You know the things that I have been seeing in our country today would have been inconceivable just a short decade or so ago. Our world has been turned topsy turvey. It is like we are living in the Twighlight Zone. Can someone tell me what is going on with the Democrats? So, it is evident to most thinking people that Joe Biden is a joke. Certainly not capable of winning an election, and god forbid if he did, there would be no way he would be able to fulfill the office of President. So, what are they thinking?
Let us be very clear that Obuma has been directing things occultly from behind the magic curtain. Not just in regards to the coming election, not just about what happens in our Country on every level, but what happens in the world. Don’t get me wrong, he is not RUNNING the show. That is in the hands of the Royals and the Financial Elite. He is fulfilling the role assigned to him. He has the power of the United Nations, the Ruling Elite and the world bankers backing him up and at his disposal for the purpose of forwarding the AGENDA.
I hope that this is beginning to dawn on people. Watch what happens in the coming months, very closely.
The conduct of Barry Soetoro is beyond anything that we know as normal, moral or acceptable. It offends me when people call him Mr. President. HE IS NOT PRESIDENT anymore and in my opinion he never had the right to be a US President in the first place.
ELECTION BY SURROGATE?? Biden can’t stand on his own… so ask yourself, who is the candidate?
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ARE DEMOCRATS PLANNING FOR BIDEN TO DIE RIGHT AFTER OBAMA GETS HIM ELECTED? OR, WILL BIDEN BE A VENTRILOQUIST DUMMY ON OBAMA’S LAP?
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Judi has been teeing off on how much she was turned off by Joe Biden’s behavior and his overall performance during the Vice Presidential debate. Luckily to calm Judi down, we found something a funny Joe Biden comparison on the ‘interwebs’that made her day just a little bit brighter.
Whether you support President Obama or Mitt Romney, you have to get a good laugh out of this picture. Check out the comparison between comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s puppet Walter and Vice President Joe Bidenand tell us it doesn’t make you laugh out loud. Thanks to Red Neck playground for creating such a funny photo.
Check out Walter in action as he even at one time was thinking of running for President. Who would you vote for? Walter or Joe Biden? Leave your comments below. WARNING – Not Safe for Work language.
While I was working on my research, I came across the following. It popped up as an ad. Just the black box that read Thank President Obama. It said he just agreed to get involved to defeat Trump in 2020. Curious, I clicked on it. The next thing I knew the sign up sheet was staring at me from my laptop screen. Nothing else, just the sign up screen. I just shook my head. Is this guy for real? He certainly knows how to drum up support. His community organizer skills are serving him well. But, I am going to tell you, a lot of what he is doing to undermine our president, over turn our laws, and override our legal system is treasonous. This man should be behind bars. We should not be sending him thank you cards with a donation.
3 days ago – Barack Obama and Joe Biden Join Forces in Video Targeting Trump ... clips online, helping to build anticipation and underscoring Mr. Obama’s wide reach … U.S. intelligence warns of foreign interference in the election. … reflect our values, while in just three years, President Trump has provided every day, .
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Obama blasts Trump, praises Biden in new 2020 campaign video
by WILL WEISSERT | Associated Press /
Note Obama’s hand signal.
Note the Hand on the Chin.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama stepped up their attacks on President Donald Trump and defended their time in the White House in a new video showing their first in-person meeting since the coronavirus outbreak began.
The 15-minute video, posted online Thursday, is the latest effort to get the former president more involved in the 2020 campaignas his former vice president tries to rebuild Obama’s winning coalition. Obama has promised an active role on the campaign trail this fall. (Obama wants to prop up his coalition, which is waning. He knows that Biden cannot carry an election.)
The former White House partners used an interview-style conversation to amplify Biden’s arguments against Trump, with Obama emphasizing Biden’s experience and personal attributes. (Biden is a PERVERT) They pointed to their administration’s 2010 health care law (I can tell you Obamacare is the WORST thing to every happen to our country, they are going to use it to enforce their draconian regulations via the Health System. Health car is not about HEALTH or about CARE. It is about total CONTROL) and blamed Trump for stoking division among Americans (are they kidding? Soros, Obama, The Media have been doing everything they possibly can to create racial tension and to keep it inflamed, as well as militarizing the police, engaging gangs, importing foreign militants and protecting their training camps). They also were sharply critical of the Republican president’s efforts to combat the coronavirus, which has killed more than 140,000 Americans. (Corona Virus is an act of aggression against the people and Trump is the only one who has even tried to stand for our rights.)
“Can you imagine standing up when you were president and saying, ‘It’s not my responsibility, I take no responsibility’?” Biden said, offering a line of attack similar to his recent campaign speeches when he asserted that Trump “quit” on the country and has “waved the white flag” in the pandemic.
“Those words didn’t come out of our mouths while we were in office,” Obama replied.
Trump slammed the pair Thursday afternoon in a Tweet, accusing them of doing a “terrible job” in office and allowing his election. The Republican National Committee issued a scathing assessment of “slickly produced, substance-free love fests,” dubbing the effort “Biden and Obama’s fiction.” Here, Here! Totally the truth!
The two men are shown wearing masks while arriving at an office, then sitting down well apart from each other to observe social distancing for an unmasked chat. Biden’s campaign billed it as their first in-person meeting during the pandemic. (Obama, like his friend slick Willy (Bill Clinton) is a smooth talker and knows how to put on a show. He is a frustrated actor. There is not a lick of truth in him.)
Obama compared the nation’s current economic circumstances to what he inherited in 2009 after the financial collapse that played out during his general election campaign the previous year.
“We had to move fast, not just 100 days,” Obama said. “We had to move in the first month to get the recovery act passed.” Calling Obama “Mr. President,” Biden answered that he’d repeat what he learned: “We have got to sustain and keep people from going under forever.”
Anyone who believes for one second that either of these two scumbags gives a flying flip about the people, black or white, is fooling themselves. They are playing you, steering you right where they want you. Then they take off to their private islands, private jets and private yachts and forget all about you.
The former president largely stayed out of the once-crowded Democratic (If you believe that, you are too far gone. Obama has been working like crazy, controlling every aspect of the primaries from behind the curtain. Loves to play the WIZARD.)primary but endorsed Biden in April, when he was the last candidate standing. Obama hosted a virtual fundraiser for his former vice president last month that raised $7.6 million, the most of any Biden campaign event so far. He warned then against Democrats becoming “complacent and smug.”
In other exchanges, Obama and Biden blasted Trump’s view of American society, and Obama praised Biden as possessing empathy that he said Trump lacks.
“He ran by deliberately dividing people from the moment he came down that escalator, and I think people are now going, ‘I don’t want my kid growing up that way,’” Biden said, recalling Trump’s 2016 campaign launch.
FILE – In this Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, walks back to the Oval Office in Washington, after speaking about the election in the Rose Garden. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Obama said he has confidence in Biden’s “heart and your character.” Governing, the former president said, “starts with being able to relate. If you can sit down with a family and see your own family in them then you’re going to work hard for them, and that’s always what’s motivated you.”
Building on the point, Biden discussed the final months before his son Beau died of brain cancer and tied it to the 2010 health care law. Biden said he recalled thinking “what would happen if his insurance company was able to come in — which they could have done before we passed Obamacare — and said, ‘You have outrun your insurance.’”
Obama said he “couldn’t be prouder of what we got done” and alluded to the Trump administration’s continued efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act through Congress and have it invalidated by the courts. “It is hard to fathom anybody wanting to take away people’s health care in the middle of a major public health crisis and a time when unemployment is at double digits,” he said. (If people knew the nightmare that is wrapped up inside the “Healthcare Industry” they would be fighting and screaming to do away with it altogether!) The Republican National Committee insisted, “President Trump and Republicans will always protect pre-existing conditions.” However, when the GOP controlled Congress during Trump’s first two years in office, it failed to pass a promised ACA replacement that would preserve the law’s ban on insurers denying coverage based on a person’s medical history.
FILE – In this May 1, 2011 image released by the White House and digitally altered by the source to diffuse the paper in front of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza, File)
The RNC also noted that Obama pledged repeatedly in his first term that the new law would allow anyone to keep his existing private coverage. In fact, minimum coverage standards in the law did effectively force some policyholders to obtain different plans. (that was a lie from the get go. Obamacare took away our right to decide if we can afford coverage, and what coverage we want. It punished people who cannot afford to pay the cost of Obamacare and inflicted them with fines.)
Obama remains a go-to foil for Trump and the Republican base, just as he was throughout his two terms as president. But the 44th president’s two winning coalitions remain the rough model for a Biden victory in November. At the time of the 2016 election, Obama had a 53% Gallup job approval rating, with 45% disapproving, for a net positive approval of 8 percentage points. When he left office a few months later, that net positive had risen to 22 percentage points: 59% approve, 37% disapprove. In 2018, when Gallup assessed past presidents’ standing, Obama notched a retrospective approval of 63%. (Obama is a treasonous outlaw who runs around the country and the world undermining everything about our current President. He is constantly attacking him verbally and working to destroy any opportunity for the President to be seen objectively. Every president should have the opportunity to act as president and do what they can, to be judged afterward on the merit of their failures and successes.)
For Trump, meanwhile, Gallup has measured just three net positive approval ratings during his three-plus years in office, all coming earlier this year. (Polls are joke. And Statistics LIE. Ask Bill Gates!)
Former President Barack Obama made the comments at an online grassroots fundraiser for the Biden campaign — their first campaign event together of the 2020 cycle.
June 23, 2020, 5:38 PM CDT / Updated June 23, 2020, 6:53 PM CDT
By Adam Edelman
Former President Obama, in his first appearance on the 2020 virtual campaign trail with presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, promised that “help was on the way — if we do the work,” before tearing into President Donald Trump’s “shambolic” approach to government.
At an online “grassroots fundraiser” streamed online — which quickly became the campaign’s highest-grossing event to date — the former president recalled how various challenges he walked into when he took office, including the Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, were made slightly less difficult because he knew that his predecessor, George W. Bush, “still had a basic regard for the rule of law and the importance of our institutions.”
Trump, on the other hand,was practicing a “shambolic, disorganized, mean spirited approach to government” that put in existential danger American values, Obama said. (Every time I hear Obama say “our Country” or “American Values” I want to scream! How can people be so blind. This man HATES AMERICA, he is a socialist and a globalist. He has been doing everything possible to destroy America and erase any semblance of our values and accomplishments. He wants to see all of us a slaves to the Global Dictatorship and that is the only thing on his mind. Well…that and the hope that HE will be the KING to reign over that New World Order.)
“What we have seen over the last couple of years is a White House enabled by Republicans in Congress and a media structure that supports them that has not just differed in terms of policy but has gone at the very foundations of who we are and who we should be,” Obama said. (Who you are Obuma is not anything that I want to be, I recent your implying that you are an AMERICAN! You hate Trump, and Republicans, and Patriots, and Bible Believers and Gun Owners, and anyone else that stands in the way of the New World Order.)
“That suggests facts don’t matter, science doesn’t matter, that suggests a deadly disease is fake news,” he added, making a veiled reference to Trump’s comments in February that the coronavirus pandemic was a “hoax.” (The Coronavirus is a real disease, the Pandemic is a False Flag, an attack on the people in the interest of implementing the New World Order.)
“That actively promotes division. And that considers some American in this country more real than others,” Obama continued. “That, we haven’t seen out of the White House in a very long time.” (What we have seen happen in this country since you came along has been so horrendous! You promised CHANGE and by Golly you accomplished that. I don’t even recognize this country anymore. THIS is not the America that I lived in all my 67 years! and that is pretty much thanks to you Barry Soetoro!)
The former president said that “help is on the way — if we do the work,” adding, “There’s nobody that I trust more to heal this country and get it back on track than my dear friend Joe Biden.” (Ya, you have so much confidence in Joe that you feel the need to step in and “HELP” him get elected.)
But, Obama warned, Democratic voters must not take the race for granted just because Biden is currently leading Trump in the polls. (POLLS LIE… Remember 2016?)
“We can’t be complacent or smug or sense that somehow it’s so obvious that this president hasn’t done a good job because, look, he won once,” Obama said.
“This is serious business,” he added at another point. “Whatever you’ve done so far is not enough.”
The event, however, ended with a tender moment between the two men, with Obama saying, “Love you, Joe.” awe.. ain’t that sweet. GAG ME WITH A SPOON!
“Love you, too, pal,” Biden replied.
The event marked Obama’s first appearance of the 2020 campaign with Biden on the virtual trail. Biden announced at the start of the fundraiser that it had raised $7.6 million from 175,000 small donors and another $3 million from big donors — his campaign’s highest-grossing event to date of the cycle thus far. The event lasted just under 90 minutes. Obama sported a black blazer and a black shirt.
The Trump campaign seized on the amount of cashed raised shared by Biden, releasing a statement during the event that noted that it had raised $10 million “over the weekend of” Trump’s sparsely attended Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma — a total “far more than” the Biden-Obama event. (Like low attendance at the Tulsa event had anything to do with Trump’s popularity. He does not mention the Coronavirus or the Protests, or the active shooter events that were terrorizing the people during that time.)
Trump himself, also addressed Obama’s joining Biden on the trail, telling reporters at a campaign event in Arizona that to point out the former president’s campaigning efforts for Hillary Clinton in 2016 did not result in a win for the Democratic ticket.
“Don’t forget I am only here because of him and Biden,” Trump said. “I’m only here because of them, because if they did a good job we wouldn’t have been here, there would have been no reason.”‘
Obama formally endorsed Biden in April after Biden’s only remaining rival in the race for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., bowed out of the race. (Don’t you find it interesting the only two candidates that had to offer were two worthless old men, one looks like he is ready to die and the other has sexual perversion legal issues hanging over his head, and can’t hold his own in a debate.)
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It’s easy to forget, but Joe Biden used to be a punchline that very few people took seriously as a major political candidate. In 2008, he couldn’t surpass the immortal Bill Richardson in the polls—never exceeding 5% support—and Biden dropped out after the Iowa caucus—the first vote of primary season. Barack Obama single-handedly changed the course of Biden’s career, and after standing next to the most popular politician in America for eight years, Biden has finally gained the mainstream appeal he never was able to assemble on his own, as he officially launched his (doomed) presidential campaign today while leading in tons of polls.
Joe Biden’s Senate career has been defined by being essentially a center-right Republican. In no particular order, here are the 10 worst things Joe Biden has done in his political career*.
*We’re confining this to the legislative and campaign arena, so the creepy Joe Biden stuff, like the title photo of this column, will not be making an appearance.
1. Anita Hill Hearings
When Christine Blasey Ford testified in front of Congress about Brett Kavanaugh’s attempted sexual assault, it depressingly mirrored another testimony like this from Anita Hill about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s sexual harassment in 1994—when Joe Biden and Orrin Hatch oversaw a disastrous testimony that they structured. Biden called no independent experts and forced Hill to defend herself alone against an avalanche of immensely powerful white men, and Joe Biden has since apologized and said he wished he would have done more. This is an ongoing theme with Uncle Joe, where he royally screwed up in the past, defended himself in the past, and then apologized in a more tolerant future that his political instincts are clearly not geared towards.
2. 1994 Crime Bill
In 2016, Joe Biden defended his crime bill that is as responsible for mass incarceration as any other piece of legislation passed in the last forty years, saying:
”I’m not ashamed of [the Crime bill] at all. As a matter of fact, I drafted the bill. We talk about this in terms mostly of ‘black lives matter.’ Black lives really do matter, but the problem is institutional racism in America. That’s the overarching problem that still exists.”
His speech from 1993 defending the bill is one of the more fascist things you will hear out of a modern Democrat.
This is the legacy of the Biden Crime Bill.
3. Had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race for plagiarism
He got caught plagiarizing in law school at Syracuse, and admitted to it. He failed, but was allowed to retake the class. Biden ultimately had to drop out of the 1988 race after it became clear that this didn’t stop in law school, as he stole excerpts of speeches from John F. Kennedy and other famous politicians.
A big chunk of Biden’s brand is wrapped up in being authentic, but his 1988 run was anything but.
4. Reportedly used his son’s death for his own political gain in 2016
Joe Biden has been making his 2016 deliberations all about his late son since August.
Aug. 1, to be exact — the day renowned Hillary Clinton-critic Maureen Dowd published a column that marked a turning point in the presidential speculation.
According to multiple sources, it was Biden himself who talked to her, painting a tragic portrait of a dying son, Beau’s face partially paralyzed, sitting his father down and trying to make him promise to run for president because “the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with Biden values.”
But in truth, Biden had effectively placed an ad in The New York Times, asking them to call.
5. He voted to gut welfare
Biden was a 1990s Democrat through and through, as he supported all of Bill Clinton’s most conservative policies, like welfare “reform” that ultimately failed, as Jordan Weismann described in Slate:
The Urban Institute’s Pamela Loprest and Sheila Zedlewski found that during the early postreform era, about one-third of single parents were jobless soon after leaving welfare. Those who did find work often earned no more than what they lost in benefits; studies have concluded that anywhere from 42 to 74 percent of those who exited the program remained poor. Meanwhile, states began enrolling fewer new families in welfare. As the rolls shrank, a new generation of so-called disconnected mothers emerged: single parents who weren’t working, in school, or receiving welfare to support themselves or their children. According to Loprest, the number of these women rose from 800,000 in 1996 to 1.2 million in 2008.
In keeping with that trend, researchers have also found a gradual uptick in what economists call deep or extreme poverty. Johns Hopkins’ Edin and Luke Shaefer, now of the University of Michigan, reported that the number of American households with children living on less than $2 in cash per person each day grew 159 percent, from about 636,000 in 1996 to 1.65 million in 2011. Even if you treat the value of food stamps as cash, the number rose some 80 percent, to 857,000. In their book $2.00 a Day, Edin and Shaefer describe women and children living on the fringes of society, relying on homeless shelters and selling their own plasma to get by. “Some of those people are ending up in very frightening conditions that don’t even look like America,” Edin tells me.
6. He gave Obama a classic racist backhand compliment
Before he became Barack Obama’s running mate, he took a shot at America’s soon-to-be first black president that was just dripping in racism. Per Biden:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Biden went on The Daily Show and apologized for using the word “clean,” saying he should have opted for the word “fresh.” He did not address the “articulate” part of his statement, which is a classic racist backhanded compliment that typically conveys a sense of surprise that a black person can speak clearly and with gravitas.
7. Voted to overturn Glass-Steagall
Glass-Steagall was one of the first things that we did in the wake of the Great Depression, as it created a firewall between investment banking and FDIC-insured deposits, meaning that Wall Street could not gamble with your savings. It is one of the central reasons why so many Wall Street banks are too big to fail. Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and the rest of powerful Democrats in 1999 changed all that, to the dismay of the longest tenured congressman in U.S. history, the late John Dingell, who called our coming crises the night of Biden’s vote in 1999:
I think we ought to look at what we are doing here tonight. We are passing a bill which is going to have very little consideration, written in the dark of night, without any real awareness on the part of most of what it contains.
I just want to remind my colleagues about what happened the last time the Committee on Banking brought a bill on the floor which deregulated the savings and loans. It wound up imposing upon the taxpayers of this Nation about a $500 billion liability …
Having said that, what we are creating now is a group of institutions which are too big to fail. Not only are they going to be big banks, but they are going to be big everything, because they are going to be in securities and insurance, in issuance of stocks and bonds and underwriting, and they are also going to be in banks.
And under this legislation, the whole of the regulatory structure is so obfuscated and so confused that liability in one area is going to fall over into liability in the next. Taxpayers are going to be called upon to cure the failures we are creating tonight, and it is going to cost a lot of money, and it is coming. Just be prepared for those events.
Again, when confronted in the future with the failure of his policies, all Biden could do is apologize.
8. Eulogized one of America’s most famed racists
Perhaps there is no better summation of Joe Biden’s Senate career than the fact that America’s most famed 20th century congressional racist asked him to speak at his funeral. Strom Thurmond staged the longest filibuster in American history, speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the 1957 Civil Rights Act. During his run for presidency in 1948, Governor Thurmond said “There’s not enough troops in the army, to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the n******* race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.” When confronted with this quote in 1988 (by the time Biden claimed Thurmond had changed into a more tolerant man), Thurmond responded with “I was just trying to protect the rights of the states and the rights of the people. Some in the news media tried to make it a race fight, but it was not that.”
9. Opposed school integration in the 1970s
One big reason why Biden and Thurmond were so close was their joint efforts to oppose integrating schools in the 1970s. Per Politico:
Ed Brooke, a Massachusetts Republican, was the first black senator ever to be popularly elected; Joe Biden was a freshman Democratic senator from Delaware. By 1975, both had compiled liberal voting records. But that year, Biden sided with conservatives and sponsored a major anti-busing amendment. The fierce debate that followed not only fractured the Senate’s bloc of liberals, it also signified a more wide-ranging political phenomenon: As white voters around the country—especially in the North—objected to sweeping desegregation plans then coming into practice, liberal leaders retreated from robust integration policies.
Biden was at the forefront of this retreat: He had expressed support for integration and—more specifically—busing during his Senate campaign in 1972, but once elected, he discovered just how bitterly his white constituents opposed the method. In 1973 and 1974, Biden began voting for many of the Senate’s anti-busing bills, claiming that he favored school desegregation, but just objected to “forced busing.”
“Forced busing” was a phrase that Thurmond leaned on heavily to oppose integrating schools, and when Biden embraced Thurmond’s politics on this issue, he also embraced his rhetoric.
10. Biden voted for the Iraq War
The biggest quagmire of millennials’ lifetimes—our Vietnam, sans the draft—was aided along by Senator Joe Biden. Hillary Clinton lost in 2008 because of this vote, while Barack Obama made hay off his opposition to an immoral and illegal war. Joe Biden’s entire political career is proof that he has been behind the times every single step of the way, and there is no reason to believe that 2020 will be any different.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Buoyed by strong fundraising and growing advantages in state and national polls, Joe Biden’s campaign is accelerating its staffing and television spending as the campaign turns toward the 100-day mark before Election Day, according to a new internal campaign memo obtained by NBC News.
It was just more than 100 days ago that Bernie Sanders officially dropped out of the presidential race, making Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee. Now, after recalibrating their entire structure for what has become an almost fully virtual operation, the Biden campaign argues it is “firing on all cylinders” to take its message to voters into the fall — focused on President Donald Trump’s failures on the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout.
The election, deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield writes in the memo, is a choice between an incumbent president “who has proven himself to be incapable of leading effectively” in a crisis, and a challenger “who has proven time and again he can deliver the leadership we need when it counts the most, and who has the character to see it through.”
“The conclusion voters continue to draw is straightforward and clear: Joe Biden cares about you and your family, and Donald Trump only cares about himself, the super-wealthy, and corporations — and he doesn’t care who he hurts,” Bedingfield writes.
The Biden campaign is marking the 100-day-out milestone with what it calls a weekend of action in battleground states across the country, with 500 virtual organizing events planned. Sunday night, the campaign is also holding a star-studded set of fundraisers which include a public, grassroots online concert featuring John Legend and Barbra Streisand.
By August, the Biden campaign, the DNC and its partners in the states will have “well over 2,000 staff” deployed for voter outreach, the memo says. Just as importantly in this pandemic, though, the campaign says it has nearly doubled the “active email list” in the last two months.
And after outraising the Trump campaign in May and June, the campaign is putting another $14.5 million toward television advertising in its top targeted states: Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. That’s in addition to a similar ad buy over the past week, meaning the campaign is now spending as much each week as it did the entire previous two-plus months.
Biden’s latest ads have focused squarely on Trump’s response to the pandemic, and his own newly-released economic plans. This in the face of the Biden campaign’s estimate that the Trump campaign and its allies have spent $60 million in ads since April 1, most attempting to portray Biden as mentally unfit for the presidency, and beholden to a radical left that would make Americans unsafe.
Bedingfield says that despite that onslaught, Biden’s favorability ratings have only increased as the president’s decreased.
“Time after time, Trump’s advisers boast that they are certain the upteenth reboot of their anti-Biden messaging will work this go-round, only to quickly thereafter find themselves on defense, having elevated issues on which Donald Trump’s record is extremely vulnerable,” Bedingfield writes. “Trump doesn’t have an argument for why he deserves to be reelected, so pouring money into ineffective attacks against his opponent is his only option. In terms Donald Trump understands, it’s the only club he’s got in his bag.” (This is so not true…they don’t even have a clue why people prefer TRUMP, I am not going to tell them. But, there are plenty of reasons why TRUMP, even with his drawbacks and flaws, is so much better than anything the Democrats have to offer.)
Bill Stepien, Trump’s new campaign manager, said in his own 100-day briefing with reporters on Friday that their path to victory would be “a knock-down, drag-out fight to the very end,” and insisted that Trump still had “a better team, a better ground game, better fundraising, better digital, better data” and “a better candidate with a better record.” AMEN
“A lot of Americans know of Joe Biden, but far fewer far fewer know much about Joe Biden. Our job here every day is to change that and define him for who he is today — tool on the extreme left,” Stepien said.
Stepien also challenged the Biden campaign to expand its advertising from Arizona into Texas and Georgia if it really felt it had momentum. “I’ll even buy their first ad,” he said. “We had the same conversation in 2016 so you know we feel good about three states. These are all states that come back home, had the same conversations four years ago. And we saw they all turned out on Election Night in November.”
CORRECTION (July 25, 2020, 10:48 p.m.): An earlier version of this article misspelled the first name of a popular singer who is supporting Biden. She is Barbra Streisand, not Barbara.
Former President Barack Obama said at a virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden Tuesday night that “help is on the way” and urged supporters not to be complacent in thinking their work is close to being finished: “Whatever you’ve done so far is not enough.”
Why it matters: Organizers said it’sthe Biden campaign’s largest fundraiser yet, bringing in $7.6 million from over 175,000 people. It’s expected to be the first of several joint efforts with Biden in the months leading up to the election.
What they’re saying: Obama said Biden will have to deal with bigger challenges if he wins in November than the Obama-Biden administration faced coming in after the 2008 financial crisis — but he also described what he sees as a “great awakening,” especially among younger voters demanding social and racial justice that has been overdue for centuries. (Do some research for yourself on that term. That is a loaded term “great awakening” on a physical, spiritual, political and cerebral level that term is loaded. Obuma knows what he is doing when he throws that out. He is serving the Magick Workings of the ruling illumined ones. Words have
power and they know how to use them for evil.)
Obama said the current administration, enabled by Republicans in Congress andsome in the media, “has gone at the very foundations of who we are and who we
Blitt’s 2008 New Yorker cover, “Fistbump: The Politics of Fear,”
should be” as a nation. (Again, this is coming from a man who HATES AMERICA and all that it stands for, but not just America, he wants to see ALL governments fall. He is working occultly with NGOs Non Government Organizations to make that happen.)That includes undermining facts and science, politicizing the Justice Department and considering some Americans to be “more real” than others, Obama argued. He loves his catch phrases.
“We have this unique chance to translate a growing awareness of injustice in society into actual legislation and institutional change … and those moments don’t come too often,” Obama said. (Capitalizing on the division they have created, they are playing on your sympathy and empathy to destroy you.)
“Man, this is serious business,” he said, adding that “whatever you’ve done so far is not enough. And I hold myself and Michelle and my kids to the same standard.”
“I am here to say the help is on the way if we do the work because there’s nobody I trust more to be able to heal this country and get back on track than my dear friend Joe Biden.”
Obama expressed sympathy for Anthony Fauci, noting that the nation’s top infectious diseases expert often “has to testify and then see his advice flouted by the person who he’s working for.” (Fauci is a fraud working closely by his own admission with BILL GATES toward Euthanasia, population control and the tracking of all humans, and doesn’t deserve to be given any credence.)He also said campaigns have to be structured differently to adapt to the pandemic.
And he recalled how how as president he tried to pressure other foreign leaders to allow freedom of the press and freedom of assembly.
“Now they’re witnessing out of our White House a militarized response to peaceful demonstrators or a leader who basically threatens, consistently impugns the free press,” Obama said. (most of the legislation and organization that brought about the militarization of our police was instigated by Obama.)
Biden said if elected, he’ll “protect and build on everything we achieved in the Obama administration,” including expanding Obamacare with the public option, “which the president was hoping we could have gotten the first time.” (God HELP US!)
Between the lines: The fundraiser and Obama’s promise of sustained engagement are clear signalsto the Trump campaign that Democrats are serious about garnering enough enthusiasm and money to be competitive in places they haven’t been in past cycles.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden campaign manager, said the campaign views Arizona, Georgia and Texas — states Trump won handily in 2016 — as in play for Democrats this cycle.
“This year, in 2020, we actually think we have a very expanded map in front of us,” she said during her remarks at the virtual fundraiser.
“We can’t be complacent or smug or sense that somehow it’s so obvious that this president hasn’t done a good job because, look, he won once,” Obama said of President Trump.
Obama is expected to do several events with Biden throughout the campaign, not just fundraisers. But his presence also gives President Trump an opportunity to replay some of his greatest hits and gripes against Obama and attack everything Trump says the old administration did wrong — ultimately trying to marry Biden to that image for voters.
LOL… That is funny. Obama sticks himself in where he has no business and then he is going to say that Trump is making it about him. lol lol lol Frankly, I don’t know why Obuma is not in jail already for treason.
Former President Barack Obama speaks during the Obama Foundation Summit at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, October 29, 2019.
It’s apparently not enough that Barack Obama commands a megaphone with his every post-presidential utterance. He also got a question at Wednesday night’s presidential debate. NBC News’ Kristen Welker quoted Obama at length in asking Bernie Sanders if the 44th president was correct in saying last week that the country is “less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement. The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.”
Sanders, knowing that Obama remains a popular figure among Democrats, responded by saying that Obama is right, that “we don’t have to tear down the system.” But then he explained all the ways the health care system fails ordinary Americans, with 87 million uninsured and underinsured, soaring prices well above those of other industrialized nations, and 500,000 annual medical bankruptcies. It was an indictment of that system and a call to, well, tear it down.
Obama has determined to put his thumb on the primary scale, and he couches his critique in the language of electability, in what voters really want. Practically every Democrat in America wants to eject Donald Trump from the White House, and ask 100 of them and you get 101 theories of how to make that happen. But without doubting Obama’s sincerity that a moderate politics and only a moderate politics can spell victory next November, I can’t help but notice the audiences for his targeted attacks on progressive policy: wealthy donors in the most rarefied, winner-take-all enclaves of America, whether in Washington last week or San Francisco on Thursday.
It’s rather telling that The New York Timesquoted Obama’s friend Robert Wolf to unlock the former president’s mindset, when he argued that Obama is “trying to set a tone.” Who is Robert Wolf? The former chairman and CEO of UBS Americas, the U.S. affiliate of the Swiss megabank, who now sits on the board of Obama’s foundation, and owns a venture capital firm and a company offering “drones as a service” on the side. (so we have here a clear connection between Barry and the Swiss Bank.)
That’s the milieu Obama lives in today; he hasn’t spent a year on the campaign trail like the candidates have. And his warnings about runaway liberals doing “crazy stuff” just so happen to line up with protecting the profits and lifestyles of those wealthy donors. In doing so, Obama is revealing the limits of his own incrementalism, which cannot surmount a Washington rigged in favor of elites. This has real consequences in politics and policy, for who sits in power and who struggles on the outside. During his own presidency, Obama told a group of bankers that he was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks.Here we are, sadly, again.
Wolf insists that the president “cares first about electability,” a concept that has dominated political talk this year as if it’s some kind of pinpoint science. Allow me to make one point about this. The two winning Democratic presidential candidates in the past 40 years—Bill Clinton and Obama himself—ran on a narrative of hope, while “electable” nominees who stressed competence and caution, from Michael Dukakis to John Kerry to Hillary Clinton, all lost. Campaigning in poetry is not a privilege available only to moderate technocrats; progressives who express their ambitions can also attract a popular following.
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The sample size of modern presidential elections is far too small to make any definitive judgments about what themes and approaches work. Obama’s cautions also overlook the force-of-nature incumbent who will smear any opponent as a godless socialist hell-bent on flooding the country with immigrants and destroying the economy. The idea that any Democratic nominee would be immune from such caricature is absurd, as Pete Buttigieg was fond of saying before Silicon Valley and Wall Street donors started infesting his campaign. Most of the top-tier candidates are running virtually identically against Trump in public polling, suggesting that Trump, not the policy proposals of the Democrat, is the decisive factor.
I’m sure Obama is confident enough in his political radar that he truly believes his path is the only viable one. It’s probably why he intervened to install Tom Perez over Keith Ellison as chair of the DNC. And he has been railing against imagined enemies like “certain left-leaning Twitter feeds” and “wokeness,” not just recently but for years. But there’s something brittle in this approach. A two-term president who engenders generally warm feelings among the population should not be so sensitive to criticism. Perhaps he reveals too much in his prickliness.
The truth is that Obama, who reiterated his comments to donors in San Francisco on Thursday, presided over a country where inequality continued to worsen, where dominant monopolies continued to consolidate, where regions continued to slip behind a handful of cities on the coasts, where all of the post-recession gains went to those at the top. Obama wasn’t the only factor in this sclerotic improvement; he was handed a deep recession by his predecessor and a right-wing Congress two years into his tenure. But those electoral losses, among the largest for a two-term president since World War II, do reflect the inadequacies of market-driven incrementalism to deliver accountability for the sins of the financial crisis and tangible relief to the millions who suffered as a consequence. If it did, the wealthy donors Obama spends time with while criticizing the left would have less in their bank accounts.
Even though Obama routinely expressed throughout his presidency that America has a long way to go to be perfected, even though he praised “good new ideas like Medicare for All” as recently as last September, he seems to see anyone else saying these things as attacking his legacy. One reason why Obama attempts to rally the base for moderates may be in his difficulty abiding a Democratic Party that even intimates that he failed to tangibly benefit the lives of the working class.
It remains to be seen if the dogs will like the dog food this time around. Deval Patrick, an Obama friend and perhaps the candidate closest to Obama’s model of social liberalism and corporate-friendly economics,got two people to show up to his latest campaign event. Michael Bloomberg has no constituency in national politics at all. Joe Biden is coasting on name recognition and constant invocation of Obama’s name, while Pete Buttigieg has surged on his brand of McKinsey PowerPoints and TED talks, which fits the Obama style. It’s certainly possible that Obama’s absence has made Democratic hearts grow fond for someone in his image, and that image will carry the day.
But let’s be honest about the endgame. Obama is intervening on behalf of a cramped, self-censoring politics, one that dreams big but fights small, one that comforts the well-off by assuring them their fortunes will be safe and the game will proceed to their benefit.He has said, according to the Times, that the eventual primary winner “will come back to me when they need me,” and they will. But they might not come back to his policies, and that’s apparently unacceptable.
On the debate stage Wednesday, Democrats played it safe, in what some commentators decided reflected heeding Obama’s message. That message, while amplified by Obama, comes directly from the corridors of power, telling progressives and democratic socialists not to meddle with the primal forces of nature, as Ned Beatty put it in Network. This defense of the reigning economic order, originating with the donor class and media allies, with its effective abandonment of the vulnerable and disenfranchised, with nothing for those struggling to make it in a rigged economy, is a recipe for social and political unrest. From lofty heights, Obama has now become a dampener of hope, a barrier to change, and a threat to progress.
President Trump tweeted “Obamagate” on Sunday, but what Barack did was far worse than Nixon’s transgression.
Obama used the FBI, the NSA and CIA to spy on Trump’s campaign and then his presidency.Obama and the Deep State Swamp launched a coup attempt. They tried to remove a lawfully elected president from office based on fabricated evidence paid for by the Hillary campaign.
The entire Russia Russia Russia! witch hunt cost the taxpayers a tremendous amount of money, but the real issue is treason. FBI agent Peter Strzok and his FBI lawyer lover Lisa Page conspired against Trump through text messages. They both pushed the FBI to investigate General Flynn when no investigation was warranted. Obama fired Flynn because the general didn’t approve of Obama’s support for muslim terrorists including Iran and ISIS.
Obama did not want Trump to appoint Flynn as his National Security Advisor. Naturally Trump did just that, so Obama sent the FBI to entrap Flynn.
Adam Schiff may be the biggest traitor. The bug-eyed House Intelligence Committee chairman had nothing but leaks and lies to offer. He claimed he had concrete evidence of Trump’s collusion with Russia. He had nothing. He even lied on the floor of Congress when he made up words Trump never said.
Comey is in the pocket of the Clintons. He also lied and leaked to damage Trump’s presidency. The FBI knew the Steele Dossier was a pack of lies, but they used it to push through a FISA warrant and engaged Mueller in a long and wasteful investigation while CNN breathlessly fanned the flames of a Trump Russia conspiracy, when there wasn’t even smoke, let alone a fire.
NSA Director James Clapper lied to Congress, when he said nobody was spying on the Trump campaign. Yet that’s exactly what the security agencies were doing at the direction of Barack Obama.
All roads lead back to Obamaand he’s angry. He knows he’s stuck, but he’s become too used to sticking it to others. His arrogance caused him to claim Trump is a threat to the rule of law when in fact it was Obama who was running a coup and abusing the justice system.
AP | May 14, 2020, 12:29 IST
All Roads Lead to Obama