Posted on 12/07/2024 12:12:03 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Former President Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2024 Obama Democracy Forum on Thursday night in Chicago. This year’s theme was “pluralism.”
He studiously avoided saying the name of the president-elect, but the presence of Donald Trump hung over the whole event like a particularly grotesque balloon at a Macy’s Thanksgiving parade.
Obama’s characteristic rhetorical virtues were on full display. He was a constitutional law professor before he was a politician, and he still sounds like one. At the same time, he was a once-in-a-generation talent as a political communicator. He knows how to convey a complex set of ideas in a digestible and appealing way.
But there was a massive gaping hole at the center of his speech. He still doesn’t understand why his eight years in power culminated in the rise of Trump. Despite his considerable talents, his brand of centrist liberalism is fundamentally inadequate to the historical moment in which he now finds himself. And his speech in Chicago offered nothing but more of the same.
In Obama's telling of the story of America’s experiment in political pluralism, the system worked pretty smoothly in the 20th century, but all wasn’t well beneath the surface.
...We urgently need a far better response to the current crisis than anything the dominant faction of the Democratic Party is offering. And the first step is to stop listening to Barack Obama
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WHICH country that does NOT extradite will he go to????
Dime store Akinsky can’t go far enough away…
Barack Obama a street hustler with a thesaurus.
When your political career is launched at a member of The Weather Underground’s home, you are not a centrist.
Obama was too centrist. We need a more radical left wing revolutionary to bring us to the promised land.
He was tool - a creation of the CIA groomed to bring down the United States.
just another lie to think he is normal
IOW a sneaky little shit.....most cowards are
“...centrist liberalism...”
LOL
Bullcrap... He is and has always been an Affirmative Action/DEI dumbass; the worst sort of POS - an arrogant ignoramous.
Obama’s stench is still well-embedded in our government, military, and certain groups (BLM, Antifa).
And I doubt he ever will.
Obviously not.
Obama is just a stooge. Every president in the 21st century has been a stooge.
Except one.
He was a serviceable orator at best. He was swarthy so the left set the bar low. Off teleprompter he’s a stuttering, stammering dipshit. He has even lost his teleprompter skills based on that Bidenesque freezing he did.
Obama is just a stooge. Every president in the 21st century has been a stooge.
Except one.
Amen to that!
Yup—the left’s total lack of curiosity about the history of his mother is amazing to behold.
See my tagline.
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