Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch

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Barack Obama urged Americans to resist President Donald Trump’s bullying. Joe Biden warned that Trump is wrecking the “sacred promise” of Social Security. Bill Clinton decried the emphasis on grievances and the need to dominate.

In an extraordinary stretch of just over two weeks, three former presidents have taken to the public stage to sound the alarm against the current occupant of the White House, despite the tradition that former presidents generally refrain from publicly criticizing their successors.

Obama, Biden and Clinton did not explicitly name Trump, but their message was unmistakable. The three Democrats said, as much by their presence as their words, that these are unusual times for American democracy, that norms are being disregarded and extraordinary measures are required. The only living president who has not spoken out since Inauguration Day is Republican George W. Bush, though he has made little secret of his antipathy for Trump.

“Former presidents are uniquely qualified and situated to raise their voices and warn the American people if the country is taking a dangerous turn,” said Timothy Naftali, a historian at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “Think of them as a sort of advisory council to the people of the United States. And when the advisory council sounds the alarm, the people should listen.”

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[milestogo]

1. GWB where are you?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Probably afraid that if he opens his mouth against TSF, daughter Jenna

will lose her job on The Today Show.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. I'm thinking......

he’s just grateful for trump coming along and taking away his former title of “WORST PRESIDENT EVER!”

[struggle4progress]

2. Was W black-out drunk?

[UpInArms]

4. No sign in link here

https://archive.ph/xGtT7

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Mine's a gifted link

Either will work

[UpInArms]

7. I know ... I just don't like having to give them my email

Thank you, though for posting the article … worth reading

[erronis]

11. I agree. This is the type of "gift" that becomes a "git".

They love to harvest emails and any other data points.

Anyone that uses a popular website "Share" button and then supplies the recipient's email address is adding to their DB - both the 'sender' and the 'receiver' and their connection.

Most browsers have a link to "Email this link" or an add-on. Please use that since it doesn't allow the M$M to harvest this information.

[UpInArms]

6. Isn't it funny how the media (cough cough Washington post) let

TFG act like he was president during Biden’s term?

It is unusual for a single president to publicly excoriate his successor, historians say, given the American tradition of seamless transfers of power and the principle that the country has one president at a time. For three to do so in such short order may be unprecedented.

Smh

[malaise]

8. They heard the people's demands

I thank Cory Booker for waking them up

[harumph]

10. "W" was all about the "Unitary Executive Theory."

Little asshole has no room to speak because he paved the way.

[erronis]

12. I doubt W had the brain cells to rub together to understand that term (Unitary Executive)

Quite unfortunately, Dick Cheney appointed himself as the VP candidate and insinuated his wiles into everything happening in the executive branch. He had enough brain cells, just the malevolent brand.