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Barack Obama is right.
Just a snippet from Barry O’s speech Friday:
“It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause. He’s just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.”
Well, at least the eight years before Trump was elected. Nice moment of self-reflection there, Barry.
Every time I have to look at him, all I can think is “Just go away.”
I wonder if the second such jackwagon signifies the end of our republic or if it will be the third.
It would be so funny if he campaigned for the Dems in the midterms and did more damage than they’ve already done by themselves. As I recall, a couple of them asked him not to campaign with them in 2016.
My thoughts about the Clintons all these years. Whatever you say about our present buffoon in chief, he made that happen. No, wait. . .
My friends and relatives have pushed back hard on very similar observations of mine. I want to send them these clips and say “Okay, St. Barack has said it…now is it true?”
Haha! Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. But NO-O-O
I’m hoping we’ll go for someone less jackwagonny next time. We’ve got some promising up-n-comers. (Go, Nikki, Go!)
That would make their heads explode. A woman and a minority.
You and my wife. She maybe cool to Trump’s yammering, but she was really enjoying the absence of the ex lecturer in chief. Her reaction to “Jug Ear’s” appearance in the news clips yesterday was surprisingly visceral to me. Something that is hard to do after 43 years.
I am not sure who these college educated middle class ladies are that are so intently turned off from Trump vs the reappearance of “The One” that they are going to be the tsunami that is going to crush the Republicans. One would think they are the ones who can more readily appraise their personal financial fortunes of how their retirement accounts have faired in the last two ~years.
If they, like us, have any investment holdings, they have seen some incredible gains in the last 18 months. My wife is taking it to the bank, locking it in, and retiring in December, about two years earlier than initially planned.
I voted for Obama the first time, I thought McCain was too disorganized [possibly going senile] and we couldn’t afford another disorganized President. I also had projections of Obama living up to his rhetoric of being a uniter, not a divider. I had visions of him giving a speech about the racial grievance industrial complex similar to Eisenhower’s. It wasn’t meant to be.
Not all minorities are considered minorities. Check out your intersectionality cheat sheet for the latest. There is context and historical oppression to factored into *everything*.
Moderator Note:
Personalizing the argument.Well that explains a lot.I mean I’m a blonde person and in 2008, I saw Obama for the Marxist he is .Now see, this is why I’m not a liberal. It’s too much work trying to keep up.
Yeah. Last time it was going to be so awesome. I could pick from my obvious choices like Walker or Jindal. The worst thing I would have to worry about would be Jeb. Ahhh, carefree days.
The one thing I can tell myself is that there is no-one else from either party who would have moved the American embassy to Jerusalem. Crazy has its moments?
It doesn’t explain anything about my philosophy, only that I want what is best for the country long-term. McCain in 2000 was the first candidate I ever donated $$$ to.
Its upside down week. Trudeau finally said something True;
This maybe the basic problem with Liberals, they think that Entropy is a good thing. Embrace entropy!
Perhaps he doesnt know what the word means, Entropy:
There may be some progress in the country. I think for the first time since he appeared on the scene, I read last week an admission that BO was adjunct faculty, not a professor. Still no information on what he ever did as a “community organizer” or how long the adjunct teaching lasted.
When she runs we’ll be informed in the most haughty tones that she isn’t a real woman given her politics and she’s really a’white’ Indian. Or something equally asinine .
And if elected she’ll be the first female Hitler .
See, this is an advantage of cynicism.
I remember shortly after the 2008 election, several “conservative” pundits wrote columns to the effect that the upside of Obama’s election would be that the nation would finally start to heal some of its racial divides. I thought, “Are you stupid? All this means is that anyone who disagrees with him, on anything, for any reason, will be immediately called a racist. This will set back race relations years, if not decades.”
I was right. Wish I’d been wrong.
I know I’m cynical. I’m just not sure whether I’m cynical enough.
If she runs for President, we’ll see leftists start to claim that Indian ancestry doesn’t count as a minority because there are so many Indians in the world. Suddenly, all of Ghandi’s anti-black remarks will be “discovered” and draped around Nikki’s neck.
You’ll also see women’s organizations like NOW back away from supporting her. Much like they remained silent during the 2008 trails of Sarah Palin. They should change there name to SNOW (socialist national organization of women)
I really believe that the first woman to President will be a Republican. IF you look at most of the western democracies that the US is traditionally close to England and Canada, both have already had women Prime Ministers, and both where from the conservative parties.
Yep.
I’d rather have President Margaret Thatcher than any male presidential candidate, of either party, in my lifetime, other than Reagan. But I’m a misogynist for not voting for Hillary.
… I know I’m cynical. I’m just not sure whether I’m cynical enough.
The short answer is “no”. You can never be too cynical these days.
I’m skeptical of that assessment.
You and me both. One of the reasons I’m a Thatcher-level member
Or just not cynical enough.😜😜😜😜
I showed this to my wife (who actually came up with the idea for this post) and she said (shouted. . .) “They’re getting it all wrong! The point is that Obama is admitting he’s the reason we’ve got Trump!”
He did – in a helicopter on Inauguration Day 2017 and I cheered in my living room as it lifted off and circled DC, then flew off into the distance. His accomplishments will either stand the test of time or they won’t. So far….they’re not.
And, while I don’t necessarily want to see him (and will not), I do want him (and his wife) out there spouting their pathetic twaddle for a long time to come. (The spell is broken and many, many eyes are now open. Every appearance…and its aftermath…is ultimately more productive to his political opponents.) Long live the clown.
From Politico, three days after inauguration day in January of 2009:
Obama would have a better case at trying to critique Trump for his divisiveness if he’d admit his own culpability in creating the current situation, by thinking in 2009-10 that he and the Democrats had a permanent grip of the Executive Branch and Congress, and then in 2011-16 using the ‘pen and a phone’ gambit to basically go around Congress, after voters forefully said they didn’t want to go in the direction Obama wanted to take America. That’s how you got Trump.