Posted on 10/15/2022 12:27:30 PM PDT by knighthawk
Former president Barack Obama told Democrats to stop obsessing over 'the latest crazy thing' Donald Trump does and instead focus their energy on issues that impact voters most directly - like inflation and gas prices.
Obama offered his advice about Trump, who continues to tease the possibility of running for president again in 2024, during an interview with Pod Save America that aired exclusively on SiriusXM’s Progress Channel Friday night.
'We spend enormous amounts of time and energy and resources pointing out the latest crazy thing he said, or how rude or mean some of these Republican candidates behaved,' Obama said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Does anybody listen to him? The guy’s a dunce.
Just like a hemorrhoid recurrence, Obama is back.
And just as painful and irritating.
I noticed reissues of the gushing Moochelle favorite quote and retouched photo books.
Ready for her heroic gesture to take over for Kammie and Joe after their tragic exit from the scene.
He’s not a dunce. He’s dishonest and devious, but he’s also smart. Not a genius as claimed, but he’s absolutely right. The rats sit around and think of stupid things and all of a sudden everyone’s hair catches fire, and the importance of whatever idiot thing they’ve though of is supposed to be of great import, and you’re a hater if you disagree. By example I think the chickens are going to come home to roost on their trans agenda, partly this election, and part in the outbyears
No, Obama is no dunce. He's evil, but he's quite savvy.
Never seen any evidence of Barack being savvy. Just real good at repeating what others propose and making it sound like he came up with the idea. In fact, I think he himself thinks he came up with them. He was always, and remains, a post turtle.
That is rich coming from Obama. He forgets that his presidency was so bad that he became one of the worst presidents.
Inflation roared. Stock market tumbled. Unemployment skyrocketed.
Looking back now, we can call him Biden-lite.
He’s one of Biden’s bosses
Stop the presses. Bammy kinda gets it right.
How's big Mike Barry????
Dems are understandably desperate to change the subject from inflation and high gas prices because they caused them. Tough to run on “Vote for us and we’ll make everything even worse.”
Obama knows this. He's just trying to get a message out (via a forum nobody will notice - intentional) so that when they get crushed he can claim to be the guy who told them the way to win. If he were in power though he'd be doing the same thing the dems are.
actually, he is giving them good advice, but they wont listen.
Say what you want about Obama, but he knows how to win.
Actually, he’s stupid.
He’s just a puppet, an actor, that mouths words written for him, by others.
He has no ideas, of his own.
He’s a petty, shallow POS.
That doesn’t mean that he isn’t dangerous.
Through him, in his 8 years, in the WH, the Deep State / globalists seeded their minions throughout powerful positions in the fedgov.
Most notably the DOJ-FBI, DOD, IRS, FDA, EPA, Education, etc.
He went from community organizer, to local elected official, to the U.S. Senate, and was elected president less than two years into his first Senate term -- at a fairly young age. And he overcame the Clinton Machine along the way.
I'd say that takes a certain amount of political savvy. Being able to read crowds, knowing how to speak to them, and a shrewd sense for networking and backroom wheeling & dealing.
Conservatives fire back at Obama, say he sowed the division that led to Trump
William Cummings,USA TODAY.com
Former President Barack Obama is on the campaign trail, stumping for Democratic candidates in a midterm election in which he says our very democracy is at stake. And many conservative politicians and pundits were happy to get the chance to relive the Obama years and point to what they perceive as his failures in office.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in response to Obama’s speech that, “The more former President Obama speaks about the ‘good ol years’ of his presidency, the more likely President Trump is to get re-elected.”
Former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka said Obama’s “whole eight-year presidency was an embarrassment when it comes to everything from the economy to national security.”
Several conservatives jumped on Obama’s assertion that President Donald Trump was brought to power by the forces in America that “keep us divided and keep us angry and keep us cynical.” They said it was Obama, not Trump, who first used rhetoric to pit groups of Americans against each other.
More:GOP thinks Obama’s anti-Trump message will rally Republican base during midterm elections
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sent a series of tweets outlining times he felt Obama was guilty of using divisive language, including his infamous 2008 line where he accused “cynical” voters of clinging to “guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.”
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro derided Obama for a “full-throttled, savage attack” on Trump. She particularly took issue with Obama’s statement that Trump has been “capitalizing” on America’s historical resentments.
More:Read transcript of former President Obama’s speech, blasting President Trump
“Are you kidding?” asked an incredulous Pirro. “If anyone has stoked racial hatred and divisiveness, it’s you,” she said, citing Obama’s actions in the wake of the 2014 police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, that helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement.
“The only reason that we have an outsider, businessman president is because of you, your lies, your policies and your divisiveness,” Pirro said. “You, Barack, you elected Donald Trump.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also took issue with Obama’s attempt to blame America’s divisions on Trump, calling it “richly ironic” for him to refer to Trump as a “symptom” of the divide.
“He was the president for the eight years when the cause was being created,” Christie said on “ABC This Week” on Sunday. “But the president acts like he’s detached from this, that somehow he was a dispassionate observer during the eight years beforehand.”
Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly slammed Obama for violating the unwritten code of former presidents not publicly criticizing their predecessors. But O’Reilly said Obama’s appearances will be good news for Trump and the Republicans because it reminds voters of two things: that Obama’s “economic policies harmed many Americans” and that “evidence points to powerful people within the Obama administration misusing the FBI and federal judges to illegally surveil the Trump campaign.”
In his speech Friday, Obama told the crowd that “when you hear how great the economy’s doing right now,” it is important to “remember when this recovery started.”
Stephen Moore, who served as economic adviser to Trump during the campaign, called it “preposterous” for Obama to take credit for the booming economy. Moore said the economy was slowing down dramatically at the end of Obama’s second term and that the current growth started as “a result of the fact that Obama and Clinton were not going to be office anymore.”
Fox Business host Stuart Varney called it a “stretch” for Obama to take credit for the economy.
“Today’s stellar 4 percent growth is clearly the result of tax cuts and deregulation. That’s Trump, it’s not Obama,” said Varney.
Conservative Eric Bolling tweeted that it is “disgraceful” to see Obama taking credit for Trump’s successes.
But Democrats like their chances heading into November, and many are happy to embrace Obama’s message.
Mike Levin, who is running for the seat left open by retiring GOP Rep. Darrell Issa in California, tweeted that Obama “left Trump an economy on third base. Trump thinks he hit a triple.”
“I think President Obama is a powerful reminder of what a presidential leader looks like, and that’s a contrast to Donald Trump,” Katie Porter, who is running to unseat California Republican Rep. Mimi Walters, told Politico.
But some, like Andrew Janz, who is trying to topple incumbent California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, are keeping more of a cautious distance.
“I’m going to run my own race,” Janz told Politico. “I am really focused on making sure that the voters of my district know that I am not somebody that is going to be controlled by the national party.”
Contributing: Eliza Collins, USA TODAY
0bama, stop honking down on that gay dude and brush your teeth before you speak to us.
That's perfect: One of the worst Presidents of all time - Marionette Obama - still thinks it's not a "crazy thing" for them to use their senile Sleepy Joe puppet Manchurian Candidate as part of their 2020 Election Steal. No, no, that's not "crazy." Instead, what is actually "crazy" is the hugely successful & hugely popular President Trump innocently tweeting little things that always totally trigger Democrats/RINOs/BLM/Antifa/Corporate America CEOs/Hollyweird/Academia (aka, "The Snowflake Connection"). Those mean tweets, those mean tweets! Oh wait, almost forgot, President Trump isn't allowed to tweet - the entire MSM/Social Media has permanently banned the hugely successful & hugely popular President Trump from participating in American public discourse. That seems just and fair .............. NOT.
It's amazing that even though the Republican Party has fallen apart (real Republicans still there but RINOs permanently split off), all the nutty Democrats/RINOs still stick together like glue. Even anti-Trump RINO Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney, angrily vows to continue attacking and bashing Trump ... forever.
what are they going to talk about?
their policies?
bwwwwaaaahhhhh!
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