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'We're supposed to stand up to bullies': Obama delivers stinging rebuke of Trump presidency


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Former President Barack Obama on Friday delivered his sharpest rebuke of President Trump since leaving office while urging U.S. citizens to vote in the upcoming midterm elections because “our democracy depends on it.”

“We’re supposed to stand up to bullies, not follow them.” Obama said in a speech at the University of Illinois in Urbana, where he accepted an award for ethics in public service.

The former president mocked Trump’s response blaming “both sides” for the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.

“We’re supposed to stand up to discrimination,” Obama said. “We’re sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to Nazi sympathizers! How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad!”

Obama, who had not once invoked his successor’s name in public appearances since exiting the White House, did so on Friday while describing people who stoke fear and division in order to “keep their power and keep their privilege.”

“It did not start with Donald Trump,” Obama said. “He is a symptom, not the cause. He’s just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.”

But the former president also said the country finds itself at crossroads under Trump.

“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 and what we stand for,” Obama said. “Just a glance at recent headlines should tell you that this moment really is different. The stakes really are higher.”

While there have been plenty of big elections in U.S. history, Obama said the current political climate makes this one different.

In the past, Obama said, “there’s been at least rough agreement among an overwhelming majority of Americans that our country is strongest when everybody is treated fairly when people are judged on the merits and content of their character and not the color of their skin or the way in which they worship god or their last names.”

But the breakdown in political discourse has led the country to stray from its core principles of “the rule of law, human rights and democracy,” Obama said.

“Over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican party,” he added.

Obama also skewered the anonymous Trump administration official who authored the New York Times op-ed about efforts inside the West Wing to actively subvert Trump’s “half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless” impulses.

“They’re not doing us a service by actively promoting 90 percent of the crazy stuff that’s coming out of this White House, and then saying, ’Don’t worry, we’re preventing the other 10 percent,’” Obama said.

Obama also chastised the GOP response to gun violence.

“If you’re tired of politicians who offer nothing but thoughts and prayers after a mass shooting, you’ve got to do what the Parkland kids are doing,” Obama said. “They’re not giving up until they see a Congress that values your lives more than a campaign check from the NRA. You’ve got to vote.”

The speech was billed as Obama’s first major political address since leaving office. He is scheduled to speak at a rally for Democratic congressional candidates in California on Saturday and at an event for Richard Cordray, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, next week. Last year, Obama stumped for then-Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam but otherwise largely kept himself out of the political fray.

“I needed to spend some time one on one with Michelle if I wanted to stay married,” Obama joked Friday. “The truth is I was intent on following a wise American of ex-presidents gracefully exiting the political stage to make room for new voices and new ideas.”

 

 

 

 

 

Neg away!

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No neg from me.  You didn't write his speech did ya?  He still brings the same 'ole trash and charismatic jibber that he brought and carried thru with that almost destroyed America.  He just can't stand the thoughts of Trump accomplishing in 2 years that he couldn't accomplish in 8.  Oh that's right, he almost did accomplish his agenda.  Hate, destruction and bringing us into a socialist Country.  He truely does need to spend all his time with thunder thighs and keep his communist thoughts at home.  I don't want to hear it.

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  • Obutt needs to be tried for treason and then handled as per the Constitution.  Never has there been any President with so little class as to openly attack a sitting president.  I am hoping that the walls will  start singing and the truth comes out about that stinking traitor.  
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O is a panty waist Muslim loving Sob ! That let Iraq be taking over by Muslims, ISIS ....who ever the F they are ! Chicago probably has the highest kill rate in the country and yet he hasn't said a damn thing ! His first words accepting his presidency " we are no longer a Christian Nation.....F him ! And all of his evil 😈 that follow. As a white person we are f. .Ed if we believe anything that comes out of his Muslim ass ! Stay villigent , stay informed ! Don't be dupped by what sounds good ! God bless ;

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12 hours ago, bohica said:
  • Obutt needs to be tried for treason and then handled as per the Constitution.  Never has there been any President with so little class as to openly attack a sitting president.  I am hoping that the walls will  start singing and the truth comes out about that stinking traitor.  

The prophet Mark Taylor has said Obama will be found guilty of treason and will be in jail.  Bring it on!!

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