If he would just grow up it would be easier to sympathize. His game plan was spew a far left idea that most people disagreed with, and then wait for the media to back him up and gaslight the opposition.

Fuck, that bastard is still doing it.

i dislike GWB but he had the good sense to go home to his ranch and keep a low profile (as is tradition) even though Obama (rightfully so) campaigned on undoing all his mistakes

I wouldn't, either, assuming all the things Trump has accused Obama of doing and not doing are true (which, coincidentally, are false).

Meh. If there is one person who has never given a single fuck about tradition, it's Trump.



In my humble opinion, President Trump is entitled to exactly as much respect from private citizen Obama as private citizen Trump was showing then-President Obama.

Trump was constantly bitching and moaning about Obama on twitter and was basically the birther-in-chief. He was a colossal dick to Obama, so now he really shouldnt complain about Obama calling him out or raining on his parade. Besides, Trump essentially campaigning against Obama will be a lot more entertaining than him campaigning against Biden.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 19 2020 08:10pm

"Private Citizen Obama" is somebody 99.9% of American had never heard of prior to 2007. Or from. That when he wants to speak now he's heard speaks clearly to his lack of "private citizen" status. The fact that he's provided a half a million a year salary on the tax payer's dime speaks clearly to his lack of "private citizen" status. The fact that he still benefits, and will for the rest of his life, from secret service security speaks to his lack of "private citizen" status. The fact that he's drawing tens of millions per year in "housing, office, and operating expenses" from the taxpayers dime speaks clearly to his lack of "private citizen" status.

I don't know what kind of multi-hued acid pill you're on, but perhaps it's time to stop portraying Obama as any form of "common man". You're lying. And there's no two ways about it.

This post was edited by InsaneBobb on May 19 2020 08:15pm

https://www.theblaze.com/news/minnesota-imam-ilhan-omar-fraudulently-raised-cash

Sounds like there's more to the story about Ilhan Omar soliciting campaign donations by falsely pushing a charity
A couple weeks ago Ilhan Omar tweeted she was "partnering" with MNFoodShare and posted a link to an ActBlue fundraiser, which went straight to her campaign account
Then MNFoodShare's executive director tweeted in response Ilhan Omar had nothing to do with the project and they don't know where the money was going.
Omar deleted the tweet under fire, then later agree to fork over her donations, while accusing everyone who called her out of being islamophobic several times

Now there's one more voice blowing the whistle: Imam Tawakal, who runs Darul Hadiith, a partner in the foodshare program and major donor.
Tawakal confirms that MNFoodShare had an explicit no-politics requirement and forbade political campaigns from joining. He had a contract at Safari restaurant to distribute meals to seniors and disabled individuals- explicitly telling the owner no videos or pictures or political events- when Ilhan Omar showed up in person. The Imam told Ilhan Omar at the restaurant they didn't want politicians around or any video or pictures, and Omar tried to get video of the event from the restaurant asking them to allow it without the Imam's knowledge. He walked in on Omar's top aid trying to get the video and argued with him and explicitly told both Omar's campaign and the restaurant that their charity was not for political purposes.
Then the next day, Ilhan Omar posted video of herself at that charity event to her facebook page
And the day after that, she tweeted a 'fundraiser' link to her own campaign account on ActBlue with no connection to the charity



so basically she strong armed an apolitical charity and shot video of them to use for her own political campaign against their rules, then illegally solicited donations falsely claiming they were partners but it was really going directly to her campaign, and when she got caught she just refunded it and pretended nothing ever happened

This post was edited by Goomshill on May 19 2020 09:14pm

Oh look, another IG getting sacked, and one who was also investigating an department head. There's a pattern here.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/trump-removed-watchdog-investigating-elaine-chao-mcconnell-vetted-replacement/

See, I think libertarians value the IG's office more than anything because they want a government that is efficient as possible. This is pretty disgraceful and it's getting to the point where I'd support the next administration prosecuting people.