Former President Barack Obama slammed tens of millions of Americans during his speech on Friday, claiming that they were paranoid, divisive, and resentful.
"Neither party has been exclusively responsible for us going backwards instead of forwards," Obama said. "But I have to say this because sometimes we hear a plague on both your houses."
"But over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican party," Obama continued. "This Congress has championed the unwinding of campaign finance laws to give billionaires outside influence over our politics."
Obama continued by claiming that the Trump administration has "systematically attacked voting rights to make it harder for young people and minorities and the poor to vote," without offering any evidence to validate his claim.
WATCH: Obama Trashes Millions Of Americans As Paranoid, Divisive, Resentful
Obama began by laying out the idea that America exists without a ruling class:
This, coming from Obama, is rich. This is the president who declared he would rule with pen and phone, whose 2012 DNC proclaimed that government is the only thing we all share, who expanded executive authority to draconian new heights. But according to Obama, Trump is the big problem.
This is a common theme from Obama: everything was great until Trump. Obama explained that America has “operated under some common assumptions about who we are and what we stand for.” He simply suggested that big government liberalism was the founding ideology, and that we all agreed on it (we didn’t). He said that we all agreed on foreign policy (we didn’t). He suggested we all agree on the “collective responsibility” for health care and the need for heavy environmental regulation and government hiring programs (we don’t).
But Obama ignored all the real disunity to suggest that Trump is to blame for everything wrong with the country:
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Again, the gaslighting runs strong in Obama. Obama suggests he’s for a better politics, but everyone who disagrees with him is “fearful of change.” Politicians who oppose him are corrupt – but not Obama, who would never want to keep us “divided” or “angry.” Not Obama, who called his opponents “bitter clingers” and whose hand-chosen successor labeled her opponents “deplorables.”
Obama Returns, Gives A Speech Reminding Americans Of Why Trump Is President
But :
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html
Feb 5, 2008 - The following is a transcript of Senator Barack Obama's speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 nominating ... But there is one thing on this February night that we donot need the final results to know. ... AsI've said before, she was a friend before this campaign. She'll .... We are the ones we've been waiting for.
"Neither party has been exclusively responsible for us going backwards instead of forwards," Obama said. "But I have to say this because sometimes we hear a plague on both your houses."
"But over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican party," Obama continued. "This Congress has championed the unwinding of campaign finance laws to give billionaires outside influence over our politics."
Obama continued by claiming that the Trump administration has "systematically attacked voting rights to make it harder for young people and minorities and the poor to vote," without offering any evidence to validate his claim.
WATCH: Obama Trashes Millions Of Americans As Paranoid, Divisive, Resentful
Obama began by laying out the idea that America exists without a ruling class:
The point Washington made, the point that is essential to American democracy, is that in a government of and by and for the people, there should be no permanent ruling class. There are only citizens, who through their elected and temporary representatives, determine our course and determine our character.
This, coming from Obama, is rich. This is the president who declared he would rule with pen and phone, whose 2012 DNC proclaimed that government is the only thing we all share, who expanded executive authority to draconian new heights. But according to Obama, Trump is the big problem.
This is a common theme from Obama: everything was great until Trump. Obama explained that America has “operated under some common assumptions about who we are and what we stand for.” He simply suggested that big government liberalism was the founding ideology, and that we all agreed on it (we didn’t). He said that we all agreed on foreign policy (we didn’t). He suggested we all agree on the “collective responsibility” for health care and the need for heavy environmental regulation and government hiring programs (we don’t).
But Obama ignored all the real disunity to suggest that Trump is to blame for everything wrong with the country:
I’m here today because this is one of those pivotal moments when every one of us as citizens of the United States need to determine just who it is that we are. Just what it is that we stand for. And as a fellow citizen — not as an ex-president, but as a fellow citizen — I’m here to deliver a simple message, and that is that you need to vote because our democracy depends on it.
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Again, the gaslighting runs strong in Obama. Obama suggests he’s for a better politics, but everyone who disagrees with him is “fearful of change.” Politicians who oppose him are corrupt – but not Obama, who would never want to keep us “divided” or “angry.” Not Obama, who called his opponents “bitter clingers” and whose hand-chosen successor labeled her opponents “deplorables.”
Obama Returns, Gives A Speech Reminding Americans Of Why Trump Is President
But :
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html
Feb 5, 2008 - The following is a transcript of Senator Barack Obama's speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 nominating ... But there is one thing on this February night that we donot need the final results to know. ... AsI've said before, she was a friend before this campaign. She'll .... We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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Imagine how much more he could have accomplished if not for racist Republicans in Congress.
