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Barack Obama Warns Progressives Not to Form ‘Circular Firing Squad' |
2019-04-07 |
[Breitbart] On the heels of a week’s worth of attacks on handsy Joe Biden for his years of untoward treatment of women, former President Barack Obama is warning progressives not to form a "circular firing squad" to take out their own candidates. Speaking in Germany at a town hall event on Saturday for his Obama Foundation, the former president said he feared that the extreme left of the Democrat Party has become too rigid. "One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ’Uh, I’m sorry, this is how it’s going to be,’" Obama said, according to the Hill. "And then we start sometimes creating what’s called a ’circular firing squad,’ where you start shooting at your allies because one of them has strayed from purity on the issues. And when that happens, typically the overall effort and movement weakens." Because he "was so flexible and shit" "So I think whether you are speaking as a citizen or as a political leader or as an organizer," Obama continued, "you have to recognize that the way we structure democracy requires you to take into account people who don’t agree with you, and that by definition means you’re not going to get 100 percent of what you want." The former president was speaking to a group of young people about leadership. He added that leaders should not go too far either way. "You can’t set up a system in which you don’t compromise on anything, but you also can’t operate in a system where you compromise on everything," he said. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#16 The Dem field is not very impressive. A circular firing squad would thin the herd but you would still end up with a unimpressive candidate. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2019-04-07 22:38 |
#15 Nunes is sending to the DOJ criminal referrals regarding RussiaGate and Obama suddenly hits the campaign trail again. |
Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2019-04-07 21:23 |
#14 "The People, arranged in a circle, Will never be beaten!" sez Urkel, "Unless they're all 'flakes... Then it's snakes eating snakes!" "Revolution!" "What's burnin'?" "Studs Terkel." |
Posted by: Albert Angack3040 2019-04-07 20:20 |
#13 ^ reschedule for 29 February 2020. It's a leap year. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-04-07 20:17 |
#12 |
Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2019-04-07 19:45 |
#11 0bama is responsible for all this. |
Posted by: newc 2019-04-07 16:02 |
#10 "Guys! We're at the Pretend To Be Normal part of the process!" |
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-04-07 15:48 |
#9 I like it. "Oppressive" |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-04-07 14:35 |
#8 pressive = progressive PIMF! |
Posted by: Frozen Al 2019-04-07 14:27 |
#7 we say ’Uh, I’m sorry, this is how it’s going to be,’ I have never seen a pressive say "I'm sorry" in my life. Al |
Posted by: Frozen Al 2019-04-07 14:26 |
#6 Or trying to crush them as in IRS vs Tea Party. |
Posted by: SteveS 2019-04-07 11:28 |
#5 the way we structure democracy requires you to take into account people who don’t agree with you He took it into account by ignoring it completely. What a hypocritical asshole. |
Posted by: Raj 2019-04-07 11:16 |
#4 the way we structure democracy requires you to take into account people who don’t agree with you Except for the deplorables. That goes without saying. |
Posted by: Bobby 2019-04-07 10:32 |
#3 And the jerking...don't forget the jerking. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-04-07 09:19 |
#2 Did Geffen say that about Weinstein? |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-04-07 09:15 |
#1 It's a Stalin-Trotsky thingy. It's working today in Beijing as well. As with the ancient story about the scorpion and the frog, its in their nature. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-04-07 08:42 |