Posted on 07/14/2025 1:00:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Frustrated that prominent Democrats have not fought harder, former President Barack Obama said in a speech that his party’s leaders needed to step up.
Former President Barack Obama has a stern critique for members of his party: Too many have been cowed into silence.
In private remarks to party donors on Friday night, Mr. Obama scolded Democrats for failing to speak out against President Trump and his policies, suggesting they were shrinking from the challenge out of fear of retribution.
“It’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Mr. Obama said at a fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee at the home of Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey.
“What I have been surprised by is the degree to which I’ve seen people who, when I was president, or progressives, liberals, stood for all kinds of stuff, who seem like they’re kind of cowed and intimidated and shrinking away from just asserting what they believe, or at least what they said they believe,” he added.
Locked out of power in Washington, Democrats have been largely arguing among themselves about how to confront a hostile Trump administration. Mr. Obama’s remarks were circulated by his office on Monday.
He expressed particular disdain for law firms that he said had been willing to “set aside the law” in response to Mr. Trump’s actions “not because, by the way, that they’re going to be thrown in jail, but because they might lose a few clients and might not be able to finish that kitchen rehab at their Hampton house. I’m not impressed.”
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Trump beat the Dems fair & square & I don’t think they want to recognize that, but they had nothing (and still don’t) to put up against his campaign. They are LOSERS & may as well admit it. The only way they ever won was by cheating. The best they could ever do was to lead the country down the wrong path.
Absolutely, this is a very clear dog whistle calling for more violence.
Somebody (the Big O) got all wee-wee’d up.
They need to get fierce. Like Walz.
Very true- and in that sense Obamaumao (Maoist and Mau Mau all wrapped into one skinny mack daddy with chicken legs, and a major drug habit (guess which one!). Obamaumao is the original chicken sh@t. Mouth lazy chicken boi!
Chicken George’s got nothing on Obamaumao!
It wasn't bad enough stealing this guy's acting gig. Her antics in the JackLinks ads show what she's capable of.
“..O-hole needs to be in cuffs...”
Truer words never spoken.
The evil SOB should be doing time in GITMO.
So says Lotta Vagina Obama . . . .
How insulting to democrats. What the hell has he done?
nobama...communism personified...
Nope-FACTS!
Obozo's hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Blecchh. Go *away* Obama, you destructive, hate-filled POS.
Incitement. He’s using dog whistles to call for violence. Lock him up.
Good one! A keeper meme.
He’s as shady as they get indeed anothe black Biden.
Down Low is tone-deaf and trapped in a failed marriage when all he wants is some grift pipe. Boo hoo.
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