Obama's take down of Trump is historic

[Bobstandard]

No President has ever publicly trashed a sitting President the way Obama just did. Let other Democrats observe and understand that these times are different. The era of comity and deference is over. The gloves are off. Obama just confirmed that. He showed how all Democrats in office and in the public eye should take on Trump and his enablers. Truth to bullshit. No holds barred. Finally. Before it’s too late

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Absolutely,

it was classy and Harris just delivered the knockout

[consider_this]

7. great line there!

[42bambi]

2. Truth to Bullshit! Perfect!

[Ilsa]

3. Trump had his chance to be decent, grateful,

and presidential. But he couldn't do it. Instead, he was selfish, boorish, obsessed, greedy, and power hungry. He had to be taken down a few notches. PBO was perfect.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

4. Yes. It's now or never.

We won't get another chance to do this right. The time to say what America needs to hear is now and no one could say it better than President Obama.

[consider_this]

5. AMEN all!

[fierywoman]

6. KH: "I know a predator when I see one. " (I'm looking at you, Donny.)

[flibbitygiblets]

23. Oh boy, I think that saying is going to get repeated A LOT in the next couple months

I can not WAIT for her to debate mother's boy.

[fierywoman]

30. It's going to be dee-lish --ous !!!

[Sugarcoated]

47. That is if crooked Donnie

doesn't replace him with a woman. If he's still losing, and I believe he will be, he may do it as a Hail Mary.

[Wednesdays]

66. Even if it's a woman

She will have to defend Dump's record. Doesn't matter who it is, they will wilt under Prosecutor Harris' cross-examination!

[Sugarcoated]

80. Oh, definitely

Don and his cons think they can just switch out Pence for, say, Nikki Haley and that's gonna neutralize Harris' skills. It won't. Crooked Donnie can't change the mountain of crimes, fuck ups and facts.

[lastlib]

69. mother's boy will do a bladder-dump on-stage. In front of all America and the world.

He'd better have an anti-diuretic in his water glass.

[Kali]

31. that was...

[Skittles]

8. if EVER it was needed

IT IS NOW

WELL DONE

[malaise]

11. Brilliant

and necessary
I wrote on another thread - it was Muhammad Ali taunting Ernie Terrell with what's my name?

[onecaliberal]

9. It was the best thing I've ever seen.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Maybe his best speech ever.

[dalton99a]

12. Historic, necessary, and magnificent.

[ecstatic]

13. And he did it with such swagger. Someone should check on tRump

is he even alive at this point?

[SergeStorms]

32. I haven't seen any twitter posts yet...

and I myself am not a "twit", so I don't follow him. I imagine he'll be tweeting at his usual Adderall addled hours of 3:00-5:00 am. I really don't care what the filthy pig has to say. It'll be nothing but lies anyway.

[calimary]

44. Evidently he was screaming his lungs out -

Tweeting in all caps.

What-EVVVVERRRRRR...

[SergeStorms]

52. When he's "all capping"...

you can pretty much rest assured veins are popping out in his orange, puffy face. His hair facsimile is sticking out all over the place, fast food wrappers clutter the area, and diet Coke cans are knee deep. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he suffers a deep vein thrombosis and has a stroke. I'm a bad man.

[ecstatic]

60. Lol! nt

[lunatica]

73. You're going to hell

But all of DU will be there with you.

[calimary]

78. That other fly on the wall would probably be moi.

[Bobstandard]

14. Stunning!

I was prepared for a typically excellent performance but I didn’t expect this level of vitriol. He’s pissed. As pissed as we are. And as worried.

[calimary]

46. Welcome to DU, Bobstandard!

Didn't seem like vitriol to me, so much as hard uncomfortable truth. And warnings, to those of us willing to listen - and to respond accordingly.

He knows what the score is. He just wants the rest of us to know it, too.

[LizBeth]

15. No Democrat has been sitting on side line playing nice. YES it is good, always good hearing Obama.

But, do not rewrite history that the Democrats have not been VERY vocal, because they have.

[Bobstandard]

20. Agreed, but...

Obama in essence approves an escalation.

[PatrickforO]

25. But Obama purposely refrained from criticizing Trump for several years.

Then tonight he threw everything, including the kitchen sink.

And he did it with class and finesse.

The rest of us - oh, we've been resisting, but tonight they really brought that rebuke of Trump and his enablers.

[LizBeth]

27. Yes. And that is what Presidents do. Yes, he has stayed quiet. I was responding to the OP that was

lecturing Democrats to follow suit. I was not allowing a rewriting of history because for the last three years our Democrats have taken Trump on and I do not think it is fair to imply otherwise.

[Cha]

35. Excellent point.. saving it all up for tonight..

when it really counts Now!

[Sugarcoated]

48. Obama is brilliant

and wise. He spent a whole bunch of that political capital tonight, but saved enough to pack a wallop for the next two months.

[Cha]

51. Well said.. Mahalo, sugarcoated!

[JoeDuck]

57. Class and finesse, yes.

President Obama represented the sharp contrast between an educated, dignified person and a schoolyard bully. How can anyone compare President Obama and Trump, and say that Trump deserves to be president?

[C_U_L8R]

16. Historic. A ten ton wrecking ball of truth and goodness.

Now it's our turn. You know what to do.

[lame54]

17. What made it work is...

His amazing patience

[crickets]

18. "Let other Democrats observe and understand that these times are different."

Exactly. Being nice is not going to get it done. It's now or never time.

[SergeStorms]

33. No "keeping our powder dry" this time...

the gloves are off, and our Democratic leaders have been delivering knock-out punches all week. I, for one, LOVE IT!

[FoxNewsSucks]

41. It's about time,

if this, here and now, isn't what that powder was kept dry for all this time, I don't know what else it could be

[nmgaucho]

19. Historic speech

Absolutely loved it!

[oasis]

21. We damn well better succeed now.

[PatrickforO]

22. Nichole Wallace said he was 'towering' tonight.

Towering.

And he was. I could feel his fury at what Trump has done to this country. Obama was a great president and continues to be a great man.

[KPN]

34. And her saying so was immense!

[fleur-de-lisa]

24. It needed to be said, but I felt really sad for him.

He isn’t the type to brawl, especially against a sitting ‘president’, from a national stage. PBO has so much respect for the office and for our democratic institutions.

It must have been a terrible decision to make and I hate that PBO had to be the one to do it. But it needed to be said.

Thank you President Obama.

[niyad]

28. Thank you so much for saying that.

[LizBeth]

29. I did too. I felt sad for him to. The were moments in his speech were there were sighs and pauses,

and yes. That is a good way to state how i felt when he was done.

[KPN]

37. +++

Great comment. Yes, it needed to be said ... and he said it. He did so because he wanted to, not because it was what people wanted to hear. As he himself said, "because it needed to be said".

[C Moon]

43. I don't think he was sad, I think he's infuriated.

[fleur-de-lisa]

53. I didn't write that he was sad. I wrote that it made me sad.

[C Moon]

84. ...

Sorry about that!

[flibbitygiblets]

26. That might have been the best speech of his life

and that's a big effing deal, really saying something. As Joy said "one of the best prosecutions of a sitting president that I've ever heard".

[KPN]

38. Of MY LIFE ... and I'm 4 months shy of 70 and have been paying at least a moderate level

of attention for at least 50 years!!!!!

[speaknow]

36. Obama picking on

That poor Dotard. That SOB ran his mouth on OB1 many many
times. I'm glad OB1 finally spoke up, he told the truth, that SOB
was born without a soul, pure evil. Others did well too!
And that Myles Taylor speaks out now about that Souless MF.
He quit, he got tired of licking that SOB's boots.

[KPN]

39. It doesn't come any better than Barack H. Obama! The best -- ever in my lifetime at least.

Thank you President Obama for saying, as you say, what needed to be said -- but better than anyone else could ever say it!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[A HERETIC I AM]

40. I very rarely Recommend a post.

But god dammit...K and Fucking R

[C Moon]

42. I'm sure Trump turned off his tv at some point. He was torn to shreds.

[lunatica]

76. Dictators and totalitarians have one rule

they must live by and that’s to never take their eye off their enemies because they’ll destroy the dictators if given a chance. You just know he has an ever expanding list of enemies he must always watch. Always.

A Dictator who stops watching every move his enemies make is a dead man walking.

You can bet Trump has watched every minute of the Democratic Convention.

[Vivienne235729]

45. I KNEW his speech would be epic and have been anxiously waiting all week

and he did not disappoint. That speech hit me to my core. For him to have that sense of urgency, speaks volumes. I miss him so much.

[Sugarcoated]

49. I think he told the organizers and future VP Harris

let me be the one to take him, let me be the hatchet man on the stage in front of America. Mano a mano.

[Withywindle]

50. I got teared up. Several times.

I love Obama and miss him dearly - but if I thought he had a flaw, it was that he was TOO optimistic and hopeful. Too willing to extend his hand across the aisle even when he should have known it wouldn't be returned and the gators would just bite it off.

He's so SO good at appealing to the better angels of our nature - and sometimes I wanted him to, not even "go low," but meet the already low on their level for a few fistfights.

This speech was one for the history books. He let it go and he spoke truth to power. I really hope everyone watching that takes it to heart.

He sounded scared, at times. I never saw him scared before, no matter what awfulness was going on in his term. He was always empathetic, compassionate, brave, intelligent, eloquent (all these things Trump can't even pretend to be). I never saw him sound FRIGHTENED.

And I realized - because he IS such a true believer in American democracy, his biggest fear is seeing that irrevocably destroyed. He's almost 60 years old. He's never seen that possibility being likely before in his lifetime. But now he does.

[jaxexpat]

64. The Burn, a 1985 novel by Vasil Aksyonov, ended with a fantasy scene.......

in which an angel comes with power to re-envision, change and save all the misguided souls in the soviet Politburo. After the agonizing realities of totalitarianism have nearly destroyed the protagonist's life and mind, as if from a fevered dream, up springs this angel, appealing to the goodness and peace latent in all people. Soothing anguished hearts and restoring brutalized consciences. Changing scowl lines into laugh wrinkles. I think the author used this image to close his narrative because he wanted to express the premise wherein a tortured mind sustains and regenerates itself in withdrawal from reality. I've always thought about how that made me feel then when Obama speaks his vision of optimism.


As men age they tend to tear up more often. Probably a tear duct issue or leaky eye valve. I weep even to hear Don Quixote's name.

[Kitchari]

54. K&R n/t

[mwooldri]

55. A good job he did too.

DJT has broken so many presidential "norms". So for Barack Obama to do what he did is in my eyes a start of some sort of payback. And you know what they say about payback...

[bucolic_frolic]

56. Obama warned America

Don't mess this up. Democracy is dead if you do. We stand on the cusp of totalitarianism. This election is about democracy vs. dictatorship. Vote, or it will be your last.

[keithbvadu2]

58. When Dubya speaks at the GOP convention, he will support Dotard. Right?

When Dubya speaks at the GOP convention, he will support Dotard.

Right?

(Sarcasm thingie goes here.)

[mnhtnbb]

59. Dubya is NOT attending the convention in person or virtually. Unheard of for a past, living POTUS

to not participate in his party's convention.

[keithbvadu2]

61. Yep. That was my point. A dig at Dotard.

[Johnny2X2X]

62. This was a great, but really alarming speech

Democracy is the US in on the brink, that is clear. Obama gave voice to just how close to the edge our Democracy is. "Trump will tear our Democracy down to stay in power."

That's what the stakes are right now, for America to continue being a Democracy or for us to fall into something else.

[Scarsdale]

63. Exactly!

Show as much "respect" to Don the Con as HE shows to anyone who does not agree with him, fawn over him. He is VILE in his attacks. Why should democratic politicians be expected to mind their manners, when the goon in the WH has none? Most of the gop sits back and lets him carry on, without any blowback. Well, their day is coming. Many of them will go down with him, deservedly. So wonderful to see and hear a REAL President speaking truth to power again.

[fescuerescue]

65. I think it will be a new trend.

where the former Presidents trash current opposition Presidents.

You KNOW Trump will do it to Biden.

It will be our new tradition. That's ok. Traditions change and I'm glad Obama is leading this one.

[Wednesdays]

67. I give it 50/50

that Dump won't live long enough to be at the 2024 convention.

[fescuerescue]

68. Oh he will be tweeting up a storm in Feb 2021

[Tommymac]

71. If whatever dump of a country he has fled to has internet...

or better yet whatever Jail cell he is in permits internet...

[Fla Dem]

70. No sitting President has trashed former presidents ,especially Obama, like Trump has.

It's about time.

[wiggs]

72. I think he showed great restraint and class. He and other dems could do much, much more,

Trump and the WH have compiled such a list of outrages, probable crimes, probable treason, treachery, grift, and incompetence that no one convention could cover it all and still talk about positivity and dems.

He took the gloves off compared to his usual style and approach...but Trump deserves so much more, like Steve Schmidt level roasting on national TV. everyone knows it and so I don't call what Obama did trashing or stepping out of his lane or another example of division because Trump has EARNED every reproach, analysis, observation, and ridicule based on his behavior.

[Texin]

74. I think it's been very evident how Obama views tRump with contempt.

After the *election*, he always behaved with circumspect professionalism in his meetings with Herr DICKtator[sic]-in-Waiting, but in my opinion, he has never NOT felt disgust and contempt for this mountebank. I guess he felt the time was right to speak his mind about this disgusting and dangerous mobster and Traitor Tot.

[JHB]

75. The old saying was "If you can't respect the man, respect the office."

But respecting the office demands that putting on a smiley face is a thing of the past. And the future, we hope, but not for now.

[lunatica]

77. Better than respecting the office is to defend and protect it.

Every one of us want to do this. Are doing this!

[ProfessorGAC]

81. No Longer Applies

PINO doesn't respect the office. So, if he shows no respect, neither does anybody else!
BHO knows that, and took the gloves off!

[obamanut2012]

83. I've never got this nor agreed with it

Hitler was Chancellor, and he was also legally elected.

[JHB]

85. He was appointed, not elected.

[Texin]

79. I think it's been very evident how Obama views tRump with contempt.

After the *election*, he always behaved with circumspect professionalism in his meetings with Herr DICKtator[sic]-in-Waiting, but in my opinion, he has never NOT felt disgust and contempt for this mountebank. I guess he felt the time was right to speak his mind about this disgusting and dangerous mobster and Traitor Tot.

[grobertj]

82. Wouldn't you like to have been a fly on the wall seeing Trump watching Obama's speech

[mac2766]

86. It certainly was a great take down, but more than that...

An historic speech. I really would love to see Barack Obama on the supreme court. He's a wonderful American and I can say that I am so proud that I voted for him twice. I was proud to be an American to see him elected President. My heart swelled.

Needless to say, in the 2016, the least I can say is that I cringed at the outcome of the election. I was one of probably billions world-wide that found themselves in complete disbelief that Donald Trump was elected to the presidency of the United States of America. How did that happen? What in the world went so wrong that he was elected?

If you haven't had a chance to watch it, there is a documentary titled "The Brainwashing of my Dad". Many of the answers can be found in that documentary.

Go Joe and Kamala. I will proudly vote a straight Democratic ticket this year. Although I voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries, I gladly support this ticket.

[Lifelong Protester]

87. I would too.

[steve2470]

88. I think President Obama felt a moral obligation to speak the truth forcefully

For that, he has my undying gratitude. We absolutely MUST defeat Trump. Trump wants to be a dictator. That is very plain. If he is re-elected, he will trash as much of our democratic institutions as he possibly can. Then, he will use the government to elect a successor (once he gets tired of playing president) who is just as bad as he is or moreso.

I used to never understand how Hitler got appointed by von Hindenburg, but now I do. Anti-semitism is not Trump's most prominent feature, but neo-Nazis love him and support him.

After Chancellor Papen left office, he secretly told Hitler that he still held considerable sway with President Hindenburg and that he would make Hitler chancellor as long as he, Papen, could be the vice chancellor. Another notable event was the publication of the Industrielleneingabe, a letter signed by 22 important representatives of industry, finance and agriculture, asking Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor. Hindenburg reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor after the parliamentary elections of July and November 1932 had not resulted in the formation of a majority government. Hitler headed a short-lived coalition government formed by the NSDAP and the German National People's Party (DNVP).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power