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Bobby Jindal: President Obama Created Donald Trump

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giga

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President Obama doesn’t get enough credit for his accomplishments. I know this because he often tells us it is so. I happen to agree that he doesn’t get enough credit. No, not for slowing the rise of the oceans or healing the planet, as he immodestly claimed he would, even before taking office. He has succeeded handsomely, though, in living up to his vow to be a transformative president, like Ronald Reagan, and not an incremental one in the Bill Clinton mold. Mr. Obama has accomplished many changes—they just aren’t the ones we were waiting for.

Mr. Obama has alienated allies like Israel while encouraging adversaries like Iran and Cuba. He has fostered Americans’ record-breaking dependence on government programs and record-low participation in the workforce. He has expanded the power, size and expense of the federal government in unprecedented ways, all at the expense of Americans’ freedom, standard of living and economic well-being.

But the president truly doesn’t get enough credit for creating one of the most polarizing forces in American politics today. No, not Hillary—that is more Bill’s doing. Let’s be honest: There would be no Donald Trump, dominating the political scene today if it were not for President Obama.

I believe that voters tend to act in open-seat presidential elections to correct for the perceived deficiencies of the incumbent. In 1980, after four years of President Carter’s telling us to turn up the thermostat and wear a cardigan, while the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and the Iranians invaded the U.S. Embassy, the fed-up American people elected a cowboy to the White House who made it clear that the evil empire’s days were numbered.

After eight years of President Reagan’s supply-side economics and broadsides against welfare queens, we got a kinder, gentler President H.W. Bush. After four years of international diplomacy without the “vision thing,” we got a loquacious Arkansas governor promising to invent a third way forward focused on the economy at home. After eight years of Clintonian empathy and skirt-chasing, we got a plain-spoken President George W. Bush, who promised to restore integrity to the Oval Office. After Hurricane Katrina and post-Hussein Iraq, we got the professorial President Barack Obama, who seemed to many to promise competence.

After seven years of the cool, weak and endlessly nuanced “no drama Obama,” voters are looking for a strong leader who speaks in short, declarative sentences. Middle-class incomes are stagnant, and radical Islam is on the march across the Middle East. No wonder voters are responding to someone who promises to make America great again. You can draw a straight line between a president who dismisses domestic terrorist attacks as incidents of workplace violence and a candidate who wants to ban Muslims from entering the country.

Mr. Obama likes to bemoan the increasing partisan divides across the country, as if he were merely a passive observer at best and a victim at worst. Uncharacteristically, the president is being too modest. He has created the very rancor he now rails against. Imagine how different things would be if Mr. Obama had pursued a stimulus bill that included targeted tax cuts and infrastructure spending balanced with gradual entitlement reforms—instead of a stimulus that merely dusted off congressional Democrats’ wish list of pork-barrel projects and ideological experiments.

Imagine if Mr. Obama had actually worked with Republicans in an open process to bring down health-care costs—instead of pushing through, on a partisan vote, the largest expansion of government-welfare programs in a generation. Or if he had listened to the message that voters sent in the first midterm election by putting Republicans in charge of Congress—instead of petulantly relying on executive orders, and using an eraser and whiteout on the Constitution, to shove the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies deeper into Americans’ lives.

Over the past seven years America could have been transformed in an inspiring way if its education system had been opened up, if its energy policy had been liberated, if the entire approach to governing had been overhauled. President Obama chose the opposite approach, favoring a closed education system that fails millions of children and an energy policy that chains the economy to his green agenda.

President Obama loves to construct straw men so he can contrast his heroic self against them. But Donald Trump needs no characterization; he is capable of being absurd on his own, no outside help required. Without President Obama, there is no Donald Trump. Mr. Trump often diagnoses the ills Mr. Obama has caused, but his prescriptions are just as often wrong. America deserves better.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/president-obama-created-donald-trump-1457048679?mod=trending_now_4
 
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ExVicis

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Bobby Jindal trying to make himself relevant again to the elections huh?

Also it's nice to see Republicans blame the success of Donald Trump on everyone but themselves.

Edit: Also if Jindal's logic is correct, the President after Trump should be our best yet with the greatest hair of any or all Presidents since he'll be making up for all of Trump's shortcomings.
 
obin_gam

obin_gam

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Fox News created Trump.
If you during decades rile up and scare people, a monster's gonna be born out of that fear and run amok when you can't handle the fear anymore.
 
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I think the mealy-mouthed saps the GOP expects people to get behind are more likely to blame. People voting for Trump would hate Obama no matter how much or how little he equivocates.
 
entremet

entremet

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These guys are not going to throw their bigoted wing and strategies that attracted them under the bus, so they blame Obama.
 
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Chie Satonaka

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The lack of self awareness is astounding. I was just talking to a friend about this just five minutes ago.

Republicans are sitting around with thumbs up their asses, wondering how this could have POSSIBLY happened, and fucking Jindal comes out and just goes back to formula: "Thanks, Obama."

It'd be pathetic if it weren't so hilarious.
 
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NullPointer

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A black president made the Republican base go batshit, the Tea Party emerged, their candidates took office and were unable to make any of their bullshit promises come true, so those voters feel betrayed and want to hit the reset button on the whole syste,. And from that pungent muck of disappointment and frustration has extruded their latest weapon: Trump.
 
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Amalthea

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Imagine Obama howling "It's aliveee! It's aliveee! Wahahahahaa".

At least being cobbled together from corpse parts would explain the hair...
 
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Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
The GOP continuously lying to its lower- and middle-income voters, saying they'll benefit them directly while giving huge money to the rich, is what created Trump.
 
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Haloid1177

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Please fuck off Bobby. Like seriously. Don't be salty you couldn't fuck with the entire nation like you did here in La.
 
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EatinOlives

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The Republican tradition of dumping all their problems to the Democrats and pretended they aren't the ones creating them continues.

Jindal's tradition of pretending to be relevant in politics continues. Dude was bodied in the primaries and still thinks his opinion matters, LOL
 
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Grover Cleveland

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Obama went back in time and conjured up the Southern Strategy confirmed

Nice effort from the Establishment tho. If there's anything Trump fans love more than Trump, it's taking shots at GodKing Bam Bams
 
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Patryn

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obin_gam said:
Fox News created Trump.
If you during decades rile up and scare people, a monster's gonna be born out of that fear and run amok when you can't handle the fear anymore.
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This is exactly it. Multiple articles have run with it, but the GOP and Fox have crafted a base that is taught to distrust almost everyone, that nothing is a fact, to never listen to the media and go with your gut.

Trump simply took that training and is running with it, and using it to turn their base against the establishment.

In a way, it's amusing seeing them trying to struggle against the same tactics they've been using against the left for years now.
 
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El Topo

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So the black president created the guy that spouts racist nonsense and is likely going to win the Republican nomination? I know what he's actually saying, but it's still ludicrous. What's next? Obama created racism? The fuck do these people smoke?
 
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Black Mamba

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Bobby Jindal: Barack Obama created Bobby Jindal.

If not for Obama creating me, the La economy and budget wouldn't be in shambles!

Damn you, Obama. Why did you create me!?!?!?
 
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GK86

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El Topo said:
So the black president created the guy that spouts racist nonsense and is likely going to win the Republican nomination? What's next? Obama created racism? The fuck do these people smoke?
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I have heard Obama created slavery too.
 
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D i Z

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Bobby Jindal is irrelevant. He put all of his cards into his failed as fuck campaign, and has nowhere else to go now. This is really the only thing he can do, and do it just as badly.
 
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deadlast

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The guy that bankrupted Louisiana and put the state so far in debt they were going to cancel Football? That fuckin guy needs to go away.
 
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SecretDan

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Slayven said:
Amazing and Shameful that one black dude made half the country lose it's damn mind.
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Just wait until Hillary is in office.

These people have no problem being vocally sexist. Won't even have to try and pretend not to be bigoted like they do with Obama. t
 
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