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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 10:42 AM Jul 2020

Obama Unleashes on Trump Privately as He Raises $24 Million for Biden

Source: NYT

July 30, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET

During his conversation with Mr. Pritzker, Mr. Obama spoke about how Mr. Trump has a core base that “filters out any contradictory information.”

The former president dismissed Mr. Trump’s continued focus on the Confederate monuments as a distraction amid the coronavirus pandemic — “that’s like his No. 1 priority” — but also characterized it as a menace that “gives you a sense of what this is about.” He then pivoted to what those “darker impulses” have wrought in history.

“The endpoint of that we saw in Europe 60 years ago, 70 years ago — what happens when those things get unleashed,” Mr. Obama said, according to the notes. “You don’t nip that in the bud, bad things can happen. Among the most quote unquote civilized societies.”

“We already saw this guy win once,” he said. “After he bragged about physically assaulting women — and that didn’t seem to matter. So, enough said. Let’s get to work.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/politics/obama-trump-biden.html



“We already saw this guy win once,” he said. “After he bragged about physically assaulting women — and that didn’t seem to matter. So, enough said. Let’s get to work.”


finally a NYT, 'LBN' that matters, had to logon to post please vote by mail.
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Obama Unleashes on Trump Privately as He Raises $24 Million for Biden (Original Post) Sunlei Jul 2020 OP
Voting by mail is unsafe in FL - it was rigged by Voldemort for 2018 & it's still in place. lark Jul 2020 #1
Thanks for the info! CaptainTruth Jul 2020 #9
It's fairly simple to update your signature ornotna Jul 2020 #12
Good info. Kicking, for this Post. calimary Jul 2020 #17
Must not have been too privately if it's in the headlines bucolic_frolic Jul 2020 #2
Obama never says his statements are 'off the record' or private don't publish Sunlei Jul 2020 #3
I'm so glad he finally said it. Mike 03 Jul 2020 #4
Me too, I love Obama & don't love the Republican-hate-party. vote them ALL out. Sunlei Jul 2020 #6
ain't that the truth bucolic_frolic Jul 2020 #5
Wow, that supposed to be "unleashing" ? infullview Jul 2020 #7
Doesn't have it in him? Actually, he is far too smart to get down in the mud with the pigs. OregonBlue Jul 2020 #8
I realize he is smart, but.. infullview Jul 2020 #10
Trump and Republican party are just like the Nazis wasn't clear enough for you? Sunlei Jul 2020 #11
Exactly. You just get dirty and the pig loves it. Vulgarity is not strength. OregonBlue Jul 2020 #13
exactly.Even Obamas simple words about Trum."unfit and dangerous" BEFORE the election.... Sunlei Jul 2020 #14
I guess what I'm actually criticizing here is the media's characterization of his words. infullview Jul 2020 #16
as media should they wrote Obamas EXACT quotes without any opinion Sunlei Jul 2020 #18
LOL! lunatica Jul 2020 #15
Obama is the Lion King.That correspondents roast is why Trump hates him so much. Sunlei Jul 2020 #19
I don't do Twitter but someone should post it there lunatica Jul 2020 #20
I don't do twitter or facebook-to many lies. Youtube has it & easy to post video urls Sunlei Jul 2020 #21
I could watch that qwlauren35 Jul 2020 #23
Me too, video will live forever in the history books. Sunlei Jul 2020 #24
He is exactly right. Our democracy is hanging by a thread. LymphocyteLover Jul 2020 #22

lark

(23,003 posts)
1. Voting by mail is unsafe in FL - it was rigged by Voldemort for 2018 & it's still in place.
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 10:53 AM
Jul 2020

FL has a very strict signature matching program used on all mail in and absentee voting. If your signature has changed even a tiny bit, and most people's change significantly as they age, your ballot is rejected. Letters are required to be sent, but when I was volunteering in 2018 no one I called (only calling Dems, of course) and no one any of the other volunteers called, had received a letter even though they were marked on the website as being sent. Maybe Repugs get the letter, but Dems never do and we had 100,000 votes disallowed. Without this, both Nelson & Gillum would have won.

In FL, only early voting is truly safe. It's also super super easy, you can vote at any library, the elections office or any other site designated - not just your regular polling place. You can also vote on the weekend. Signatures & addresses for early voting are not strictly screened at all and there are generally no lines. I will be early voting soon as it opens & can't wait to cast my vote for Biden.

ornotna

(10,763 posts)
12. It's fairly simple to update your signature
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 11:57 AM
Jul 2020

Fill out and send in a new voter registration form.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
3. Obama never says his statements are 'off the record' or private don't publish
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 11:03 AM
Jul 2020

He's schooling Trump with the Truth. Trumps a raciest to the bone, and America/Republican party and their president are well on the same path as Nazi Germany.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
4. I'm so glad he finally said it.
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 11:09 AM
Jul 2020

People have pooh-poohed the Third Reich comparisons for too long. There it is in plain English.

Thank you, President Obama.

infullview

(978 posts)
7. Wow, that supposed to be "unleashing" ?
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 11:16 AM
Jul 2020

I guess Obama doesn't have it in him to get down and dirty and just say something more like "Trump is a menace to mankind. We need to get that asshole out of the oval office."

infullview

(978 posts)
10. I realize he is smart, but..
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 11:43 AM
Jul 2020

even smart people sometimes use expletives to express themselves. Obama NEVER lets his guard down.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
11. Trump and Republican party are just like the Nazis wasn't clear enough for you?
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 11:54 AM
Jul 2020

you need to listen to Obama more, he's been saying the same thing for many years!


He's never going to call anyone an asshole.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
14. exactly.Even Obamas simple words about Trum."unfit and dangerous" BEFORE the election....
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 12:38 PM
Jul 2020

wasn't enough for some voting democratic party people to back Mrs Clinton.

Lets hope they'll back Biden this time instead of wasting their vote on some spoiler.

infullview

(978 posts)
16. I guess what I'm actually criticizing here is the media's characterization of his words.
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 12:41 PM
Jul 2020

I would not describe them as "unleashing" which implies an outburst of some sort.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
18. as media should they wrote Obamas EXACT quotes without any opinion
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 12:49 PM
Jul 2020

Unleash as a verb isn't an outburst. IMO, you're over critical of media and Obamas quotes.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
15. LOL!
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 12:38 PM
Jul 2020

Did you not watch Obama kick Trump’s ass all over the Correspondent’s Dinner celebration? He tore the man’s ass to shreds and walked away during the roaring laughter.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
19. Obama is the Lion King.That correspondents roast is why Trump hates him so much.
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 12:52 PM
Jul 2020

someone should post that video again, worth watching again

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
21. I don't do twitter or facebook-to many lies. Youtube has it & easy to post video urls
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 01:07 PM
Jul 2020

John Lennon 'Across the Universe'

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and here it is
C-SPAN: President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
24. Me too, video will live forever in the history books.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 10:27 AM
Jul 2020

....soon as that video was released the birthers shutup forever and donald duck went raging, full on deplorable

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