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Analysis: Obama’s awkward call for a broad-scale Trump resistance

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Analysis: Obama’s awkward call for a broad-scale Trump resistance | CNN Politics

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Was curious why they described them as awkward
If you haven’t heard much about Obama’s comments, there’s a reason for that. He chose to deliver them at an event at which audio and video recordings were prohibited. If the idea was to disseminate this clarion call to the broader public, it was a weird choice of venues.
Obama never uttered the word “Trump” once. Throughout his remarks, it was clear what he was talking about. But he opted for broad generalities rather than specifics about who and what are threatening democracy.
It seems possible to me he wanted to address people who are involved in our government moreso that the public, but 🤷‍♂️
- Obama's calling out the entire corrupt government without name-calling or saying something dumb like it's only Trump. CNN just has to criticize something, even if it's wrong and destructive.
- No he a fucking coward that help setup the police state we are under. Remember it was under Obama that he bailed out the banks, Snowden came out and told us that our own government was spying on us. What Obama do about that but go after Snowden for treason. And last deported more people then Trump. So he no fucking people hero.
  
  This is revisionist nonsense fueled by anger. Dubya did all the NSA stuff WITH bipartisan support in Congress that led to the Snowden leaks. Susan Rice was the one that went apeshit on Snowden, and of course a rational sitting President needs to show solidarity in that with their national security heads. Obama actually assigned a panel to investigate solutions to the stuff that the NSA was doing, but yes, he did say he was a traitor.
  
  Yeah, I wasn't trying to argue he's a hero, just attempting to interpret the event and his choice to make these comments at an event with no recording
  
  more than that, Obama had enough of a public mandate, he could have rolled back everything Bush did. The Afghanistan invasion, the extraordinary rendition, the "enhanced interrogation", the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act. He could have ended all of those.
  He could have had a historic presidency, could have redefined what the United States was going to be in the 21st century. Instead, he let the previous administration decide it for him.
You just had to tell him to his face that he’ll never be president, didn’t you?
- Being in the same room as that orange sac of pus poses a very real risk of inhaling feces — no matter the size of said room. 🤢

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