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Snarkoleptic

(5,995 posts)
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 10:53 PM Dec 2016

Obama Promises Not To Leave Us All Alone With The Scary Clown-Man In The White House

http://wonkette.com/609728/obama-promises-not-to-leave-us-all-alone-with-the-scary-clown-man-in-the-white-house


Should you find yourself with 50 free minutes on this lovely Barbara Boxing Day, you owe it to yourself to listen to David Axelrod’s “exit interview” with Barack Obama, because it’s Barack-o-licious. All you have to do is get past the podcast title, “The Axe Files,” which sounds like it’s going to be 50 minutes on body spray, and no, David, nobody outside your immediate circle is ever going to call you “Axe,” even if they say it when you’re around just to be indulgent. Friends will do weird things if they really like you. But our point here is that you Wonkers should give this thing a listen, because it’s so ridiculously obvious that these are two old friends who like each other a hell of a lot, and they’re chatting about stuff that matters (as well as some stuff that’s just fun).

Does CNN have the decency to provide an embeddable version of the podcast? They do not, because they are a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be first up against the wall come the revolution (with votes), but you can listen to it here, where there is also a transcript.


Link to the article with podcast-
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/politics/axe-files-obama-transcript/index.html

The CNN overview of the conversation gets at the meatier, newsy parts of the interview, particularly Obama’s belief that if he’d had the Constitutional ability (and inclination, he says modestly) to run for a third term, he probably could have won it. Not that Hillary Clinton ran a bad campaign, he’s careful to say; rather, he says, she had to fight against 30 years of a media double standard that always seemed a hell of a lot tougher on Clinton than on most other candidates. And yes, that’s from the guy who in 2008 put his own foot in that stream when he said she was “likeable enough.” But he doesn’t think America as a whole has given up on Hope and Change. Directly quoting Sarah Palin’s mocking “How’s that Hopey-Changey thing workin’ out for ya?, Obama says, well, actually, pretty darn well, not this time around, but for the long term, probably
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Obama Promises Not To Leave Us All Alone With The Scary Clown-Man In The White House (Original Post) Snarkoleptic Dec 2016 OP
K & R Scurrilous Dec 2016 #1
Tho he is leaving Drumpf a number of gifts, not the least of which is this... Snarkoleptic Dec 2016 #2
Bookmarked to watch later. Thanks, Snark Hekate Dec 2016 #3
It's an enjoyable respite from the Trumpster fire. Snarkoleptic Dec 2016 #6
comforting AlexSFCA Dec 2016 #4
Yeah, it'd be great to have the Obama's back here in Chicago, but there's work to be done! Snarkoleptic Dec 2016 #5

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
4. comforting
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 12:39 AM
Dec 2016

It's comforting to know that Obama, Biden, Sanders, Warren willl be there to provide a voice of reason. Otherwise, we won't be able to distinguish facts from fiction anymore.

Snarkoleptic

(5,995 posts)
5. Yeah, it'd be great to have the Obama's back here in Chicago, but there's work to be done!
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 12:44 AM
Dec 2016

Maybe he can mentor the orange manchild.

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