Posted on 04/06/2019 12:22:39 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: Democrats are having a ‘circular firing squad’ over ‘purity’
By Mary Kay Linge
April 6, 2019 | 11:38am | Updated April 6, 2019 | 1:38pm
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday chided fellow Democrats for creating a “circular firing squad” that targets party members who don’t support far-left views.
“The way we structure democracy requires you to take into account people who don’t agree with you,” he said at an Obama Foundation town hall event in Berlin, Germany. “And that by definition means you’re not going to get 100 percent of what you want.
“One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives,” he continued, “we start sometimes creating what’s called a ‘circular firing squad’ where you start shooting at your allies because one of them has strayed from purity on the issues.”
Seventeen Democrats have announced they are running for the party’s presidential nomination in 2020, and more are expected to enter the race. Legislative proposals from the pack include free college tuition, government-run health care and reparations for slavery and segregation.
Obama also warned the town hall audience of 300 against nationalism and the “bloodshed” that can follow.
“Nationalism, particularly from the far right, has re-emerged,” he said. “And we know where that leads. Europe knows better than anyone where that leads.”
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I just wish they would use real rifles and live ammunition.
“Nationalism has re-emerged,” he said. “And we know where that leads.”
If you’re not a nationalist, then you have business sitting in the Oval Office.
They are struggling to see which can be the more purely evil!
They ALL take the prize!
There’s nothing ‘pure’ about the ‘progressive’ agenda. It’s about dead babies, destruction of the family, and replacing God with the state.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
Get popcorn and watch the show.
Oh, I think he did plenty of coke in office. What makes you think coke is a performance enhancer. It’s not.
Purity=Socialism
He said, not me.
Guess there was was no free sausage this time.
We can only hope... :(
Go away private citizen Barry ,Nancy and Chuck are in charge ,LOL
He should be in the middle of that circular firing squad scumbag!
Say what you want about the guy, but he ‘gets it’ in a purely (cynically) political sense. Obama is telling the Democrats to not let the ‘cat out of the bag’ about what they’re really about.
He wants them to adopt the strategy of sounding more ‘centrist’ during election time, knowing full well they’re lying, of course, and then governing hard left once in office. That’s been their ‘traditional’ strategy, but they’re not even trying to hide it anymore. And he knows it will get them electorally routed in 2020.
Sounds like Boobamba is not so artful with his language. He’s in Germany talking about “firing squads” and “nationalism”.
Isn’t Deutscheland the former capital of that stuff? Aren’t his guests a little big upset at his candor?
Speaking of Circle Jerks...
Guess there was was no free sausage this time.
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LMAO, best wisecrack of the day!
Historically the Democrats strength has been unity. Likewise the Republicans weakness has been divisiveness.
Sounds like they learned from us.
(2016)
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