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.”
The left has no shame. The left cares not one fig for culture and decorum and civility.
The left is perfectly willing to destroy everything, if they are left in charge of the remnants.
I HOPE the reason is that Obama has found out that Trump intends to prosecute Obama’s countless treasonous acts, staring with usurping the Presidency even though he is an illegal alien.
That is most likely correct.
Because his fraud will be exposed.
“Islam has always been part of America,” Obama said in a visit to a mosque in Baltimore in February.
The worst part. The half breed keeps trying to fool all the people all of the time. Doesn’t work. And no matter how hard the half breed tries, it’ll never work.
yeah and being deported also..
Because 0bama is a radical leftist, a moslem, and a racist.
I think his real problem under those circumstances would the the significant number of Americans who might go looking for him.
No class. Zero
Why are we tolerating among us millions of people who wish us dead?? The Greeks had a saying that we should also memorize: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make insane. (I had been using “mad” at the end of that when sharing it but many of the younger skulls full of mush coming out of our corrupt government schools didn’t know that “mad” also meant insane. Saved me a lot of time.)
Mark your calendars. June 12, 2016 is the day Donald Trump won the White House. Obozo noticed and marked his awareness of the event with another of his priggish psychotic public rants! I’ll miss those bitter scoldings from a failed community organizer so proud of his academic credentials that they remain tightly sealed!
Obozo is terrified that Hillary is now destined to lose, putting Trump in charge of a justice system he’ll almost certainly reconstitute and use to probe obozo’s TREASONOUS actions over the last 8 years! Obozo might want to move to a non extradition country come January.
This is a massive attempt to cover up their crimes, which I think extend further than we have imagined.
I’ll take “Scared Shiteless” for $400 please, Alex”
Yeah! That's why President Jefferson sent the US Marines to fight the Islamists in Tripoli Mister Azzhat.
Banana republic dicktators always make sure the deposed Maximum Leader leaves on a plane with trunks full of swag, because someday they will be leaving on a plane with ...
He needs a clinton win to keep from going to jai.
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Great point. Two traitors, both needing each other to stay out of jail. How crazy can it get for the corrupt Democrats. Trump beats both of them silly in the campaign and then throws both of them into the slammer.
HUSSEIN better hurry. His time is ticking away FAST!
Add insult to injury if it comes to passe spray paint the bars metalix gold and a nice sign above each cell done in real pretty cursive trumps jail
And if a certain balled headed talk show host in the evening who worked in w/ Meese in Justice under Reagan would get rid of his TDS maybe He could be one of the head prosecutors, But Noooooooo..
I think he wants Trump to loose.
Because President Trump might indict him and/or his friends and associates?
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