Angry Obama still doesn't get it

[Kyle]

President Obama is mighty confused.


In a fiery campaign speech at the University of Illinois, the former president suggested that Donald Trump was elected in 2016 by the “powerful and the privileged.” He also railed at voters for failing to show up, and for permitting such a damaging “threat to our democracy.”


But here’s the truth: it wasn’t the powerful elites that voted for Donald Trump in Michigan and Ohio. It was blue collar workers who felt they had been overlooked by Obama and by Democrats. Who were offended by the headlong rush into identity politics, and by policies that protected everything but their jobs and their livelihoods.


It was voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania, who had seen local industries move overseas, and it was voters in Michigan, who were aggrieved that Hillary Clinton took their votes for granted.


The election in 2016 was not unique. Americans also rebuked the president in 2010, when Democrats lost 63 seats in the House – one of the worst pummelings in modern times -- and again in 2012, when Republicans took over the Senate. Voters also pushed back by electing an unprecedented number of GOP candidates in state legislatures and governors’ mansions while Obama occupied the White House.




http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...ill-doesnt-get-it-as-hits-campaign-trail.html

 

[Monello]

The dems can't make up their minds on why hillary lost. Women that do as their husband's tell them to do. Non college educated. White supremacists. This week it's the powerful & privileged. I wonder what group will be anointed next week.

 

[limblips]

I loved him saying how it was he who jump started the economy but during his entire 8 dismal years he blamed Bush for the economic woes we suffered through. What an a$$. It is interesting that he doesn't claim any responsibility for Chicago's successes, after all he did he organize in the community.

 

[Kyle]

I wonder what group will be anointed next week.

Whatever movies came out on DVD or Video Games released that day.

 

[SamSpade]

I loved him saying how it was he who jump started the economy but during his entire 8 dismal years he blamed Bush for the economic woes we suffered through. What an a$$. It is interesting that he doesn't claim any responsibility for Chicago's successes, after all he did he organize in the community.

I saw where they likened it to him being unable to open a jar for eight years - and when Trump opens it, he claims he "loosened it up" for him.

 

[glhs837]

But here’s the truth: it wasn’t the powerful elites that voted for Donald Trump in Michigan and Ohio. It was blue collar workers who felt they had been overlooked by Obama and by Democrats. Who were offended by the headlong rush into identity politics, and by policies that protected everything but their jobs and their livelihoods.


It was voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania, who had seen local industries move overseas, and it was voters in Michigan, who were aggrieved that Hillary Clinton took their votes for granted.


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Ha, you see, thats's what the elites want you to think, they and the Russian Bots played you, and all those Ohians and Pensyvanians like fiddles.

 

[Hijinx]

It's hard to understand what the Democrats were thinking when they placed Hillary as their candidate.
It was insane. It's a lucky thing they did though,because if they hadn't we would have a Communist president named Bernie.

 

[CPUSA]

What a leader! What a brave soul!!
To travel to a blue state such as Illinois and yell at a bunch of Republicans...in a room full of bat #### crazy Liberal Progs.
Dems wouldn't even come out to show him any love...just straight up crazy Progs.
And I noticed the teleprompter couldn't keep up with his superbly amazing reading skills. What other reasons for the awkward pauses between completing a simple sentence?
This phony from Kenya has become a sad caricature of himself, just like the lovely madam Cankles...

 

[Kyle]

It's hard to understand what the Democrats were thinking when they placed Hillary as their candidate.
It was insane. It's a lucky thing they did though,because if they hadn't we would have a Communist president named Bernie.

It was her turn.

 

[PsyOps]

I saw where they likened it to him being unable to open a jar for eight years - and when Trump opens it, he claims he "loosened it up" for him.

I think that was either Greg Gutfeld or Mark Steyn..

 

[vraiblonde]

It's hard to understand what the Democrats were thinking when they placed Hillary as their candidate.

Easy: they overplayed their hand. They thought the American people were so indoctrinated and docile that they'd do as they were told.

Surprise.

 

[stgislander]

It was her turn.

I thought only Reps suffered from that.

 

[SamSpade]

I thought only Reps suffered from that.

I'm guessing they've taken a page from the Republicans playbook since about 84, with the notable exceptions of Kerry, Dukakis and Bill.
It was Mondale's "turn". Gore's "turn". Clinton's "turn". All based on - more or less - "electability", something the Republicans have done
for years - who on Earth really thought Bob Dole had any chance against Bill? Or McCain, against Obama?

But the biggest problem is that the Democratic old guard isn't ceding ground to the newcomers. Who are the most likely
candidates for 2020, as of now? Hillary, Uncle Joe, Bernie, Warren? Any under 75? If the Dems take the House, who will
they plan to make Speaker? Pelosi, again? If they can't create new leaders, they're just screwing themselves.
I

 

[This_person]

Ha, you see, thats's what the elites want you to think, they and the Russian Bots played you, and all those Ohians and Pensyvanians like fiddles.

 

[Bann]

 

[RoseRed]

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[GURPS]

It’s worth remembering that it was Obama who called out the Supreme Court during a State of the Union speech for defending the First Amendment in the Citizens United case, and his allies who still argue that state should be able to ban political documentaries — and, yes, books. Let’s also not forget Obama’s Internal Revenue Service admitted then apologized for cracking down on conservative political groups. It was the Obama administration that blamed the Benghazi attack on free speech, apologizing to tyrannies for the excesses of free expression, and then, for good measure, threw the amateurish videomaker behind “The Innocence of Muslims” into jail.

Most of all, let’s not forget that Obama did a lot more than complain about Fox News. The administration was so preoccupied with the cable news network (the only major station that could reasonably be seen as the opposition) that top-ranking administration officials like Anita Dunn, Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod all engaged in a concerted effort to openly delegitimize its coverage.

That was unprecedented, but okay. Less okay, though, was that not long after that effort, Attorney General Eric Holder decided to spy on a Fox journalist—shopping his case to three separate judges, until he found one who let him name reporter James Rosen as a co-conspirator in a crime of reporting the news.

We also know that the administration spied on Associated Press reporters, although the scandal received only a fraction of the coverage afforded an average Trump hyperbolic tweet. Is it any wonder that many of us view the panic-stricken reaction to everything Trump does as contrived and hypocritical?

None of Trump’s actions thus far rise to the level of any of these Obama attacks on free expression. Not a single person has been prevented from reporting the news and leveling any criticism he desires. If anything, the policy positions and Supreme Court picks of the administration have strengthened First Amendment protections.

Yet the idea that the president of an administration that engaged in what the AP itself called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” on journalism would be brazen enough to give us one of his moralistic lectures on free expression is predictable. Obama always plays by a different set of rules. These are the kinds of attacks that pushed many voters to find someone “who fights.”


http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/10/barack-obama-reminds-us-why-donald-trump-is-president/

 

[PsyOps]

Most of all, let’s not forget that Obama did a lot more than complain about Fox News. The administration was so preoccupied with the cable news network (the only major station that could reasonably be seen as the opposition) that top-ranking administration officials like Anita Dunn, Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod all engaged in a concerted effort to openly delegitimize its coverage.

And don't forget Fox's James Rosen was a target of a bogus investigation as a spy for reporting that he received info that North Korea would set off a nuke because of UN sanctions. Then there's Sharyl Attkisson who reported on the Benghazi attack had her computer hacked by the DOJ by order of the Obama admin.