I felt contemporaneously, he stood for, at least, speaking intelligently (given eight years of the cringe of W). I appreciated that then and now (after four additional years of Trump public speaking tragedy). It is embarrassing as a global traveler when our American President is, frankly, a verbal dufus. A mild burden, but real, very real for me personally.
Also, I felt Obama did not stand for going to war, directly, with Russia, North Korea or China. Out of pragmatism (not of fear -good- and not ethics-eh-) because going to war with nuclear adversaries requires such pragmatism over top of the US pyramid machismo.
Finally, I feel he stood for an ability to change his mind - publicly, given a mixed combination of democratic (small d) ideals that shifted faster than he did politically, vis à vis LGTB momentum.
This was not an ad for two terms of disappointing incrementalism and global projection of American violence. Rather, a direct conversational response to the episode that I didn’t “disagree” with.
I felt contemporaneously, he stood for, at least, speaking intelligently (given eight years of the cringe of W). I appreciated that then and now (after four additional years of Trump public speaking tragedy). It is embarrassing as a global traveler when our American President is, frankly, a verbal dufus. A mild burden, but real, very real for me personally.
Also, I felt Obama did not stand for going to war, directly, with Russia, North Korea or China. Out of pragmatism (not of fear -good- and not ethics-eh-) because going to war with nuclear adversaries requires such pragmatism over top of the US pyramid machismo.
Finally, I feel he stood for an ability to change his mind - publicly, given a mixed combination of democratic (small d) ideals that shifted faster than he did politically, vis à vis LGTB momentum.
This was not an ad for two terms of disappointing incrementalism and global projection of American violence. Rather, a direct conversational response to the episode that I didn’t “disagree” with.