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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 08:24 AM Sep 2018

Obama vs. Trump: The clash everyone's waited for arrives

But on Friday, at least, the current president barely mustered a response to the blistering critique leveled against him by his predecessor.

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE and ANDREW RESTUCCIA 09/07/2018 09:16 PM EDT

URBANA, Ill. — Barack Obama went hard. Donald Trump hardly responded.

Friday was the day Republicans and Democrats and pretty much every reporter and political obsessive have been dreaming of — the two presidents who couldn’t be more different, who are both the throbbing hearts of their own bases and the nightmare of the others’ — going head to head.

Six weeks before the midterms that are existential for both of their visions of the future, Obama unleashed for the first time with an indictment of Trump and Republicans that stopped just short of calling them traitors to the American ideal. Trump, who’s been swiping at Obama on Twitter and other appearances almost every chance he gets and months ago said Democrats who didn’t clap for his state of the union address had committed treason, made a joke about sleeping through it. A few hours later, he congratulated himself for the joke.

“That seems to be the quote of the day, by the way, which I sort of figured," Trump told donors in South Dakota.

Obama delivered some choice quotes of his own during his speech at the University of Illinois. “How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad?” he asked. Later, he called Trump’s Twitter feed “electronic versions of bread and circuses.”

People close to Trump say he has long complained about the fawning coverage and adulation that he believes Obama has received, even after leaving the White House. The dynamic has only bolstered his deep-seated belief that he’ll never be treated fairly or given credit in establishment Washington.

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Obama vs. Trump: The clash everyone's waited for arrives (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2018 OP
I refuse to see Barack Obama in a prize-fight paradigm. lindysalsagal Sep 2018 #1

lindysalsagal

(20,440 posts)
1. I refuse to see Barack Obama in a prize-fight paradigm.
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 08:31 AM
Sep 2018

With anyone. Especially that lower life form.
I reject this entire premise. Barack Obama is not and never was entertainment.

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