heimo President Obama subjected students
at the University of Illinois at
urbana-champaign to an hour-long verbal
tranquilizer Friday as he attacked
president Trump and stuck to his usual
specialty mendacity and self-love Obama
started by noting that former presidents
usually keep quiet about politics as a
courtesy to their successors even if
they disagree with them or if the
successors come from the other party
he cited George Washington as a
practitioner of this custom he could
have found examples as recent as former
President George W Bush who afforded
Obama his silence but President Obama
figured that even after an eight-year
presidency which itself followed a
year-long campaign filled with lofty if
conceded language the world still needed
to hear more of his words I was
surprised how far into the speech
President Obama got before accusing
President Trump and other Republicans of
racism which these days is usually the
first accusation out of a progressives
mouth Obama was several thousand words
into the speech when we got to hear the
old racial grievance Hustler we came to
know so well over his eight years in the
Oval Office and even though your
generation is the most diverse in
history those are the kinds of
conditions that are ripe for
exploitation by politicians who have no
compunction and no shame about tapping
into America's dark history of racial
and ethnic and religious division as if
that mendacious smear wasn't clear
enough for his audience Obama made his
allegation clearer still when he said
that over the past few decades the
politics of resentment and division and
paranoia has unfortunately found a home
in the Republican Party what aren't
resentful divisive or paranoid are
statistics and those statistics tell us
that Obama failed as a president and
Trump has succeeded both for minorities
and all Americans collectively economic
growth during the Obama years should
have been a new
since he took office the year after a
financial collapse and stabilization
growth is usually strongest after
recessions but during the Obama years
economic growth averaged only around 2%
and wages stagnated New York Times
columnist Paul Krugman and other
left-wing economists invented a new term
secular stagnation to argue that we were
permanently in a new era of slow growth
and there was nothing that could change
the situation but President Trump did
change the situation annual economic
growth is now averaging about three
percent and the last quarter saw rapid
growth at an annualized rate of four
point two percent wages are finally
growing some two point nine percent over
the last year which is far better than
anything achieved under Obama
unemployment for women and minorities is
near historic lows as it is for all
Americans and manufacturing jobs are
coming back these are facts not opinions
all of this comes after eight years of
identity politics political correctness
and the accentuation of racial
grievances by our political class that
is the true tragedy of Obama he could
have finally buried the ghosts of racial
inequality in our nation instead he
found the flames of racial grievance for
partisan political gain he still does so
as do effectively all progressives the
rest of the speech was somewhat typical
for swansong President Obama took credit
for rapidly pulling out of Iraq but not
for the creation of Isis that resulted
he said he got Iran to halt its nuclear
program even though the since abandoned
y'all he purchased from the mullahs
actually sanctified Iran's nuclear
program and left the country with the
means to make the bomb President Obama
said the Trump administration which has
sanctioned Russia expelled Russian
diplomats and provided arms to Ukraine
was cozying up to the former head of the
KGB in Russia
but he didn't mention that that he
whispered in the 2012 to the sidekick of
Russia's strongmen that it's important
for Vladimir Putin to give me space
after my election I have more
flexibility the other mendacious points
in the Obama speech are too numerous and
boring to enumerate the net result was a
starkly partisan speech wholly
inappropriate for a student audience
throughout it all was the bedrock theme
of Obama and the self-assured and self
loving progressives of his era I concede
that progress doesn't just move in a
straight line but we will all arrive at
their vision of a politically ordered
society one way or another Obama had his
eight years and we know the score
economic stagnation our enemies abroad
gaining strength and racial acrimony at
home trump has reversed much of this in
stunningly little time which explains
the particularly bitter tone of this one
symposium hosted at CR tv.com and a Fox
News contributor and Antoine Seawright a
Democrat strategist and former senior
adviser to Hillary Clinton's
presidential campaign great to see you
both you both are so shy let's jump
right in see if you're listening alright
so actually Antoine I want to start with
you Barack Obama today former president
had a whole lot to say reaching across I
guess the aisle
he called evangelicals out by name are
these the same whom he said were
reaching for their religion and guns no
well first of all let me say to
President Obama and the other two we
have in the Democratic two bucks
Michelle Obama thank you and to the
Republicans I think today's speech means
game on it was refreshing to hear the
leader like Barack Obama talk about what
we're experiencing in this day he talked
about issues he talked about the
rhetoric but he most important he talked
about how do we chart a path forward and
regardless if you're democrat or
republican I think most people agree
that our democracy is on fire and we
need political firefighters all right do
you
eat so many people that the people whom
you don't agree with because that's
mainly who this speech was for he called
out libertarians I mean he did more
reaching across the aisle perhaps Dineen
than we've seen I mean he talked with
evangelicals and he didn't accuse them
of anything well let's say but what
we're listening to from former President
Obama is that first of all he is not
happy with the fact that his legacy has
been rebuked by President Obama you look
at the failed Iran deal you look yeah
let me finish please the fail Iran deal
look at how he had taxes high taxes and
regulations
that harmed hardworking Americans there
is a long list of things that former
President Obama did that did not help
Americans hardworking Americans and so
he will be coming out like this on a
regular basis criticizing the Republican
Party and criticizing President Trump
but you look at the economy Americans
are happy excuse me
Americans are happy and not to put too
fine a point on it people who are in
those categories of diversity are seeing
the lowest points of unemployment that
rate at least in decades Antoine I think
the president addressed it very well in
his speech there the fact that the
economy is doing well is because he was
the reason that started this yeah we see
now and he addressed it and if truth be
told if we look at pure numbers take the
emotional arguments out of it compared
to what he inherited from the Republican
president before him so what he had to
do to get our economy back on track I
think the proof is in the pudding but
larger than that I think this says a lot
his speech today spoke to the hearts and
the minds of independent thinkers in
this country because whether you're
Democrat Republican black away
California or South Carolina most people
will agree that we are starting to
unravel at our core and in this country
and it's a scary place as we move most
people would agree we're more divided
than ever but it didn't and and the
president interestingly the former
president said today that it didn't
begin with President Trump and he's
right about that that division has been
around for a while let's talk about the
politics of it though we're about to see
these two men go remember when President
Trump said a couple of weeks ago six
seven days on the campaign trail I can't
even imagine what the Secret Service was
thinking in that moment but now you've
got former President Barack Obama saying
that he's going to insert himself
Danine how does that work out for a
former president who lost more than a
thousand national and state House seats
yeah that is a good question because
first of all the Democrat Party I think
has a number of problems there are big
divisions because you have the activists
the liberals who want to bring in
socialism they are further to the left
and then you have the establishment
Democrats who don't want to go that far
to the left so their message is split
and not only that you have people like
Maxine Waters for example who was
calling for folks to get in the faces of
Trump administration personnel to go
after them at their restaurants and gas
stations there are a number of issues
that the Democrat Party is facing
they're not talking about policies that
will help hardworking Americans none of
them is not part of the tax cuts we're
seeing the benefits of the tax cuts and
rollback in regulations
wages are going up people are getting
bonuses more jobs and manufacturing
there are over 400,000 jobs since
President Trump became president so
we're looking at a good economy that is
clipping along and that is something
that Americans are concerned about so
Anton without stepping on progress how
do you come back with a positive message
if you will about the economy that is
about change I mean what do you think
people really want to hear about change
and keep it positive well let me say a
few things one Barack Obama and his wife
Michelle are the great unifiers and the
great equalizer for the Democratic Party
in order for Democrats to be successful
in November it's going to take a united
front on the Democratic Party I believe
those two are the two people that can
bring the many facets of our party
together and number two your guests
failed to mention the policy
prescriptions that Democrats are putting
forth up and down the ballot and
elections all across this country and
that's why we've won over 40 some-odd
legislature seats where President Trump
won and 20
that's why Connor Lam is the congressman
from Pennsylvania a district got Trump
won by twenty points that's why Doug
Jones is the US senator from Alabama
because when you talk about health care
when you talk about the economy when you
talk about the environment when you talk
about simple things that make sense to
the heartbeats of the American soul
Democrats are campaigning on those
things antwuan see right thank you very
much Jeanine Borelli I would leave you
two with this it's interesting
fascinating the current president
getting ready to go out and help people
and and get the job done as presidents
are often called to do your party
Antoine is looking back to a president
who hasn't been in office what does the
future hold we'll talk next time you're
on thank you
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