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Obama to Lefties: Get Over Being 'Woke'
Townhall.com ^ | October 30, 2019 | Timothy Meads

Posted on 10/30/2019 9:59:59 AM PDT by Kaslin

Have you ever wondered how far left the Democratic Party has gone since 2008, let alone 2016? Well, as an example, former President Barack Obama likely would have been chased off the campaign trail had he made some recent comments of his as a 2020 Democratic primary candidate. On Tuesday, President Obama told an audience at the Obama Foundation Summit that they need to get over being "woke" and realize that simply judging people and "casting stones" does not equate to activism.

"This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly," Obama told the group as seen in the clip below.

"The world is messy," he continued. "There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids. And you know, share certain things with you. And I think that one danger that I see amongst young people...and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of, 'the way of making change, is to be as judgmental as possible about other people.'"

"Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb or then, I can sit back and feel good about myself, because, 'Man, You see how woke I was? I called you out.'I'm gonna get on TV. Watch my show, watch 'Grownish.' You know, that’s not activism," the president continued. "That’s not bringing about change."

"If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get very far. That's easy to do," he remarked.

Former President Obama to young people: “This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're politically woke, and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly”

Obama goes on to slam people who engage in cancel culture and who look to create constant online outrage


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
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To: Kaslin
If you are too woke for Gandhi, you are going to be too woke for Obama.

https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2019/10/17/gandhi-must-fall-uk-university-students-protest-against-planned-statue.html?fbclid=IwAR3C2TeiL9mKfxwkicwz1L_DNfPkbrGEEhpgJje_aLpfMnmnmNB6AYy0oT0


61 posted on 10/30/2019 1:21:03 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (TAX the WOKE !)
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To: Kaslin

How DARE he?


62 posted on 10/30/2019 1:29:38 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Lemon Curry
It’s all about putting a coat of paint over the extreme left party. The man can read polls.

Or it's about undercutting the entire RAT field who continue to find ways to one-up themselves at every debate in being woke. What are they going to do, reverse course? They're stuck. Guess someone not running now will have to get in.

63 posted on 10/30/2019 1:35:33 PM PDT by Dahoser
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To: Thank You Rush

“I have no idea what he was trying to say...”

It’s left-speak - you’re not his audience.


64 posted on 10/30/2019 1:51:44 PM PDT by LouieFisk (https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/16/trump-letter-to-turkeys-erdogan-dont-be-a-foo)
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To: Lemon Curry

“It’s all about putting a coat of paint over the extreme left party. The man can read polls.”

Exactly.


65 posted on 10/30/2019 1:53:10 PM PDT by LouieFisk (https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/16/trump-letter-to-turkeys-erdogan-dont-be-a-foo)
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To: Kaslin
Does this mean we no longer have to be bitter to cling to guns and religion?

Asking for an entire cohort...

66 posted on 10/30/2019 2:28:41 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: NYAmerican

“They just may be ready to retreat just enough to resume their covert attacks on western culture, a strategy which has been tremendously successful for them in previous decades.”

What are you talking about?

In 2010, the CommieRats lost 1,000 state elections, resulting in the Republicans controlling 35 states, while the rats controlled 11 states.

In 2016, Trump crushed the rat hero Hillary, resulting in a Trump presidency.

The USSC codified the 2nd amendment as an individual right.

There’s more, but you can chew on that first. BTW, you smell like a defeatist who is worthless to the American patriot cause.


67 posted on 10/30/2019 4:23:30 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Kaslin

Hmm...Obama is scared of something. Wonder what?


68 posted on 10/30/2019 5:30:31 PM PDT by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: Kaslin

Obama’s so lucky that there wasn’t any Obama derangement syndrome like there is for Trump.

So, so lucky.


69 posted on 10/30/2019 5:32:53 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Kaslin

Chapelle was totally waaay funnier.


70 posted on 10/30/2019 5:35:05 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Kaslin
The entire world to 0bummer ...


71 posted on 10/30/2019 5:51:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Kaslin
geez...he wasn't excoriating 'woke' people about being 'woke', he was excoriating them for not being 'out there' causing destruction, creating havoc and so forth.

obama is unhappy that the 'woke' are lazy and prefer social media to boots on the ground.

72 posted on 10/30/2019 6:16:42 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: Gene Eric; TomServo

Democrat war rooms might be stupid, but they’re not THAT stupid. They have to be realizing that most Americans are BEYOND tired of the PC BS.

I actually have to applaud those remarks by Obama ... But while applauding, I’m thinking, “Well, you STARTED this crap, you SOB!”


73 posted on 10/30/2019 7:55:30 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: Thank You Rush
Yes, I did and it's a rather conservative message to those who are in the 18-34 demographic and communistically liberal. It's a neo-liberal puritanical humanism where anything that isn't rigidly politically correct is called out and you're doxxed for wrongthink/speak.

To have Jughead say it for the liberals is shocking since his previous actions fomented this puritan neo-liberal humanism that is de jour right now.

74 posted on 10/31/2019 5:53:40 AM PDT by Maigrey (Life, for a liberal, is one never-ending game of Calvinball. - Giotto)
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To: sergeantdave

Sorry Sarge, I’m ashamed of myself.


75 posted on 10/31/2019 6:41:12 AM PDT by NYAmerican
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To: ClearCase_guy

https://www.disclose.tv/it-would-be-a-shame-if-this-old-1998-video-of-nancy-pelosi-would-be-shared-anywhere-380305


76 posted on 10/31/2019 9:00:34 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: JennysCool

We agree on their motives, but I’ll never applaud their dishonest, “weaponized” rhetoric.


77 posted on 11/01/2019 12:58:03 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Kaslin

Whoa. Sounds like a “go” signal to me.


78 posted on 11/01/2019 5:58:24 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would be have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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