or may not be able to spell.

[Iliyah]

2. People can sincerely change

and I'm all for that, but alas, it's Joe S, and although what he said is truth, he still is a Republican at heart.

[unblock]

3. obama is certainly head and shoulders above donnie, but "most significant since lincoln"?

i suppose only time will tell if obama's presidency turns out to be a major turning point for the country, but as of now, i have to give fdr the nod for "most significant president since abraham lincoln".

imagine where we would be if the federal government hadn't established a safety net during the depression, and maybe tried to "fix" it with tax cuts? imagine where we would be if a different president decided to sit out world war ii or even come in on the side of the axis?

obama did a great job with the cards he was dealt, and he probably could have been massively significant with a more reasonable congress -- certainly with the kinds of majorities fdr enjoyed -- but it didn't play out that way.

[CTyankee]

4. You are so right about how sweet he was on Trump early on...he and Mika almost drooled over

Trump. Now they say that never happened, that they gave equal coverage to all likely contenders. But they were clearly a bit gaga over Trump. He was the new shiny thing. I think they were intrigued that such a "big guy" from NYC's real estate market would want to run for president. Whatever.

They should have never given DJT such free coverage. NEVER. He got a big lift from being on their show and it is to their enduring shame that they did what they did.

[Coventina]

5. STFU Joe.

All you did was tear down Obama for 8 years.

You created the environment that got Trump a following.

Until you own that, STFU.