MSNBC: Democrats ‘Desperate’ for ‘Hero’ Barack Obama to Trash President Trump

Newsbusters ^ | April 24, 2017 | 1:11 PM EDT | Kyle Drennan

[drewh]

During MSNBC’s 11 a.m. ET hour on Monday, minutes before Barack Obama began his first public appearance since leaving office, correspondent Ron Allen channeled left-wing hopes that the former president would emerge as the “opposition leader” to President Trump.

While Allen noted that Obama was “not going to take on President Trump directly” during the panel discussion at the University of Chicago, he claimed that it was “a very unusual situation”: “You have a very popular former president who’s just 55, very vigorous....And you have a president, President Trump, whose administration is so diametrically opposed and is dismantling so many things that President Obama spent eight years putting together...”

Allen touted liberals imploring Obama to attack Trump:

...his supporters, his advocates, those who back President Obama, they really want to hear from him. Democrats are feeling somewhat desperate, you might even say. They’re demoralized by the results of the election, they see a hero in President Obama. And the question is whether he will play that big role, that big opposition leader role that so many of his supporters want.

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Here is a full transcript of the April 24 report:

11:39 AM ET

ALI VELSHI: In just a few minutes, former President Barack Obama will make his first public appearance since leaving office in the place where he launched his political career decades ago. He’s gonna speak to young leaders about community service and civic engagement at the University of Chicago. That happens at the top of the hour.

Last night, he visited a program called Chicago Cred on the city’s south side, which mentors at-risk young adults and helps them with job skills and employment opportunities. Ron Allen is live in Chicago. Ron, good to see you. Students are going to hear from President Obama, they’re also going to be able to ask him questions. President Trump, his name or some reference to him is likely to come up. What do we think President Obama’s gonna do?

RON ALLEN: That’s the million-dollar question, how will President Trump’s name come up and what will President Obama say about him? Because that’s what everybody wants to know. The Obama team is signaling that he is not going to take on President Trump directly, that that’s not what this is about. This is about former President Obama sitting down with young people, talking about civic engagement, getting involved in their community and so forth.

But obviously we’re in some unchartered waters here, it’s a very unusual situation. You have a very popular former president who’s just 55, very vigorous, planning to get out there, out on the public stage in some way. And you have a president, President Trump, whose administration is so diametrically opposed and is dismantling so many things that President Obama spent eight years putting together, like ObamaCare, like policies on immigration, the environment, so on and so forth.

So that’s the big question, what will President Obama say, what will he do? But the signal is that he’s going to not get involved in the day to day give and take of back and forth between President Trump. He doesn’t want to set himself up as a foil for President Trump. But again, his supporters, his advocates, those who back President Obama, they really want to hear from him. Democrats are feeling somewhat desperate, you might even say. They’re demoralized by the results of the election, they see a hero in President Obama. And the question is whether he will play that big role, that big opposition leader role that so many of his supporters want. Ali?

VELSHI: Ron, good to talk to you. We will look forward to hearing from President Obama at the top of the hour. Ron Allen for us in Chicago.

[drewh]

not a good chance that Bathhouse Barry and the Wookie are leaving a tropical island while getting a fortune to write their books..

[BenLurkin]

He’s not so much their hero as he is a fetish object.

[Farmer Dean]

Trump should send a message to the Magic Mulatto.
I have your warrants for sedition and treason right here on my desk.Mind what you say or do from here on out.

[Candor7]

The mighty whacko liberal fascist president past is reduced to being a heckler and jeckler?

I celebrate.

Go back to Tahiti , you douche bag!

[Cowboy Bob]

Who’s got the keys to the Teleprompter?

[drewh]

the funniest part is that Barry Soetoro wants nothing to do with any of it, I hope he trashes the Clinton witch in his memoir..

[Liz]

(hat tip Kenya Sunday Standard)

DID PRESIDENT OBAMA ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING FOR HIS HOMELAND?

<><> 2 billion US tax dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood,

<><> $50 million US tax dollars to his tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Kenya.

<><> Total US Foreign Aid to Kenya (FY 2012): $749,236,440

<><> $418M arms sale to Kenya

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(FR Posted by RobinMasters)

A Kenyan lawmaker told the nation's Parliament last month (March 2010) that Barack Obama was born in Africa and is therefore "not even a native American."

During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country's minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America's election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite:

"If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation," Orengo posited, "how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the president of America?"

Orengo held up the U.S. as a country no longer "living in the past," since Americans elected a Kenyan-born president without regard to "ethnic consideration and objectives."

Debate is then recorded in the Kenyan government's official March 25, 2010, hansard – a traditional name for printed transcripts of a parliamentary debate – as continuing with no other MPs mentioning or attempting to correct Orengo's comments about Obama. (Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...

[bar sin·is·ter]

[Defiant]

Ex presidents are like children, they should be seen and not heard. Ex presidents who screwed up an entire world, and committed incredible acts of criminality in attempting to establish a surveillance state, should just slink away and enjoy their boy toys.

[PROCON]

BWAHAHA, Obama is almost as responsible for Trump winning as Her Heinous.

[Vendome]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is Obama an enlightened being? / Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain’t no ordinary politician. You buying it?
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/morford/article/Is-Obama-an-enlightened-being-Spiritual-wise-2544395.php

Noted imbecile Mark Morford: Obama is a “Lightworker,” an “enlightened being”
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/06/noted-imbecile-mark-morford-obama-is-a-lightworker-an-enlightened-being/

[Farmer Dean]

Barry knows he’s guilty as sin,Poking the bear with a sharp stick is not a survival strategy.

[mrsmel]

LOL, good one. I would think that Obola would rather get the media spotlight off of him, except under certain, fawning, conditions, so that he can indulge in his favorite vices in peace. Though I suppose he really doesn’t need to worry about any fall-out, seeing as the msm are his sycophants.

Interesting that he turns up in Chicago just when AG Sessions-God bless him-is letting Rahm know that federal funds will be withheld in light of his determination to flout federal law and have Chicago remain as a “sanctuary city”. Rahm seems to believe that there’s somewhere over the heads of Sessions and President Trump he can go, if he means what his mouth says. I think that AG Sessions knows otherwise, and I think that I’d place more faith in Sessions’ knowledge of law than in Rahm’s.

[Leep]

Our hero...

[BenLurkin]

Madness

[okie 54]

Trump needs to take off the gloves an neutralize 0bummer and Hildabeast

[FlingWingFlyer]

The friggin’, bottomfeeding Kenyan “trashing” an American. President Trump and done more good things for America in 100 days than the Kenyan did bad things for America in eight years. FUBO. Barry should have never held a position higher than riding on the back of a garbage truck. Trash is the only thing he’s good at.

[okie 54]

Trump needs to take off the gloves an neutralize 0bummer and Hildabeast

[Louis Foxwell]

Trump will not forecast his moves. Obama is clear about the power of the presidency and knows his ass is in a sling of his own making. Obama knows better than to cross Trump at this juncture.