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Obama: I Will Criticize Trump if ‘Necessary or Helpful’
Breitbart ^ | 11/21/16 | Trent Baker

Posted on 11/21/2016 4:42:58 AM PST by Enlightened1

In a Sunday press conference in Lima, Peru, President Barack Obama said he may not follow former President George W. Bush’s lead to not publicly criticize his successor.

Instead, Obama left the opportunity to speak out on President-elect Donald Trump if he deems it “necessary or helpful.”

“I want to be respectful of the office and give the president-elect an opportunity to put forward his platform and his arguments without somebody popping off in every instance,” Obama said.

“As an American citizen who cares deeply about our country, if there are issues that have less to do with the specifics of some legislative proposal but go to core questions about our values and our ideals, and if I think that it is necessary or helpful for me to defend those ideals, I’ll examine it when it comes.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: criticize; obama; obamafoundation; obamapushback; trump; will
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To: Enlightened1

Just STFU and go back to the ghetto.


21 posted on 11/21/2016 5:01:54 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Enlightened1

Once a “Community Organizer” always a community organizer.


22 posted on 11/21/2016 5:02:16 AM PST by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Simple — we’re better than they are.


23 posted on 11/21/2016 5:03:34 AM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: Enlightened1

That could backfire on him.


24 posted on 11/21/2016 5:04:49 AM PST by fulltlt
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To: Enlightened1

Trump needs to deport this racist bastard, Obama. He hates America, what the hell is he doing here? He needs to move to Canada. America doesn’t need racist scumbags like him.


25 posted on 11/21/2016 5:06:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (A proud, irredeemable deplorable of the Trump Revolution.)
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To: Enlightened1
Obama left the opportunity to speak out on President-elect Donald Trump if he deems it “necessary or helpful.”

Which he will deem necessary or helpful on a daily basis. And the communication wing of the democrat party (i.e. the media) will happily provide the platform.

26 posted on 11/21/2016 5:08:06 AM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Enlightened1
"Necessary or Helpful"

Well,we know that *that's* a lie because neither of those two words appear even once in "Rules For Radicals".

Or in the works of Bill Ayers

27 posted on 11/21/2016 5:08:31 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Enlightened1

Forget about W’s example, or even Bush 41’s. He should follow Pope Benedict’s lead and go into seclusion for the remainder of his life.


28 posted on 11/21/2016 5:09:23 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Enlightened1

Actually instead of “when helpful”, he meant “incessantly ad nauseum.” He’s actually going to be a worse and more annoying ex-president than Jimmy Carter.


29 posted on 11/21/2016 5:10:05 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Enlightened1
In a Sunday press conference in Lima, Peru, President Barack Obama said he may not follow former President George W. Bush’s lead to not publicly criticize his successor.

... .uh, uh, um, you stuttering jugeared crackhead faggot, uh, um, it's not, uh, President Bush's lead, um, uh, it's uh a tradition since, um, uh, uh, America was uh, uh, um founded.

30 posted on 11/21/2016 5:11:29 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!!)
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To: Enlightened1
It WON'T be helpful, so just shut up and stay that way.

31 posted on 11/21/2016 5:11:58 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill TWITTER !! Kill FACEBOOK !! Free MILO !!)
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To: uncbob

Screw it. Burn the bitches down.


32 posted on 11/21/2016 5:12:08 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!!)
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To: Fzob

Few thoughtul people pay any serious attention to what obama says now. Once he’s out of office, who cares what he says about Trump ... or what he thinks about anything, for that matter!


33 posted on 11/21/2016 5:16:21 AM PST by glennaro
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To: Enlightened1

What? When? Where?


34 posted on 11/21/2016 5:21:46 AM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: Enlightened1

Stand back, little man, and watch how it is done.


35 posted on 11/21/2016 5:22:02 AM PST by mom.mom
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To: Enlightened1

Sure would like to see this jive ass punk ba rock fall down a very long flight of stairs.
Either that or like Harry Reid, maybe one of ba rocks brothers just kick the shit out of him. Course moochelle could also do the job.
Man i bet she’s difficult to live with. Just call her big ugly.


36 posted on 11/21/2016 5:24:14 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Her ass belongs in prison.)
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To: Enlightened1

Please don’t deprive us of your wisdom Obie Won Kenyabi./sarc/barf/hurl


37 posted on 11/21/2016 5:24:29 AM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: Enlightened1

Awe go to another country and get thrown off a roof fruit cake.


38 posted on 11/21/2016 5:24:40 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Silence was the norm for ex-presidents up until 1980 when Jimmy Carter was tossed out on his ear, and he has spent the next 36 years spilling methane from his pie-hole.

Clinton was just as bad.

GWB seemed to think silence was a good thing, and like civility, it is, but only when it reciprocated, which it is not.


39 posted on 11/21/2016 5:24:50 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: SERKIT

IMHO he is not only fair game but a trophy prize to imprison.


40 posted on 11/21/2016 5:27:03 AM PST by mcshot (The "Greatest Generation" would never have allowed the trashing of our Republic.)
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