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dalton99a

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Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:23 PM Sep 2018

Obama delivers full-throated rebuttal to Trump's presidency

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/07/obama-says-trump-has-pushed-america-to-a-pivotal-moment-810650

Obama delivers full-throated rebuttal to Trump's presidency
In rare public speech, Obama says Trump poses such a threat to America that it forced him to speak out.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
09/07/2018 12:23 PM EDT

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Barack Obama launched his midterm campaigning Friday at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, arguing that President Donald Trump poses such a threat to America that it forced him to speak out in an unprecedented way for a former president.

"I’m here today because this is one of those pivotal moments when every one of us as citizens of the United States need to determine just who we are, what it is that we stand for," Obama said. "As a fellow citizen, not as an ex-president, I’m here to deliver a simple message, which is that you need to vote, because our democracy depends on it."

Laying out a brief history of America — starting with George Washington’s decision to step out of public life after leaving the presidency — Obama framed the 2018 elections as more significant than ever before.

And for the first time since leaving office, he said Trump’s name.

“It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause,” Obama said, to applause. “He’s just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.”

It’s not just about Trump, he said. It’s about Republicans “who know better in Congress … bending over backwards to shield” Trump. They’re hypocrites, he said, and they’re just as dangerous to America. At times mocking them and at times laying into them, Obama said they’ve abandoned all that they’re supposed to stand for as Republicans, and as citizens of this country.

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Obama delivers full-throated rebuttal to Trump's presidency (Original Post) dalton99a Sep 2018 OP
"Time for you to get angry, Dr. Banner...errr.. Mr. President." Girard442 Sep 2018 #1
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