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by cocacola1 504 days ago
I’m not particularly old or nostalgic, but these past 2 weeks have certainly helped me appreciate the Obama years a lot more.
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It was kind of nice to have a president who could actually finish a complete sentence while speaking. I miss those times.
Remember the ruckus because he wore a tan suit? Those were the days.

> U.S. Representative Peter King, a member of the Republican Party, deemed the suit's color combined with the subject matter of terrorism to be "unpresidential". He went on: "There's no way, I don't think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...

Thanks for the laugh. I don't remember when this happened. The horror... :)
Yeah, or when he wanted spicy mustard on a hot dog (correction, burger). https://youtu.be/cAvq12Sa3VE

I found that one especially funny, because dijon mustard isn't more expensive than regular mustard! I buy dijon mustard all the time, and at least at my local grocery store the price is always within about 5% of regular yellow mustard, sometimes even less. It's not something that is out of reach of most Americans.

We only remember these as Obama lacked the Trump reality distortion field.

  [Reporter] President Trump wore a tan suit.
  [Trump] Let's retake the Panama Canal.

  [Reporter] President Trump ordered a fancy mustard.
  [Trump] We're going to invade Greenland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy
On the other hand, Barrack Obama normalized death from the skies over the middle east and helped destabilize the entire region.

He was also an awful president, in other ways.