Speaking from Germany with Angela Merkel, Obama exercised his pro-protest voice. (probably wondering if his marching shoes were still ready in the closet)
When asked directly about the protestors to Trump back home, Obama could find no words to object to it. In fact, he said that it was standard fare that he thinks every president has probably been faced with. He encouraged protest as a (healthy) sign of freedom in a democracy.
Then he pivoted to call cynicism and dissent agents of disruption, chaos or evil in global politics. (my paraphrasing) Not much place for dissent there. How does he square his circular thinking? He doesn’t. No greater contrast could be made. It shows where he puts his interests. It was a broadsided way to condemn Brexit or the fractures in the European Union. That dissent must be called out….but not the dissent of a presidential election.
But Obama would reject any notion that protests of himself were constructive — even though we did not take to the streets or riot upon his election. Now he refuses to call for restraint of protests. Instead he tried to normalize them. So he is all for unity only when it suits his ideological purpose. Obama’s sole outreach after his elections was saying “I won.”
For weeks he lectured from the presidential podium about accepting the results of the election. Now his respect for protestors trumps all. Obama lectured about accepting election results but then says nothing to those who don’t.
Obama is way to obsessive about the White House.He lectured on the sober seriousness of the job. I guess that’s why he is always off playing golf or on vacation when there is a national or world crisis. Nothing interrupts his vacation, be it floods, riots or international military issues, or terrorism.
Yet post Benghazi coverup, he now portends seriousness about not taking one’s eye off problems. We’ve been treated to pictures of Obama skipping off for ice cream in Martha’s Vineyard, or Barry doing the Wave at a ball game with Castro in Cuba, or doing a dance in SA as international events rage around him. Then his politicizing our entire government.
Not to forget his invisible red line in Syria or calling ISIS a JV team. Or his refusals to call terrorists what they are — that’s way too controversial. Now he is lecturing Trump, from Germany, on dealing with sober realities? Benghazi is only a distant, alien memory to him. Not a word about calming the unrest, from Obama, except toward justified fears of global warming schemes and their fierce ‘urgency of now’ politics.
What a two-faced hypocrite.
RightRing | Bullright
— Obama, October 2013
Here was Obama’s idea of working together shit. See the look on Obama’s arrogant face, he won’t even look at McCain.
He didn’t stop there …. the SOTUS
“Last?” He lied then, too, and went on to campaign for Hillary.
He now seems to think winning is inconsequential.
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Oh, boy Bull you did hit on my buttons with this article. I am so disgusted with this abominable creature I was livid.
What nerve he has to lecture Trump on “getting serious” when he did all the things you wrote about. Where was his “serious side” when all the crises he created were raging about him all over the world.
How dare a failed 8 year president give Trump advice!
And he puts Trump and we, the people, down over our “crude nationalism”. He can go to hell where he belongs. I despise this man more every day and I can’t wait for him to finally leave.
He waits until he goes overseas to criticize Trump and us as is his usual tactics.
Giving the protesters the green light is atrocious when they are not protesting but rioting. And when did he ever have violent protests is what I want to know. I don’t recall any.
Those of us who are conservatives don’t riot and damage property because we have a respect for law and order which he never does. He’s been a lawless spawn who brought nothing but misery to this county for 8 long, very long years.
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Pepp, this arrogant a-hole turned everything upside down. Now it is he that goes abroad to criticize his opponents. That’s his pattern. I’m sick of it. He has normalized radicalism.
Right he green lights protests instead, encouraging them. “I wouldn’t advise them to be silent.”
No, he couldn’t do that. But now they expect us to apologize for these supposed choreographed attacks on Muslms etc. Even Lynch comes out to talk about that.
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Bull, I too am sick of this radical, failed president going around criticizing his opponents in foreign countries.
Oh, no he’s not going to tell the protesters to be silent or non violent because he’s in on it with Soros. I can’t wait to see this jerk GONE!
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A lawless leader
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