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Lets hope Obama can get some folks to the polls--and of course to vote Dem!!
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Former President Obama: Dont Fall for Trumps Racist Border Stunt
They do this every election cycletry to terrify folksand then the election comes and the problem suddenly magically vanishes. You never hear about it again, Obama said.
Andrew Desiderio
11.02.18 4:28 PM ET
Joe Skipper/Reuters
MIAMIFormer President Barack Obama on Friday accused his successor of employing a politically and racially motivated strategy to scare Americans in the final days of the 2018 midterm campaign about folks that dont look like we look.
The character of our country is on the ballot, Obama told a majority-African-American crowd here in Miamis Wynwood neighborhood. In the closing weeks of this election, we have seen repeated attempts to divide us with rhetoric designed to make us angry and make us fearful.
The former president, without explicitly mentioning President Donald Trump, was decrying Trumps attempts to gin up fears over illegal immigration and the caravan of a few thousand migrants that is making its way toward the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to get his most ardent supporters to the polls.
Its an old playbook. Its one that the powerful and the privileged turn to whenever control starts slipping away, said Obama. Theyll get folks riled up just to protect their power and their privilege. Even when it hurts to country. Even when it puts people at risk. Its as cynical as politics gets.
Trump has referred to the migrant caravan as a mob, an invasion, and an assault on our country overrun with some very bad people and unknown Middle Easterners. He has floated the possibility of deploying as many as 15,000 American troops to the border. Obama called that a political stunt, adding: The men and women of our military deserve better than that.
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Rizen
(708 posts)Exposing Republican fear mongering and propaganda. Good for Obama.