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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.
Nah, they’ll just call her a misogynist white supremacist, and they’ll do it with absolute sincerity. Their capacity for irrational self-delusion is bottomless.
How can Obama possibly campaign for other people when the only thing he ever talks about is himself ?
No, Trudeau is wrong. The *world* is becoming *less* diverse and more homogeneous. The whole world is moving towards strip malls of chain stores, global online entities, and glass towers. Race matters less and less all the time. That is a form of entropy.
BTW, if you say that 2% growth is the new normal, and certain jobs aren’t coming back, you don’t get to take credit for stronger growth and those certain jobs coming back.
Nah. that will start once she has secured the nomination.
Dude, we need a permalink to those comments. Great fodder for the next time someone attempts to give him credit for the economy.
And that can work ok, as long as we don’t destroy the diversity of ideas.
Remember when former presidents just… shut up?
Golden Age.
G. W. Bush shut up during Obama’s administration, but broke his silence to criticize Trump. The Establishment has more patience with statist Democrats than with outsiders, as I long expected.
Trump is also a solution, someone in office who gets the right things done, and sticks to his campaign promises.
I did too, Petty Boozswha, and again in 2012. (Sorry, @rightangles; I can’t even claim blondhood…)
You could say you had a couple of “blond moments”. That’s what the dark-haired lady engineers used to say at work.
The blond lady engineers laughed too. When you know you’re really smart, you can laugh at stereotypes . . .
Ha my own sister voted for him too!
I recently finished listening to Eisenhower’s Sputnik Moment, narrated by our very own @douglaspratt, and was somewhat surprised to learn that when JFK succeeded him as president, Eisenhower didn’t keep his criticisms to himself. I remember those days (of not so very long ago) and didn’t remember any of that. It makes me wonder if the media weren’t present, or something.
Please note that I was quoting someone else there.
I still don’t know why the headlines aren’t all:
BO Admits: I’m the Reason We Have Trump
Well, actually, I do know, but a fellow can dream.
Every time he talks, Pretty Boy hurt self.
Surprised he didn’t name drop enthalpy.
Got it!
They’ll say he was misquoted.
As so much of Obama’s personal brand is invested in how great he was (two autobiographies before you’ve done anything), this doesn’t surprise me.
My favorite excuse was that he was bad at being President because he thought it was beneath him and he was bored. Like some kid getting C’s because he’s lazy and you blame the teacher for not inspiring him