Posted on 05/14/2020 2:39:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Nearly eight years after he was last on the ballot, Barack Obama is emerging as a central figure in the 2020 presidential election.
Democrats are eagerly embracing Obama as a political wingman for Joe Biden, who spent two terms by his side as vice president. Obama remains the party’s most popular figure, particularly with black voters and younger Democrats, and Biden’s presidential campaign is planning for him to have a highly visible role in the months to come.
For President Donald Trump, that means an opportunity to focus the spotlight on one of his favorite political foils. In recent days, Trump and his allies have aggressively pushed conspiracy theories about Obama designed to fire up the president’s conservative base, taint Biden by association and distract from the glut of grim health and economic news from the coronavirus pandemic.
As Biden looks to Obama for personal validation, he’s also running to restore some of the former president’s legacy, which has been systematically dismantled by Trump. The current president is running in part to finish that job.
Yet Trump’s anti-Obama push also frequently takes on a darker, more conspiratorial tone that goes far beyond differences in health care policy and America’s role in the world. His current focus is on the actions Obama, Biden and their national security advisers took in the closing days of their administration, as they viewed intelligence reports about Michael Flynn.
Trump’s own administration acknowledged on Wednesday that Obama advisers followed proper procedures in privately “unmasking” Flynn’s name, which was redacted in the intelligence reports for privacy reasons.
Despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing by Obama, Biden or other administration officials, Trump is eagerly pushing the notion of an unspecified crime against the former president, branding it “Obamagate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Good! Nothing could be better for our side than a painful daily reminder of why we all voted for Trump in the first place.
DERP !
If it weren’t for the fact that he is so lazy, I might think that Obama typed this stuff up for the AP himself.
They really don’t know how to win any votes do they? That’s why they put so much effort into cheating.
** Trump’s own administration acknowledged on Wednesday that Obama advisers followed proper procedures in privately “unmasking” Flynn’s name, which was redacted in the intelligence reports for privacy reasons. **
Is this an editorial or a news piece? Because it would be nice if they quoted a Trump Administration official on the above point. Because if anybody said it, I didn’t read or hear of it.
They can't get their head around the concept of a crime BY the former president. Obama is the victim here, I guess.
Julie Pace, jack booted leftist hack parading around as a Journalist.
According to AP, only Republican Presidents commit crimes. Zero is Jesus Reincarnated. Biden is the Angel Gabriel. Only the reality is that their religious icons are from the pits of Hell.
Looks like she got rid of the left wing spiked hair do.
It's a news article. Now, please wash your hands and try not to barf.
What better way to claim political persecution than to run for Pres. to avoid prosecution.
Good news is there is less than six months till election.
They’re afflicted with a tin ear that’s for sure. It’s patently obvious that Trump is trying to bait Hussein into jumping into the fray for exactly the reason I said.
No evidence of wrongdoing by the Obama Administration? Julie, you are willfully blind. How can you overlook the IG reports on DOJ abuse of the FISA process, FBI corruption, etc. What do you think Durham is investigating?
The MSM, propaganda arm of the DNC, is in overdrive as the Obama legacy goes up in flames.
Obama is In a basement somewhere playing video golf against a 10yo somewhere while chain smoking.
That he is...but not for the reasons they or he think...
OK Millennial
Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w
“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”
“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”
“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”
“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”
“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff
They need their Socialism, like a farmer needs rain.
Partisan Media Shills update.
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