Posted on 06/19/2016 5:11:13 PM PDT by mandaladon
President Obama's final year in office — which was expected to be a time when he would give symbolic speeches and try to cut a few deals with Republicans — is turning into an all-out campaign to stop Donald Trump from succeeding him.
In recent public remarks, including his endorsement of Hillary Clinton even before the Democratic primaries were finished, Obama has inserted himself more directly into the campaign than previous second-term presidents.
He is effectively turning the election into "Obama-Clinton v. Trump," instead of a traditional contest between the two people with their names on the ballot.
Related: Obama Decries Trump's Muslim Ban, Asks: 'Where Does This Stop?'
"This is the biggest intervention that I can remember for some time now," said Julian Zelizer, a political historian at Princeton University, comparing Obama to past second-term presidents. "Not only is he really coming out for the Democratic candidate, but acting in extremely aggressive fashion against the Republican nominee."
Obama's behavior appears to be motivated in part by Trump's unorthodox campaign style and platform, including the proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States that has particularly alarmed the president.
"Islam has always been part of America," Obama said in a visit to a mosque in Baltimore in February.
"The president will give this campaign all that he has and more — for Clinton, for his own legacy, and for the vision of America that he's asked us to believe in since the night he stepped onto the national stage in Boston and delivered his 2004 convention speech, a hopeful, bighearted vision that is the antithesis of everything that Trump represents," former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau wrote in a recent piece for The Ringer, a sports and pop culture website.
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0bama is campaigning for Jihad and Sharia, in the US.
campaigning is his only actual job skill.
He needs a clinton win to keep from going to jail
Because he hates liberty. Same reason he has done everything since seizing power.
Because Obama is a Muslim and sees Trump as a threat to the spread of Islam in the US.
Zero’s going after Trump because the gay Kenyan pucking funk is a Musloid.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Can he pardon himself before leaving office?
That’s an easy question - Its the same reason why organized crime families close ranks when they have to protect the larger enterprise.
Because a single executive order by Trump can undo every Obama order over the last 8 years.
Beat me to it
That helped lead LBJ to a landslide.
Don’t know, but I do know one thing. Trump said if Obama campaigns, he is a legitimate target. This means Obola is going to get trashed, dragged through the mud, beaten up, exposed, and held to account...... finally.
Cant wait.
Trump should go after Obama when elected. Among others, this is war, nothing less. You have to destroy the enemy. You can’t let them exist among you. Its time the right stopped compromising with evil.
It is unseemly and I do not recall other presidents taking such active stance. Maybe they see Clinton’s loss and are trying to stave off her defeat. Tying Clinton to Obama won’t help.
Why so FEW people at that rally??????????
He knows Trumps first act will be to nullify every one of his EO’s. His second act will be to unseal every single obama record. His third act will be to turn loose the DOJ to investigate all fraud and abusenand things like Hillary’s human fund, and other stuff like fast and furious
Because his mission is incomplete, and America could become great again, with all that implies and promises.
That threatens those whom he serves.
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