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To: cosmicforce who wrote (378400)	7/25/2018 1:17:07 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541192

If I were to point out that the Nazis turned a devastated bankrupt country into a force that the world had to reckon with in a very short time, would you call me a Nazi sympathizer? Nothing in that statement has anything to do with Nazi ideology. The thing that disappointed me about Obama the most when he first took office was how slow/passive he was in making his moves. He philosophized over which GOP member to bring in and took his time "studying" the situation all the while missing on his opportunities. He had the GOP on the run and the world in love with him...even getting a Nobel Prize for nothing. How did he use that popularity to mobilize for the "Change We Could Believe In?" He could have remade the US in many ways. And what did he do with it? Now compare that with the way Trump has been transforming the GOP and the country, and there is no question who has had a greater impact. In a year, Trump undid whatever Obama had achieved in 8 years. What does that tell you about their relative strengths and the quality of what Obama built? This doesn't mean that I like what Trump is doing. Most of what he does is terrible. And the things he does that I agree with, he does them in destructive and ass-backward ways. But he is leaving his mark in a way that Obama (or Bill Clinton for that matter) never had the guts to do. As a final note - throughout his 2nd term, one of my big complaints about Obama was that he made no structural changes and that everything he did could easily be undone. I pointed out that he did not build any vibrant constituents to safeguard the values he claims to adhere to. And when he was ruling by decree, I pointed out that it is a bad precedence and there are no guarantees that the next guy will be someone the Dems can live with. And now you are seeing all that to come true - faster than even I thought it would. Anyway, as I said, I am going to be off for a while - but I did not want to leave your post unanswered. later, ST