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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #450 on: July 31, 2018, 03:59:16 PM »
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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #451 on: July 31, 2018, 09:35:40 PM »
Easiest position to take:

Claim there's no evidence.

Until there is.

Then say it's false.


Trumps playbook

But hey, if you feel the Journal was real ( it was) AND proved or gave compelling proof Obama was born in Kenya... cool...

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #452 on: August 01, 2018, 05:07:46 AM »
Trumps playbook

But hey, if you feel the Journal was real ( it was) AND proved or gave compelling proof Obama was born in Kenya... cool...

Next step - set up strawman.

Here's exactly what I think = It doesn't give compelling proof, but it definitely should give any rationale person pause, and deserves questioning.   The excuses around it don't really hold water, and when coupled with his recent comments, it muddies it even more.

Dismissing it entirely is just something one does because it doesn't support their personal narrative.
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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #453 on: August 01, 2018, 05:16:42 AM »
Next step - set up strawman.

Here's exactly what I think = It doesn't give compelling proof, but it definitely should give any rationale person pause, and deserves questioning.   The excuses around it don't really hold water, and when coupled with his recent comments, it muddies it even more.

Dismissing it entirely is just something one does because it doesn't support their personal narrative.

Exactly - why would Obama's literary agent put that in there?   Maybe Obama was trying to present himself as something he wasnt?  Who the F knows - nothing at all about him was or is on the level.  All smoke and mirrors. 

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #454 on: August 01, 2018, 09:16:17 AM »
Next step - set up strawman.

Here's exactly what I think = It doesn't give compelling proof, but it definitely should give any rationale person pause, and deserves questioning.   The excuses around it don't really hold water, and when coupled with his recent comments, it muddies it even more.

Dismissing it entirely is just something one does because it doesn't support their personal narrative.

Ok, a bio written by someone else that he is from Kenya, vs a birth certificate, a newspaper clip from the time he was born announcing his birth in a Hawaiian paper, that groups of birthers spent untold hours and dollars trying to prove he wasnt born here, and that he was vetted for President of the United States and served 8 years... I'm thinking based on what is likely true, it can be dismissed as an error

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #455 on: August 03, 2018, 09:40:34 AM »
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« Reply #456 on: August 03, 2018, 09:47:37 AM »
:D

I'll give Obama credit for that one. That was pretty funny.

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #457 on: August 05, 2018, 06:59:17 AM »
I'll give Obama credit for that one. That was pretty funny.

ip to comments.

"Lazy" Obama will begin campaigning after Labor Day...staying above the fray.

Posted on 8/5/2018, 9:46:54 AM by JLAGRAYFOX

"Lazy", Ex-POTUS Barack Hussein Obama the appointed Democrat Leader of the Pack, chosen by Democrat leaders, Chuck Schumer & Nancy Pelosi to be the "Lynch Pin" Mid-Term" election Chief Campaigner for the Democrat Party has stated he has no intention of going "head-to-head" with Republican, POTUS, Donald J. Trump, or other Republicans.

That means, the will be very few, if any, "Trump Style" campaign activities, featuring "Massive Democrat Party Political Rallies" to excite the Democrat base of voters.

Obama will stick to mainly fund raising meetings and activities which is more to his mantra of lazy campaigning with friends and allies. The average American voter will see and touch very little of Barack Hussein Obama.

It also appears, that Schumer, Pelosi, Perez, Ellison, Warren, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Booker, etc., have no guts or stomach to pound the pavement countrywide, with massive political rallies. Could it be that they, too, are lazy like Obama, or are they like Obama, frightened that very few voters, relative to what a "Trump" political rally draws, thousands of motivated, Trump supporters/voters to every mass event?

Shucks...I thought the rank & file Democrats voters were energized 100% for these upcoming Mid-Term Elections? I guess Obama has had his fifteen minutes of fame. Go figure, folks.


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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #458 on: August 12, 2018, 03:31:31 AM »
Obama Center Breaks Pledge Not to Remove Trees in Jackson Park
www.breitbart.com ^ | 8/11/18 | Warner Todd Huston
Posted on 8/12/2018, 5:41:21 AM by a little elbow grease

(snip) -- Despite claims by Obama representatives, the famed Jackson Park, designed by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1893, will see major alterations even though the park was placed on the federal National Register of Historic Places in 1972. And preservationists say the Obama Center is destroying the carefully planned parklands across the city’s Lake Shore region.

The claim that the Center will not force the city, state, or federal governments to spend tax dollars on the complex is also coming up false. According to the Wall Street Journal, taxpayers are now being asked for nearly two hundred million dollars for costs resulting from the Obama Center.

“Now comes news that Illinois taxpayers will put up at least $174 million for roadway and transit reconfigurations needed to accommodate the Obama Center.

Former Obama chief of staff and current embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel thinks the $174 million in tax dollars to be spent on the center is “money well spent.”

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #459 on: August 14, 2018, 11:17:58 AM »
Parma Heights man granted clemency by Obama sent back to prison on drug charge
Cleveland.com ^ | August 14, 2018 | by Eric Heisig
Posted on 8/14/2018, 11:24:07 AM by Oldeconomybuyer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Parma Heights man who spent 22 years in prison before President Barack Obama granted him clemency is headed back to prison for a separate drug case.

Antwon Rogers, 47, pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug possession, a third-degree felony, in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Judge Michael Shaughnessy sentenced him to nine months in prison.

Rogers could spend additional time in prison if a federal judge determines the guilty plea constitutes a violation of the terms of his probation in a prior federal drug case.

In that case, Rogers was sentenced to life in prison in January 1995 for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 139.8 grams of cocaine. In March 2015, Obama commuted the remainder of Rogers' sentence, and he was released shortly thereafter.

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #460 on: August 18, 2018, 06:30:00 PM »
IA China Ops Wiped Out By 'Botched' Spy Contact System
Conservative Daily Post ^ | 18 Aug 2018 | Mark Megahan
Posted on 8/18/2018, 8:10:30 PM by UMCRevMom@aol.com

CIA China Ops Wiped Out By 'Botched; Spy Contact System: Investigation results show indicted spy Jerry Chun Shing Lee was not the CIA's only security breach. Sloppy coding led to a back door hole in the messaging system, used by the Chinese to 'wipe out' our entire spy network.

 Suddenly, in late 2010, undercover agents in China were being rounded up and hauled off for interrogation.

Under Barack Obama's administration, the Central Intelligence Agency suffered what intelligence officers are calling one of the worst disasters in decades. Suddenly, in late 2010, undercover agents in China were being rounded up and hauled off for interrogation. Eventually, it’s believed at least 30 were executed. The pinpoint accuracy of the arrests was unnerving.

"You could tell the Chinese weren't guessing. The Ministry of State Security were always pulling in the right people," one source relates. The investigators final report concluded that a "confluence and combination of events" had "wiped out the spy network," another of the former officials adds. Every agent arrested was eventually killed. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry escaped retribution, just like Benghazi, some say.

Over a span of the next two years (2010-2012), the Chinese government "systematically dismantled" the CIA's network of spies. To play it down, it was originally reported as "more than a dozen" instead of almost three dozen assets killed by China. Since then, everyone has been wondering how they were able to do it.

A combination of three factors came into play, but one crucially overshadowed the others. Bad coding left a security hole big enough for the Chinese to walk right in the CIA's back door.

A group of five "current and former intelligence officials" agreed to meet with reporters at news outlet Foreign Policy, to discuss the results of a "special task force" probe into what happened. The individuals requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the investigation.

The task force found three "potential causes of the failure," the former officials report. A double agent might have passed "information about the CIA asset network," on to his Chinese handlers but overshadowing factors are more likely to blame.

The "CIA's spy work had been sloppy and might have been detected by Chinese authorities," the sources confirm. Most importantly, "the communications system had been compromised."

"Shellshocked" intelligence officials tried to minimize the damage and hustle sources out of the country. "the last CIA case officer to have meetings with sources in China distributed large sums of cash to the agents who remained behind, hoping the money would help them flee."

When they brought the software in from Middle East operations, they thought it was secure but didn't factor in that the environment there was "considerably less hazardous."

They also underestimated China's capabilities to hack their way in. One source said the China office felt "invincible." The attitude was "that we've got this, we're untouchable."

CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee was recruited about then as a double agent. Working extensively in Beijing, Lee "was in contact with his handlers at the Ministry of State Security through at least 2011."

According to court documents from his May indictment, Lee was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Chinese.

The officials explain that as bad as Lee's alleged treachery was, it still can't explain what happened, simply because "information about sources is so highly compartmentalized that Lee would not have known their identities."

Other clues support the theory that the worst part of the compromise was "that China had managed to eavesdrop on the communications between agents and their CIA handlers."

Brand new sources are never trusted because they might be a spy already. Newbies only get to use a temporary "covert communications system." The one they used in China was "Internet-based and accessible from laptop or desktop computers," two former agents agreed.

The "throwaway" system was still encrypted, the agents explain and it allowed "remote communication between an intelligence officer and a source." More importantly, it "also separated from the main communications system used with vetted sources, reducing the risk if an asset goes bad."

They were supposed to be totally separate. If the interim system was breached, those using the main system should still be safe. If done correctly, there would be no way to "trace the communication back to the CIA."

It was not done correctly. According to the sources, the “CIA’s interim system contained a technical error.” It was “architecturally” connected to “the CIA’s main covert communications platform.”

As soon as the link was discovered, both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency ran “penetration tests,” that failed miserably. “Cyber experts with access to the interim system could also access the broader covert communications system the agency was using to interact with its vetted sources.”

If we could find the “digital links” then so could the Chinese. That “would have made it relatively easy for China to deduce that the covert communications system was being used by the CIA.” One expert asserts “some of these links pointed back to parts of the CIA’s own website.”

As far back as 2010 U.S. technicians were aware of China’s “highly sophisticated” internet monitoring. With their “Great Firewall,” they constantly monitor internet traffic looking for any unusual patterns.

The agency was well aware at the time, “online anonymity of any kind was proving increasingly difficult.”

Either double agent Lee gave the Chinese access to the communications platform, which he got from his handler or the Chinese may have identified another agent and accessed that person’s computer.

The interim system may have been detected simply through routine pattern analysis of the internet data.

Even assets who didn’t use the communications system were vulnerable. “Once a person was identified as a CIA asset, Chinese intelligence could then track the agent’s meetings with handlers and unravel the entire network.”

The sources are convinced that the Chinese shared the information they gathered with Russia, where a similar system was in use.

At the same time Chinese sources were being purged, “multiple sources in Russia suddenly severed their relationship with their CIA handlers,” NBC news reported and the former officials confirmed. Going dark is not a good thing. If they didn’t escape, they are dead.

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KEYWORDS: china; cia; spies

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #461 on: August 24, 2018, 01:26:17 PM »
Five States Win $839 Million Obamacare Lawsuit
Breitbart - Big Government ^ | 8-24-2018 | Ken Klukowski
Posted on 8/24/2018, 4:10:57 PM by Sir Napsalot

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a five-state coalition that on Thursday won an $839 million judgment against the federal government in an Obamacare lawsuit, a massive blow to the Obama administration’s namesake legislation.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA, better known as Obamacare) requires medical providers to pay a Health Insurance Provider Fee (HIPF). Even though the ACA exempts states from paying that fee when providing health care, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the Obama era created a regulation requiring states to pay the fee anyway, a fee that is styled as a tax on the states.

Paxton sued in federal court, joined by Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, and Louisiana. The five states’ lawsuit argues that this tax/fee is illegal under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) because the ACA clearly exempts states from this payment and also that even if the statute did allow it, such taxes would violate the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution when imposed on sovereign states.

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #462 on: August 24, 2018, 01:48:43 PM »
Five States Win $839 Million Obamacare Lawsuit
Breitbart - Big Government ^ | 8-24-2018 | Ken Klukowski
Posted on 8/24/2018, 4:10:57 PM by Sir Napsalot

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a five-state coalition that on Thursday won an $839 million judgment against the federal government in an Obamacare lawsuit, a massive blow to the Obama administration’s namesake legislation.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA, better known as Obamacare) requires medical providers to pay a Health Insurance Provider Fee (HIPF). Even though the ACA exempts states from paying that fee when providing health care, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the Obama era created a regulation requiring states to pay the fee anyway, a fee that is styled as a tax on the states.

Paxton sued in federal court, joined by Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, and Louisiana. The five states’ lawsuit argues that this tax/fee is illegal under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) because the ACA clearly exempts states from this payment and also that even if the statute did allow it, such taxes would violate the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution when imposed on sovereign states.

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Government via administrative Dark Matter.  The hallmark of the Obama years.

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #463 on: August 25, 2018, 12:47:39 PM »

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #465 on: August 30, 2018, 04:47:15 AM »
https://urbanhollywood411.com/2018/08/29/la-leaders-approve-obama-boulevard

Will turn into a crack den and homeless tent city in no time. 

F obama - dirtbag communist pos

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #466 on: September 11, 2018, 07:21:33 AM »
Obama Goes on Attack, But Arguments Fall Flat Against Trump Successes
Townhall.com ^ | September 11, 2018 | Cal Thomas
Posted on 9/11/2018, 10:13:57 AM by Kaslin


He's back! President Obama has emerged from his supposed cloistered life to attack President Trump. Obama broke with a tradition apparently only modern Republican ex-presidents follow, which is not to speak ill of your successor.

Obama, who reportedly has been running his "Organizing for America" operation, along with his White House aide Valerie Jarrett from his expensive home in a Washington neighborhood, spoke to a group of University of Illinois students last Friday, claiming it was his policies, not those of President Trump, that have produced the current economic boom.

"When you hear how great the economy's doing right now, let's just remember when this recovery started," Obama said.

But during the Obama administration, the Gross Domestic Product never exceeded 3 percent annually. Obama said the days of strong economic growth were behind us, that many manufacturing jobs were lost and not returning and that candidate Trump didn't have a "magic wand" to fix the economy. But in the second quarter of this year, economic growth exceeded 4 percent and manufacturing jobs are making a comeback.

By the time Obama left office, the unemployment rate had declined from a high approaching 8 percent at the start of his administration to just under 5 percent, but was beginning to tick back upward, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In less than two years of the Trump administration, the nation has effectively gained full employment (3.9 percent unemployment rate) with minority unemployment reaching record lows.

Obama should receive some credit for the way his administration helped the country after the 2007 recession, but not all the credit he now claims for himself.

Hourly earnings, which were largely stagnant during the Obama years, have increased an average 2.9 percent over the last year.

Obama's speech was part of a carefully coordinated strategy to win back a House majority for Democrats. This has included demonstrators at the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh; the Bob Woodward book "Fear" and the daily and sometimes hourly torrent of anti-Trump invective from the major media, which see impeachment as their only hope of returning the establishment to power.

Trump did himself a favor by not responding to Obama's speech in kind. Instead of taking to Twitter for a blistering attack, he joked that Obama's speech put him to sleep.

The president did something last week I have long urged him to do. Statistics are dry. Show people who have jobs they couldn't find during the Obama years.

In a speech in North Dakota, the president brought a man onstage who thanked him for his economic policies that allowed the man to go back to work.

Here's how The Daily Caller reported the story: "The man told a story about the coal industry under Obama and how 'the coal industry absolutely had the boot of government on its throat.

"'Many, many jobs were lost,' the coal miner said, 'and many towns were destroyed by this. It was just a horrible thing. Horrible suffering happened in this country. Really for made-up reasons, I think. And what your administration does -- has done -- is bringing us back to life.'"

The audience cheered.

This is the way to counter the resistance. Keep showcasing people who were unemployed during the Obama years, but now have jobs. The president should then say if Democrats win a congressional majority they will stifle his successes and try to return to the failed policies of the past.

That objective is what Obama meant in his speech. It is the opposite strategy, one that is working, that President Trump stressed in his. A show and tell approach can work against the tidal wave of opposition coming from the left.

Flesh and blood are more powerful than ink and paper and TV news.

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« Reply #467 on: September 14, 2018, 01:15:30 PM »
TOP COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL CLAIMS OBAMA STATE DEPARTMENT ‘INDULGED IN SEXUAL FAVORS’ AT..
Daily Caller ^ | 9/14/2018 | Jon Brown
Posted on 9/14/2018, 3:59:27 PM by bitt

A former top counterintelligence official has “described his consternation at the recklessness of State Department officials of both sexes during the Obama years who indulged in sexual favors from in-room masseurs during their stays at the Moscow Ritz,” according to a recent story by Politico.

The striking statement, made in the extensive article about young Russians who live and work in Washington, D.C., is not expanded upon. The former official is left unnamed. The anecdote was offered to explain that not every Russian attempt to sexually manipulate intelligence targets is directed toward Republicans.

The presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow became infamous as the site of President Donald Trump’s alleged dalliances with Russian prostitutes, which featured as one of the most salacious elements of Christopher Steele’s dossier. Insisting that he is a “germaphobe,” the president has denied the dossier’s allegations that he paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed once used by President Obama.

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #468 on: September 14, 2018, 01:38:41 PM »
Not going to bother reading more. I don't give a rip about anyone's sexual escapades. Trump is welcome to enjoy all the golden showers he wants. If Obama gets massages with 'happy endings', that's cool. Maybe Bush is into bondage (he was tightly strapped into a flight suit). Clinton seems like a fellow who is up for whatever.

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« Reply #469 on: September 14, 2018, 01:58:59 PM »
Not going to bother reading more. I don't give a rip about anyone's sexual escapades. Trump is welcome to enjoy all the golden showers he wants. If Obama gets massages with 'happy endings', that's cool. Maybe Bush is into bondage (he was tightly strapped into a flight suit). Clinton seems like a fellow who is up for whatever.

Sounds passive aggressive to me.

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #470 on: September 14, 2018, 06:24:03 PM »
Not going to bother reading more. I don't give a rip about anyone's sexual escapades. Trump is welcome to enjoy all the golden showers he wants. If Obama gets massages with 'happy endings', that's cool. Maybe Bush is into bondage (he was tightly strapped into a flight suit). Clinton seems like a fellow who is up for whatever.
Clinton is rumored to have visited some pedophile billionaires island. If true, he should be held accountable.
Liar!!!!Filt!!!!

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Re: Obamas' Failed Post-Presidency
« Reply #471 on: October 05, 2018, 12:12:38 PM »
If Dems Lose Again, Obama’s Legacy Is Gone Forever
The Daily Beast ^ | October 5, 2018 | by Jonathan Alter
Posted on 10/5/2018, 3:07:32 PM by Oldeconomybuyer

It’s one of this autumn’s pleasant surprises. Two years after Donald Trump’s election as president and 10 years after his own, Barack Obama is gracefully re-entering our consciousness, reminding us of what we have lost and may yet recover.

The contrast between Obama and Trump - decent vs. despicable; incisive vs. ignorant; honest vs. humbug; classy vs. clownish - is now the critical subtext of the 2018 campaign. With Obama’s current approval ratings more than 20 points higher than Trump’s, the aching memory of his presidency will help energize Democrats in the midterms.

But Obama’s return is also a reminder that some of his admirable qualities—modesty, prudence, deliberateness - have inadvertently helped Republicans endanger everything he built.

If Obama’s reputation is secure, his legacy is not. Many of his accomplishments in office are in danger of being wiped out in November. The personal stakes for him and his place in history are high.

Now, just weeks away, comes a fork in road. One way leads to the validation of Donald Trump and makes his reelection more likely. Six more years of him as president would mean the extinction of nearly everything Barack Obama achieved beyond becoming the first black president. The other path offers a chance at redemption. If enough Democrats stop knocking on wood and start knocking on doors, the president they revere may yet live large in history for more than the content of his character.

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« Reply #472 on: October 06, 2018, 02:29:29 PM »
If Dems Lose Again, Obama’s Legacy Is Gone Forever
The Daily Beast ^ | October 5, 2018 | by Jonathan Alter
Posted on 10/5/2018, 3:07:32 PM by Oldeconomybuyer

It’s one of this autumn’s pleasant surprises. Two years after Donald Trump’s election as president and 10 years after his own, Barack Obama is gracefully re-entering our consciousness, reminding us of what we have lost and may yet recover.

The contrast between Obama and Trump - decent vs. despicable; incisive vs. ignorant; honest vs. humbug; classy vs. clownish - is now the critical subtext of the 2018 campaign. With Obama’s current approval ratings more than 20 points higher than Trump’s, the aching memory of his presidency will help energize Democrats in the midterms.

But Obama’s return is also a reminder that some of his admirable qualities—modesty, prudence, deliberateness - have inadvertently helped Republicans endanger everything he built.

If Obama’s reputation is secure, his legacy is not. Many of his accomplishments in office are in danger of being wiped out in November. The personal stakes for him and his place in history are high.

Now, just weeks away, comes a fork in road. One way leads to the validation of Donald Trump and makes his reelection more likely. Six more years of him as president would mean the extinction of nearly everything Barack Obama achieved beyond becoming the first black president. The other path offers a chance at redemption. If enough Democrats stop knocking on wood and start knocking on doors, the president they revere may yet live large in history for more than the content of his character.

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What a cuck that writer is .... probably spent his college years whiteknighting females during class discussions but always got friendzoned.
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« Reply #473 on: October 06, 2018, 02:37:15 PM »
What a cuck that writer is .... probably spent his college years whiteknighting females during class discussions but always got friendzoned.
He must think to himself, "I did everything right. I defended their honor, championed their feminist beliefs and causes, respected their human rights as women, and valiantly led the charge against macho men, misogynists, conservatives, bigots, and rapists. So how come Natalie won't spend the night with me but she dates that stupid asshole who slaps her around and cheats on her? God, please give me strength and keep me from believing I've been wrong this whole time and the alpha asshole guys were right."

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« Reply #474 on: October 06, 2018, 05:10:35 PM »
He must think to himself, "I did everything right. I defended their honor, championed their feminist beliefs and causes, respected their human rights as women, and valiantly led the charge against macho men, misogynists, conservatives, bigots, and rapists. So how come Natalie won't spend the night with me but she dates that stupid asshole who slaps her around and cheats on her? God, please give me strength and keep me from believing I've been wrong this whole time and the alpha asshole guys were right."

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