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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPRESIDENT OBAMA: "Yes, I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president."
Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama offered one of his sharpest denunciations of Donald Trump to date Tuesday, declaring the Republican nominee entirely unfit to serve as president and lambasting Republicans for sticking by their nominee.
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"The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president," Obama said at a White House news conference with the Prime Minister of Singapore. "He keeps on proving it.
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"The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn't appear to have basic knowledge of critical issues in Europe, the Middle East, in Asia, means that he's woefully unprepared to do this job," Obama said.
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"What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?" Obama asked of GOP leaders. "This isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he's making. There has to be a point at which you say, 'This is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party.' "
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)They are hopping mad that President Obama said this about their hero. Obama has the political instincts of a wolverine and the timing of a professional comedian. Trump will not let this pass.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)"There has to be a point at which you say, 'This is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party.' "
I don't think that is the case with today's Republican party. I hope I'm wrong, but I just don't see it happening.
CrispyQ
(36,518 posts)I'm glad to see him calling GOP leadership/senior members out on it! Speak against this madman or you stand with him, Hypocrites! You can't have it both ways.
I think Obama will go down as one of the finest presidents ever & if he was white, it would happen sooner rather than later. And I say that as someone who has been critical of him at times.
Mr. President!
Abouttime
(675 posts)And takes drump out of the race. It shouldn't be too hard for the DOJ to come up with some charge that would effectively take the Donald out of the race, something like what was done to Dinesh D'Souza. After pleading guilty to a felony D'Souza has been rendered politically impotent, left unchecked he might have been a formidable attack dog for the far right against Obama and the Clintons. Doing the same with Trump would render him a laughingstock and at best a sad footnote in history.