“What about every single time he denied terrorism?”

I don’t recall ANY time when Obama “denied terrorism”. What conservatives object to most is that he didn’t use the term “Islamic terrorism” or “Muslim terrorism”. There was a reason for that. By conflating the terrorist acts of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of a major world religion with the whole of that major world religion, this would give terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS legitimacy in the eyes of the Muslim world, and Obama wasn’t about to fall into that trap. He said that if he referred to terrorist acts committed by Muslims due to their perverted interpretation of Islamic doctrine as “Islamic terrorism”, then he would also need to refer to terrorist acts committed by Christians due to their perverted interpretation of Christian doctrine as “Christian terrorism”. Neither makes sense.

“He’s ruined the race relations.”

Nope — that’s not him. His only contribution to the resurgence of overt racism in this country was being black. Something he really doesn’t have any control over. The racism division that has grown in this country is due to racists. Not Obama.

“He’s screwed the school systems with common core and all this BS they’re teaching americas children.”

Nope — that wasn’t Obama. The Common Core Initiative was the work of the National Governor’s Association, and state participation was and always has been strictly voluntary. It’s not even a federal program, let alone an Obama program.

I could go through every item on your list, but I doubt you’d listen. But to the rest of us, it just sounds like you’re vomiting out talking points that you get from right-wing websites. All of which have been debunked.

But the topic of the article is Conway, not Obama. And if all you have is a bunch of “but…but…but…Obama!” twaddle, I think we can safely assume that you’ve run out of defense for Conway.

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