Who emboldened the BLM movement? Blacks have been shot by police officers for a century. Why did they rise during the Obama Era?
Who emboldened Occupy Wall Street, who began in 2011? Bush? Wall Street is Wall Street for over a century.
Who emboldened Antifa? Trump? Antifa has been around in the United States for decades, but rose during the Obama regime and grown substantially during the Trump tenure.
"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." -- Barack Obama
You mean we lost sight of our best traditions? A slap at the heartland of America.
"I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." -- Barack Obama
Nice. You get to determine whether or not I "made enough money." A slap at the affluent (class warfare)
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.
But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names." -- Barack Obama
Wonderful. You are who you associate with. Didn't even have to mention Bill Ayers. A slap to mainstream America.
"I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer’s lobby." -- Barack Obama
The gun manufacturers do not target the inner city for sales. Antagonizes gun owners.
"...I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment -- this was the time -- when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals." -- Barack Obama
Not only messianic, but another slap to heartland Americans. The need to remake this great nation. Why does the nation require "remaking?"
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen." -- Barack Obama
So we have to adhere to what our government and the rest of the world wants. A slap to everyone who believes in American Exceptionalism.
"I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations." -- Barack Obama
But he has no problems having bodyguards with weapons. Another slap at gun owners.
"It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person." -- Barack Obama
Arrogant much?
"The Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. . . . What I think we know — separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in their country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that’s just a fact." — President Obama on Gates’ arrest.
And antagonizing law enforcement officers and their supporters all over the nation before he even got the facts.
