Posted on 05/31/2018 8:47:58 AM PDT by cq
President Barack Obama was veritably shell-shocked in the wake of Donald Trump's election victory in 2016, and even asked aides What if we were wrong? as he struggled to come to terms with Hillary Clinton's defeat, former adviser Ben Rhodes writes in a new memoir coming out in June.
The book, titled "The World As It Is," highlights efforts by Obama's brain trust to reassure him that he would have won re-election if he were allowed to run for a third term.
But Obama remained alternately optimistic and dejected, according to Rhodes, who has been feted as an aspiring novelist-turned national security wunderkind.
Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early, Obama told aides, according to the memoir. Maybe we pushed too far. ... Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“... maybe he was only a political John the Baptist...”
It’s a shame he didn’t end his days like John the Baptist...
i don’t think Barry thinks he is ever incorrect.
‘I find this hard to believe. Obama thinks he is right about everything. He would never pose such questions.’
It may be a myth. Otoh, if you read it carefully, Obama IS saying he was right. He’s merely speculating that the rabble was too primitive, backwards and ignorant to appreciate Obama’s superior thoughts and accomplishments.
‘Second, he is really only talking about white people when he is talking about tribalism.’
Obama’s name for the white people’s tribe is the, ‘Bitter Clingers.’
I had the same thought.
Yea he was, he and the FBI and DOJ procrastinated and didn’t design a contingency just in case because their arrogance. Idiots! That’s why Mueller and party are still playing this collusion game to drag it on while they try and come up with another way. Too late! We better see there people in orange suits soon, better yet, line them up on a firing squad so they can’t be pardoned in the future.
Wrong: politically, intellectually, ethically, morally. Yep.
Ironically, he was finally right about something.
More like panic and fast plans to leave the country, lest he be implicated in the Hillary Treason crimes coverup - “Watergate times One Hundred”
This is obamas REAL legacy ....
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