Posted on 05/31/2018 8:47:58 AM PDT by cq
President Barack Obama was veritably shell-shocked in the wake of Donald Trump's election victory in 2016, and even asked aides “What if we were wrong?” as he struggled to come to terms with Hillary Clinton's defeat, former adviser Ben Rhodes writes in a new memoir coming out in June.
The book, titled "The World As It Is," highlights efforts by Obama's brain trust to reassure him that he would have won re-election if he were allowed to run for a third term.
But Obama remained alternately optimistic and dejected, according to Rhodes, who has been feted as an aspiring novelist-turned national security wunderkind.
“Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” Obama told aides, according to the memoir. “Maybe we pushed too far. ... Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”
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Maybe, you arrogant little prick.
Wrong about EVERYTHING..............
He must have realized that the ONLY REASON HE WAS ELECTED WAS BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK.......................
Oh my goodness, what a racist remark. /s
...he would have won re-election if he were allowed to run for a third term.
i.e. they were probably right.
“What if we were wrong?”
You mean signing that pact with the Evil One?
Not too late to repent. Ask Zachary King.
“What if we were wrong?”
PRISON!
Actually, the wording was bad but it is true. There are far more stars in the KNOWN universe than grains of sand on earth. And we know only a tiny corner of it. It’s pretty big.
I find this hard to believe. Obama thinks he is right about everything. He would never pose such questions.
Fake News still building a fake legend about a man who never existed.
In other words, maybe he was only a political John the Baptist, not the full Black Messiah.
No, you dip$#!+. You pushed in the wrong direction.
Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early
No, you satanic freak. There is NEVER a time for your demonic errors.
I was just trying to do the best job I could and orders is orders.
The NETFLIX gig is
Ben Rhodes is apparently aspiring to be the next Ted Sorensen i.e, Obama’s official haliographer.
The NETFLIX gig is a weird attempt to normalize a couple of enemies of America because they just aren't as evil as the clintons who just straight faced lie and continue on.
It is just the way you would expect him to re act ... because he was SOOOO sure the fix was in.
He was probably thinking, ‘where DIDN’T we cheat enough!!’
You WE’RE wrong, dipshit!
You were often wrong too. I ask myself regularly how you ever became President? Who put you there?
He actually did over reach. If he had pulled back just a little, let more oil be drilled, let a pipeline be completed, kept things a little more business friendly, backed off on carbon restrictions just a bit, improved things for blacks and Hispanics, compromised with the right on immigration reform — then he could have had it all.
We would be living under Hillary rule. Or not if he let the DOJ actually do their job. maybe under Sanders rule.
I shudder to think how little he would have had to give up to capture the 80,000 voters in those key states. So Yes, he went too far, and I hope he is not really the future like he still thinks.
But he went too far and woke up the Trump base and we now see what the economy can do for a much larger group of American achievers.
F N A obunghole misjudged US:-) Who is laughing now obunghole, now that your legacy is kaput!
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