Posted on 01/30/2017 2:33:58 PM PST by Kaslin
When President Obama left the White House for the final time on January 20, he tweeted the following.
Hi everybody! Back to the original handle. Is this thing still on? Michelle and I are off on a quick vacation, then well get back to work. Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 20, 2017
It was a short trip.
In light of President Trump's recent executive order freezing refugee admission from seven different countries, countries originally identified by the Obama administration as terror hot spots, former President Obama is chiming in. From POLITICO:
Kevin Lewis, spokesman for Obama in his post-presidency, said that Obama who has been threading the balance between the tradition of presidents deferring to their successors and coming out against President Donald Trump on specific issues he considered core values is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country.It is Obama's first statement since leaving the White House.
Citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake, Lewis said.
With regard to comparisons to President Obamas foreign policy decisions, as weve heard before, the president fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion, Lewis said.
Notice how Obama failed to mention his historical and massive failures in Syria, Libya, Yemen and general Middle East region, which led Trump to this point. Not to mention the creation of ISIS, a direct result of President Obama's political decision to leave Iraq early.
Obama will no doubt be publicly commenting on Trump's policies and decisions as President. His commentary breaks from precedent set by President George W. Bush, who gave Obama the respect and space he deserved in his new role.
The Democrat Party no longer appears to be missing a leader.
He supports thousands of people missing their flights because his dbags were allowed to protest in airport drop off and pick up areas??? How is that permitted, anyway?
Yes, somewhere. Clearly I lost.
(Feb. 7 was mine)
So he’s “standing with the muslims”? You mean all those “fact checkers” that said he didn’t mean foreign muslims were ... gasp! ... wrong!?
Who had week 2 in the pool? What a tool!
NO. He is supporting street violence and anarchy to over through the Lawfully Elected Government of the United States of America.
After 8 years of him, you were still able to underestimate him and give him the benefit of the doubt!
Ex Presidents should cool it. We only have one President at a time. Ex Presidents should not fear reprisal, especially when they ride graciously into the sunset.
However, these are special times. If it turns out that Obama was not a citizen, either through birth or through his years in Indonesia raised by a Muslim father, this should come out. If he was not at Columbia the year he claimed, this should come out. Maybe the gloves will come off sometime during the next four years.
Is he silly or not? (No question about evil). The test of the matter will be how much TV time he gets as “news coverage.”
On the one hand, if random idiots clogging up the airport metit coverage, what will the appeal (for broadcast) of an “outraged former President” be worth. It will be played this way.
But, on the other hand, Obama’s welcome will probably wear out pretty soon. Obama-fatigue was wide spread; a couple of weeks off probably isn’t enough for full rehabilitation.
But then again, Napoleon came back from exile once, in 1815, for 100 days. “Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”
I figured it would be after he won a grammy for a guest star drop in on Jay-Z’s next album.
Once again, leading from his behind.
I think the perfect response to this is get rid of everything Obama did as president from the palestinian money to the iran nuke deal to Michelle Obama’s lunches. EVERYHING get rid of it all. Like he was never president.
Why didn’t Obama allow his 2nd oath to be recorded?
I thought there was a Travel Ban?
Yah, but there wasn’t a mouth ban.
11 days after leaving office.
Still competing with Jimmy Carter for the title of Worst President in History I see
We need to find a way to sue Obama over all the laws he broke as President. There has to be a way.The Democrat Party even today is supporting things that do not protect Americans,they enable terrorist. THEY ARE VIOLATING The Constitution.
We need to find a way to sue Obama over all the laws he broke as President. There has to be a way.The Democrat Party even today is supporting things that do not protect Americans,they enable terrorist. THEY ARE VIOLATING The Constitution.
It’s clear that there is an organized shadow government which will be dogging every day of Trump’s presidency no matter what the does - Obama and his henchmen, like Susan Rice who also made statements today, and the Soros Rentamobs which will be at many airports every weekend protesting whatever they can find to yap about (they make such colorful stories on the usually otherwise dull weekend local TV news shows) - let’s hope Trump and his people put together a cadre of first responders to stay on top of this movement and provide more effective pushback than they did this weekend.....
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