Posted on 11/12/2020 3:20:23 PM PST by rickmichaels
Barack Obama slams Republicans as xenophobic and paranoid in his forthcoming memoir, which focuses on his first term in the White House.
In the 768-page tome, entitled 'A Promised Land' and out on November 17, Obama reflects on his political career but divulges in the personal, admitting life in the White House increased his smoking habit and caused tension in his marriage with Michelle.
He also speaks to race relations in the United States, writing it was his own historic election as the nation's first black president that sparked some of the current division in the country.
'It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted,' Obama writes in the book, which was obtained by CNN.
Donald Trump, he claims, sensed the country's mood and took advantage of it to win the White House in the 2016 election.
'Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety,' he writes.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sarah Palin was the reason I cast my first vote ever.. I didn’t care for McCain too much.
To quote a line from a John Waters movie...
Well, Barack I guess there’s two kinds of people in this world.
My kind of people.
And aholes.
I think its rather obvious which category you fall into.
Have a NICE day.
Does anyone take anything Obama says seriously anymore?
The ONLY people who talk about race, and just won’t shut up about race, are the bloody left.
And Mr. Obama, YOU PERSONALLY are responsible for the monstrous setback in race relations during and after your residency in the White House.
It’s unfortunate he was the first black to occupy the White House because he set such a poor example of leadership.
Narcissistic little queer negro, isn’t he?
ESADBS
Still a lying sack.
I guess he isn’t interested in the “hands across the aisle” bullshit, either.
Good.
Man, that guy squandered such an opportunity.
“See, anyone can become President. Look at me! The US is the greatest country in the world, and if you try hard enough you can become President, or more useful, a Doctor, Lawyer, tradesman, etc. It’s up to you!”
Instead he divided this country. A conplete waste of a ‘first’.
This from one of the most rabid racists in America today (yup, The Won: Barack Ogamugabe).
Sounds to me like Reggie has moved on.
As usual, it is all about him.
So notice the difference between Bush and Obama; whereas Bush suggests that Trump surrender, Obama declares a new civil war. The Bush/elitist Republicans have put us in the mess we’re at every bit as mush as people like Obama. Both must be destroyed.
It’s still all about Hussein. You didn’t build that majority, Joe, I did!
Curiously, no talk of race on the Masters telecast as so many of us deplorables root for Tiger.
ML/NJ
I wonder how much he wrote himself.
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