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Obama to Republican Disavowing Trump: WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG (Original Post) ancianita Jul 2018 OP
You just have to be a decent person elleng Jul 2018 #1
Where and when was this? JDC Jul 2018 #2
I have the same question. Amaryllis Jul 2018 #4
The video was posted 2018. The speech, from what I've found, was in 2016. Looking back, ancianita Jul 2018 #7
An NYT article covers his stump for Hillary. He knew cyber attacks could make this "too late." ancianita Jul 2018 #8
This is why it took them so long #44,, benld74 Jul 2018 #3
Holy crap. ChazInAz Jul 2018 #5
Slower Traffic Keeps Right? tomhagen Jul 2018 #6
Thank You so much for posting blue-wave Jul 2018 #9
We can have this kind of person, indeed. If we haven't been structurally captured. Memories inspire. ancianita Jul 2018 #10

ancianita

(35,932 posts)
7. The video was posted 2018. The speech, from what I've found, was in 2016. Looking back,
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 07:21 AM
Jul 2018

we can now see that he seemed to know more than he could say.

ancianita

(35,932 posts)
8. An NYT article covers his stump for Hillary. He knew cyber attacks could make this "too late."
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 07:51 AM
Jul 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/us/politics/for-republicans-abandoning-donald-trump-obama-has-a-message-too-late.html

The president said they had flirted for years with a strain of bare-knuckled partisanship that appealed to people who sought to delegitimize him by falsely asserting that he was born outside the United States and was plotting to take Americans’ guns and impose martial law.

Now, he said, they should be held to account for the consequences.

“They just stood by and said nothing, and their base actually began to believe this crazy stuff,” Mr. Obama said. “Donald Trump didn’t start this. He just did what he always does, which is slap his name on it, take credit for it and promote it.”

“Now, when suddenly it’s not working,” he added, “suddenly that’s a deal breaker. Well, what took you so long? What the heck?” He went on to repeat the phrase several times.

Mr. Obama implored the crowd to turn out to vote for Hillary Clinton, or see all the progress made during his tenure go “out the window.”

“Competing for the job I currently hold, you’ve got a guy who proves himself unfit for this office every single day, every single way, and on the other side, you’ve got somebody who is as qualified as anybody who’s ever run for the presidency: Hillary Rodham Clinton,” Mr. Obama said.

blue-wave

(4,344 posts)
9. Thank You so much for posting
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 09:44 AM
Jul 2018

It's nice to hear a President elected by the American people speak about the values that made this country great. We will have someone like this again. It is definitely worth fighting for every vote this year and every election.

ancianita

(35,932 posts)
10. We can have this kind of person, indeed. If we haven't been structurally captured. Memories inspire.
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 02:20 PM
Jul 2018

Which is why we still have to fire up youth who still remember a good president and Congress.

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