Barack Obama just provided “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” with a new entry. Like his 2008 citation, in which he framed working-class voters as “bitter clingers” or his 2009 vision of America as a nation that has “shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive,” his most recent comment shows he has as little use as ever for the country that twice voted him president.
The occasion for the latest put-down was the second Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, where the former president was interviewed on Monday by writer Dave Eggers. In his explanation of why the U.S. has failed to make progress tackling policy issues like global warming, Obama made this observation.
The reason we don’t do it because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues. We are fraught with stuff, but the thing that we really have to invest in is people.
A decade after he called the working-class “bitter,” President Obama is still trashing millions of Americans who disagree with him.
According to Obama, you’re “confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues” if you disagree with his environmental policies. pic.twitter.com/8IX79UIeeD
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) November 20, 2018
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It’s interesting that he excoriates Americans as “shrouded with hate, anger,” and “racism” then in the same breath identifies the solution as investing in people. Which people does he have in mind to invest in: the haters or the racists?
Earlier in his diatribe, he boasts with regard to global warming that “right now I could take off the shelf existing technologies; we could reduce carbon emissions by, let’s say, 30%.” Is he genuinely so clueless as to fail to recognize that he had eight years — two terms as commander in chief — achieve this and other goals he believes are so crucial but failed to get the job done?
For much of Obama’s presidency, we had to endure his endless digs at this predecessor whose “mess” Obama insisted “he inherited.” Now that someone else has been hired to clean up his own mess, he refuses to follow George W. Bush’s lead and retreat quietly to the background, instead taking shots at his successor and now at the American people as a whole. Are Democrats really this self-absorbed?
