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The Day After: Obama on His Legacy, Trump's Win and the Path Forward
Rolling Stone ^ | November 29, 2016 | By Jann S. Wenner

Posted on 11/30/2016 3:15:07 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee

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You think it's still a progressive country?

I think that nothing is determined, but that the number of people who have a strong belief in a fair, just, equal, inclusive America is the majority and is growing.

And part of the challenge, though, that we do have, and this is something that I've been chewing on for a while now, is that there is a cohort of working-class white voters that voted for me in sizable numbers, but that we've had trouble getting to vote for Democrats in midterm elections. In this election, [they] turned out in huge numbers for Trump. And I think that part of it has to do with our inability, our failure, to reach those voters effectively. Part of it is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country, but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grassroots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments. That part of the critique of the Democratic Party is accurate. We spend a lot of time focused on international policy and national policy and less time being on the ground. And when we're on the ground, we do well. This is why I won Iowa. . .

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1 posted on 11/30/2016 3:15:07 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

What drivel!
Typically Democrats do not own up to their socialist, democracy-not-republic world view. They are totalitarians, born and bred in the caldron of Karl Marx and inspired by the Caribbean pirate Fidel Castro.
Democrats were never a party of the people. They were born and raised on their sense of moral superiority from the time of the Revolution, which they abhorred.
They earned their wings by being on the wrong side of the Civil War.
They were thugs and union bosses during the industrial revolution.
They bitterly opposed the Civil Rights movement, voting nearly unanimously against the Civil Rights Act.
And they have never owned up to their reputation as wannabe tyrants.
I call BS on this entire Democrat palaver.


2 posted on 11/30/2016 3:27:05 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
This is pretty telling—

OBAMA: That's the thing about democracy. That's the thing about voting. It doesn't mean polls are irrelevant, but there is always a human variable involved in this. So I think the odds of Donald Trump winning were always around 20 percent. That [doesn't] seem like a lot, but one out of five is not that unusual. It's not a miracle.


Obama is saying Trump's victory was governed by the laws of chance.

3 posted on 11/30/2016 3:34:37 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Legacy....First black muzzie president. Has done absolutely “0” good for the country. Total chaos.


4 posted on 11/30/2016 3:34:40 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Wow. Obama really does live in the “progressive” fantasy bubble.


5 posted on 11/30/2016 3:34:53 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Rolling Stone...is that the same fake news rag that lies about college campus rape? That Rolling Stone?


6 posted on 11/30/2016 3:42:38 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Islam.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This was entertaining to read. I spit my coffee when I got to the question about “Free Press” is being done in by FB and “shouldn’t they get a subsidy” to keep the news out there!
What hutspah! Lol! The free press has been destroyed this election season and it wasn’t by FB(who is part of them) it was by Donal Trump an the American people.


7 posted on 11/30/2016 3:45:41 AM PST by marygam (can we get to the election already?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

He’ll never admit Trump’s win (with a Republican Congress) is the true Obama legacy.


8 posted on 11/30/2016 3:52:16 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

He’s delusional.

That’s what happens when you surround yourself with people who think exactly the same as you and/or “yes” men.


9 posted on 11/30/2016 3:55:33 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I have never walked into a public venue and seen anything other than CNN broadcasted on the televisions.


10 posted on 11/30/2016 3:59:32 AM PST by Dana1960
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To: Brad from Tennessee

What the heck is this man smoking? Yet, knowing that he has lied to the nation for 8 years, all those positives are really negatives.

Rolling Stone has not done itself any good. People realize that this is propaganda and are turned off. Ditto the drive-bys.


11 posted on 11/30/2016 4:03:58 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“Maybe the news business and the newspaper industry, which is being destroyed by Facebook, needs a subsidy so we can maintain a free press?”

Government subsidized newspapers and news shows.

Yeah, that’s the ticket.


12 posted on 11/30/2016 4:13:47 AM PST by moovova
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To: Brad from Tennessee; GOPJ; Jane Long; NYer; The Mayor; Tennessee Nana; sickoflibs; TADSLOS; ...
......wenner whines about having a strong belief in a fair, just, equal, "inclusive" America.......

REALITY CHECK ....Americans know that "inclusive" means Americans getting slaughtered, attacked, killed, mowed down, beheaded, their churches invaded, young women raped......

All by a bunch of America-hating savages swilling at the public trough....many here illegally.

This brain-dead “diversity” simpleton wenner is from the same cockamamie school of the Obamas, the Clintons, and the Democrats.....all losers, I might add.

To these imbeciles there’s no such thing as “right and wrong.” Just do whatever makes YOU feel good. If someone gets hurt in the process....no biggie.....just as long as YOU feel good about yourself.

There oughta be a law to make these sap-happy progressive airheads admit to the truth about their fatheaded feel-good beliefs.

13 posted on 11/30/2016 4:14:31 AM PST by Liz
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To: moovova

Seriously...anybody that uses “subsidy” and “free” press in the same sentence should lose their US citizenship or be jailed for a year.


14 posted on 11/30/2016 4:16:15 AM PST by moovova
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To: moovova
Government subsidized newspapers and news shows.

We already pay for NPR and PBS. What next!?

15 posted on 11/30/2016 4:16:44 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: NTHockey
Rolling Stone has not done itself any good.

Rolling Stone has absolutely zero credibility after the UVa hoax rape story.

16 posted on 11/30/2016 4:18:14 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: marygam

I know, what the heck? American taxpayers are already forced to subsidise the left-leaning NPR.

This is something which really angers me-not only are Americans to be indoctrinated through media and the “education” system, they are forced to pay for their own and their childrens’ indoctrination, even when a given family’s values may completely oppose the left.

It’s like when the families of people who are murdered for political purposes, are then billed for the bullets.


17 posted on 11/30/2016 4:34:00 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Liz

Thanks for the ping.


18 posted on 11/30/2016 4:38:58 AM PST by GOPJ ("Draining the Swamp" means dumping corrupt liberal elites...Jeremy Peters does NOT speak for us.)
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To: mrsmel
Muslim refugees are entitled to endless tax benefits including:

-Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) formerly known as AFDC

-Medicaid, -Food Stamps, -Public Housing

-Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

-Social Security Disability Insurance

- Developmental Disabilities (ADD) checks

-Child Care and Development Fund, etc etc etc

See entire list at #16

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/refugee-resettlement-fact- sheets/

19 posted on 11/30/2016 4:49:51 AM PST by Liz
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As one savvy FReeper put it: to braindead liberals, 12 people carrying "GOD HATES FAGS" signs represent global Christianity.......But the thousands of Muslims murdering Christians every year have NOTHING to do with Islam.

They want us to believe the Ohio Somali butcher was "hurting" for his fellow Muslims...
so he went on a murderous spree and mowed down and slashed innocent Ohio State students.

Read this as more Muslim agit-prop setting us up for more hate-filled Somali refugees in our communities plotting to kill us.

Americans cannot even fathom the kind of visceral hatred these deranged Muslims have for us. The more they get from us, the more they hate us.

The Somali butcher was welcomed into the US by these self-same students. He's prolly getting a free education, loads of social services and multiple US govt checks (prolly under several identities). No doubt, his killing car is also a freebie.

Muslims ride the US gravy train bigtime.....

<><> collecting welfare, food stamps and, healthcare benefits

<><> cashing ADD checks for his "fibromyalgia" or whatever.

<><>Cashing hefty SS checks by claiming "asylum."

And that's just for one identity.

20 posted on 11/30/2016 4:53:05 AM PST by Liz
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