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Obama and His Movement Prepare to Challenge President Trump
NBC News ^ | JAN 14 2017 | PERRY BACON JR.

Posted on 01/15/2017 2:16:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

CHICAGO — He may be leaving the White House but he isn't totally going away.

As President Obama gave his farewell address to the nation on Tuesday night, he also began the shift to a third stage of his political career. The once young, idealistic senator-turned-two-term-president will soon become an influential strategist and ally to those worried about the future with Donald Trump at the helm of the most powerful nation on the planet.

Obama nodded to this new role in his speech Tuesday. He did not directly criticize his successor, but used lines like "I reject discrimination against Muslim-Americans" that were clearly aimed at Trump and delighted the audience of more than 20,000 Democrats who crowded into McCormick Place to hear his final address as president.

His path forward is still evolving. Prior to November's election, Obama and his aides had hinted that the outgoing president would limit his future involvement in politics and instead focus on writing a book chronicling his eight years in office, use his foundation to expand his "My Brother's Keeper" program and give speeches and join boards, as other ex-presidents have done.

But now, Obama's chief achievements, such as his climate change policies and the Affordable Care Act, are in danger of being gutted by the Republican Congress, the Democratic Party is in disarray and much of the country — and the world — is uncertain what a Trump presidency will bring.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antitrump; bho44; trumptransition; x44
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Obama deplores Pres Trump's Muslim policy.

Viktor Orbán's speech to the Hungarian “Border Hunter” patrol contained this gem: "The principle of human rights never prescribes national suicide..."

But "diversity" forced Americans to put up w/ this Royal Idiot's half-baked ideas about governance.....or be labeled racist.

He has now offered us up as fodder to brownish trouble-makers invading our country for the purpose of killing us.

61 posted on 01/15/2017 3:35:16 PM PST by Liz
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Obama deplores Pres Trump's Muslim policy.

Viktor Orbán's speech to the Hungarian “Border Hunter” patrol contained this gem: "The principle of human rights never prescribes national suicide..."

But "diversity" forced Americans to put up w/ this Royal Idiot's half-baked ideas about governance.....or be labeled racist.

He has now offered us up as fodder to brownish trouble-makers invading our country for the purpose of killing us.

62 posted on 01/15/2017 3:35:18 PM PST by Liz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Obama and his wife Michelle will leave office with high approval ratings among all Americans and as perhaps the most unifying figures in a Democratic Party divided between populist and establishment wings.
That is hilarious!

The outgoing president, who will leave office at just 55 years old and in good health, has also promised that if Trump steps over certain lines, he will not be silent.
LOL, really?
I think I would get tired of counting the lies in this whopper of an article.
63 posted on 01/15/2017 3:38:37 PM PST by Trillian
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I hope Obama doesn't fall off his tricycle as he's pedaling fast, chasing
Pres Trump in his refitted armored car w/ tear gas bombs and rifle sites.


64 posted on 01/15/2017 3:40:16 PM PST by Liz
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To: Fightin Whitey
Twilight Zone The Masks photo: Eye of the Beholder … gif tumblr_lm77svlmn61qb98uxo1_500_zps17797420.gif They colorized the Zone episode `The Masks'?
65 posted on 01/15/2017 3:42:37 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s not really over is it?! We’ll have to live the rest of our lives hearing his name/seeing his face on TV won’t we? Don’t know if I can stand it. Might have to retire elsewhere.


66 posted on 01/15/2017 3:45:01 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: tumblindice

Wait a second, that was “Here’s Looking At You, Kid!” the one with Ellie May Clampett as a homely duck.


67 posted on 01/15/2017 3:46:16 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lock the F bastard up


68 posted on 01/15/2017 3:47:36 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump will run rings around him…I mean what the hell is Obama going to fight for? Anarchy?


69 posted on 01/15/2017 3:52:46 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Obama’s policies had been popular and successful, Donald Trump would not have won the election.


70 posted on 01/15/2017 3:54:46 PM PST by AC86UT89
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To: Fightin Whitey

Jeez, he looks like a Grouper fish.


71 posted on 01/15/2017 3:54:58 PM PST by beelzepug (For English press #1; for Spanish, learn English and press #1)
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To: TomGuy
You cannot use logic with Libs. It confuses ANGERS them.

Editorial license.

72 posted on 01/15/2017 4:02:11 PM PST by gogeo (But he's not a conserrrrrvative!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Anyone else but Trump .... maybe obama could do this to a wimpy republican who was scared of his shadow.

Don’t think Trump will put up with it. He’ll have advisors and the power of the office... I think if obama goes after a successful President, he’ll lose all the rest of his made up reputation. And seeing what Trump has done already.. a President Trump will be even more effective and more brave in doing what he came to do... which is to undo the damage.

obama is having a fit over losing it all... he can’t stand to be replaced... to have someone else in his seat of power... it’s been a long time coming for us!!

I recall the Elder Bush said what he missed about being back in TX, was his coffee was not delivered to him every morning. That is a minor thing... but obama is going to be taken from the highest to where “we don’t care”... he won’t have the magic wand to summon the obedient media to his side. He had more than he deserved, paid for by our tax dollars... and tried to change our country into something HE wanted. He’ll be gone in a few days!!!


73 posted on 01/15/2017 4:02:56 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think it’s great that the worst president ever doesn’t seem to understand how soundly his policies were rejected in this last election. Under his tenure, there’s was also a huge amount of damage done to the seats Democrats had held at a national state and county level.

What’s fun about this is that there are probably A LOT of Democrats who want him to go away and stop damaging the party. But if they speak up, they will be labeled racists, bwah-hah-hah-hah! They’re stuck with this narcissistic race-baiting moron, and I’m loving it.


74 posted on 01/15/2017 4:05:06 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Jyotishi
Speaking of Alt, what ever happened to the so called Alt Right? We heard so much about it leading up to the election. Not so much anymore. Another fraud given to us by the fake media and the filthy democrats.
75 posted on 01/15/2017 4:16:18 PM PST by peeps36 (Obama = the skidmark on America's underwear.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m waiting for Bambi to announce that he’s a Muslim. I think the only thing that has kept him from this was his wife, who was having too good a time to put on the chador - and it would have made bad PR, in any case. But he doesn’t have to worry about that anymore. Or about her, either, for that matter.


76 posted on 01/15/2017 4:16:40 PM PST by livius
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To: EnglishOnly

I’m thinking Trump has turned this particular investigation over to the Mossad.


77 posted on 01/15/2017 4:30:42 PM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him); Charles Martel for President)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A failed policy president that has no legacy and no successful actions is going to advise the liberal party on how to counter a sitting president in control of both houses and soon the supreme court? Please get started soon, will you, please, you idiot.

red


78 posted on 01/15/2017 4:50:04 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Zero has one option - fomenting violence everywhere. If he does it, he should have an opportunity to experience GITMO.


79 posted on 01/15/2017 4:51:42 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Hiro Protaginast; sargon

You can ask me whatever you want.

I didn’t photoshop a damn thing.

For one, I don’t know how to photoshop and, two, Lewis doesn’t require any uglying up, visually, politically, or personally, in my opinion.

I took the picture off the google image page for Lewis.

Go ahead, look for yourself. You’ll find several that are worse.


80 posted on 01/15/2017 4:54:54 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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