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mac56

(17,566 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 09:17 PM Jan 2017

I've been getting this a lot lately.

Time to address it head on.

"What's the deal with you Democrats, anyway? Why do you need to be so negative and pessimistic about Trump? We may not have liked Obama, but we were never so loud and radical and downright ornery as you are! Why can't you give the guy a chance like we did for the sake of the country?!?"

Well. Overlooking the obvious selective memory, revisionist history, and euphoric recall... oh, heck, let's just call it "bullshit"....

Do you realize what you really just told me?

YOU LIKED MOST EVERYTHING OBAMA DID.

Yeah, I'll let that sink in for a moment.

It's very obvious that you approved of most of Obama's agenda, or at least you didn't disapprove of it enough to do anything meaningful about it. Some passive-aggressive whining and some keyboard crusading doesn't count.

If you seriously saw anything Obama did as a real threat to the country, you'd be doing the same thing the left is doing now: taking it to the streets.

So climb down off the high horse. Don't make a virtue out of your indifference. Your past failure to act isn't any sign of patriotism or moral superiority - it simply means you didn't mind Obama much at all.

Just my .02.

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I've been getting this a lot lately. (Original Post) mac56 Jan 2017 OP
Yes!!! Phoenix61 Jan 2017 #1
I'd be glad to give him a chance safeinOhio Jan 2017 #2
God all these people do is spout RW talking pts. Va Lefty Jan 2017 #3
Especially the BAR part. n/t Different Drummer Jan 2017 #4
Because they were negative and pessimistic about Obama! Initech Jan 2017 #5

safeinOhio

(32,674 posts)
2. I'd be glad to give him a chance
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 09:34 PM
Jan 2017

as soon as I see his complete tax returns. Will that happen in the next 4 years?

Initech

(100,068 posts)
5. Because they were negative and pessimistic about Obama!
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 09:59 PM
Jan 2017

They literally destroyed everything he did. Benghazi? Result of republicans cutting funding for embassy security. Obamacare? Result of republicans whittling down Obama's single payer proposal into nothingness. Fast and furious? More republican bullshit conspiracies.

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