Quote (bogie160 @ Feb 15 2020 12:01am)
Obama was a far (incomprehensibly) better politician, of course he wasn't going to get caught in ridiculous situations like Trump has repeatedly found himself in.
But Democratic media covered up for his policy failures for years. The difference between Trump, Bush, and Obama is that Trump is fundamentally crass and unacceptable to the political class. That's why executive orders under Bush and Obama went through, and executive orders under Trump are tied up in courts trying to decide what the executive's "intent" behind the order was or is. People like Barr are fundamentally on the right side, trying to protect the Executive's legitimate authority. You don't get to decide that the president doesn't have certain powers because you dislike who the voters put in office.
Well yes, he was a better politician. He was also a better man. I guess if you don't want to detach yourself from the belief that Obama was an evil socialist, you can just say he was smart enough to not blatantly abuse his power.
I didn't follow Bush and Obama closely enough to know if they didn't face judicial resistance on executive orders. But here's the thing... you can't argue that Trump is a disruptor who shakes up the system and then simultaneously argue that the resistance he receives is some sort of unfair singling out. Pick one. If he's shaking things up more than Obama or Bush, the judicial pushback would obviously be greater.
And I'm not sure how this tangent even relates to my original argument.