charisma always had a place.
Charisma is different than seeking attention.
yet the torture continues
???? No one is being waterboarded right now by the US. The Bush embrace of torture is representative of that specific administration.
Around a billion muslims are extremist, according to the good old pew research center.
Leaving that number and its meaning aside, nothing about that justifies calling ISIS "Islamic."
If you want to walk into this argument, it quickly becomes apparent that no politicians should get credit for anything outside of social policies, since the rest is decided by global economy.
You're swinging between extremes. Politicians get credit for the policies they enact and the impact of those policies. They also get to "ride the wave" of popular sentiment as larger economic forces play out; that's part of being on top. However, we should never mistake that for someone's wise governance.
Putin gets credit for continuing economic growth, but Russia's turnaround was already in the making when he entered office. Peopel in Russia may like him much more than the 90s (I would), but that doesn't mean he's not a tyrant.
Human rights are a silly thing made up in the 60s.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
I stand with Thomas Jefferson.