Posted on 07/17/2018 10:41:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Barack Obama said on Tuesday the world should resist cynicism over the rise of strongmen, in an apparent reference to populist leaders who hold power in a number of countries. […]
“Just as people spoke about the triumph of democracy in the 90s, people now are talking about the triumph of tribalism and the strong man. But we need to resist that cynicism,” Obama said in a speech in Johannesburg to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela.
Some of Obama’s language echoed that of Trump’s critics.
“Too much of politics today seems to reject the very concept of objective truth. People just make stuff up. We see it in the growth of state-sponsored propaganda, we see it in internet-driven fabrications, in the blurring of lines between news and entertainment,” Obama said. “We see the utter loss of shame among political leaders, where they are caught in a lie and they just double down and they lie some more.” …
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Hussein was the WeakMan...
“Strong” and “man” are two words which nobody associates with Barack Obama.
The only people who were scared of Obama were Congressional Republicans.
No, but “doubl(ing) down and l(ying) some more” certainly does fit him to a T.
Nope; they weren’t scared of him. They loved him. They were waiting with bated breath for Hillary to take office and were crushed when Trump won.
Coming from the wussie former President this is priceless. Wonder who told him that’s going on? He wouldn’t know a strong man unless he noticed him carrying his golf clubs.
We should have rejected the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Barack Obama was never eligible to be President.
BOTH parties wanted the natural born citizen requirement nullified.
BOTH parties colluded to violate the Constitution.
[“Too much of politics today seems to reject the very concept of objective truth. People just make stuff up. We see it in the growth of state-sponsored propaganda, we see it in internet-driven fabrications, in the blurring of lines between news and entertainment,” Obama said. “We see the utter loss of shame among political leaders, where they are caught in a lie and they just double down and they lie some more.” …]
World Class projection.
As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.
In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.
Thank God he was a lazy marxist, he could have done a lot more damage to this country.
When “Slims” Obama uses words such as “strong” and “man” the pathetic image of him working out with 5 pound hand weights pops into my mind. What an embarrassment he was and is.
He us trying to wreck an Election and a Presidency. He has seeded the Federal bureaucracies with traitors and statists.
The damage he has done is immense and snowballing.
He us far from lazy. He is a Satanic menace.
Go to hell you G*” Da** globalist f***.
The stongest man Obama knows is married to him
New tagger
One of my favorite movies.
HEY zer0 SHUT THE F UP!!!
Reuters - aka gloBULL warming central - left out the following:
17 Jul: NPR: Transcript: Obama’s Speech At The 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
OBAMA: Confession number two: I forgot my geography and the fact that right now it’s winter in South Africa. (Laughter.) I didn’t bring a coat, and this morning I had to send somebody out to the mall because I am wearing long johns. (Laughter.) I was born in Hawaii...
One hundred years ago, Madiba was born in the village of M – oh, see there, I always get that – (laughter) – I got to get my Ms right when I’m in South Africa. Mvezo – I got it. (Cheers and applause.) Truthfully, it’s because it’s so cold my lips stuck. (Laughter.)…
I can find common ground for those who oppose the Paris Accords because, for example, they might say, well, it’s not going to work, you can’t get everybody to cooperate, or they might say it’s more important for us to provide cheap energy for the poor, even if it means in the short term that there’s more pollution. At least I can have a debate with them about that and I can show them why I think clean energy is the better path, especially for poor countries, that you can leapfrog old technologies. (***Cheers.) I can’t find common ground if somebody says climate change is just not happening, when almost all of the world’s scientists tell us it is. I don’t know where to start talking to you about this. (Laughter.) If you start saying it’s an elaborate hoax, I don’t know what to – (laughter) – where do we start?...
I don’t think of myself as a great leader just because I don’t completely make stuff up...
Anyway, we see it in the promotion of anti-intellectualism and the rejection of science from leaders who find critical thinking and data somehow politically inconvenient...
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629862434/transcript-obamas-speech-at-the-2018-nelson-mandela-annual-lecture
listen for about a minute from 1hr10mins40secs - no ***cheers, just a single person screams, as if it were staged, before Obama even speaks the sentence about leapfrogging old technologies (aka fossil fuels)and going straight to intermittent, unreliable “clean energy”:
17 Jul: Youtube: SABC: Former U.S. President Obama delivers the 16th Nelson Mandela annual lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9lMLkQxm10
remember this:
Jul 2013: Gateway Pundit: Jim Hoft: Oh Brother… Obama Warns Africans If They Get Air Conditioning the “Planet Will Boil Over” (Video)
What an embarrassment this president has become.
Obama told Africans on Saturday if they get air conditioning and cars
“the planet will boil over.”
CNS News reported:
President Barack Obama said at a town hall event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday that unless we find new way of producing energy “the planet will boil over” if people in Africa are allowed to attain air conditioning, automobiles and big houses.
“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over — unless we find new ways of producing energy.”
Video below the fold…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/knucklehead-obama-warns-africans-if-they-get-air-conditioning-the-planet-will-boil-over-video/
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