Posted on 05/30/2018 2:45:45 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.
“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.
He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”
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Mr. Rhodes describes the reaction of foreign leaders. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan apologized for breaching protocol by meeting with Mr. Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan after the election. Mr. Obama urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada to take on a more vocal role defending the values they shared.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama that she felt more obliged to run for another term because of Mr. Trump’s election to defend the liberal international order. When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.
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Delusional pap to feed the left.
The kenyan did nothing about KGB Vlad’s spying and wetwork because he wanted another reset with Russia after Hillary won.
I’m pretty sure I agree with your most interesting declaration. These people make stuff up all the time. Now . . .
We both know what a conspiracy theory is: Believing in a thing that didn’t happen.
So what do you call our behavior: Not believing in a thing that didn’t happen.
Guarantee the Dems will use this BS to win PR votes in Florida,NJ during election time.
‘When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.”
She thinks she can “save the world” all by herself? Shades of her “hero,” Adolph Hitler. You have to wonder just what their thought processes are.
They have a lot more to worry about now:
If we are being honest, probably confirmation bias.
Not even but and and?
H/T Mary McCarty quote
Obama’s Presidency was built on non-white tribalism.
Ammo go with bias confirmation.
But. I read the entire piece, and it just flat feels phony.
And. Especially in the parts where Ben Rhodes and Obama only found out about the FBI attempt to frame Trump “in the news.”
Really, really hurtful gluteus parts over the erasure of Obama’s legacy, that’s for sure. And all they have is the crowd-size envy? I can’t wait to read the book. And will not read it.
Nobody who spends a lifetime pushing a political line is going to just fold up and say "I was wrong all along."
If Clinton had won by a landslide, would you say, "My whole world view must be wrong"?
So, sure, Obama's not saying that his philosophy is all wrong, but if he's admitting major strategic and tactical mistakes, that's something.
Assuming the story is true, admitting that one moved too fast or that voters didn't want what one was selling may go beyond simple anger or contempt for the voters.
But I certainly don't know whether this is what really happened. Whether it happened like this or not, the article does have a phony, contrived feel to it.
These "inside" articles feel like they are precisely what didn't happen.
I don’t think The One has the mental capacity to consider he ever made a mistake.
Too bad, so sad, the poor baby.
What a steaming pile........
shows how actually stupid he is.
“What if people don’t get our magnificence?”
How about “WHY Trump’s Win Shook Obama.”
1. Legacy extinction.
2. Crimes of his administration unveiled.
FU BO
That assclown was wrong about everything.
He should already be in jail, along with “herself”...
It just feels like complete fiction.
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