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Obama to Republican Disavowing Trump: WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG (Original Post)
ancianita
Jul 2018
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The video was posted 2018. The speech, from what I've found, was in 2016. Looking back,
ancianita
Jul 2018
#7
elleng
(130,732 posts)1. You just have to be a decent person
and to love this country.
JDC
(10,116 posts)2. Where and when was this?
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)4. I have the same question.
ancianita
(35,933 posts)7. The video was posted 2018. The speech, from what I've found, was in 2016. Looking back,
we can now see that he seemed to know more than he could say.
ancianita
(35,933 posts)8. An NYT article covers his stump for Hillary. He knew cyber attacks could make this "too late."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/us/politics/for-republicans-abandoning-donald-trump-obama-has-a-message-too-late.html
The president said they had flirted for years with a strain of bare-knuckled partisanship that appealed to people who sought to delegitimize him by falsely asserting that he was born outside the United States and was plotting to take Americans guns and impose martial law.
Now, he said, they should be held to account for the consequences.
They just stood by and said nothing, and their base actually began to believe this crazy stuff, Mr. Obama said. Donald Trump didnt start this. He just did what he always does, which is slap his name on it, take credit for it and promote it.
Now, when suddenly its not working, he added, suddenly thats a deal breaker. Well, what took you so long? What the heck? He went on to repeat the phrase several times.
Mr. Obama implored the crowd to turn out to vote for Hillary Clinton, or see all the progress made during his tenure go out the window.
Competing for the job I currently hold, youve got a guy who proves himself unfit for this office every single day, every single way, and on the other side, youve got somebody who is as qualified as anybody whos ever run for the presidency: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obama said.
Now, he said, they should be held to account for the consequences.
They just stood by and said nothing, and their base actually began to believe this crazy stuff, Mr. Obama said. Donald Trump didnt start this. He just did what he always does, which is slap his name on it, take credit for it and promote it.
Now, when suddenly its not working, he added, suddenly thats a deal breaker. Well, what took you so long? What the heck? He went on to repeat the phrase several times.
Mr. Obama implored the crowd to turn out to vote for Hillary Clinton, or see all the progress made during his tenure go out the window.
Competing for the job I currently hold, youve got a guy who proves himself unfit for this office every single day, every single way, and on the other side, youve got somebody who is as qualified as anybody whos ever run for the presidency: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obama said.
benld74
(9,901 posts)3. This is why it took them so long #44,,
Greed
$$$$$
Power
Ego
ChazInAz
(2,559 posts)5. Holy crap.
That was a thing of beauty.
Thank you, Mr. President.
tomhagen
(3,604 posts)6. Slower Traffic Keeps Right?
blue-wave
(4,344 posts)9. Thank You so much for posting
It's nice to hear a President elected by the American people speak about the values that made this country great. We will have someone like this again. It is definitely worth fighting for every vote this year and every election.
ancianita
(35,933 posts)10. We can have this kind of person, indeed. If we haven't been structurally captured. Memories inspire.
Which is why we still have to fire up youth who still remember a good president and Congress.