By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--July 31, 2020
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“Stop the Press!” Cease everything you’ve been doing to try to get by in a government-imposed Lockdown, Grind everything down to a halt: Self-appointed “Resistance” leader ex-President Barack Obama is in “shock” and pissed off—all because President Donald Trump stoked an ‘anti-Asian sentiment when he referred to coronavirus as the ‘kung flu’ and ‘Chinese virus’.
“‘That still shocks and pisses me off,’ Obama said of the comments, adding that he hoped the seriousness of what he was saying was resonating through the screen.” (Daily Mail, July 30, 2020)
That some 78 percent of Americans believe that coronavirus is the fault of China seems to have flown straight over the head of the oft media-described “smartest guy in the room”. ‘We already saw this guy win once,’ he said. ‘After he bragged about physically assaulting women — and that didn’t seem to matter. So, enough said. Let’s get to work.’ (Daily Mail)Getting to work Obama-style means with actor/activist George Clooney to fundraise for his ex-VP presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, Joe Biden.
“On Tuesday, he told Clooney that fears of voter suppression and an effort by Trump to question the legitimacy of the election is stopping him from sleeping.” (Daily Mail)Folks left sleepless in Seattle because of months-long violence by Black Lives Matter and antifa posing as “peaceful protesters”, nor the millions lying awake at night wondering if they’ll ever be let out from lockdown to get back to their jobs don’t matter, only Barack Obama does.
“Barack Obama has brought up sex assault allegations against Donald Trump, slammed the president's 'nativist, racist and sexist' agenda and told George Clooney the November 2020 election keeps him up at night during a series of fundraisers for Joe Biden. (Daily Mail) “Over the last two months, the former president has been dialing into virtual chats for Democrat donors, who pay up to $250,000 a ticket, in a bid to help his former VP win the White House.
“During similar events over the last few weeks, that have raised $24million, Obama also mentioned accusations of Trump ‘assaulting women’, according to the New York Times. “In conversation with the billionaire Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, during that event he spoke out on the state of American democracy under the current administration, even making a loose reference to Nazi Germany. “He made the scathing series of attacks without mentioning Trump by name. "Since leaving office Obama has largely refrained from publicly criticizing his predecessor by name. “During his conversation with Pritzker, Obama spoke out about how Donald Trump has a support base that ‘filters out any contradictory information.’ "‘It’s just glued to Fox News and Breitbart and Limbaugh and just this conservative echo chamber — and so, they’re going to turn out to vote,’ Obama said, according to the Times. "‘What he has unleashed and what he continues to try to tap into is the fears and anger and resentment of people who, in some cases, really are having a tough time and have seen their prospects, or communities where they left, declining. And Trump tries to tap into that and redirect in nativist, racist, sexist ways,’ he continued.
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“Obama also criticized Trump’s seeming obsession with the preservation of Confederate monuments during the coronavirus pandemic, calling it ‘his number one priority’ which ‘gives you a sense of what this is about’. “‘The endpoint of that we saw in Europe 60 years ago, 70 years ago — what happens when those things get unleashed,’ he said, in a seeming opaque reference to Nazi Germany. ‘If you don’t nip that in the bud, bad things can happen. Among the most quote, unquote civilized societies.’”Comically enough, during his Clooney event, Obama was routinely interrupted by a dog barking, while Clooney appeared to have the same problem, even accidentally muting himself on occasion.
“According to event attendees, after the former president asked him a question, Clooney apologized for the barking and joked that his dogs 'must be Tea Party members because every time you started talking about Obamacare' the barking would start.” (Daily Mail)Right! Maybe it was, Obama’s handpicked presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, who, in desperate attempts at publicity, barked like a dog back in the 2016 campaign.
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