Posted on 06/14/2016 5:28:37 PM PDT by mandaladon
The short version of what President Barack Obama said Tuesday: Donald Trump is an idiot.
The slightly longer version: The presumptive Republican nominee is a dangerous manipulator who’s either willfully or ignorantly out to damage the country and put more Americans in danger, all for the sake of propelling a brand of politics that responsible Republicans know they can’t support.
As Obama himself put it — a day after Trump breached whatever was left of nonpartisan respect for the office of the presidency by using his role as the party’s standard-bearer to suggest the president is sympathetic to terrorists — the Republican’s Muslim immigration ban and other proposals would destroy the pluralism that makes “this country great, and then the terrorists would have won. And we cannot let that happen. I will not let that happen.”
That razor-sharp response is what Obama’s campaign for Hillary Clinton, fought on national security terms in the wake of a terrorist attack that is the deadliest shooting in American history, looks like an attempt to juxtapose the politics of seriousness against the politics of fear, and a demand that voters realize how much damage Trump has done just by being in the race.
What Trump said Monday was written off by weathered observers as just another day on the campaign trail, but it really was a new frontier: Trump’s nudge-nudge, metabirther Obama accusations, followed immediately by his one-time campaign staffer and now insistently unpaid adviser Roger Stone’s allegation that top Clinton aide Huma Abedin is a Saudi terrorist agent, which the Manhattan mogul then topped with a “they”-filled speech studded with casual slanders and pointed lies.
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I don’t think bammy really wants to do that.
If the shooting war begins domestically, I imagine the pollutico building has no chance of surviving.
Obama embarrassed himself with a defensive (and highly offensive) political tantrum.
This will not turn out well for the Kenyan. He is clearly outclassed.
Everybody should watch that Trump speech in New Hampshire. Impossible to refute. Obama tried and failed.
Obama is an empty suit.
obama IS and HAS been an embarrassment for 10 years, if you include the senate.
One day a highly coordinated attack involving MANY jihadis will really hit us hard and perhaps that will wake the country up.
But heck, 9/11 didn’t. I remember the day, giving blood, passing the wreck on the way to work.
But that’s all forgotten already by too many people.
“Trump’s nudge-nudge, metabirther Obama accusations, followed immediately by his one-time campaign staffer and now insistently unpaid adviser Roger Stone’s allegation that top Clinton aide Huma Abedin is a Saudi terrorist agent, which the Manhattan mogul then topped with a “they”-filled speech studded with casual slanders and pointed lies.”
Ok, I’m sorry, but usual left-wing media aside, this is something that is seriously out of some DNC press release!
Is there any media outlet that isnt like this right now? Not a conservative blog, but any of these supposed MSM outlets?
I’m sick of 24/7 articles like this on FR. It’s almost nothing but this garbage and people telling them to “FU”.
I don’t know what color Edward-Isaac Dovere’s sky is, but judging from the smell of his diaperload, the contents are a deep brown.
Mr. Trump is living in Mr. Obama’s head rent-free!
This is the best endorsement Trump could get.
Seriously. No facetiousness intended.
Living in their heads 24/7 Rent Free...
Go Trump!
Good luck with that.
Obama should be at war with ISIS.
Beta male Obama has been taken down by Alpha male Trump.
Its already June and O is blowing his stack.
Why not ignore Trump if he’s a fringe loser?
Our Prez is an idiot.
Odumbo showed the world his allegiance - Muslims
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