• Obama reflects on "strange and uncertain times" in Mandela speech
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https://www.axios.com/obama-offers-guidance-for-strange-and-uncertain-times-in-mandela-speech-1531838479-2b2c6410-a5dd-499e-8e76-0e08a12c904f.html
I miss Obama so fucking much It feels like so long ago
Video of his speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkHjrKDrhjg
HELP US YOU BASTARD COME BACK
HE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS https://youtu.be/73zGW_Ns5zY https://youtu.be/F-TA4GEHUV4
It's weird how someone as moderate, reasonable, and personable required an answer as thoroughly fucked up as Trump.
yeah well maybe do something about it then
the fact that Obama is black did more to piss people off than his politics ever could have.
And also weird he unintentionally pull some Strongman arguments himself. I mean I do hate right-wing Strongman politicians (especially Trump since last year), but Obama need to completely avoid doing that again. Before some people (and sadly from right-wing and far-right circles too) are going attacking him as hypocrite.
What's he supposed to do? It's an unwritten rule in American politics that former presidents tend to avoid directly criticising their subsequent replacement.
Trump is undoubtedly going to criticize his successor.
Seriously, it's only been two fucking years but my god they've just been so densely packed it feels like decades I miss living in less eventful times
Hopefully from behind the bars of a federal penitentiary, where he'll spend the rest of his life.
Hard as it may seem, the best thing Obama can do right now for the Democrats is to remain largely silent, and I think he's aware of that. As good as Obama is, he isn't President anymore, and the Democrats right now need to work out how to function in a post-Obama world. If we just went running back to him every time there was trouble, we'd never find the next Obama. It would be great to have him out there right now leading the fight against Trump, but what would be even better is if that position was taken up by someone new - someone who can run for President in 2020.
Those type of national leaders don't rise for midterms. Local leaders and grassroots politics is what will win 2018. We see it already happening with people like Ojeda, a populist Democrat in West Virginia, and Alexandria, a Democratic Socialist in New York. It's expected that Obama will return soon to help fundraise and whatnot, but it'll be strategic and I doubt he'll even say Trump's name.
It would be fucking hilarious if they let him tweet in prison, I hope they do it It'd be even more hilarious if they couldn't have finished the investigation without his tweets
Kind of side topic: wasnt nelson mandela in charge of a terrorist group that bombed and murdered civilians?
How come they have a picture of Morgan Freeman on there?
fuck unwritten rules
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