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applegrove

(118,659 posts)
Mon May 4, 2020, 03:39 PM May 2020

Why Are You So Obsessed With Obama?

Why Are You So Obsessed With Obama?

May 4, 2020 at 11:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 151 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/04/why-are-you-so-obsessed-with-obama/

"SNIP.....

Don Lemon addressed President Trump directly on CNN:

“What is it about President Obama that really gets under your skin? Is it because he’s smarter than you? Better educated? Made it on his own—didn’t need Daddy’s help? Wife is more accomplished? Better looking? I don’t know, what is it, what is it about him? That he’s a black man that’s accomplished being president? That he punked you on the whole birth certificate thing? What is it about him? Just wondering.”

......SNIP"

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csziggy

(34,136 posts)
1. Perfect - of course Dolt45 can never live up to the standards set by President Obama!
Mon May 4, 2020, 03:43 PM
May 2020

Thank you, Do Lemon for bringing this up!

tulipsandroses

(5,124 posts)
2. I'm waiting for him to tweet his usual insults, failed journalist, low ratings
Mon May 4, 2020, 03:44 PM
May 2020

Third rate reporter. Oh and since DL is a black man, I'm sure he'll have some racial insult thrown in. Yaaawn. His limited vocabulary is monotonous.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
3. Another thing...
Mon May 4, 2020, 03:52 PM
May 2020

He rode in on Obama's accomplishments and claimed them as his own. In order to try to pull that off, he did his best to criticize and defame Obama in order to detract from the source of why the economy was doing better when he "took over" as he put it.

If he were to praise or honor Obama's legacy, that would then point to the fact that Trump played a character who could beam and crow about it all being because of him. The game wouldn't work if that happened, especially for his gullible base who already might have been having prejudice issues, etc. It is they who would be most likely to buy into the rhetoric.

Now, we see that after actually having the hubris to take responsibility for something he didn't do, (in fact, he has accomplished the opposite all along) he now takes no responsibility for something he did do and that is to respond to the necessities that were evident at the dawn of COVID-19 and then to botch that all the way through while lowering morale, dragging everything into his gutter and, most of all, exposing his complete failure as a leader. You can't consider a full-time bully to be an example of leadership and Trump is proving that to be a fact.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
4. Trump is a fascist and a narcissist, can't have a AA man do better than him at being POTUS...
Mon May 4, 2020, 04:08 PM
May 2020

and he will make shit up to prove it to the mouthbreathers.

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