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Obama jumps back into political fray, calls out Trump by name: 'He is a symptom, not the cause'
The Washington Times ^ | 7 Sep 18 | Gabriella Munoz

Posted on 09/07/2018 10:55:13 AM PDT by seanmerc

Former President Obama on Friday lamented the state of politics today, calling out his successor, Donald Trump, by name as he started his push to ramp up Democratic energy for midterms.

Mr. Obama made his return to the political arena by giving a speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after receiving the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government.

He praised America’s accomplishments but said there is a darker side to progress when politicians peddle resentment and mistrust to preserve the status quo.

“It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause,” Mr. Obama said. “He’s just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; barackhusseinobama; dims; dumbocrats; formerpresidentobama; liberalmeatheads; obama; obamaiscrazy; obamaisnuts; obamaspeech; presidenttrump; rats; thebamster; thekenyan; trump; x44
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To: blackdog
Trump needs to immediately apply a kill shot nickname to the hypocritical punk. Use it often and use it to ridicule.

Commander Puff-Puff?

21 posted on 09/07/2018 11:02:13 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: seanmerc

Obama’s only friends — academia and the media.

Nobody else wants anything to do with this America-hating Marxist fool.


22 posted on 09/07/2018 11:02:23 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: seanmerc

23 posted on 09/07/2018 11:03:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: seanmerc

Trump is going to bone and gut him for all too see.


24 posted on 09/07/2018 11:03:13 AM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: seanmerc

This is the “pointed message” that was forecast to begin today? Pfft.


25 posted on 09/07/2018 11:03:56 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: seanmerc
Don't mean to get off topic, but it seems even more like a very different world when a picture like this was taken, doesn't it?
26 posted on 09/07/2018 11:04:19 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: buwaya

GMTA


27 posted on 09/07/2018 11:04:30 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“rticle: “Mr. Obama made his return to the political arena … after receiving the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government.”

I thought the award should have read, “Meritorious Service in the Enrichment of Wall Street Banks and Corporations at the Expense of Workers” award.


28 posted on 09/07/2018 11:06:10 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: seanmerc

And at one time Obama said 1% growth was the new normal for the US and asked if Trump had a magic wand that he was going to use to bring back jobs. Now the tires. Trump is succeeding he want to take credit for it. Please do our Republic a favor and disappear. Oh wait. His original intention as president and now is to destroy our Republic.


29 posted on 09/07/2018 11:06:39 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: seanmerc

You got it wrong Bammy, YOU are the cause.


30 posted on 09/07/2018 11:06:44 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: seanmerc

He is an asshole, not the backhole.


31 posted on 09/07/2018 11:07:25 AM PDT by Colorado Cowgirl (God bless America!)
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To: seanmerc

Let’s thank Obama for his greatest legacy:

President Donald Trump

Well done Obama!


32 posted on 09/07/2018 11:08:30 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: Roccus
resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.”

He should know.


33 posted on 09/07/2018 11:09:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: OpusatFR

Hubrisity?


34 posted on 09/07/2018 11:11:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Steely Tom

It’s green-eyed, psychotic envy. But as usual with insufferable hypocrites, it’s Obama and his Leftist and Establishment monsters who are the ranting, raving psychotics and not Pres. Trump and his supporters.


35 posted on 09/07/2018 11:14:48 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: seanmerc

He should never have been allowed to run as his self- proclaimed father was not a natural born citizen.

Now Kamala Harris is trying the same schtick. Neither of her parents were natural born, nor were they in the time frame by which their spawn would be eligible.

The USSC may ultimately have to be faced with this.


36 posted on 09/07/2018 11:21:38 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: seanmerc

P*ss off, Soy Boy.


37 posted on 09/07/2018 11:22:32 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: seanmerc

So allowing his Secretary of State to place an unsecure email server into her bathroom closet was an ethical thing to do ? Next thing you will be trying to tell me a black man crawled out of an Irish womens womb lol.


38 posted on 09/07/2018 11:30:48 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: antidemoncrat

His original intention as president and now is to destroy our Republic.
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Which is why the Constitution says he can’t be President.
The children of foreign nationals are exactly why the founders rejected “citizen at birth” and “native born citizen”, this would allow for the admission to the office of President people who had other citizenships, loyalties and allegiances.
They wanted someone who was solely an American, naturally an American because they were born here of citizen parents and could be no other.


39 posted on 09/07/2018 11:31:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: onedoug

Parents just have to be citizens at the time of their birth for them to be natural born citizen, the parents don’t have to be.


40 posted on 09/07/2018 11:32:51 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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