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kpete

(72,014 posts)
Sat May 16, 2020, 05:15 PM May 2020

President Obama: "A lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge."

Obama:

"More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing," Obama said. "A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge."

"So much of your generation has woken up to the fact that the status quo needs fixing; that the old ways of doing things don't work ... That our society and democracy only works when we think not just about ourselves, but about each other."



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President Obama: "A lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge." (Original Post) kpete May 2020 OP
A direct fire not a shot across the bow underpants May 2020 #1
Thank you President Obama . . . Iliyah May 2020 #2
I am looking forward to seeing trump's reaction Gothmog May 2020 #3
Yes, thank you President Obama. Brother Mythos May 2020 #4
Bravo! BigOleDummy May 2020 #5
KR! Cha May 2020 #6
Isn't Obama also speaking at the 8pm Graduate Together event? Nt Fiendish Thingy May 2020 #7
Yes, the 8pm segment just began. I missed Clinton in the first hour. George II May 2020 #9
I'm so glad he's coming out of the shadows and speaking on the tragedy of this... NNadir May 2020 #8
President Barack Obama is a phenomenal human being. warmfeet May 2020 #10
I am watching this show because I miss having a real POTUS Gothmog May 2020 #11
K&R brer cat May 2020 #12

BigOleDummy

(2,272 posts)
5. Bravo!
Sat May 16, 2020, 07:11 PM
May 2020

Leads by example. Pres. Obama is a real LEADER, he inspires us to be better than we are now. Oppose that to the chump in chief we have now.... inspires the worst in us. smh I'm so tired of these rightwing assholes and their petty little dictator and seeing and hearing this from a man who epitomizes the words Leader, Class and Inspiration has lifted my spirits.

NNadir

(33,542 posts)
8. I'm so glad he's coming out of the shadows and speaking on the tragedy of this...
Sat May 16, 2020, 07:47 PM
May 2020

...so called "Administration."

warmfeet

(3,321 posts)
10. President Barack Obama is a phenomenal human being.
Sat May 16, 2020, 08:07 PM
May 2020

I am so glad I had the experience. A great person by any standard.

Joe Biden is made from the same mettle, the same spirit.

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