This is another one of those statements to fundraisers that you weren't supposed to hear, but they manage to leak out somehow.
In this case, the statement was "exclusively obtained by CNN."
The reputedly amiable but often crabby ex-President also said: "You know, don’t tell me you’re a Democrat, but you’re kind of disappointed right now, so you’re not doing anything. No, now is exactly the time that you get in there and do something. Don’t say that you care deeply about free speech and then you’re quiet. No, you stand up for free speech when it’s hard. When somebody says something that you don’t like, but you still say, 'You know what, that person has the right to speak.' … What’s needed now is courage."
What have they got that I ain't got?I'm perceiving an effort to shift the emotional atmosphere from one of firing up over all the many wrongs that are structured into everything into maintaining composure and giving other people room to have their own perceptions and feelings. Breathe, think, pause. Did a memo go out?
“Stop looking for the quick fix. Stop looking for the messiah...."
The messiah got term-limited and he's not coming back.
“There’s been, I gather, some argument between the left of the party and people who are promoting the quote-unquote abundance agenda. Listen, those things are not contradictory. You want to deliver for people and make their lives better? You got to figure out how to do it.... I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY... I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter...."
Remember when Democrats would look at those who did build things and assert that they didn't build that? Now, that was ideology! Remember "You didn't build that"? Who said that? Was it Elizabeth Warren or... oh!
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"Stop looking for the messiah....", said the erstwhile messiah.
Actually, to stop looking for the Messiah is exactly the wrong advice. His response to the ever-present microaggressions would be to love and forgive. Also to stop focusing on yourself and lose yourself in the service of others - even the service of those who despitefully used you.
“…this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”
Fuck off, Barky!
“Breathe, think, pause”
Eat, pray, love
What a twat
Obama sounds like he is trying to help, but his message wasn't very clear. He could have suggested something like, "Saying 'I hate Trump' is not a policy agenda. Be in favor of something." or "Is it really so bad to put America first?"
The UW Health wallet card isn't so bad, but how about just a sticker to put on the back of your ID card that says, "Suck it up, buttercup".
Democrats hate free speech except for the free speech they can pay lip service too like mr Obummer here.
I doubt this was a "leak" to CNN. CNN knows not to publish things meant to be quiet.
From shiny sea to shiny sea, America must be Democrat free!
Stop, collaborate and listen.
Obama The Boyfriend Obamasplains to the unmasculine left.
I prefer the Obama that brings a gun to a knife fight. At least then you know it's a blood sport and can listen for the song of El Degüello, no quarter and no mercy which was the Democrat game plan since 2016.
Loyal Dem voters right now, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"
Obama is gaslighting his own people here because he knows this is all his legacy and they know it too, but neither he nor they will ever break the cardinal rule, Never Criticize Obama.
"When somebody says something that you don’t like, but you still say, 'You know what, that person has the right to speak.' … What’s needed now is courage.""
This sounds like he's implying that the listener shouldn't accept that "that person has the right to speak" and encouraging the listener to attempt to prevent that person from speaking.
the Office of Social Impact and Belonging
Hard to believe that's a real thing.
Nose in the air, lecturing and chastising as usual. Between Obama, Joe, and Kamala, the Democrats have the whole 'leadership' thing covered. Time and distance hasn't been kind to the Obama legacy, and even Obama seems to want to put distance on it.
The only ones that ever had a problem with Free Speech was the Democrats, and it was 'recently', and on an industrial scale. They are reaping as they sowed.
Mr. President, haven't you done enough damage?
Imagine taking advice from this man who violated the Constitution more than any in history. That makes him the perfect leader of the Democrats according to them.
THe Democrats and the Left are smart. They identify the key issues that will give them power, and they never give up on those. It used to labor unions and Government benefits. That won them the working class. Today, its open borders and immigration. They know if they can just keep millions of browns and blacks pouring into the USA every year, the changing demographics will give them complete victory.
They did it in California, and they are doing it to the rest of the USA.
Notice when Obama talked about "solving the housing crisis", he didn't mention the easiest thing. Stop immigration and forbid foreingers from buying land and houses. Costs nothing. Just a sign a bill. Instead, he skips over that, and talks about "Getting rid of zoning laws" or "Making it easier to build". Which is vague and almost impossible to do.
So - many words, but collectively they make no sense. Barack gotta Barack.
At least he's hinting at actual policy along with the standard public relations malarkey. They are too caught up inside their own agendas to realize what they need is an overall project work plan some of which parallels Trump. That's the hump they can't get over. A bridge too far. They've given up all of the 80/20 issues and think it'll help just to claw back onesies and twosies?
Baby steps I suppose
The Office of Social Impact and Belonging . . .
According to their intranet, 11 people, with pronouns, who all look exactly like you know they would. The entire sight is a combination of corporate speak and Xanax. Printing that card was possibly the most momentous and important thing they've done while employed - and sadly, I mean that sincerely.
…I’m almost prepared to give the light bringer credit for daring to kinda sorta imply Democrats need to alter their policies. It’s nowhere assertive enough, probably because Obama is their only statesman/spokesman right now that doesn’t have shit all over him. Must tread lightly lest we offend the leftie torch and pitch fork crowd…
beetlejuice
"You get in there and do something."
Note that Barack Obama never says what they should do, because then that approach could be picked apart and ripped to shreds. He never says how Democrats should change, or where they went wrong, or where they should go now.
That's on you.
Barack Obama doesn't lift heavy items.
Obama's true message: Become smarter revolutionary pandas. That is, pretend better ("eats shoots and leaves"). But in reality ("Eats. Shoots. And leaves.") Looks like they're just starting the shoots phase.
I doubt this was a "leak" to CNN.
How does CNN know it's an exclusive? They could only know that if they were told that by the leaker.
So anyone thinking our greatest ex-president was Richard Nixon? He didn't do this sort of thing.
Obama is the only remaining figure in the Democratic Party with a marketable image. Expect a lot more from this guy in the next few months.
Speaking of firing up, somehow you are missing all the real firings going on in the Trump empire, which go far beyond Obama's mere speculations. There are no real reasons for the firings. The latest, of course, are the honest lawyers who were assigned to work on DOJ's valid charges relating to Donald Trump's putsch attempt and his failure to turn over classified documents.
If Republicans are winning all the 80/20 issues why are the polls as close as they are?
Because we have a lot of emotional non-reasoning people in our culture. They couldn't pick the right path if the wrong one clearly went right over Niagara Falls, as long as there was a sign that said "Trump hates this path". The Democrats loudly promote things that you know damned well they don't support in their own lives, and then other Democrats cheer them on while also privately doing the opposite. How many Democrats have an illegal immigrant living in their home, or willingly pay one's bills. How many would actually be happy if their child wanted to transition? How many really want to pay more taxes, or release criminals back to the street in their neighborhood, yet that's what they vote for every time?
Breed, shrink, paws. Roll over. Play dead.
Do we, in fact, know that microaggressions are either common or harmful?
I mean, I think it's intuitively clear that to assume that everyone you meet means you ill (and is just hoping you're too dumb to notice) is harmful. But is everything you perceive under that standard actually a "microaggression," or is it your standard for evaluating human interactions that's causing the harm?
I have yet to hear an explanation of "microaggression" that hits differently from the Money Python "What else floats?" "A duck!" sequence. You can sprinkle your arguments with "therefore" and "thus it can be seen that" and "Q.E.D." all you want, but if you don't actually understand the workings of logic, your result will not be a true statement.
So much for the UW wallet card.
As for Obama - there's a Substack piece in The Liberal Patriot right now that contrasts Obama's progressive rhetoric and moderate actions with Biden's progressive-progressive approach, and, while decrying Obama's moderation*, nevertheless wonders whether Biden** wouldn't have benefited from following the same playbook. Again, the answer to Democrat woes appears to be "lie better."
* I consider most of Obama's "moderation," as described in the piece, to be an artifact of the passage of time and the ratcheting leftward of the Overton window. Whatever is left over, whatever was truly moderate, was (I think) political pragmatism - which I'm fine with as long as it benefits the nation and doesn't violate the Constitution, even if the intent was actually just to consolidate electoral power.
** That is to say, whoever was running things during the Biden administration.
Dismayed to see what my old school is up to.
The entire tone of the UWHealth brochure is in the style introduced to our political discourse by Obama. Talking to adults in the tone an adult might speak to a child. It seems to have irritated "some of the brothers" in the last election.
Fetal position? Will no one abort this soft, whiny "burden"!?
“ Breed, shrink, paws. Roll over. Play dead.”
LOL
@bagoh20: "If Republicans are winning all the 80/20 issues why are the polls as close as they are?"
Because modern polling is instructional, not querying. The questions are formulated to subtly push and steer the answers, and then the results are crafted into messages, presented as 'results', subtly shaping and guiding the preferred narrative 'public opinion'.
And if this should fail to deliver the desired outcome, there's always intimidation. While most people dislike, even despise bullying, there are still plenty of people that relish the power and authority, especially when the intimidation and implied violence is sanctioned - as is being done by Progressive Democrat Party leaders now. Being told by an authority that you can bully other people gives a certain segment of society great satisfaction.
Obviously, Obama is positioning himself as above the fray, or at least that's what he's trying to convey.
There’s been, I gather, some argument between the left of the party and people who are promoting the quote-unquote abundance agenda.
"the Office of Social Impact and Belonging
Hard to believe that's a real thing."
Yeah, we were marveling over that.
What I texted to Meade this morning after he showed the website to me:
1. sounds like something in a dystopian novel
2. this is the kind of thing that I personally wanted (circa 1990): “The extent to which learners, faculty and staff know and feel that they are valued, respected, included and celebrated for their individual and unique contributions and identities.”
3. but at the same time, it feels threatening to the very values it purports to enforce
4. seems like a makework holding pen for overpaid graduates of useless departments
"now is exactly the time that you get in there and do something"
by which he means write a check.
Obama the fake tough guy was never convincing.
Democrats don't have much to offer now. It's just "we are better people than the other guys."
I'm perceiving more performative bullshit from the self-proclaimed smartest guy in the room (the guy who took down Biden and got burned for it by getting stuck with Kamala) telling everyone how petty and stupid they are and how he is the grown-up.
If any Republican came out with this kind of condescending crap lecturing his or her own people ("My People!!") he would be mocked and despised. Why do Dems like this guy?
"Saying 'I hate Trump' is not a policy agenda. Be in favor of something."
How about, "I'm in favor of hating Trump!"
This reminds me of the old Army Attitude Check:
Drill Sergeant: "Attitude Check!"
Trainees: "Fuck this shit!"
Drill Sergeant: "Positive Attitude Check!"
Trainees: "Positively fuck this shit!"
Drill Sergeant: "Short Attitude Check!"
Trainees: "Fuck it!"
The sanctimony never ends with Sparklefarts.
I'd like to know the funding source for the Office of Social Impact and Belonging. I hope it's not NIH indirects. But even if it's not, money is fungible.
Also: Getting rid of "zoning laws" which prevent "multifamily housing" (i.e., government-funded housing projects) has been a far-left dream for a long time. Those places where the goals have been reached are now referred to as "slums." Obama does not live in a slum. The zoning laws in Kalorama and Martha's Vineyard are very, very strict. But he's special, and the rest of us are bigots.
Planned Partyhood (PP).
D&E is an Inclusive (DEI) solution to relieve Obama's "burden".
@Tom Locker, that statement jumped out at me as well. The mask slipped for a second.
"Which is vague and almost impossible to do." Classic Obama though.
The problem remains, the Dems are a regional, coalition party that requires money to keep together. Left and right hands are not coordinated right now because the money hand is being attacked by the progressive hand.
“Don’t say that you care deeply about free speech…”
Well, no. Even the most dishonest Democrat can’t go that far. Shutting people up has been the Party’s project for as long as I can remember.
“ What makes the dawn come up like thunder?”
“What makes the hottentot so hot?”
If Obama is telling donors that they need to speed up rebuilding then California must really be in play.
“ 4. seems like a makework holding pen for overpaid graduates of useless departments.”
Don’t say that, it would break somebody’s fu*king heart!
I love microaggressions - and mushrooms - cooked with wine. yum.
Gov Jared Polis was on the Ross Kaminski show a few weeks back. Wow - what is written there - is exactly the same hot garbage that came out of Polis' mouth.
Democrats have a collective brain disorder. Something that makes them assume the worst in others and also want to micro-control others.
Meanwhile - his real job is to get DIA in working order. Still a shit show.
Put on yer MomJeans and ride that pony, Barky…
Get on your pony and ride!
Obama warned us not to get l wee weed up though, so Democrats can’t go too far into new ground.
“The latest, of course, are the honest lawyers who were assigned to work on DOJ's valid charges…”
Thanks for the chuckle, ‘fly !
Can’t you just see Michelle Obama rolling her eyes.
Bagoh20 said...Because we have a lot of emotional non-reasoning people in our culture. They couldn't pick the right path if the wrong one clearly went right over Niagara Falls, as long as there was a sign that said "Trump hates this path"
You clearly win the internet this week.
Immanuel Rant said..."Printing that card was possibly the most momentous and important thing they've done while employed - and sadly, I mean that sincerely."
Any document that speaks of microaggressions is dead to me. No such thing!
That is the funniest thing I've heard in ages. Before Obama was extremely, unusually, plucked from the typical projectory of low-rent PIRG and other sad lefty garbage, he was also unusually bad at every "community organizing" stint he tried.
Hmm. How many times does he finger the skull of his purported intentions on stage, before Michelle, hopefully, spills the beans?
The UW is always complaining that they are underfunded by all those mean old Republicans in the state legislature. Maybe they should fire the entire "Office of Social Impact and Belonging" to help adjust to their straitened circumstances.
Howard said...
At least he's hinting at actual policy along with the standard public relations malarkey. They are too caught up inside their own agendas to realize what they need is an overall project work plan some of which parallels Trump. That's the hump they can't get over. A bridge too far. They've given up all of the 80/20 issues and think it'll help just to claw back onesies and twosies?
Baby steps I suppose
Their problem is more fundamental than that.
Obama is a mediocre loser who could not run a latte stand. He doesn’t have the intelligence or the work ethic of a plumber.
But he can read a teleprompter and he can look pretty on camera such that the average middle age single woman looks to him for inspiration. Add in DEI browny points and he has everything he needs to win elections.
Thus Obamas problem. The only people who have a use for him and who pay for his lavish lifestyle and grant him unearned status are the globalist oligarchs who need someone to lead people stupid enough to believe in socialism.
So the oligarchs pay Obama and make him rich and give him authority. But the oligarchs want things that 80% of Americans don’t want.
Obama’s job is to trick Americans into wanting the things the globalist oligarchs want.
No matter what happens this will make sure his place in history is a bad one.
“Hmm. How many times does he finger the skull of his purported intentions on stage, before Michelle, hopefully, spills the beans?”
I knew it! Barky 0bama… Skullfucker.
Maybe they should fire the entire "Office of Social Impact and Belonging" to help adjust to their straitened circumstances.
Republicans miss a messaging opportunity every time the left complains about some government or financially transparent educational institution is destined for failure if their budget is cut one dime. Every second year MBA could successfully write up an action plan in a few hours for any of these bloated pigs…
I saw that the Democrats have found their 2028 presidential favorite: Elmo from Sesame Street. As manipulable as Biden, and antisemitic to boot, representing the mainstream of the current Democrat party. Elmo debuted on Sesame Street in 1980, so he definitely is old enough to run.
The fact that there even is an "Office of Social Impact and Belonging" at the University of Wisconsin tells us all we need to know about administrative bloat at our institutions of higher education.
"Office of Social Impact and Belonging" The so called universities have gone full Orwell, and no one even notices. Truly disgusting that such things are allowed to exist.
A passive-aggressive simp tells others to 'toughen up.'
Hilarious.
Barky 0bama… Skullfucker.
Dear Penthouse Forum:
I never thought this would happen to me ...
How does CNN know it's an exclusive?
Because Obama told them.
Office of Belonging...
All managers, except for a few consultants. Whatever are they "managing"? (I mean, other than payroll?)
It's time to get wee wee'd up!
California's Democrat Progressives got rid of zoning laws, now there's no parking, and formerly single-family housing tracts are being transformed into 2 story multi-units jammed on a too small lot. The Democrat progressives push "affordable housing projects" which is actually counterproductive to MORE housing inventory. It's a centralized bureaucratic "urban" utopia. Barry built that.
Reagan Presidency ended: 1989. Regan Presidential Library opened: 1991
HW Bush Presidency ended: 1993. Bush Presidential Library opened: 1997
Clinton Presidency ended: 2001. Clinton Presidential Library opened: 2004
Bush Presidency ended: 2009. Bush Presidential Library opened: 2013
Obama Presidency ended: 2017. Obama Presidential Library opening: Hoping for 2026, but it's behind schedule and over budget.
Its all about interests. Government bureaucracy is a major part of the Democratic party base. Say what you like, they live for process, thats their rice bowl. Thats not going to change.
Obama will be looked back upon as a horror of a president for the country and the world. What the hell were the voters thinking?
Obama is the asshole who BUILT today's left. HE DID THAT. He should ride off into the sunset with his spouse, and leave the rest of us the hell alone. He did enough damage, and personally, I think HE should be behind bars rotting.
mikee said...
Obama will be looked back upon as a horror of a president for the country and the world. What the hell were the voters thinking?
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per who writes the history books?
When I work in schools, he's the only president they have pictures of on the wall. I mean, he got the Nobel Prize!!
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