Obama To Republicans: I Didn't Create Drumpf, Your Bigotry Towards Me Did

[KamaAina]

http://occupydemocrats.com/home/post/2016/03/10/obama-to-republicans-i-didnt-create-trump-your-bigotry-towards-me-did

In this clip, President Obama destroys the absurd narrative that somehow he's to blame for the rise of Donald Trump and the implosion of the Republican Party. Our noble president has been blamed by Republicans for pretty much everything that's gone wrong over the past eight years, while all of his accomplishments are tarnished and discounted - but even this is a stretch.

“I have been blamed by Republicans for a lot of things, but being blamed for their primaries and who they’re selecting for their party is novel” said the President at a press conference today, undoubtly holding back a roll of his eyes. I don’t think that I was the one to prompt questions about my birth certificate… I don’t remember saying, ‘Hey, why don’t you ask me about that? Why don’t you, you know, question whether I’m American or whether I’m loyal or whether I have America’s best interests at heart. Those aren’t things that were prompted by any actions of mine. And so what you’re seeing within the Republican party is to some degree all those efforts over a course of time, creating an environment where somebody like a Donald Trump can thrive.”

It really is astonishing how the Republican Party operates in its own reality, where facts don't matter and the truth is whatever they say it is. Eight years of barely disguised racism and partisan obstructionism justified by vague appeals to whatever "real conservatism" might be has left the Republican voter base furious at an establishment that is flagrantly disregarding the demands of their constitutents and failing to fulfill their constitutional obligations. The Republican Party has made their own bed in the muck of ignorance and discrimination, and now they must watch as Donald Trump gleefully frolics in it.

Watch it here:

[raging moderate]

1. You have got to be kidding. This is a new low even for Republicons.

This is unbelievable. And, as usual, President Obama has handled it with grace and restraint.

[narnian60]

14. +100

[rurallib]

32. and you probably ain't seen nothing yet

This year will be unbelievably bad

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Seriously, I don't EVER want to hear another GOoPer. . .

. . .blab on about "family values" or "real American" or "patriotism" or "personal responbility" again.

Let those fuckin' GOP crybabies change their own diapers and beds; they shit on them, now let them clean themselves up.

And don't have another meaningful dialogue with them until AFTER they clean themselves up.

[Skittles]

3. LOL: "Eight years of barely disguised racism and partisan obstructionism"

do they really think that shit started with Obama???

[awoke_in_2003]

8. it has been simmering just under the surface...

for decades. It exploded to the top on 20JAN2008. I don't even want to imagine what happens should Trump win. My wife is Mexican American, and my grandchildren all have MA blood in them.

[malaise]

4. This shoud have 500 recs

ReTHUGs enabled the birthers from their Speaker down - Fugg 'em! They own this

[Jackie Wilson Said]

26. Obama's existence is to blame for everything that has ever gone wrong in the world in the

past 7 years.

Everything that has gone well, he gets no credit for.

In reality it is his existence (not anything he has ever said or done) that has created all of the opposition on the right including Trump's supporters.

He doesnt have to do anything to cause it, he just has to exist and be president.

[Yavin4]

5. Wait a sec. They are blaming Obama for their own party voting for Drumpf.

How is this Obama's fault? It makes no sense.

[KamaAina]

6. Well, everything else is Obama's fault. Why not this?

[Person 2713]

7. Yeah Thanks Obama . Obama is all powerful and can create evil at will

[awoke_in_2003]

9. He is a very busy man...

but seriously, who in their right mind tries to stop a car sliding downhill on ice? That is a good way to win a Darwin award.

[bbgrunt]

17. It's the party of NO responsibility, much less personal responsibility

[treestar]

40. ...

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[Dont call me Shirley]

10. Way to go Mr President.....

[jaxind]

11. Love what Obama said, but unfortunately...

Love what Obama said, but unfortunately it's not just the rethugs reaping what they sowed...unfortunately, if Drumpf wins the primary and general election, we democrats also have to reap what the republicans sowed! Thanks to the rethugs, unfortunately, Drumpf will have to be our president too!

[salinsky]

18. Not is we stick together ...

... and unite to defeat the GOP after the primary.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

20. So true. n/t

[Jackie Wilson Said]

27. Sticking together requires we all drop our personal gripes and needs and as Spock said

“The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few”

[progressoid]

25. So far both Bernie and Hillary soundly beat him in the polls.

I'm cautiously optimistic.

[spanone]

12. gop: the party of racists...President Obama did great things without a shred of their help.

[zentrum]

13. Perfect quote from Obama.

Can't imagine what he's been through trying to get things done with these hate-full bigots trying to crush him at every turn. Yes, they've finally produced the embodiment of their souls: Trump.

[KamaAina]

15. "they've finally produced the embodiment of their souls"

Souls? What souls?

[asiliveandbreathe]

16. Thank you Mr. President for all you do -

against all odds and oddities.....hope to hear more from you in the coming months.....btw - that TPP - make it go away - PLZ -

Even some of the snowbirds here in AZ from WI and Alaska, and N&S Daks, MI, MN, say they will take eight more years of Prez Obama over the candidates they have in the Republklan party - with the added caveate "you would think the repubs would be able to find at least two viable candidates".......

[Duval]

19. K&R

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the first time the President has stated the obvious so bluntly

No, I do not believe every Republican in Congress is closet member of the KKK, but almost every one of them has actively played that card or remained while members of the GOP leadership did. Yes, Senator McConnell, I'm talking about you. And Senator Grassley.. And Mr. Issa. And Mr. Gohmert. And Mrs. Bachmann. They're all guilty of pandering to racism.

Of course the Republicans would have opposed President Obama, but it would not have been this vicious or nihilistic had the president been an Anglo-Saxon male. I wouldn't be so angry with the Reprobate Party if they had a coherent alternative to present, but they did not. Not once. In all the countless attempts to repeal the ACA, not once was there any hint anything better they had to replace it. All they were doing was playing the racists in their base, the white, beer-bellied rednecks you'd never want you daughter to be seen with.

[heaven05]

23. he didn't get much help

from his own Party or its leadership either for 7+ years. Rethugs I expected but our Party? Truly disheartening to me..

[Jack Rabbit]

24. I don't quite agree with that

While it is true that President Obama Has gotten criticism from the left, that has been fair criticism based on facts and issues, not personality and certainly not the color of his skin. I've given my share of that criticism and I won't apologize for any of it. I oppose NSA spying, the three "free" trade deals he's negotiated and the kid glove treatment Obama's justice department gave to crooked Wall Street bankers like Legs Dimon and Pretty Boy Lloyd, both of whom should have been given membership in Club Fed. I thought the ACA could have been stronger, but it's still better than allowing the kind of racketeering health insurance companies in collecting train loads of money from consumers and then withholding benefits because that's their business plan. It's better, but still not good enough. I also supported much of his foreign policy, especially the Iran nuclear deal.

[heaven05]

35. you're entitled

to view his presidency as you please and some of your criticism is valid, in your book. My point is that when obvious racial animus or veiled racism was directed toward this POTUS, NO ONE in OUR PARTY leadership spoke up with courage to put racist RW legislators BACK IN THEIR PLACE. NO ONE WHITE.

[heaven05]

22. tell it like it is, was and always will be

here in the good ole usa....+10000 Mr. President.

[Rex]

28. Poor guy, he didn't raise Sarah Palin's kids right! He hasn't helped the gun lobby enough!

He's not centrist-leftist-progressive enough! He wants too much peace and not enough war!

Dammed if he does, dammed if he doesn't.

[gratuitous]

29. The short response: "You built that"

Drop the mic.

[Hekate]

31. LOLZ. Well done sir, very well done.

[Maynar]

36. This.

[Initech]

30. Tell 'em, Mr. President!!!

[montana_hazeleyes]

33. Right on Mr. President!

I am so glad you have been at the helm of this big ship called America! Thank You.

[klook]

34. So true.

The contrast between these chowderheads and Obama is so ridiculous, it's hard to imagine they're even part of the same government. It's as if they are all spoiled, petulant children playing a game and he's somehow managed to keep doing his job in the face of their frantic collective tantrum.

His persistence, consistency, and graceful strength throughhout this long, slow explosion of the Republican id has been truly remarkable.

[houston16revival]

37. "where facts don't matter and the truth is whatever they say it is"

Exactly

They are an aggrandized worst b*tch scenario

Perhaps using this subliminal female posture to dictate to the American public

all the while acting like Mean Joe Greene

[czarjak]

39. To be fair...

He's half Black. Justification enough?

[NoMoreRepugs]

41. kinda think the gloves are off and OUR President is going to

smack down Repukes a whole bunch these next 8 months

[AgadorSparticus]

42. Truth!! I have never seen a POTUS be treated like he has. It is shameful.

And, of course he is right. The right is reaping what it has sown. But it will take some time for some of them to realize this because their heads are pretty far up their asses.

I just remember watching a documentary on the kkk and it stayed that they have members in key positions of our government. The way the GOP responds to racial issues is a testament to their racist ideology. Some of them know they are racist. Others, are in denial or have apathetically looked the other way. Again, Reap. Sow....