Obama savages Trump over groping boast and urges party to abandon him

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/11/obama-trump-groping-remarks-unfit-for-president
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Barack Obama assailed Republican nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday over remarks about groping women, also criticizing Republicans who continued to support the candidate.

“You don’t have to be a husband or a father to hear what we heard just a few days ago and say that’s not right,” the president said in Greensboro, North Carolina, in his first public remarks since the release of a 2005 tape showing Trump bragging about groping and kissing women without their consent.

“You just have to be a decent human being to say that’s not right.”

Campaigning on behalf of Hillary Clinton in North Carolina, Obama said the Republican presidential nominee is unfit “for a job at 7-Eleven”, let alone the presidency.

[Skittles]

1. “You just have to be a decent human being to say that’s not right.”

it really is that simple, folks

[Achilleaze]

2. Deplorable: no. Decent: yes.

Pretty simple, eh?

[malaise]

3. Yep

it really is that simple

[AngryAmish]

4. savages

[Helen Borg]

5. Exactly...

It's so pathetic that all these fucking Republicans always say "I have a wife, I have a daughter...". What the fuck is the relevance? So, if they did not have a wife or a daughter it would be OK to abuse women? Or if the women who are abused were just strangers?

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. As Samantha Bee said, even if you don't have a wife or daughter, "The percentage of men related to

women is 100%."

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Yep.

It's not "lewd language" or "locker room banter", it's assault.

[malaise]

11. It also perpetuates

rape culture.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. ...wait. And Trump told people to vote on November 28th?

Holy fuck, you can't make this shit up.

[malaise]

12. That was freaking delish

[wishstar]

9. He made the case that civility and politeness are American values/virtues to uphold

Not crude vulgar gutter language

[bigtree]

10. yeah he did

k&r

[kwolf68]

14. I don't like PBO's quote...

I don't like when someone says not even good enough for a job flipping burgers or working at 7-11. These people are doing the best they can and don't need to be used as part of an analogy to paint things a certain way.

I hear with President Obama is saying and yes it takes more qualifications to be President as opposed to...well doing most other jobs, but I wish he'd have left such comparisons out. The orange ass is an easy enough target without such comparisons being used.

[malaise]

15. No one who had made his comments would be allowed to flip burgers

He would have been considered a sexual predator. Because you are wealthy should not give you a pass. I got his meaning.