Obama re: Senators Perdue, Loeffler--"Shady...like Batman and Robin gone bad"

[Tanuki]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-georgia-rally-trump-senate-perdue-ossoff-loeffler-warnock-213700526.html


..."Georgia, not only can you put Joe and Kamala over the top, but you can be the state that gives us all a better chance because you’ve also sent Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock to the United States Senate,” Obama said, referring to the Democratic candidates in the races, adding, “You’ve got the chance to flip two Senate seats? I said, I’ve got to go. I’ve got to come. I told Michelle, ‘I’m sorry, baby. I gotta go to Georgia.’ This is a big deal. You have two extraordinary candidates in Jon and the reverend who deserve your vote, and let’s face it, you’ve got two senators who badly need to be replaced.”

Obama criticized Perdue and Loeffler over allegations they had attempted to profit off information they received in a private Senate briefing on the coronavirus while publicly downplaying it.  

“When I heard that your two senators here in Georgia — and ... what I’m about to say is not a partisan statement, I’d be just as hard if I heard a Democrat was doing this, your two senators were publicly telling you that the virus would be no big deal but behind closed doors they were making a bunch of moves in the stock market to try to make sure their portfolios were protected instead of making sure you were protected,” Obama said. 

"Man, that’s shady. That ain’t right. They downplayed the pandemic in public, and in private they’re trying to see if they can profit from it. Both of them, not just one of them, both of them. They’re like Batman and Robin gone bad. It’s like the dynamic duo of doing wrong. I don’t know what they were thinking, but I promise you Georgia was definitely not on their mind.” ...(more)

[Cha]

1. TY Pres Obama!

[monmouth4]

2. He was most definiitely on a riff and he's quite good at it. n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. I could hear Ray Charles in the background while reading that.

[Laelth]

4. Damn, he's good. k&r n/t

-Laelth

[crickets]

5. Absolutely true - Perdue and Loeffler are both shady as can be.

"Batman and Robin gone bad" is a perfect way to put it. It felt so good to vote for Ossoff and Warnock. We need both of them badly! 🤞