Posted on 12/13/2018 4:22:45 PM PST by lowbridge
Former President Barack Obama was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award at a gala in midtown Manhattan Wednesday evening.
"I'm not sure if you've heard, but I've been on this hope kick for a while now. Even ran a couple of campaigns on it. Thank you for officially validating my hope credentials," Obama said during his remarks.
The organization's president, Kerry Kennedy, presented the award, which celebrates leaders "who have demonstrated a commitment to social change." Past recipients include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Bono, George Clooneyand Robert De Niro.
"If we summon our best selves, we can inspire others to do the same. It's easy to succumb to cynicism, the notion that hope is a fool's game," Obama said.
"When our leaders are content on making up whatever facts they want, a lot of people have begun to doubt the notion of common ground," Obama said.
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who have demonstrated a commitment to social change , LOL
#bringourgirlsback
what a joke.
Whoop tee do!
Even RFK ( who was far from my favorite politician) would cringe at his name being so besmirched But the Dead can’t defend themselves. Alas
Barack kept illegal children in little metal cages during his tenure. Yet, nobody said ‘Boo!’ about it.
He also had them teargassed numerous times.
” Past recipients include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Bono, George Clooneyand Robert De Niro. “
Quite a crowd-——they all spend most of their time patting eachother on the back.
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Oh, a gay-la. Right at home there huh berry?
“Ripple Of Hope Award”?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
More like Choom of Hope Award.
Hahahah. My drill instructor taught me about hope.
Ripple of Hope Award.
I think Obama was looking for ward to the hope of some Ripple.tm.
Many Christians are unable to comment.
So Obama can add to his resume, that he got this award.
Are we supposed to be impressed, that some liberal group awards a liberal president an award??
Another participation award for the right kind of black man.
The man did NOTHING for human rights and has unquestionably set them back by decades if not centuries thanks to his fomenting of racial strife.
Oh, I’m sure it was a “gala”.
RFK was still in comparison an old school liberal, and did not like Communists.
I still can not forgive Ted though for making deals with Andropov.
[Whoop tee do!]
And dickory-dock.
Don’t forget, Obama’s a crock.....
All they have now are circle-jerk awards ceremonies.
I think the RFK Ripple of Hope crowd conveniently disregarded this little nugget of consideration. In my opinion the Saudi prince who had Kashogi killed can’t hold a candle to Obama.
In April 2010, al-Awlaki was placed on a CIA kill list by President Barack Obama due to his alleged terrorist activities.[36][37][38] Al-Awlaki’s father and civil rights groups challenged the order in court.[36][38][39][40] Al-Awlaki was believed to be in hiding in southeast Yemen in the last years of his life.[30] The U.S. deployed unmanned aircraft (drones) in Yemen to search for and kill him,[41] firing at and failing to kill him at least once;[42] he was successfully assassinated on September 30, 2011.[14] Two weeks later, al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver, Colorado, was also killed by a CIA-led drone strike in Yemen.
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