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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Go ahead moron. Trump will fire back exponentially.
“Trump will stomp Obama into dust again & again & again.”
Obama is the new mole in the latest version of “Whack-a-Mole”.
It was a tradition, until scumbag rats like Carter, Clinton, and now, Obama decided it wasn’t.
Nixon followed it. Ford followed it. Reagan followed it. GHWB followed it. GWB followed it.
Gee. Guess who DIDN’T follow the tradition? The last Democrat to follow that tradition was LBJ, and that was only because he was too burnt out and sick to say anything to anyone.
How I despise liberalism.
Trump will fire back, if necessary or helpful.
Obama had 8 years to fix the nation’s problems. Instead, he exacerbated them.
But more imporantly, if Bobo wants to draw attention away from the thin Democrat bench and refuse to let a new face emerge, well all right all right all right.
60 days. Just keep telling yourself....60 days.
In my lifetime, I've never heard a Republican President criticize his successor(s).
On the other hand, Democrat Presidents can't keep their mouth shut.
I’m sure at times that criticism will be necessary.
I’m also sure that coming from 0vomit, it will NOT be helpful. (Unless, of course, you listen to whatever 0vomit says and then do the opposite.)
Whatever. Not surprised.
none of these idiots ever really go away. All they know is how to run their mouths and draw attention to themselves.
Yup. And by filling that vacuum, he will hold back anyone who could emerge as a leader.
Alas....The dictator Lost and the Republic is saved.
This actually might be very entertaining.
ML/NJ
Bless your little heart, of course you will.
Trump’s election is eating Obama up. He’s obsessed with his crushing defeat.
I think this is going to backfire on Zero very nicely. People are going to see it as nitpicking, bruised ego, arrogant, petulant.
So, yeah, Bamster - open your big mouth. When we see President Trump’s DOING things - it’ll make you look small.
How long will Obama’s respectful silence last? Two days? One week? Two weeks?
What I’m waiting for is the outrage from the left the first time President Trump blames a pre-existing problem on Obama. I can’t decide if the left will rise up to protect Obama directly or, as they have been doing for the past 8 years , simply sidestep it and say it was not Obama but GWB.
F.U.B.O!
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