Invoking the specter of Adolph Hitler, Obama warns in a speech about complacency.

[pnwmom]

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20171206/BLOGS02/171209933/invoking-the-specter-of-nazi-germany-obama-warns-against-complacency

American democracy is fragile, and unless care is taken it could follow the path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Mixed in with many softer comments, that was the somewhat jaw-dropping bottom line of Barack Obama last night as, in a Q&A session before the Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicagoan who used to be president dropped a bit of red meat to a hometown crowd that likely is a lot closer to him than the man whose name never was mentioned: President Donald Trump.

Obama's comments came after a series of playful questions from moderator and Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobson—in the great Batman vs. Superman debate, for instance, we learned Obama sides with Batman—before she eventually asked him what he's learned as a world citizen of sorts.

[Egnever]

1. God I miss that man

One thing he's learned is that "things don't happen internationally if we don't put our shoulder to the wheel," Obama said, speaking of the U.S. "No other country has the experience and bandwidth and ideals. . . .If the U.S. doesn't do it, it's not going to happen."


A sane adult getting harder and harder to remember what that was like.

[pnwmom]

2. Me, too. I like to think he's still working for us behind the scenes. nt

[Upthevibe]

3. Miss him so much.............

[thegoose]

4. Well, look where we are

A filthy, corrupt bastard squatting (and I mean it in every sense of the word) in the White House while the Puke party marches in goose step behind him. Meanwhile, Democrats are throwing their own overboard?

Scary times, folks.