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2020-05-11 Home Front: Politix

[American Thinker] After seeming years of silence, and plenty of billionaire vacays, President Obama is on the warpath. Here's what the Washington Post is reporting:

Former president Barack Obama shared deep worries Friday about the Justice Department’s decision to drop its prosecution of ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn, telling old aides on a call that "our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk," according to a recording obtained by Yahoo News and confirmed by an Obama spokesperson.

Obama also appeared to slam the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic as an "absolute chaotic disaster," offering the sort of blistering criticisms he has rarely aired in public. Obama said shortly before President Trump took office that he would only weigh in on his successor’s actions when he believes "our core values may be at stake."

Obama was speaking to something called the "Obama Alumni Association," a real nod to the faculty lounge, but in reality, a likely flying monkey corps waiting for activation, the leaked phone call just the first step.

The New York Times, citing leaks, called Obama "deeply angered."

And if so, that's not surprising. A huge Obama White House effort to spy on a political opponent and prevent him from serving in public office is slowly being exposed.

So the ridiculous carp about President Trump's coronavirus crisis leadership being 'absolute chaos' is nonsense, a naked bid to knock down President Trump.

And his Flynn complaint is complete nonsense. The Flynn prosecution was dropped because of naked prosecutorial misconduct. Prosecutors do that because they know their cases aren't going to win.

Rule of law? Since when does prosecutorial misconduct of the worst kind merit not dropping a tainted case? Bad cases based on this reason are thrown out all the time, (just ask former California prosecutor Kamala Harris, whose cases stand to be thrown out wholesale based on prosecutorial misconduct). Anybody who's going to prosecute others has got to be damn clean or the system loses credibility. For Obama to 'warn' about rule of law, as if that were something he ever cared about before this, is disingenuous. It's also projecting, a typical passive-aggressive Obama maneuver to say the least. That Obama arranged for this leak, under cover of 'private conversation' is simply a joke.

Obama, actually, is panicking.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 Two can keep a secret. Three can keep a secret if one of them is Hillary.

Posted by gorb 2020-05-11 01:24|| 2020-05-11 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Threecan keep a secret if one of them is Hillary.

In the end, there can be only one.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-11 06:00|| 2020-05-11 06:00|| Front Page Top

#3 This is lawfare. The coup d'etat continues.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-11 06:14|| 2020-05-11 06:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Jonathan Turley does a masterful job of demolishing Obama's claim of 'No Precedent', suggesting Eric Holder might be able to refresh his memory. Link

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-11 07:31|| 2020-05-11 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Zero's sh!tting his skinny jeans now.

After all the evidence is brought to light, this lying, redirecting bastard will do prison time.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-11 07:33|| 2020-05-11 07:33|| Front Page Top

#6 from your lips to God's ears

at this point I think the best we can hope for is a few lower-level coup plotters to get pinched, all the masterminds will be 'pardoned' in order to 'heal the political divide in the country'

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-11 08:04|| 2020-05-11 08:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama in jail would warm the cockles of this old man's heart.......

Unfortunately it ain't happenin'.

Posted by AlanC 2020-05-11 08:18|| 2020-05-11 08:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama in jail? Sure, we can dream and we would all love to see it, but it'll never, ever, EVER happen.

But in the spirit of decency and fair play, if some of his underlings were to start trying on some orange jump suits (Holder, Brennan, etc., et al.), then I would be a bit more content.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-11 08:55|| 2020-05-11 08:55|| Front Page Top

#9 With any luck, this will keep his man/wife out of politics for a while.

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-05-11 10:30|| 2020-05-11 10:30|| Front Page Top

#10 If this destroys his retirement income because he comes to be seen as unable to deliver any quo for their quid, as happened to the Clinton Foundation, I will be content.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-11 10:47|| 2020-05-11 10:47|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ Alas he's already pocketed his two sweetheart deals, the NFLX $68 million thank-you payment (for "net neutrality" BS at Obama's FCC) and the Pearson / Random House Penguin $65 million thank-you payment (for awarding Pearson a $350m Common Core textbook publishing windfall).

He and his Wook already plowed the proceeds into their McMansions in Kalorama / N.W. DC and on Martha's Vineyard.

Hitting him in the pocketbook won't do. He needs to go prison so that this atrocity never happens again in our Republic.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-11 11:14|| 2020-05-11 11:14|| Front Page Top

#12

Hubris on steroids. Just maybe "O" is not greatest constitutional lawyer or the smartest man on the planet after-all.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-05-11 14:25|| 2020-05-11 14:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Sorry for the double posting. Mods, please remove one.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-05-11 18:30|| 2020-05-11 18:30|| Front Page Top

#14 They're not going to risk mass unrest among black people by arresting Obama.

It will only be deemed safe to do such a thing if there's a drastic change in mindset or demographics in this country.

This also points to the danger of putting anyone other than a straight white male in top positions anywhere in Western society.

No member of any other group can ever be held accountable without accusations of racism/sexism/homophobia being leveled at those seeking justice.

Posted by charger 2020-05-11 18:42|| 2020-05-11 18:42|| Front Page Top

#15 JQC - I can only Spamcop or Smokey it. It's not egregious, so no harm. :-)

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-11 19:17|| 2020-05-11 19:17|| Front Page Top

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