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Obama out:" President Barack Obama's hilarious final White House correspondents' dinner speech (Original Post)
niyad
Jun 2018
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bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)1. Amazing, he hit all the themes we are now struggling with, you wonder
if he wrote most of it (I think so), and had an inkling of where the country was headed if the unthinkable happened.
niyad
(113,259 posts)2. whoever wrote it saw clearly what was likely to happen, for sure.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)3. In the last 5 minutes he exhorts the press
to hold true to the values of truth and facts...
And they failed us utterly in the coming 6 months by not countering every lie told by trump and the russians... and played it for ratings instead... Looking at YOU Joe and Mika... and all the rest of you.
sheshe2
(83,739 posts)4. I am pretty sure he knew what was coming.
You see it here and again in that speech he gave about getting out to vote and kept stressing the importance of doing so. He knew.