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Obama: ‘I’m ready to pass the baton’
Politico ^ | July 27, 2016 | Sarah Wheaton

Posted on 07/27/2016 9:18:39 PM PDT by Innovative

The president makes a forceful case for Clinton and warns against the threat of ‘homegrown demagogues.’

Twelve years after he first addressed a Democratic National Convention, and eight years after he became the first black presidential nominee of a major party, President Barack Obama President Barack Obama cast the election to succeed him as a “fundamental choice.”

Speaking on the penultimate night of the convention, Obama made a forceful case for his former rival. He’s not likely to have an audience like this again as president, and Obama soaked in the cheers from a party that, despite its divisions, remains enthralled by his charisma and vision.

Obama’s aides had said before the speech that it would be more of a positive testimonial for Hillary Clinton than anything else. But Obama also delivered a passionate indictment of Donald Trump, casting him as a menace whose positions aren’t just on the other side of the political spectrum, but on a different spectrum all together.

This election, Obama said, is “not just a choice between parties or policies; the usual debates between left and right. This is a more fundamental choice – about who we are as a people, and whether we stay true to this great American experiment in self-government.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016dncconvention; clinton; dnc; enoughalready; hillary; obama; obiethefaggot; trump
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To: Eddie01

Yeah it is a creepy pic,

I’ve said for some time now, that demonic spirit in Obama will not leave the White House willingly, whoever moves in in January will have to receive it, it is not leaving willingly, Trump will need to call in an exorcist,

Maybe this is what it looks like finding its new home,

(and yeah, I wish I was just being sarcastic)


101 posted on 07/28/2016 5:18:28 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Innovative

uh-huh?????????????


102 posted on 07/28/2016 5:30:22 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Right Brother

Nice...


103 posted on 07/28/2016 6:01:44 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (The 2nd Amendment immediately follows the 1st because some people are hard of hearing...)
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To: Old Yeller
For all of you who asked about the hole in Hillary's tongue, Mike Cernovich noticed it too and you'll find some theories at https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/758534612465385472


104 posted on 07/28/2016 6:04:26 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Innovative

What I coincidence! I’m ready for him to pass it too!


105 posted on 07/28/2016 6:04:59 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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To: Innovative

He’s more aggressive attacking Trump than radical Islam!


106 posted on 07/28/2016 6:05:38 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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To: plain talk

Obama looked weird. Looks like his whole face was botoxed


107 posted on 07/28/2016 6:17:00 AM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: Fitzy_888

Doesn’t Obama mean “I’m ready to drop the mic.”...?


That’s code for “I’m ready to drop the soap”..


108 posted on 07/28/2016 6:32:12 AM PDT by AFret.
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To: Innovative

He’s just saying that to make us feel like he’ll actually leave office.


109 posted on 07/28/2016 8:22:22 AM PDT by wastedyears (#brexit - Make Britain Great Again)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Kaposi’s if she spent time with Bill.


110 posted on 07/28/2016 8:45:19 AM PDT by bIlluminati (Who is Horatio Bunce?)
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To: Innovative
Obama: ‘I’m ready to pass the baton’

He swallowed a baton? Well, he's had lots of practice...

111 posted on 07/28/2016 9:29:15 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Innovative

Why wait for January? Leave before the next Wikileak.


112 posted on 07/28/2016 9:40:24 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. --Donald Trump)
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To: Innovative
‘I’m ready to pass the baton’

GREAT fodder for the political cartoonists (especially Ramirez) . Wonder what label they will put on the baton?

113 posted on 07/28/2016 9:52:29 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Where his reasoning is blanked up, is that the left does not believe in self-government. The left believes in imposing its will on all of us.

Most of these left-wingers are oddballs who basically want to do their own thing & have everyone go along with it. Each one is living in his or her own fantasy world.

I can't imagine a community with any of these people, let alone a country. (How many 1960s communes lasted?) They will move on somewhere else once they get bored or frustrated. Most will self-destruct through either drugs or suicide.

114 posted on 07/28/2016 11:06:15 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Cobra64

Mooselimb faggot go home! ...


115 posted on 07/29/2016 4:27:46 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FUBO & FUHRC too ...)
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