Posted on 06/19/2016 5:11:13 PM PDT by mandaladon
President Obama's final year in office — which was expected to be a time when he would give symbolic speeches and try to cut a few deals with Republicans — is turning into an all-out campaign to stop Donald Trump from succeeding him.
In recent public remarks, including his endorsement of Hillary Clinton even before the Democratic primaries were finished, Obama has inserted himself more directly into the campaign than previous second-term presidents.
He is effectively turning the election into "Obama-Clinton v. Trump," instead of a traditional contest between the two people with their names on the ballot.
Related: Obama Decries Trump's Muslim Ban, Asks: 'Where Does This Stop?'
"This is the biggest intervention that I can remember for some time now," said Julian Zelizer, a political historian at Princeton University, comparing Obama to past second-term presidents. "Not only is he really coming out for the Democratic candidate, but acting in extremely aggressive fashion against the Republican nominee."
Obama's behavior appears to be motivated in part by Trump's unorthodox campaign style and platform, including the proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States that has particularly alarmed the president.
"Islam has always been part of America," Obama said in a visit to a mosque in Baltimore in February.
"The president will give this campaign all that he has and more — for Clinton, for his own legacy, and for the vision of America that he's asked us to believe in since the night he stepped onto the national stage in Boston and delivered his 2004 convention speech, a hopeful, bighearted vision that is the antithesis of everything that Trump represents," former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau wrote in a recent piece for The Ringer, a sports and pop culture website.
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“””It is unseemly and I do not recall other presidents taking such active stance.”””
onbama is protected because he pretends to be black. He can get away with anything.
Exactly. Obama is going to the mattresses.
Bingo!
And.......he might undo all of Obongo’s illegal actions & BS executive orders
If Obongo is the disease
Trump is the cure
And even that would be an utter failure save the media carrying him on their shoulders and running interference 24/7
Because it’s better than being tried, convicted and executed for treason?
Obama is holding onto so many “secrets”. If Trump is elected, many revelations.
Obama knows that if Trump wins he is going to GITMO.
You nailed it!
Good point!
I’d refine that further by saying that reading a teleprompter is his only job skill.
Obama is flat out weird.
President Obama’s final year in office — which was expected to be a time when he would give symbolic speeches and try to cut a few deals with Republicans —
obama knows traitors are hanged.
> Why so FEW people at that rally?
My significant other said we stay home. So we stay home.
No need to get in the middle of this nonsense.
Nothing could change our vote. Nothing.
I believe that Obonzo and his commie comrades know that if Trump is elected, there is a damn good chance most of them will be going to prison. Just a guess but I do believe that I’m right.
“Can he pardon himself before leaving office?”
No, but apparently he could resign on the last day or two, and then, President Biden can pardon him for any crimes he committed.
If he did this, he had better fly to Cuba or some country which wouldn’t extradite him.
Answer, because Trump’s DOJ will come after that fraud.
That is an interesting and plausible scenario.
For the same reason that dogs chase cars.
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