Obama Still Sounds Like a President

[babylonsister]

Must drive the orange turd bonkers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/obama-is-still-acting-like-hes-the-president/595540/?fbclid=IwAR29CpplFUCgF098n0xHT2hgtqXgA4Y_W74fN6qKGclloLaZYRQ0nCX9F8c

Obama Still Sounds Like a President
The former consoler in chief issued a statement on El Paso and Dayton that contrasted sharply with Trump’s rhetoric.
5:48 PM ET
David A. Graham


Today, the consoler in chief finally emerged to comfort the nation after the massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

No, not President Donald Trump. He spoke, too, in White House remarks read stiffly from a teleprompter, using a lexicon that sounds stunted coming from him.

Instead, this was Barack Obama, in a statement delivered on social media:

Link to tweet

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It is vintage Obama. There is the sense of consolation that seemed to come naturally to him—in any case, he got horrifically frequent practice at striking this tone during his eight years in office. There’s moral clarity, identifying the problem as “troubled individuals who embrace racist ideologies and see themselves obligated to act violently to preserve white supremacy,” and (in contrast to Trump) situating the internet’s role not as a cause but as a catalyst. And there is the call to unity that has been his central political theme since 2004: “But just as important, all of us have to send a clarion call and behave with the values of tolerance and diversity that should be the hallmark of our democracy.”

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There’s no figure in American politics who has as much credibility and popularity to act as a counterweight to Trump as Obama. But he’s still unsure what to do with that power—except, as he did today, to just do the job for him.

[Gothmog]

1. I miss having a real POTUS

[MFM008]

2. As far as im concerned

HE IS.

[JimGinPA]

3. He's Unique

In that he's both a great writer & a great speaker.

K&R