Posted on 02/12/2016 4:36:24 AM PST by HomerBohn
ATHERTON, Calif. -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that "strange things" can happen in politics when voters are scared and that the angst people are feeling across the country is finding voice in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
"We have to listen to that," Obama said at a Democratic Party fundraiser at the San Francisco-area home of supporter and venture capitalist Steve Westly.
Obama commented two days after billionaire businessman Donald Trump rode that wave of voter anger at traditional politicians to a commanding win in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders did the same in the state's Democratic primary, trouncing longtime front-runner Hillary Clinton by double digits.
Obama said the country is at "an interesting political moment" but noted that it's still early in the process for choosing the presidential nominees.
He said "what is true is that people are anxious" despite the economic and other progress since he took office seven years ago.
Obama said people remember the dire economic straits the country faced at the dawn of his presidency, when the economy was shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs per month and people were losing their homes and retirement savings. He said people are concerned about income inequality and laboring under a political system they believe works against their interests.
"That disquiet, that concern is expressing itself in the Republican Party as well as in the Democratic Party and we have to listen to that and we have to pay attention to that and be mindful of it," Obama told several hundred people who paid up to $33,400 to attend the event held in the sloping backyard of Westly's home in Atherton, California. "Because when people are scared, then strange things can happen in politics."
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Seven years of Obama has taken a drastic toll. We are in for a radical course correction and a dramatic reduction in the size of the DC monolithic monster.
Strange things also happen when an entitlement-minded, gibsmedat illiterate populace believe a line of bullshit 12 miles long from an America-Hating, Halfrican Muslim, too.
Strange things happen when the politicians are scared, too.
Yeah...like a false flag event, suspension of elections, martial law and declaration as king.
Yes, they’re scared. Rightfully so. If you were a paying passenger on a cruise ship and it became clear that the captain was a delusional narcissist drunk on his own power and incompetent on his best day, and you were screaming obliviously through pirate- and shark-infested seas into the teeth of a maelstrom, I suggest that you’d be daft if you were NOT scared. Especially if you’d brought the situation to the attention of the crew only to be told to go back to the lounge and watch the floor show.
Voters are scared because of “Strange Things”, OTrauma.
“Strange Things” like YOU.
The ruling elite are always clueless.
Why would voters be scared after 7 years of Unicorn, Nirvana, Heaven???
I’m not scared, I’m disgusted and resolute.
Really, My. Wonderful? Why would voters in this country be "scared" and full of "angst?" Didn't nearly 8 years of your leadership bring us to the land of manna and honey, where there is abundance for all, and we all sing songs of hope?
“’strange’ things happen”
Is that a threat?
Count De Monet; Sir, the peasants are revolting!
Damn right we're scared. And angry. And right to want a force of nature in the WH who can maybe turn things around.
Even stranger things happen when voters are brainwashed sheep.
This blithering twit is mistaking fear with deep, seething anger.
amen
The ones who should be “scared” are the corrupt government officials, lobbyists, and millions of gimmedats who gravy train comes to a halt when Trump starts cleaning house.
Of course, egomaniac Obama will never admit the mess he’s made, so - like Hillary - he’s got to blame the vast, right-wing conspiracy for the voters actions.
He’s seeing the end of the tunnel and the probability that most of his crimes and corruption will be brought to the public eye in a few months. He’s trying to talk his way into having a “legacy”, but other than evil, he has none.
Fear? No, IRE, disgust, and to his supporters, buyers remorse.
You’d be scared too when China’s bursting of their economic bubble is about to take the economic activity of the entire planet down....
Barry is just channeling his inner juice Newton . . . “I’m black, so it is only natural that everybody is scared.”
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