Posted on 09/11/2018 7:13:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
He's back! President Obama has emerged from his supposed cloistered life to attack President Trump. Obama broke with a tradition apparently only modern Republican ex-presidents follow, which is not to speak ill of your successor.
Obama, who reportedly has been running his "Organizing for America" operation, along with his White House aide Valerie Jarrett from his expensive home in a Washington neighborhood, spoke to a group of University of Illinois students last Friday, claiming it was his policies, not those of President Trump, that have produced the current economic boom.
"When you hear how great the economy's doing right now, let's just remember when this recovery started," Obama said.
But during the Obama administration, the Gross Domestic Product never exceeded 3 percent annually. Obama said the days of strong economic growth were behind us, that many manufacturing jobs were lost and not returning and that candidate Trump didn't have a "magic wand" to fix the economy. But in the second quarter of this year, economic growth exceeded 4 percent and manufacturing jobs are making a comeback.
By the time Obama left office, the unemployment rate had declined from a high approaching 8 percent at the start of his administration to just under 5 percent, but was beginning to tick back upward, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In less than two years of the Trump administration, the nation has effectively gained full employment (3.9 percent unemployment rate) with minority unemployment reaching record lows.
Obama should receive some credit for the way his administration helped the country after the 2007 recession, but not all the credit he now claims for himself.
Hourly earnings, which were largely stagnant during the Obama years, have increased an average 2.9 percent over the last year.
Obama's speech was part of a carefully coordinated strategy to win back a House majority for Democrats. This has included demonstrators at the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh; the Bob Woodward book "Fear" and the daily and sometimes hourly torrent of anti-Trump invective from the major media, which see impeachment as their only hope of returning the establishment to power.
Trump did himself a favor by not responding to Obama's speech in kind. Instead of taking to Twitter for a blistering attack, he joked that Obama's speech put him to sleep.
The president did something last week I have long urged him to do. Statistics are dry. Show people who have jobs they couldn't find during the Obama years.
In a speech in North Dakota, the president brought a man onstage who thanked him for his economic policies that allowed the man to go back to work.
Here's how The Daily Caller reported the story: "The man told a story about the coal industry under Obama and how 'the coal industry absolutely had the boot of government on its throat.
"'Many, many jobs were lost,' the coal miner said, 'and many towns were destroyed by this. It was just a horrible thing. Horrible suffering happened in this country. Really for made-up reasons, I think. And what your administration does -- has done -- is bringing us back to life.'"
The audience cheered.
This is the way to counter the resistance. Keep showcasing people who were unemployed during the Obama years, but now have jobs. The president should then say if Democrats win a congressional majority they will stifle his successes and try to return to the failed policies of the past.
That objective is what Obama meant in his speech. It is the opposite strategy, one that is working, that President Trump stressed in his. A show and tell approach can work against the tidal wave of opposition coming from the left.
Flesh and blood are more powerful than ink and paper and TV news.
Republican Presidents don’t follow that tradition either when it comes to President Trump.
George W. Bush should hide his head in shame for telling US that Islam is a religion of peace in the face of 1396 years of evidence to the contrary.
And for refusing to secure the borders when we were under attack.
Bammy is such a pathetic parasite.
This has been two months of coordinated Attacks against the President and the American people. I am hearing that America changed forever on 09/11/01. However, that change appears to be for the worst, at least with Democrats.
The truth is that the elite class on both sides of the aisle are screaming because they’ve been making a fortune while hollowing out the middle/working class.
Apparently despite all the Congressional testimony and his vile plot to subvert a Presidential election and prevent a duly elected President from taking office, Obama is convinced nothing will ultimately happen. After all despite all the evidence, there have been no indictments, arrests or trials of his loyal henchmen. He now feels confident that he can emerge and once again spew out his vile, hateful arrogance.
His hatred of America,
His hatred of the Constitution,
His lies about his failures,
His destructive policies,
His reliance on Executive Orders to undermine the will of the people,
His stifling of the economy,
His undermining of our great Military.
Nobody should listen to him. Since George Washington left office to melt away into obscurity, every single POTUS has done the same. It is expected and demanded. Obama should be shouted down by the people of all political parties and by all American media!
“George W. Bush should hide his head in shame for telling US that Islam is a religion of peace in the face of 1396 years of evidence to the contrary.”
BushCo has no shame, and they proudly VOTED for our domestic enemy.
Terri Schiavo, you Coward Bushes. Terri Schiavo.
Commie SOB is upset because he failed to “fundamentally transform” The United States.
Every utterance from Obama reminds us of:
His hatred of America,
His hatred of the Constitution,
His lies about his failures,
His destructive policies,
His reliance on Executive Orders to undermine the will of the people,
His stifling of the economy,
His undermining of our great Military.
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Yes, every one of those was one cut in his plan to bleed America to death by a thousand cuts.
The reason Obama is untouchable is because BOTH parties conspired to violate the Constitution.
None of the participants of the Kenyanesian Usurpation will be prosecuted because almost everyone in the District of Corruption was complicit.
Obama Goes on Attack, But Arguments Fall Flat Against Trump Successes
Proving once again that Obam is the biggest horse’s ass, incompetent, lier, Bullshit er ever to occupy the white hut.
The Constitution says he can’t be President.
Too bad not one of our elected or appointed would stand for it.
Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
He was born a British subject.
Anyone born with multiple nationalities in not naturally an American.
Natural born citizens have only ONE nationality.
Barack Hussein Obama, the political joke and failure of the century..a total waste. Dems have no real strong leaders, just power hungry, greedy, self-centered ego maniacs like Obama, Clinton, Booker, Warren, Harris, Sanders, Pelosi, Water Schumer, et., etc.!!! Stay tuned to this political three ring circus of losers!!!
All that Obama accomplished last week was to remind a heck of a lot of people what a sanctimonious idiot he is. I was reminded of what a child he is. I was reminded of what a snot-nosed brat he is. I was reminded of how damned annoying the cadence of his speech is. I was reminded of how petty he is. I was reminded of how mendacious he is.
Do you have some mechanism in mind to undo his 8 years?
You didn’t do that syndrome.
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