Stelter: The 'caravan' faded from the news. Obama predicted this would happen.

[applegrove]

By Brian Stelter, CNN Business 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/15/media/obama-trump-caravan/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

"SNIP.....

So here's the thing: Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, predicted this would happen.

"Right before the election, they try to scare the heck out of you," Obama said in a blunt critique of the GOP on October 26. "And then the election comes, and suddenly the problem is magically gone. Everything's great. 'I'm sorry, what did we say?'"

This, Obama said, "is what happened in 2010, this is what happened in 2012, what happened in 2014, just over and over and over again, they'll just run these same stories and then after the election, suddenly they're not interested anymore."

He brought up three past examples and used each one to criticize Republican messaging techniques.

-- In the run-up to the 2010 midterms, the recent passage of Obamacare fueled rage on the right. "They said government bureaucrats are going to kill your granny. Remember? 'Death panels.' Then right after the election, what death panels? Didn't exist," Obama said.



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[applegrove]

1. Always a leader. He always knows the exact right way of saying things.

[Talitha]

2. I've heard it referred to as the 'Scare-a-van'....

Lordy, how I miss the sanity we had when our Dear President Obama was at the helm!!!

[madaboutharry]

3. Republicans are hucksters.

They can’t get elected telling the truth so they make up stuff to scare and con people into voting for them, tapping into people’s vulnerabilities, prejudices, and fears. It’s the same broken record.