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Obama feels Sanders is unfit to battle Trump – and he has told people he might say so publicly
foxbusiness ^ | 1/23/2020 | charles gasparino

Posted on 01/23/2020 5:30:41 PM PST by bitt

Obama could publicly rebuke Sanders as the senator’s momentum grows

FOX Business' Charlie Gasparino reports former President Barack Obama is growing 'uncomfortable' with Sen. Bernie Sanders' growing popularity in the Democratic presidential race. Former President Barack Obama has remained mostly silent through the early stages of the Democratic race to unseat Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election but that may soon change, friends and associates tell FOX Business, as avowed socialist Bernie Sanders gains in national polls and seems poised to obtain front-runner status.

The people who spoke on the condition of anonymity say Obama's preference had always been to lay low through the primaries aside from making some broad comments as he did in November of last year when, according to a report in The New York Times, the former two-term president, best known for expanding the size of government and his eponymous health care mandate, appeared genuinely worried about some of the increasingly leftist proposals being touted on the campaign trail from Sanders, the US senator from Vermont, and to some extent, Elizabeth Warren, the US senator from Massachusetts.

"The average American doesn't think we have to completely tear down the system to remake it," the Times quoted Obama, who was speaking at a gathering of Democratic donors.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bernie; bernie2020; obama; obamabernie; sanders
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To: bitt

There is NO Democrat fit to battle Trump!


21 posted on 01/23/2020 5:55:27 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS!)
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To: bitt

Obama (Jarett) doesn’t want to be Sanders shadow...Biden’s, yes


22 posted on 01/23/2020 5:55:41 PM PST by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
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To: bitt

This man should be in Gitmo not pontificating privately.


23 posted on 01/23/2020 5:56:19 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yep, the Kenyanesian Usurper knew enough to put a veneer on his Marxism.


24 posted on 01/23/2020 5:57:27 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EEGator

Well, that time has not come for me.

Sanders will lose of course, but he is far more fit than the old man that gropes children or any of the rest of the clown car.

If the Democrats do not wish to accept Bernie as their nominee let them come in third, and finish the party of the Klu Klux Klan off forever.


25 posted on 01/23/2020 5:59:16 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: bitt
Pompous ass Obama thinks he's smarter than everybody else. I like Bernie, only in the respect that he's a metaphorical bomb thrower. A true change agent.

The problem is his changes are all bad and the bombs of his supporters could lose metaphorical status.

Still, Obama's not in charge of sh1t anymore and should just fade away with his gooneygoogoo wife and his gooneygoogoo kids.

26 posted on 01/23/2020 5:59:17 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: bitt

Rumor is 0bama wants Deval Patrick to be Democrat nominee.


27 posted on 01/23/2020 5:59:50 PM PST by Bob Stone (Satyameva Jayate - the Truth Alone Triumphs)
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To: EEGator

I wouldn’t argue that point.

He does seem to be out of steam.

For the life of me, I don’t get the following, but the kids just love the guy.


28 posted on 01/23/2020 6:02:47 PM PST by DoughtyOne (It's a New Year, and time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: All

Too bad he didn’t unleash these powers of perception on himself.


29 posted on 01/23/2020 6:04:29 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Nobody reads this anyway so here's my password: *************)
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To: DoughtyOne

Kids have no wealth.

They would gain everything, and give nothing.


30 posted on 01/23/2020 6:05:23 PM PST by EEGator
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To: bitt

“Bernie, you idiot, didn’t you learn anything from me? Never actually tell them you’re a communist!”


31 posted on 01/23/2020 6:08:48 PM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: bitt

“”The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system to remake it,” the Times quoted Obama”

The average American did not think we needed to tear down the healthcare system in order to install ObamaCare either.


32 posted on 01/23/2020 6:10:08 PM PST by plain talk
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To: bitt

Crazy Bernie and his idiot brain-dead supporters don’t care bout the Kenyan...

he’ll go as far as his donations take him and demand that huge payoff to get his support like 2016.


33 posted on 01/23/2020 6:12:31 PM PST by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: hardspunned

BINGO


34 posted on 01/23/2020 6:17:17 PM PST by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: TigersEye
How does that make him different from the rest of the Dems running?

The others, including Obama, prefer the Fabian approach of slowly regressing the United States into a Socialist hell. Mr. Obama apparently understands that the 'shock' of a full-throated communist candidate would blow their game-plan of National suicide by gradualism.

To give Bernie his due, at least he seems honest. I don't know how anyone in Vermont (or anyplace other than Berkeley, San Francisco, and perhaps a few precincts in New York City) could ever vote for the guy -- but he is honest in his 'appreciation' of communism (and the old Soviet Union).

35 posted on 01/23/2020 6:20:10 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

Bernie does not scare me. It’s the idiots that support him are the scary ones.


36 posted on 01/23/2020 6:25:42 PM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: bitt

No more unfit than you are, Obozo.


37 posted on 01/23/2020 6:29:54 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: El Cid

That wasn’t the question though. 0bungler said that Bernie wasn’t fit to run against Trump.
Their various political philosophies weren’t part of the equation.


38 posted on 01/23/2020 6:33:24 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: oldasrocks
Yup.
Scary that we have so many Americans that have been dumbed down by our schools and Media to the point that they believe communism is ok.
39 posted on 01/23/2020 6:34:04 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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Re: 38

I beg to differ. 'Not fit to run' means that Obama does not want Bernie to run. I don't think there is a dime's bit of a difference between their endgame political philosophies, but they differ on the means of getting to the endpoint. The endpoint being an America enslaved to a Politburo led by a select political elite. Obama does not want Bernie to be the Democrat's face in the Presidential election because he drops their mask.

40 posted on 01/23/2020 6:38:25 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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