Three U.S. ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

"Barack Obama urged Americans to resist President Donald Trump’s bullying. Joe Biden warned that Trump is wrecking the “sacred promise” of Social Security. Bill Clinton decried the emphasis on grievances and the need to dominate.

 

In an extraordinary stretch of just over two weeks, three former presidents have taken to the public stage to sound the alarm against the current occupant of the White House, despite the tradition that former presidents generally refrain from publicly criticizing their successors.

 

Obama, Biden and Clinton did not explicitly name Trump, but their message was unmistakable. The three Democrats said, as much by their presence as their words, that these are unusual times for American democracy, that norms are being disregarded and extraordinary measures are required. The only living president who has not spoken out since Inauguration Day is Republican George W. Bush, though he has made little secret of his antipathy for Trump."

 

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Washington Post

https://archive.ph/lOBkV

 

[Jim Blue]

Don't you just love these guys !

[billd766]

2 minutes ago, Jim Blue said:

Don't you just love these guys !

Far, far more than the current village idiot.

[Hanuman2547]

Well of course three former Democrat presidents would not be supportive of the current US President.  That's not a surprise at all.  The same would be true if a Democrat was the US President.  You would find former Republican Presidents being unsupportive of him.  It's all politics as usual in the USA.

[Packer]

One's about to be deported to Kenya. 

[MicroB]

5 minutes ago, Packer said:

One's about to be deported to Kenya. 

 

Why would Clinton be deported? Watching too much Happy Valley.

[Hanuman2547]

7 minutes ago, MicroB said:

 

Why would Clinton be deported? Watching too much Happy Valley.

It won't be Clinton getting deported to Kenya.  It's going to be Biden.

[TedG]

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 Joe Biden warned that Trump is wrecking the “sacred promise” of Social Security.

 

This is not even remotely true.  If Joe Biden cared about the “sacred promise” of Social Security he would have fixed the permanent defcit that started under Obama in 2010. 

 

The dems are nothing but lying machines. 

[TedG]

42 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Obama, Biden and Clinton did not explicitly name Trump, but their message was unmistakable. The three Democrats said, as much by their presence as their words, that these are unusual times for American democracy, that norms are being disregarded and extraordinary measures are required. The only living president who has not spoken out since Inauguration Day is Republican George W. Bush, though he has made little secret of his antipathy for Trump."&quot

 

 

 

 

Speaking of breaking norms.   Obama killed US Citzens who were not charaged with a crime.   

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/5/23/us-admits-drones-killed-four-americans

[MicroB]

10 minutes ago, Hanuman2547 said:

Well of course three former Democrat presidents would not be supportive of the current US President.  That's not a surprise at all.  The same would be true if a Democrat was the US President.  You would find former Republican Presidents being unsupportive of him.  It's all politics as usual in the USA.

 

I think Bush, whatever people think of him when he was in Office, is acting Presidential. His dad went further though. The closest Dubya has gotten, on record, is oblique references to press freedom.

 

We don't really know what he said during the 2017 inauguration; its apocryphal, it kind of fits with his public character, but its better that he just stays silent on the matter. Irrespective of my opinion of a current President, past holders of the office should maintain a statesman like dignity, partly because they know the reality of that office, about what really goes on behind closed doors, and the difficult decisions all Presidents have to take, and life with. And it cuts both ways with a current leader commenting on his predecessor. In both cases, the Head of State represents ALL Americans, not just the ones who voted for him. I'd say the same about Prime Ministers, but constitutionally, that Office is entirely different, and the PM is merely First among Equals (PMs are easily replaced).

 

https://www.politico.eu/article/former-presidents-walk-fine-line-in-trumps-america/#:~:text=Former presidents walk fine line in Trump's America – POLITICO.

 

Yeah, I don't recall any of the former Presidents embarking on some sort of project in collaboration with the current incumbant; whether that's because they don't want anything to do with him, or vice versa, is not clear.

 

When Trump shakes the hand warmly of a departing Biden, or is seen sharing a joke with Obama at a funeral, is it genuine, or just for the cameras. Is the very personal criticism of predecessors genuine, or just for effect? He spent 13 years literally acting a role for the cameras.

[Yellowtail]

That the leftists hate him makes him just that much better as far as I can see. 

 

Obama did all he could to destroy the country and Biden picked up where Obama left off. 

[bendejo]

Maybe W is holding back to let Dick Cheney take the lead, just like he did when he was the elected president who preferred clearing the brush on his Texas ranch to presidentin'.

I suspect he has his wife to keep him in check, reminding him he's not smart enough to make statements critical of anyone in government.  He may not be brilliant but maybe he's smart enough to realize he ain't smart.

 

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, bendejo said:

Maybe W is holding back to let Dick Cheney take the lead, just like he did when he was the elected president who preferred clearing the brush on his Texas ranch to presidentin'.

I suspect he has his wife to keep him in check, reminding him he's not smart enough to make statements critical of anyone in government.  He may not be brilliant but maybe he's smart enough to realize he ain't smart.

 

Yeah, Dick Cheney, one of the left's newest hero. 

[Peabody]

2 hours ago, MicroB said:

...and the difficult decisions all Presidents have to take,...

Twitler's decisions are not difficult.

He just says whatever tRumpsihte defecates out of his a**  and into his lying cheeseburger hole, completely bypassing the brain.

Easy peasy