Posted on 09/08/2018 2:18:51 PM PDT by Kaslin
Former President Barack Obama came out of retirement Friday afternoon to slam President Trump, take credit for the Trump economy, berate Republicans, lecture the country on civility and more.
.@BarackObama: “[Donald Trump] is just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.” pic.twitter.com/6NxqP9dfcH— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 7, 2018
.@BarackObama: “Over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.” pic.twitter.com/EwJJ8zQtyH— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 7, 2018
.@BarackObama: “When you hear about how great the economy is doing right now, let’s just remember when this recovery started.” pic.twitter.com/xnWpiX7KQV— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 7, 2018
.@BarackObama: “What happened to the Republican Party?” pic.twitter.com/1KvgHqk5ZV— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 7, 2018
In addition, he did his best to talk about rebuilding the Democrat Party he destroyed. During his presidency, the Party lost more than 1,000 seats from the local to the federal level.
.@BarackObama: “As a fellow citizen I’m here to deliver a simple message and that is that you need to vote, because our democracy depends on it.” pic.twitter.com/oGntD2NptV— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 7, 2018
.@BarackObama: “Just a glance at recent headlines should tell you that this moment really is different, the stakes really are higher.” pic.twitter.com/PChPM3kw7J— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 7, 2018
He also claimed he's pro-free speech, despite his Justice Department spying on reporters and their executives. This included taking their phone records and naming at least on Fox News reporter as a criminal conspirator, which required Attorney General Eric Holder's DOJ to lie to a federal judge.
From the New York Times:
The Obama administration, which has a chilling zeal for investigating leaks and prosecuting leakers, has failed to offer a credible justification for secretly combing through the phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press in what looks like a fishing expedition for sources and an effort to frighten off whistle-blowers.
On Friday, Justice Department officials revealed that they had been going through The A.P.’s records for months. The dragnet covered work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 people at one of the oldest and most reputable news organizations. James Cole, a deputy attorney general, offered no further explanation on Tuesday, saying only that it was part of a “criminal investigation involving highly classified material” from early 2012.
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said he could not comment on the details of the phone records seizure, which he said was an open investigation — although he was happy to comment on the open investigation into the tax audits of conservative groups, which he said might have been criminal and were “certainly outrageous and unacceptable.”
I'll leave you with this.
Obama always says that President DJT is divisive and pits groups of Americans against each other. This is a classic case of blaming others for what he did. Obama is the Worlds Champ of this category.
A stronger case can be made that President DJ T is the uniter.
Barrack OBottom ALERT!
Barrack Obama is clearly a continuing member of his Choom Gang. A toke too far. Whacky. Every accusation he made of PDJT were things he did himself.
How I wish this fool would just dry up and blow away!
..off the edge of the cliff.
[He’s the kiss of death for Democrat candidates.]
Has been for many, for sure.
Some moron, excuse me, Democrat here is running old “Hope and Change” ads on TV. I kid you not.
WOOHOOOOO!!! BUMP!!!
I truly believe without his teleprompter he would be a babbling idiot to all. They complain about Trump and his redundancy as being a fault, well, it happens if you are not being controlled by a teleprompter. When it comes to reading talking points from a screen, anyone can sound articulate it. Did Obama actually say what he did to reverse the economy? As soon as the announcement that trump won the market went up, so he did improve the economy. If Trump lost we would continue to be in debt and the unemployed would be selling apples on the streets. No one in their right mind would think of investing in the Obama economy,if Hillary won, the same ole Econocrat$ would use the same failing ideas. It doesn’t bother the politicians, they just decide when they need a raise, and give themselves one, while behind the closed doors all you hear is the kaching kaching of the lobbyists donation$. Conspiracy? Maybe not.
Oh my ... how ...... accurate!
weird how the media never point out any of those facts
love it
The REAL recovery began when Obama left office. At most he gets credit for that.
I just wish Odungo would drop dead and roast in hell, ASAP. Has anyone ever heard of a former president who, instead of retiring quietly to their ranch or home, works full time to sow discord and division in the country and actively promotes working against the policies of the new president, even advocating impeachment on no grounds whatsoever? Why isn’t this piece of garbage in Gitmo, or least in jail for sedition?
Go back to Kenya, and take Michael with you.
Obama, a housefly’s best landing spot.
Why was he ever allowed to usurp the office?
He is not eligible.
Every bit as dignified as Serena Williams.
This idiotic claim is dead simple to refute. We know that Trump has dismantled and reversed most of Obama’s policies, so if Obama is responsible for the great economy, how did he do it?
On second thought, maybe he is telling the truth: His actions caused such devastation that the People elected Trump in response who then turned the economy around. So see, in a warped sort of way Obama is responsible for the current booming economy!
Jug-Earred bastido
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