Posted on 12/11/2020 7:56:05 AM PST by rktman
Former President Barack Obama says he was able to make solid "connections" with conservatives as a senator and a presidential candidate until Rush Limbaugh and Fox News destroyed the relationship.
Obama's comments came Tuesday during a virtual gala with PEN America, which gave him its Voice of Influence Award, for "the power of his soaring words, the promises he has unlocked in our nation, and the enduring American values that he has embodied."
"I ended up getting enormous support in these pretty conservative, rural, largely white communities when I was a senator, and that success was repeated when I ran for president in the first race in Iowa," Obama said.
"By my second year in office, I'm not sure if I could make that same connection, because now those same people are filtering me through Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and an entire right-wing or conservative media infrastructure that was characterizing me in a way that suggested I looked down on those folks or had nothing in common with them," he said.
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barry, YOU are solely responsible for how conservatives reacted to you. YOU were, and remain, a Lefty Douchebag.
He was mischaracterized, all right. Rush was simply trying to set everyone straight.
Lock this TREASONOUS POS up
I now wonder about every vote this guy got, and whether Dominion delivered us Obama at the behest of our Wealthy Overlords.
Sadly, they’ve all received “demmunity” cards that protect them from evil conservative accusations and prosecutions.
Obama! How did you ever get elected to anything without the CIA and massive voter fraud?
“...characterizing me in a way that suggested I looked down on those illiterate, toothless, Bible thumping hillbillies or had nothing in common with them,” he said.
What in God's name are these PEN people smoking?
Nothing about the Obama/Biden filthy cabal that did not give a flying fig about Americans' safety and security.......their pathetic needs came first.
CASE IN POINT Eric Swalwell "said" he cut off contact w/ a woman spying for China
b/c the FBI gave him a "defensive briefing" alerting him to the situation.
Yet, the corrupted Obama FBI did not give candidate Trump the same option —
instead, Obama unleashed intel agencies (financed by taxpayers to protect American families' safety and security)
to illegally spy on the Trump campaign.
Obama's mask of "enduring American values" slipped when he stooped so low as to mfg dirt on Donald.
Geez... How can we miss you if you won’t go the f*ck away?!?
Rush will have a field day with this news item...
Rush is still living rent-free in the rent-seeker-in-chief’s empty head.
Zer0 still reinforces my original assessment of him: a smart-a$$, lying punk
Barry, it’s humorous you perceive yourself as having a connection to conservatives. You were a failure as POTUS by every rational measure. Our connection to you is revulsion, contempt and disgust.
Was the comment made by Osama Obama from his prayer rug?
The man is delusional.
$hit, we didn’t even think he was eligible to be President in the first damn place!
What connections does Obama imagine that he ever had with conservatives?
Barry RINOs like George Will and Mitt Romney, of course.
Yeah, it was all Rush and Foxnews. Larry Sinclair and a bogus birth cert. had nothing to do with it.
ALSO-No one will ever forget Rev. Wright...ya know ... the ‘God damn America’ guy!!
“O’s” long standing, personal, direct relationship with that certifiable lunatic would put any one off their Liberal ideas.
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