Kantor said:
Obama can't get shit done. He's an idealist. He makes all of these fantastic, magnificent lofty claims about human rights and freedom and equality, but he stopped giving a damn the moment he walked into the Oval Office and realised what a state America had been left in by eight years of Bush (and, to be fair, partly Clinton, Bush Sr and Reagan). He tries to strike a balance between his idealism and not bankrupting the country and undermining national security, and he fails in both aims. America can't leave Iraq. Guantanamo can't be closed. Obamacare is not feasible, and significant cuts to American public spending are required. So, again, he's a hell of a lot better than most Republicans, but a select few (Gary Johnson, that guy from Rent is Too Damn High but only because of his beard, and maybe Fred Karger, but he'll never be chosen for the Republican ticket, being a homosexual non-Christian) would do a much better job than him. |
Actually Obama is a pragmatist, he garners a lot of criticism from the American left (and myself included) for not pushing harder on things, but that's largely because he's more results-oriented than ideology oriented, and so is more willing to flex to get points on the board rather than to push strange agendas
As for your commentary about leaving NATO meaning Europe's destruction: by whom? Who in the world could threaten, say, France alone, let alone the combined might of France, Germany, Britain, and to a lesser extent Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands? The only possible candidate is Russia, and they are way too messed up on their own problems right now to really hope to fight anything resembling a first-world country over anything

Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.







