Posted on 05/31/2018 7:00:16 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
WASHINGTON — Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.
“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.
He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”
His aides reassured him that he still would have won had he been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Mr. Trump. Mr. Obama, the first black man elected president, did not seem convinced. “Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said.
In the weeks after Mr. Trump’s election, Mr. Obama went through multiple emotional stages, according to a new book by his longtime adviser Benjamin J. Rhodes. At times, the departing president took the long view, at other points, he flashed anger. He called Mr. Trump a “cartoon” figure who cared more about his crowd sizes than any particular policy. And he expressed rare self-doubt, wondering whether he had misjudged his own influence on American history.
Set to be published next week by Random House, Mr. Rhodes’s memoir, “The World as It Is,” offers a peek into Mr. Obama’s tightly sealed inner sanctum from the perspective of one of the few people who saw him up close through all eight years of his presidency. Few moments shook Mr. Obama more than the decision by voters to replace him with a candidate who had questioned his very birth.
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Ben Rhodes: [paraphrased] I don’t understand! We colluded with everyone - Russia, the MSM, Soros, the FBI, and the CIA for God's sake!... and we still lost! I just don’t understand how this could happen!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/07/more-texts-between-strzok-and-page-uncovered-lead-to-more-questions.html
Newly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted “to know everything we’re doing."
All Obama did was cater to identity politics.
“What if we were too early trying to take over with 100% socialism?”
That’s exactly what they are implying.
They have infiltrated all level of the government, and schools, and thought they were ready to finish it.
He is probably correct- another 10 years of the same and we might have been too far gone for a Trump to come in an tear down what they tried to do.
What a steaming pile of BS. The Dems depend on identity politics to win elections.
We’ve been given a temporary reprieve.
Great be ALL credit to Trump and his brilliant campaign against ALL ODDS
And all kinds of lies subterfuge cheating spying and fraud
It all came down to PA WI MI AND FL
he allocated resources correctly
Flew around doing three campaign appearances
It’s a miracle yes but ONLY
because the love this’s great man has
In a way, we are lucky McCain and Romney lost. In a way we are lucky Obama beat them.
“His aides reassured him that he still would have won had he been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Mr. Trump”
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Guess he forgot about his stadium full of people and all the columns.....This is all horseshit....
obozo’s legacy: ffffaaaaadddiiinnnggg aawwaaaayyyyy.........
“What if we were wrong?”
He’s not one that’s likely to accept fault. More likely he said “you”.
Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.
Trump uses “Tribe”, and the MSM would explode. Barry O, no problem....
No one with 1/2 a brain believes Obama questioned his take on the American people. He knew from the beginning he stood against the American voter. This is pure poppycock.
The tone of the book sounds a bit breathy, like a romance novel.
I agree.
Agreed.
Who do these elitist pricks think they are? Who gave them the right to take away our individuality for their pipe dream of globalism?
Why do I have to give up my 'tribe' based on someone elses' unproven theory that it will make the world a better place?
Stripping everyone of their group identity won't make anyone happy. It will make them angry and resentful.
Rebellion, civil war, bloodshed to follow.
Consider this sentence from the article:
“Mr. Obama did not impose sanctions on Russia in retaliation for the meddling before the election because he believed it might prompt Moscow into hacking into Election Day vote tabulations.”
Rhodes is ADMITTING that they know that election results (most of which are tabulated on Soros-owned voting machines) can be hacked! We have got to get back to paper ballots.
If Trump had said “...fall back into their tribe” we’d still be hearing about it.
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