Former President Obama is ramping up his midterm election efforts on behalf of Democrats with a speech today at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and he’s been highly critical of President Trump:
Barack Obama launched his midterm campaigning Friday at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, arguing that Donald Trump poses such a threat to America that it forced him to speak out in an unprecedented way for a former president https://t.co/z1ErY07VNw
— POLITICO (@politico) September 7, 2018
Former president Barack Obama, saying President Trump is capitalizing on 'fear and anger,' calls on Americans to vote in November https://t.co/XaPtJdURHX
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 7, 2018
Dems in the audience are applauding Obama’s return to help the Dems, but Katie Pavlich started her comments on Obama’s speech by offering a reason the “blue wave” hopefuls might want to temper their exuberance:
After destroying the Democrat Party with a loss of 1000+ seats, Barack Obama is back
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
Ouch!
Other parts of Obama’s speech were simply devoid of self-awareness.
Oh, Obama is lecturing us now about what is "conservative." Okay.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
Barack Obama got elected President by a majority in America, twice, and yet he's still lecturing about how bigotry fuels our society. Total bs.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
Obama also reiterated his previous claim that Benghazi was among “phony scandals” pushed by the right:
"Conspiracy theories about Benghazi," former President who missed the 3 a.m. phone call states
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
Also, they blamed a YouTube video for the attack, which was a lie https://t.co/eDqUXAQWC7
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
“Phony scandal” indeed.
And earlier we mentioned a lack of self-awareness. Back to more of that:
Obama now lecturing about protecting U.S. elections from America when he 1) mocked Mitt Romney on the threat of Russia 2) did nothing after being told about Russian meddling in 2015
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
And then Obama took a shot at those who use the government to go after political opponents:
Barack Obama and his leftist allies regularly used federal government agencies to go after political opponents
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
Lois Lerner unavailable for comment, among others:
"I complained plenty about Fox News, but I never threatened to shut them down," -Obama, but he did have his Justice Department spy on them, in addition to the AP. Oh, and named a reporter as a criminal co-conspirator
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
Reminder: Obama's administration prosecuted more journalist sources than any other administration combined
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
Obama’s definitely back.
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