Posted on 07/18/2018 9:22:35 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for women to get more involved in social movements because men have been "getting on my nerves."
"Women, in particular, by the way, I want you to get more involved," Obama said while hosting a town hall for young African leaders in South Africa. "Because men have been getting on my nerves lately. I mean, every day, I read the newspaper and I just think like, brothers what’s wrong with you guys? What’s wrong with us?
Obama added that "empowering more women on the continent" would "lead to some better policies" right away.
CNN notes that Obama later said that both men and women cannot pretend that politics doesn't matter.
"The one thing you can't do is pretend that politics doesn't matter and say to yourself 'that's too corrupt, that's too broken, I'm not going to get involved in it' because at some point if you are ambitious about what you are doing in your home country, you will confront politics," Obama said.
His call for action came a day after Obama appeared to indirectly criticize President Trump while delivering the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg.
In his speech on Tuesday, Obama warned that “strongman politics are ascending suddenly, whereby elections, some pretense of democracy, are maintained, the form of it.”
He also brought up leaders who "completely make stuff up" in an apparent dig at Trump, adding that the undermining of facts could lead to democracy's "undoing."
"We see the utter loss of shame in political leaders when they’re caught in a lie and they just double down and lie some more," Obama said.
The speech came just one day after Trump drew widespread condemnation for the comments he made in a joint press conference in Finland with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Obama's call for women to get more involved coincides with a year in which many women are running for public office. In March, Politico reported that at least 575 women had declared intention to run for the House, the Senate or governor.
haha zing!
Liberalism really got rolling in this country after the passage of the 19th. Amendment.
Just sayin’.
...particularly on foreign soil.
Barry doesn’t like the rise of Strong Men? Men are getting on his nerves?
So he admits he is a Weak Man? Or maybe not a man at all?
Actually, it got rolling with the 16th Amendment. Without the income tax, the federal government wouldn't have the money it needs to do all the crap it does. That's why the feds and the Progressives wanted the 16th Amendment.
Actions speak louder than words.
“I mean, every day, I read the newspaper and I just think like, brothers what’s wrong with you guys? What’s wrong with us?”
Obama, There is nothing wrong with US, it was your fault all along.
#RUNAWAY
Our leaders used to appeal to facts and reason. Now they have to appeal to feelings.
Ah, Bob Dylan!
That's not all they've been getting on there, Barkie.
Why doesn’t he put on a dress when he says these things?
And these visions, of Bob Dylan, are now all that remain.
Such a catty thing for the Bony Butt-hogger to say. Did he stomp his foot when he said it?
Which “nerve” is that Barry? Those pesky men alway make life harder for you politicosexuals, huh?
white men are getting on his nerves. they are not his “type”
In school there was always that one guy who shunned male company and seemed to fit right in with the girls.
That’s Obumagabe.
Little bitch boy Obama needs a man to bitchslap his mouth.
Really? Like a video causing the deaths of four Americans at Benghazi? or "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, or his apology tour around the world bowing to various Country leaders; or signing into law the 'biggest middle-class tax cut in history; (read for yourselves)
Obama never ever took the blame himself for some of the most dangerous acts of cowardice, for lack of a better word. Obama besmirches by innuendo or by name, our duly elected POTUS as he travels around the world today. This narcissistic ex president even sees his library as a mosque.
Mecca and the Obama Library:
Obama is suffering from being a closet bigot and fagamuffin.....
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