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President Obama claims he is 'confident' he could have beaten Trump in 2016
The Week ^
| December 26, 2016
| Jeva Lange
Posted on 12/26/2016 7:23:39 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama defended his vision of America on David Axelrod's The Axe Files podcast, claiming he is confident "that if I had run again and articulated [this vision], I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it."
The interview was the latest in Obama's post-election and pre-exit analysis, and he told his former senior adviser that despite Donald Trump winning, "what I would argue is, is that the culture actually did shift, that the majority does buy into the notion of a one America that is tolerant and diverse and open and full of energy and dynamism." Obama instead blamed the Democrats for ignoring swaths of the voting population: "If you think you're winning, then you have a tendency, just like in sports, maybe to play it safer," he said of Hillary Clinton's defeat. Listen here.
TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016; 3; axelrod; hillary; hillarylost; imamobama; jackassinchief; mullahobama; obama; obamalost; obamathirdterm; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah, and if he was a real man, maybe his two girls wouldn’t look so different.
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:25:25 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:26:07 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He’s confident about an impossibility.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Keep believing that you arrogant POS community organizing cheater. You would have had the same result as Hillary did. People don’t like you. Unless they are Muslim or want access to your money.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The only thing obama can beat is his meat..
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:27:17 AM PST
by
AFret.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I coulda won, I tell ya, I coulda won!
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:27:29 AM PST
by
JPG
(TRUMP WINS!!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
True.....by fraud.......and then Trump would have challenged and exposed this.....and then go on to win with the REAL vote.....it would have been another great win in our effort to clean up our country
But....we will just have to save this chore for later....but it will come up, no doubt
To: Gaffer
I have no love for him or Michelle, but that was uncalled for.
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:27:56 AM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think this is more to signify to Democrats he’s the power in that party and not the Clintons.
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:29:39 AM PST
by
dowcaet
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This man-boy is really delusional.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, since we were voting on Obie’s third term, clearly he didn’t.
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:30:06 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(I held my nose, voted for Trump, then took a shower. All to defeat evil.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Listen here......
No thanks.
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:30:10 AM PST
by
Fzob
(Let the saving love of Christ be the measure of our lives.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:31:02 AM PST
by
Fido969
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:31:34 AM PST
by
Mercat
(Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama claims he is 'confident' he could have beaten Trump in 2016
Black turnout for Hillary was terrible, and most election analysts say that if she'd gotten the same black turnout that Obama did, she would have won. If Obama had been able to run for a third term, the black turnout would have been there and he probably would have won. We should celebrate Trump's win, but we can't get complacent - there's work to do if this is to be an 8 year presidency.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama admitted he cried at a recent senior staff send-off dinner .....
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Says the poster child, man-child that is,for failed leftism.
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:31:50 AM PST
by
Leep
(Stronger without her!)
To: Fzob
I coulda been a contender.
I coulda been somebody...
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:31:55 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: SandyInSeattle
He needs to keep his mouth shut. He and Hillary lost. He cannot be allowed to set up a shadow government. Lastly, I still believe what I said.
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posted on
12/26/2016 7:32:01 AM PST
by
Gaffer
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