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How Trump’s Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’
MSN/NYTimes ^ | 5-30-2018 | Peter Baker

Posted on 05/30/2018 2:45:45 PM PDT by tcrlaf

Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

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Mr. Rhodes describes the reaction of foreign leaders. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan apologized for breaching protocol by meeting with Mr. Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan after the election. Mr. Obama urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada to take on a more vocal role defending the values they shared.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama that she felt more obliged to run for another term because of Mr. Trump’s election to defend the liberal international order. When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americaindecline; benrhodesbook; criminalacts; globalism; goodriddance; illegalspying; kenyanidiot; obama; sovereignnation; tears; trump; worstpresidentever
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To: tcrlaf

“Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

vx. anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life tribes (collectives)?

FUBO

YOU’RE SUCH A MORON and a POS.


61 posted on 05/30/2018 3:41:36 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: tcrlaf

“Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said.
No, Obozohead. You are the wrong person for any time period.


62 posted on 05/30/2018 3:46:38 PM PDT by Sedona13
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To: tcrlaf

Garbage media. Cry me a river and then drown in it


63 posted on 05/30/2018 3:48:10 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: TexasM1A
Fall back to their tribe means American. The idiot is dumbfounded because people want to be American citizens, not citizens of the world. Someone molded into communism like this dork would never understand how people love this country. The only thing he loves is power, money and nasty gay sex.
64 posted on 05/30/2018 3:48:39 PM PDT by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: tcrlaf

Just another clue...


65 posted on 05/30/2018 3:49:01 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: tcrlaf

Claims not to have known about the FBI “investigation” into the Trump campaign . . .


66 posted on 05/30/2018 3:53:09 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: RinaseaofDs

My thoughts exactly. They are fabricating history.


67 posted on 05/30/2018 3:55:12 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: tcrlaf

“Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

Yeah, it’s called patriotism you pinko bastard.


68 posted on 05/30/2018 3:59:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: NFHale

I agree one hundred percent. Actually include the entire 0bama administration, not just those two.


69 posted on 05/30/2018 4:01:34 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: RinaseaofDs

Yep. Operation Mockingbird is alive and well.


70 posted on 05/30/2018 4:06:05 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: tcrlaf

The biggest knee slapper in the fake news article: Rhodes and Obama didn’t know about the FBI collusion investigation until after they left office.


71 posted on 05/30/2018 4:08:31 PM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: tcrlaf

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides, while taking a s**t on the Bible and dog tags wrapped in the U.S. flag, pausing to wipe his a** with The Constitution...


72 posted on 05/30/2018 4:09:31 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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“Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

RIGHT THERE!!

He never cared about the people of the US or their plight or their issues. He wanted to establish his utopia and force them all along.

Bookmark this - save it - throw it back in the leftists faced. Obama was just a power hungry nerd who cared more about proving his pet socialist theories then fighting for the American people.

And continues to fight the American people by trying to cajole Canada and the EU to work against us.


73 posted on 05/30/2018 4:10:51 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: The Toll
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We out voted a mountain of fraud Satan himself.
74 posted on 05/30/2018 4:11:50 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: kaehurowing

In his eyes - he didn’t make a mistake. His ideology was perfect and right like any zealot priest - he’s lamenting that the people don’t understand his enlightened ideals.


75 posted on 05/30/2018 4:13:03 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: tcrlaf

I couldn’t get through that. How about a BARF ALERT next time.

(I need a shower)


76 posted on 05/30/2018 4:14:41 PM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: tcrlaf
When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.
GAG!!!!
77 posted on 05/30/2018 4:15:09 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Jeff Sessions not a mouse or mr. maggo but a low life back stabbing bastard pretending to be AG)
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To: tcrlaf
From “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America!”

To “He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.””

Don't believe it for a second. It's an apology piece for Obama, one nasty POS. He's an anti Christ.

78 posted on 05/30/2018 4:16:04 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: tcrlaf

Sure wouldn’t consider he was wrong, high as he usually was on PERUVIAN marching powder, and visiting his cartel friends from the Shining Path marxists in Peru.

Just saying. Not long after— time for a vacay on David Geffen’s yacht and a gayboy couple of weeks all paid for by Frenchie marxist Marseille heroin dealers (and their hollyweird customers).


79 posted on 05/30/2018 4:20:20 PM PDT by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The Kenyanesian Usurpation was wrong in so many ways.

That is what the Bolshies could not understand.

80 posted on 05/30/2018 4:21:05 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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