Hannity offers to pay Obama and family to leave country and never come back

[book_worm]

“Fox News host Sean Hannity doesn’t just want President Obama out of the White House come 2017. He wants him out of the country altogether,” Politico reports.

Said Hannity: “I have an offer for the president. I will charter a plane for you and your family. I will charter it to the country of your choice. You want to go to Canada? I’ll pay for you to go to Canada. You want to go to Kenya? I’ll pay for you to go to Kenya. Jakarta [in Indonesia], where you went to school back in the day, you can go back there.”

Hannity added one condition: “You can’t come back.”

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/26/hannity-offers-pay-obama-leave-country/

What an asshole.

[retrowire]

1. If I were Obama...

I'd move right next door to the guy.

[Auntie Bush]

3. Great idea! Wish he would do that.

Ask all his friends to join him and be neighbors too.

[treestar]

4. President Obama said on Jimmy Kimmel

something to the effect, "Michelle and I will still be alive," so funny people think he will "go away" in some fashion. I hope he is on the media all the time with his various projects or whatever he is doing.

[BlueCaliDem]

6. President Obama and former AG Holder will launch the "National Democratic Redistricting Committee"

post-White House.

(Original story by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

With fewer than 100 days left to serve, President Barack Obama’s post-White House career is coming into focus. He will team up with former Attorney General Eric Holder to lead the Democrats in a fight against gerrymandering.

Holder will chair an effort called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Its main goal will be to organize in time for the 2020 Census round of redistricting that could consolidate the lopsided advantage the Republicans enjoy, despite being outregistered by Democrats.

Using lawsuits to bust up gerrymandered majorities, the Democrats are gearing up for many battles in state and federal courts.

Obama and Holder plan to pay special attention to state legislatures, judicial elections and ballot initiatives because that’s where partisan gerrymandering that impacts the national map begins.

http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/commentary/their-views/partisan-attack-gerrymandering-start

[treestar]

7. Thanks!

that is very good news!

[BlueCaliDem]

11. You're very welcome, treestar, and it's nothing compared to your incredible contributions on DU,

so I'm happy I've been able to make you smile.

I've always known that President Obama wouldn't go quietly into the night post-White House. I knew he'd do something to get more Democrats elected to the best of his ability. He was, after all, originally, a community organizer, and cut his teeth in the most difficult neighborhoods - and what the true reason was for him to enter politics.

But I never knew he'd do something as fantastic as this! President Obama is the type of Democrat that had me fall in love with the Democratic Party - a fighter for the greater good.

[whatthehey]

17. A poor choice of name IMO

It is, I presume and hope, identifying a group with the intent of making districting fairer and more democratic, as in reflecting the wishes of the population in a democracy.

But it's an easy inference that the name is for an adjunct of the Democratic Party intending to bias districts to favor Democrats in elections.

While fair redistricting for democratic purposes would indeed help Democratic candidates, this group will be both more palatable and more successful if it seeks only the former for its own sake, and is named in a way that cannot be misinterpreted. Elections should be a fair fight. We can win a fair fight. We should seek only a fair fight.

[BlueCaliDem]

21. "Elections should be a fair fight. We can win a fair fight." In what universe?? Elections is about

POWER and which Party ideology gets to set the trajectory where the country goes moving forward.

If Republicans and Independents want to begin their own redistricting group and effort - which will cost tens of millions since President Obama and AG Holder are going to file lawsuits to challenge the unfair redistricting - then by all means, have at it! But enough of the catering to and coddling of Repubs and so-called Indies.

Have you forgotten that Obama and Holder are Democrats? Why should a Democratic former president and Democratic former AG work for them? When have so-called Independents and Republicans ever worked with Democrats on anything?

Besides, when they come for donations, I don't want my hard-earned Democratic dollars to go to helping cheapskate Republicans and so-called Independents who always seem to appear to vote in favor of Republicans. Sorry.

[whatthehey]

23. In a democracy!

I don't want Democratic Party-biased districts any more than Republican Party-biased ones. People should have the ability to vote for, and get, a government I personally don't want if that's what wins the vote. Anything else is a totalitarian shithole. Districts should be fair, not party-driven.

[BlueCaliDem]

25. You misunderstand the goal of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Their goal is to

CHALLENGE the unfair redistricting done in 2010 by Republican governors and legislatures, and to educate the American people about voting in midterms and off-years. Can't get any more democratic than that, right?

But this will cost tens of millions of dollars. So that "totalitarian shithole" you're kvetching about has already happened and the NDRC merely seeks to right the skewed ship.

I hope that clears it up for you. If not, then perhaps you need to google National Democratic Redistricting Committee and read what their objectives are yourself.

Democrats have played 'nice' far too long. Time to show some serious teeth if we want to keep our democratic Republic. You should be applauding that, not criticizing it. Sheesh.

[whatthehey]

32. No - I assume and want it to BE that as I clearly stated, so why imply partisanship in the name?

Why not call it fair redistricting, neutral redistricting, clean redistricting committee or any other synonym. Why call it a word which yes can mean small d democratic but can also mean partisan biased redistricting just in the opposite direction? It's the clumsiest, most easily misunderstood naming since the thankfully abandoned "Brights".

[BlueCaliDem]

33. Nah. It's pretty clear you'd like the Democratic Party to be meek and milquetoast,

most likely still thinking it's best to go along to get along - OR - hoping to make it easier for Republicans and moneyed Republican activists to defeat Democrats again and again. The fact that President Obama and Eric Holder are going to launch this committee and that it appears to make you nervous, is confusing to me.

As for partisanship? Puh-lease. They drew first blood.

You obviously don't know - or choose to ignore - the 2010 operation REDMAP. You seriously need to read up on it.

After nearly ten years of undemocratic Republican gerrymandering of districts, funded by the likes of Koch Bros and Adelson that as a result - even after Democrats got 1.3 million more votes nationwide in 2012, mind you - Republicans retained their choke-hold in the House thanks to REDMAP, you'd think a person on DU would welcome this effort to level the playing field. I'm sorry you don't.

But kudos to President Obama and Eric Holder! They understand that you don't bring a knife to a gunfight and hope to survive.

[Cha]

28. Except President Obama and his beautiful family

don't deserve to be next to vermin.

[retrowire]

30. No, Cha. it is vice versa.

The vermin doesn't deserve to live next to them.

Hannity is the physical embodiment of a shart.

[Charles Bukowski]

2. Someone in the comments section nailed it perfectly.

"It's not so much a dog whistle as a dog megaphone -- "Send the BLACK president back to Africa, since he's not really AMERICAN like you and me! Did I mention he's BLACK?'"

Perfectly stated.

[sarae]

5. no kidding...

it's fucking infuriating. Hannity is such a racist POS.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. I guess we should send his ass back to Ireland then

Apologies to the Irish

[Cha]

29. Really, we already knew he was racist pig slop.. it's not

like he has to advertise.

[helpisontheway]

8. Someone needs to ship his racist ass out of this country. Nt

[anamandujano]

36. That would be the only upside to a tRump dictatorship. Each and every member of the MSM

would be deported first. We could all get a good laugh before the fascist takes the world apart piece by piece.

[BobbyDrake]

9. How about he charters W's flight to the ICC instead?

He can book himself a seat too, as an accomplice.

[onecaliberal]

10. Fuck insanity, I would be so happy for karma to come after his ass

[tonyt53]

12. Hannity is going down the same path as Glen Beck. He too got too crazy even for FoxNews.

He'll be gone by next summer.

[rockfordfile]

14. I'm shocked a un-American republican being racist

[sinkingfeeling]

15. I'll start a GoFundme campaign to pay for Hannity to leave the country and

never be in the public eye again.

[TeamPooka]

16. Sean Hannity is a racist sack of shit. And I'm sorry to the shit I've offended by comparing them to

Hannity.
My apologies.

[TeamPooka]

18. This is Hannity's idea of how to help the GOP win African-American votes. Well played Sean. nt

[Cha]

31. lol.. 'zactly! This should go viral.

[Madam45for2923]

19. Hannity is going to give himself a heart-attack!

[Angry Dragon]

20. Trump is the asshole ............. Hannity is just one of many Trump Hemorrhoids

[LisaL]

22. I am sure most of us would pitch in to send Hannity to the country of his choice. If he

promises to never come back.

[BeyondGeography]

27. Mighty white of him

Obama gets special treatment from the nutjobs, doesn't he? I wonder why.

[prayin4rain]

35. Man, these people are unbelievable. I don't understand any respectable person thinking this is

appropriate.