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Showing Original Post only (View all)Joe Scarborough's opinion piece in WP took me by surprise. [View all]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-presidency-will-be-hailed-as-transformative-trumps-will-be-viewed-with-scorn/2019/03/19/c4ba3742-4a7c-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html?utm_term=.95dac6d6e72dI disagreed with Obama. But what Trump has done makes those differences insignificant.
The shocking conclusion to the 2016 campaign made millions of Americans, including me, look foolish for believing that Obamas victories in 2008 and 2012 had proved that the United States had emerged from the scourge of racism infecting it for more than four centuries. I remain shocked that this strain of bigotry still fuels the political careers of Trump and his enablers on Capitol Hill.
Thats why any policy differences I had with Obama now seem so insignificant. Americans who still have faith in the upward arc of Kings moral universe should be grateful for Obamas presidency and the way his election exposed the white racism that is still at large in our land. If changing the Constitution and reelecting Obama two more times would break the fever that now ravages Trumps Washington, I would cheerfully champion the passage of that constitutional amendment, slap a Hope and Change sticker on my shirt, and race to the nearest voting booth to support the man historians will remember as the most significant president since Abraham Lincoln.
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They were friends until the Access Hollywood tape came out - then they have been on his back ever
Hestia
Mar 2019
#81
He probably wrote it after they nailed him on his show for giving Trump too much
Baitball Blogger
Mar 2019
#4
I agree..enough already..I tell you all the rehashing of the same old grievances surely does remind
UniteFightBack
Mar 2019
#62
The podcast Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior touched on that.
Hong Kong Cavalier
Mar 2019
#17
yep, I had several dems send me the Obama is a secret Muslim email during the primary
OhioBlue
Mar 2019
#72
Considering the way they were swift boating her, I think that was a wise decision on her part. (eom)
StevieM
Mar 2019
#69
So you don't go on at all? You don't set the record straight? Hillary can talk her way out of a
UniteFightBack
Mar 2019
#70
Well that was wrong of them and they were wrong. I'm able to move on. nt
UniteFightBack
Mar 2019
#73
And this will be true as well of ALL these Conservatives that trash Trump all day on MSNBC.
Midnight Writer
Mar 2019
#74
Well, "old white racists" have kids (likely) and they have kids too, and they're ALL racists too!
Texin
Mar 2019
#36
I have always felt that it is a bad idea for churches to back a particular candidate or Bill.
Blue_true
Mar 2019
#83
After reading all the comments on this thread, most of which are quite true,
PatrickforO
Mar 2019
#23
Joe! You were the one who normalized trump to America! You have no judgement! Shut up!
Squinch
Mar 2019
#39
The foolishness I see here against those perceived as repugs, or former repugs, astonishes me.
elleng
Mar 2019
#42
People at DU represent those that are the angriest and refuse to let go of past battles
grantcart
Mar 2019
#63
Joe and Mika gave free airtime and normalized and blah blah blah, OH WAIT I DON'T SAY THAT BULLSHIT
UniteFightBack
Mar 2019
#57