Posted on 01/13/2018 4:08:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNN) - During a conversation with David Letterman on his new Netflix program, former President Barack Obama issued a stern warning for the current commander in chief: "One of the things that Michelle figured out, in some ways faster than I did, was part of your ability to lead the country doesn't have to do with legislation, doesn't have to do with regulations, it has to do with shaping attitudes, shaping culture, increasing awareness." Although Obama was extremely hesitant about directly commenting about President Donald Trump, the message he sent was clear.
And it comes in the wake of the upsetting news that during a private meeting with legislators at the White House, President Trump referred to African nations as "shithole countries." The President tweeted out a denial that he ever said this, with two Republican legislators saying that they couldn't remember. Illinois Democrat Richard Durbin, who was in attendance, responded that Trump did use the term and said things that were "hate-filled, vile and racist." And a Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said he appreciated Durbin's statement -- and had challenged Trump's comments.
It would be a mistake to dismiss the comments as a "distraction" because, with Trump, they are the main show. His rhetoric sends a message to the nation and to the world about the values that we treasure and that the nation will stand for in 2018.
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it has to do with shaping attitudes, shaping culture, increasing awareness.it has to do with shaping attitudes, shaping culture, increasing awareness.
Does he mean like inciting riots in St. Louis, condemning cops for “behaving stuipidly” and turning black against white driving race relations to new lows? Things like that?
...or like inserting a butt-plug, eating at Taco Bell for 8 years, then removing it.
Letterman and Obama.
Right... Two pud-knockers I never want to hear from again!
FU DL!
FU BHO!
Clown Fraud Traitor Seditionists say what???
Obama was a hater. Pure and simple. He was full of hate.
“Stern warning? “ - Part and Parcel of leading from behind....
Do you like wide stripes or narrow? How about fashionable orange? All dossier roads will eventually lead to the Obama Whitehouse.
ah yes, the beer summit.
They never explained why Joe Biden was there, to make the beer summit a foursome. And they never really explained what was discussed at the beer summit.
It was a photo op but no more than that.
Obama is so funny he should be doing a stand up act!
It’s a tough thing when you’re no longer relevant.
Yes.
“it has to do with shaping attitudes, shaping culture, increasing awareness”
Just what he was doing. The content of the attitudes, culture, awareness - that he didn’t mention.
with Trump, they are the main show. His rhetoric sends a message to the nation and to the world about the values that we treasure and that the nation will stand for in 2018.
Damn straight!
About time too.
More nonsense from that big-eared faggot.
Then both mooch and Obozo are stupid
“it has to do with shaping attitudes, shaping culture, increasing awareness”
That’s exactly what Trump’s been doing.
They just don’t like the direction, or the content, of it.
A bit of the usual disingenuousness of that side of politics.
They can’t come out and oppose what is actually popular, they concentrate on the rhetorical and peripheral.
It was all to try to rehabilitate Obama and Henry Louis Gates after they had proved themselves to be virulent black racists.
A white Cambridge cop was merely doing his job, investigating an actual break-in. Neither the person who reported it nor the cops had any way to know beforehand that the guy breaking into the house was the homeowner, Gates. All Gates needed to do was to be grateful that the police were trying to protect his property, but instead he played the race card.... and then Obozo made it a national/international issue by playing the race card much more loudly.
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