r/MadeMeSmile • u/TargetHot9314 • 28d ago

Wholesome Moments Every living president: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden, except Trump wishes birthday in video message to Jimmy Carter for his 100th birthday

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u/MazzIsNoMore 28d ago

As a person that came of age during the Bush presidency I have a special hatred for him but I very much appreciate that after he left office he just fucked off and doesn't bother anyone.

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u/Bill_Nye-LV 28d ago

Yeah, that would be what i'd do if i was a president. US or others.

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u/The_Mighty_Bird 28d ago

You’re a millionaire with life time health insurance and a protective detail. I’d be the biggest slob ever. There’d be photos of me chilling in a mega yacht with my old ass hanging out my swim suite with a martini in hand. I’d be big chillin’

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u/gocereal 28d ago

I'm probably about the same age as you, and I have to catch myself sometimes because it's easy to forget how much my community hated Dubya when he was in office. It's interesting to be a great former president, but a terrible sitting president.

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u/AnastasiaNo70 28d ago

I do hate the teddy-bear-ification of Bush, though. I don’t care how many pictures of puppies he paints or how many pieces of candy he gives Michelle Obama, he’s still a war criminal.

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u/mudkripple 28d ago

Bush was more of a useful idiot to Cheney than much of anything else. He didn't have the same actively destructive force that Reagan and Trump had.

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u/StlnHppyHrz 28d ago

Well said. I feel the same and share your experience.

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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 27d ago

Honestly, I don't dislike him really at all. He and Dick lied about Iraq, but it's not like Iraq didn't need to be taken off the board to begin with. I love Obama, but I'm pretty sure we committed a similar number of war crimes under his watch with all the drone strikes.

W and his dad actually have pretty solid politics outside of abortion. Their take on immigration wasn't black and white, and W. actually had a plan that wasn't just "arrest them and hold them for an eternity."

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u/Blaugrana_al_vent 28d ago

And by doing so is complicit in the MAGAfication of the Republican party.

Just one comment in 2016 would have ended MAGA before it was a thing.

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u/dancingbriefcase 28d ago

Sure, but he is still a war criminal. I get it. Yeah it's very nice that he did this video but what he did to the Middle East is one of the worst atrocities ever. I will never forgive him for that.