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Obama: ‘I’m ready to pass the baton’
Politico ^ | July 27, 2016 | Sarah Wheaton

Posted on 07/27/2016 9:18:39 PM PDT by Innovative

The president makes a forceful case for Clinton and warns against the threat of ‘homegrown demagogues.’

Twelve years after he first addressed a Democratic National Convention, and eight years after he became the first black presidential nominee of a major party, President Barack Obama President Barack Obama cast the election to succeed him as a “fundamental choice.”

Speaking on the penultimate night of the convention, Obama made a forceful case for his former rival. He’s not likely to have an audience like this again as president, and Obama soaked in the cheers from a party that, despite its divisions, remains enthralled by his charisma and vision.

Obama’s aides had said before the speech that it would be more of a positive testimonial for Hillary Clinton than anything else. But Obama also delivered a passionate indictment of Donald Trump, casting him as a menace whose positions aren’t just on the other side of the political spectrum, but on a different spectrum all together.

This election, Obama said, is “not just a choice between parties or policies; the usual debates between left and right. This is a more fundamental choice – about who we are as a people, and whether we stay true to this great American experiment in self-government.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016dncconvention; clinton; dnc; enoughalready; hillary; obama; obiethefaggot; trump
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To: Innovative

Obama, you never had the batton. Go shrivel-up and die, you traitor!


41 posted on 07/27/2016 9:45:24 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: RightGeek

As for the spot, beats the heck out of me.

Is it a cancer lesion?


42 posted on 07/27/2016 9:45:57 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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Obama: 'I’m ready to pass the baton - but only to another criminal dhimmicrap'

Fixed it

43 posted on 07/27/2016 9:47:28 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Innovative

He can whip that baton right into the witch’s head, it will then bounce off into Trump’s hand!


44 posted on 07/27/2016 9:47:35 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: Innovative
Tonight was all Show and Drama..all Fake phony and lies..

What is with Bloomberg? does he have a private grudge against Donald J. Trump? who knows...He is just a rich old man about to enter the world of dementia and he is feeling left out...so he had to do a show off speech...I turned him OFF, AND BIDEN OFF...AND HALF OF THE president...

B.Hussein Obama talked about his mom, as if she was a fantastic parent. She was a tramp, maybe a intelligent adult, but a teen age tramp who no one really knows the truth about her or her parents...as there are NO RECORDS AND WHAT RECORDS OF THEM THERE WERE HAVE BEEN DESTROYED OR IN THAT FAMOUS LOCK BOX OF OBAMA'S...THAT LOCK BOX HOLDS HIS HISTORY, THAT HE REFUSES TO ALLOW TO BE KNOWN..HE SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON THAT BOX.

SO if he wants to brag about his family, let him open that box and share it all...stop with the FAIRY TALES. Obama reads a good speech and after these 14 years of politics he has perfected it.

It will be up to the American voters to get rid of him and Hillary...for they will LIE, CHEAT AND STEAL TO KEEP THIS POWER.. And the MSM will assist them in it..

45 posted on 07/27/2016 9:48:25 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: Innovative

Self government means our representatives write, read and make the laws. Not one man with a stable of advisors and lobbyists. Obama failed the American experiment.


46 posted on 07/27/2016 9:48:36 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: justa-hairyape

July 30th - The 60th Anniversary of Our National Motto
“In God We Trust”! Look how far we have strayed.


47 posted on 07/27/2016 9:55:22 PM PDT by Maudeen (Sinner Saved by Grace)
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To: stars & stripes forever
Maybe a half dissolved cough drop??? Maybe she had a coughing seizure back stage, ya think?

I believe all Politician and Media folks have dental implants. sorta like Mooche Obama’s painted on eye brows and wigs...all FAKE AND PHONY.

48 posted on 07/27/2016 9:56:22 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: Innovative

The metrosexual passes a baton, and the true successor takes up his num-chucks.


49 posted on 07/27/2016 9:57:30 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Innovative

Doesn’t Obama mean “I’m ready to drop the mic.”...?


50 posted on 07/27/2016 10:00:19 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Innovative

Doesn’t Obama mean “I’m ready to drop the mic.”...?


51 posted on 07/27/2016 10:01:04 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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"I'm ready to pass the baton"

Why does that line remind me of Richard Gere? /gerbils>

52 posted on 07/27/2016 10:01:08 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Innovative

Doesn’t Obama mean “I’m ready to drop the mic.”...?


53 posted on 07/27/2016 10:01:40 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: RightGeek

Is that a hole just off-center about halfway back on her tongue?


54 posted on 07/27/2016 10:01:58 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Innovative
"Obama: ‘I’m ready to pass the baton’"

Baton? He must be referring to his selfie-stick. Hard to believe he'd give it up.


55 posted on 07/27/2016 10:02:29 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: jospehm20

come to think of it, you are 100% correct...... Trump On!


56 posted on 07/27/2016 10:03:59 PM PDT by changeitback440
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To: stars & stripes forever

Syphilis


57 posted on 07/27/2016 10:04:22 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Innovative

Shrillary is most qualified???? The clown who treated top secret materials in an “extremely careless” way, according to the FBI Director??

The one who has accomplished so little in 4+ decades in public life that no one seems able to list her accomplishments?

The one who has lied endlessly about every Clinton scandal and cover-up (Watergate was supposed to teach us that “the cover-up is worse than the crime” but Shrillary is allowed to roll from cover-up to cover-up with no consequences and astoundingly little investigation from the MSM).

The one who engaged in massive pay-to-play and money laundering as Secretary of State, collecting untold millions of dollars while selling off US security and resources???

Oh sure, the Hildebeast is soooo qualified to be POTUS.


58 posted on 07/27/2016 10:04:47 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Innovative

I wouldn’t advise grabbing that baton. No telling where it’s been.


59 posted on 07/27/2016 10:05:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: RightGeek

she has a hole in her tongue???

is that a medical condition???


60 posted on 07/27/2016 10:05:47 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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