{"id":9982,"date":"2017-01-11T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9982"},"modified":"2017-01-11T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:47:00","slug":"praise-obama-fff-libertarian-alternative-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/praise-obama-fff-libertarian-alternative-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"My Praise for Obama in FFF Libertarian Alternative Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I had fun joining Jacob Hornberger<\/strong> and Richard Ebeling<\/strong> on the Future of Freedom Foundation <\/a>Libertarian Alternative podcast yesterday. I was bummed that Richard wasn’t wearing a Clemson National Champions hat (Richard is now a professor at The Citadel). We had fun rehashing some of the prime debacles of the last 8 years.<\/p>\n

Half way through the interview, I acknowledged that Obama deserves credit for resisting the push of the US political establishment to go to war with Iran. Not getting dragged into a major war was perhaps his biggest achievement. As I mentioned earlier in the interview, the US is currently bombing 7 different nations and Obama’s drone killing program is a moral, constitutional, and political disaster. There’s a heap to criticize – but it could have been worse.<\/p>\n

Here’s the outtake of my comments giving credit to Obama on Iran:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Libertarian-Angle_-Obama-vs-Trump-Part2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Here’s a link to a 2003 FFF oped<\/a> I wrote on the folly of going to war with Iran (which plenty of Bush advisors & supporters were championing)<\/p>\n

Here’s the full interview:<\/p>\n