Posted on 02/06/2017 5:25:34 AM PST by HomerBohn
In the final weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama downplayed the idea that he would criticize his successor from the sidelines. Noting his appreciation for the way George W. Bush stayed silent during his own presidency, Obama said he would try to extend the same courtesy to Donald Trump.
He made it exactly 10 days before giving in to the irresistible impulse to jump back into the fray. After protests erupted as a result of President Trump’s executive order on immigration, Obama released a statement through spokesman Kevin Lewis:
“President Obama is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country,” the statement said. “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.”
As far as statements go, this one was pretty mild. If it were made by someone else, it would hardly get any attention at all. It didn’t mention Donald Trump and it only offered veiled criticism in the last few words. If Obama had released a statement like this a year or two into Trump’s presidency, we might have even applauded #44 for his restraint.
According to Politico, though, Obama is merely biding his time:
Obama knows there are many much more drastic measures that he might want to speak out on, and he’s saving more direct intervention for maximum impact, people familiar with his thinking say. He knows he only gets one chance at it being the first time that he takes on Trump himself.
“He’ll know the right time,” said one person involved. “He will have the best sense of when he needs to do it directly.”
Seeing as how he couldn’t even make it a month before releasing a statement through his spokesperson, we don’t imagine we’ll have to wait long for “the right time” to arrive. Free from the constraints of the presidency, Obama is getting back in touch with his community-organizer persona and, undoubtedly, his Marxist roots. After pretending (badly) to be a moderate Democrat for eight years, he’s itching to let his true colors fly.
In some ways, we hope he grabs the microphone early and often. The more air Obama sucks out of the room, the less will be left for the next big Democrat star. That bodes well for 2020. On the other hand, President Trump seems to have taken a liking to his predecessor, just as Obama became friends with Bush. That kind of relationship can prove invaluable; after all, there aren’t many men who know what it’s like to sit in the Oval Office. There are plenty who can sit back and criticize the president.
If we’re counting on Barack Obama’s best judgement, though, we are bound to be disappointed.
Bozo was a Potheaded, homosexual, smarmy thug as a teenager and he never changed his ways. He's decided to follow in his fathers footsteps as a openly radical, homosexual Muslim . He has no Class and therefore will stick around supporting terrorists like BLM, CAIR and the rest of the anti-American thugs .
Go ahead..wreck the dem party some more. we need more senators
More? I would settle for a few Good senators.
He already shot his wad with the level of engagement comment. He was heartened by it. Oh joy!
We need both - extra GOP senators, and a few genuinely conservative, fighting, small-government GOP senators. Mitch McConnell is not cutting it.
,,”President Obama is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country,” the statement said. “Citizens exercising their...”
Notice anything strange????
He is still calling himself “President”.
Someday Barack Obama may tell us all what it feels like to be the last black U.S. president.
Challenge? With what authority? As the worst president in the history of the United States?
The community agitator is ready to pounce. Bottom feeding maggot.
Barry has become the small man in the corner.
So when does he unsealed his college records?
Progtards in denial...
“Woodrow Wilson was the only other president who remained in D. C. after his presidency.”
And that’s because he suffered a stroke and was paralyzed.
Obama is mentally paralyzed.
I’m surprised this country survived him. Luck for us, he was a total failure. His only accomplishments were running up the debt and stirring up the Middle East. His goal was to destroy America. He came close. But he failed. Like Clinton, he could have been the most successful President in history. But, like Clinton, his ego controlled his every action.
I’ve been fortunate to get to know many blacks well. My first was as a young 16 year old kid. I had my first car and “Thomas” fixed it for me and took payment as I could from my 2 jobs. Sometimes him fixing the car took hours and I had to just sit around and play with his 7-8 kids. Thomas’s wife would call “supper” and of course I would be invited to some of the best food I’ve ever had. A prayer was first!
Anyway, I can tell you that that black family loved their country. Barack Obama did not and does not.
That is a strange concept that we have been criticized for in the rest of the world: We continue to call everyone by their former title out of respect. Maybe because we don’t have other kinds of titles and we want to give them some honor and some recognition of their stature.
I’m not worried about that. I worry about the Muslim Marxist getting his own team of lawyers together to fight Trump, even though he can’t possibly win on this one, and fighting behind the scenes in other ways.
People better worry about the CIA, FBI, TSA, etc. instead of sock puppets like Barry and Pope Burgie who are just the misdirection tools behind the scenes Globalist magicians use.
For God's sake, airports are under Federal control and in theory secure zones but what happens? Mobs shut them down and it's no big deal.
If that doesn't clue people in to the fact that the thugs who in theory are protecting us are enemies of our Republic I don't know what will.
Geez, three armed guards will show up and probably do a body cavity search on you if you use an electric cigarette in an airport but unruly mobs can shut down the luggage areas and counters?
JMHo
Zero better clean up his dirt first; he’s fair game when it comes to exposing his duplicity and treason, ya think?
I wonder if Zero and Kerry are “proud” of enabling and supporting Iran’s missile launches?
And when the Tea Party broke out against him all he did was call Americans derogatory names who were also exercising their constitutional rights to free speech. But the propaganda media won’t call him out on that.
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