You realize that is a mighty low bar your setting for Obama. And even he fails to reach it. Obama a much better choice? Not really. About the same is the best that can be said. The biggest problem we face are the clowns the two party system gives us from which to choose.
We need to quit voting for Democrats and Republicans. The differences between them are cosmetic, and only for show.
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Yes, it was a very low bar purposely for the "conservatives" (more like reactionaries) to see the depths of their hypocrisy since most of them have either been silent far far worse failure and mismanagement if indeed that is what Benghazi was. How about thousands killed in 911, lies on WMD, an ongoing war ignored to start a second, tens of thousands killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis killed and wounded.
Obama: no wars started, one war ended, Osama bin Laden killed, a depression averted and recovery begun, a Libyan dictator overthrown on his watch with his support, no terror attacks on our soil and four diplomats killed on his watch by any standard is light years ahead of Bush.
Hey, there was apparently an epic fail in Libya to secure all the arms and munitions left by Qaddafi, but WE HAD NO BOOTS ON THE GROUND unlike Iraq where all the arms and munitions were left unsecured to be used by the insurgency. Obama even fails more elegantly with fewer resources (and where he couldn't possibly have succeeded anyway without putting boots on the ground which the Republicans would never have let him do).
I don't defend him, I just tell it like I see it, he is vastly superior to four or eight more years of war mongering incompetent fearful Republicans. Hell, we would likely be getting ready to go to war in Syria and Iran right now if Romney were in office.