If You're Outraged Over Obama Remaining in Cuba After the Brussels Attacks, You Need to Read This

[mfcorey1]

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/03/if-youre-outraged-over-obama/


A particularly intolerable meme continues to play out in the news media and online: apparently U.S. history began on January 20, 2009 when Barack Obama was inaugurated. In case you were unaware, President Obama is evidently the first president to take vacations; he's the first president to play golf; he's the first president to be photographed without a suit or tie; and he's the first president to routinely use a teleprompter. If you believe any of that, then you're a moron who needs to refresh your memory about all things pre-2009. There you'll find that not only are Obama's vacations and so forth in line with most previous presidents, but in terms of overall time off, he's taken the fewest vacation days of any modern president other than Bill Clinton.

The latest round of outrage directed at the president has to do with his so-called "bad optics" -- allegedly inappropriate non-presidential behavior. In this latest case, Obama's crazy decision to remain in Cuba for his historic reopening of U.S./Cunban relations following the dual terrorist attacks in Brussels on Tuesday. A cursory check of AM talk radio, Fox News Channel and conservative Twitter reveals the usual double-standard and historical amnesia we've seen over and over again.

So, in the interest of history and the obvious inability of Republicans like Ted Cruz to actually do the research themselves, I decided to set the way-back machine to the beloved Ronald Reagan presidency. Here's a series of harrowing events from the 1980s, along with the comparatively AWESOME optics from Reagan, the now-sainted chief executive. The photographs are all from the specified dates.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Now watch this drive

[uppityperson]

2. I'm not outraged he didn't fly over to speak after today's attacks in Pakistan either.

Thanks for the great link, I'll share it when I read that crap and I have read it.

[MADem]

3. If you are outraged over Obama remaining in Cuba, you're probably not a Democrat.

He's got the White House, comm-wise, steps away at all times. He's got a rolling, flying Oval Office parked at the airport.

It's absurd to apply Old School requirements to people nowadays.

No one "sits by the phone" anymore. You put the phone in your pocket and you keep on trucking.

[Rex]

7. B I N G O

[mfcorey1]

4. Apparently few people seem to be reading the article that

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points out how Reagan did virtually nothing during times of crisis. The article does not denigrate President Obama. Read it before commenting!

[Rex]

8. Reagan was a worthless lump of coal, sad it takes decades for that simple understanding to

ketchup.

[craigmatic]

5. Why is what goes on in Europe the American President's problem?

[melman]

17. Sorry

but that is just taking the point too far. There were at least four Americans killed in this attack.

[Rex]

6. Well anyone that is outraged or was, is a Trump supporter so fuck em.

Obama is doing his job, something that seems to boggle the GOP mindset.

[malaise]

11. +1,000

Obama's problem is he has shattered all the racist myths about the African-American male. Fugg 'em!

[Rex]

13. And to make matters worse, the GOP has a white older male with a 4th grade reading level

as their soon to be nominee! The times we live in really say a lot about both political parties. Obama's shattered the conservative white male persona, destroyed it and threw it aside. Only the biggest skin-heads would be blind to that truth.

[malaise]

21. Excellent point

[Thespian2]

9. W. Bush, criminal, won the race

to take more vacations than any other president...405 days...beating out St. Raygun who had only 390 days of fondling his horse...

Obama hangs around the Washington Cess Pool too much...

[retrowire]

10. *sings*

iiiii never caaaarrreddd!!!

[NobodyHere]

12. So because Reagan did it it's ok?

You have a very low bar.

[Chakab]

14. No, because every other fucking president did it, and these are made up controversies.

[metroins]

15. That's what I was thinking

I don't care what other presidents did.

Personally, I don't think Obama should've flown to Brussels, but he could've done something else.

[mfcorey1]

20. Well the Monday morning analyzers are going to have a

fit no matter what he does, so your complaint will be filed with all the others.

[brett_jv]

16. It's because it's the Reagan-worshipping types that are most bent out of shape ...

I mean, what part of the word 'hypocrisy' eludes you?

[mfcorey1]

19. Reagan was no saint! Journalist forget that when they try

to criticize every other president.

[oldandhappy]

18. Thank you!

[romanic]

22. Repukes are like facebook stalkers.

They just track his every move and talk crap. I bet if he flew straight to Brussels, they'd probably say he was doing it for attention and to sneak in a few more jihadis in through his cape or something equally idiotic. Obama clearly gives no fucks, nor should he have to.