In the Georgia Senate race, polls are showing Republican Herschel Walker with a lead over Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock with the election taking place a week from Tuesday. The Warnock campaign is obviously worried and called in former President Barack Obama, who served up an interesting analogy in an attempt to convince people not to vote for Walker:
Obama: "Some of you may not remember, but Herschel Walker was a heck of a football player… does that make him the best person to represent you?… let's say you're at the airport & you see Walker & you say, Hey, there's Herschel, Heisman winner. Let's have him fly the plane!" pic.twitter.com/ObyfIsOAEA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 29, 2022
That analogy quickly crashed and burned.
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/1586305700875145219
well, you can't much more apples and oranges than this comparison, so there's that. 😂
— Dani the Georgia Girl (@NewYearsDani) October 29, 2022
Would Obama let Fetterman fly the plane? Are community organizers the only people allowed to fly planes? https://t.co/Sse2zdGyly
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) October 29, 2022
Just look where the people who Obama would consider great pilots (in a political sense) have taken the country.
This is a rather odd point to make, coming from a leader in the party of Jerry Nadler, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or that guy who was schtupping the Chinese spy. Just to name a few. https://t.co/sTWWUkyNf4
— Steve Maley (@DerekBarge) October 29, 2022
Obama had almost no experience when he became the President https://t.co/CZgWw4NtcQ
— Just Mindy 🐊 (@just_mindy) October 29, 2022
Self-awareness… who needs it!?
Barack Obama spent his college days as a doper communist clipboard holder lol https://t.co/VMCLSeKX9W
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) October 29, 2022
If he really wanted to drive the point home, he'd point out that we let Barack Obama fly the plane for 8 years and look how that turned out. https://t.co/4ID1OoyIc2
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) October 29, 2022
Here’s another hilarious bit of self-unawareness that Obama delivered during his speech for Warnock:
Barack Obama, in Georgia, calls Herschel Walker a ‘celebrity who wants to be a politician’ https://t.co/bxJOhEz1D7
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 29, 2022
Well isn’t this rich!
Former President Barack Obama repeatedly took aim at Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia who’s challenging Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a crucial battleground state Senate showdown.
The former president, making his return to the campaign trail on behalf of fellow Democrats with just a week and a half to go until Election Day, criticized Walker, the former college and professional football star and first-time candidate, as “a celebrity to who wants to be a politician.”
Celebrities who want to be politicians are far preferable to politicians who want to be celebrities.
https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1586326646889402369
And buried.
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