THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON AT ALL.. President Obama is an INTELLIGENT CARING COMPASSIONATE EXTREMELY CAPABLE MAN of INTEGRITY N the ORANGE CON is Nothing But a HUMONGOUS Pile of BS....
That was great, guys. I and so so many miss former President Obama and it's always good to hear to hear what he has to say about everything, insightful too. Don't forget he wants to be invited more.
I miss the feeling of security I get when listening to fmr president Obama. We need an intelligent, caring human to run our country in the future. There’s so much more to be done to repair the damage caused by tfg. President Biden has done a good job, but there’s so much more to do. We have to vote in a Democratic leader in the midterms, and in 2024, or we will lose our country to fascism.
I miss him too. I remember when let's go 45 won i just relaxed with sadness until 45 took over and never had a good night's sleep when he was in office. Now, with President Biden i sleep well again.
I love Obama but he didn't do enough to encourage grass roots growth in the Democratic Party. His mother's family is from Kansas. Did he do anything to help any Kansan Democrats???
@@yvonneplant9434 He was hindered at every turn by Republicans. They fought him tooth and nail while disrespecting him and his family. Good ‘ol boy kkklub. Don’t you remember? He was so gracious we never heard just how bad it was, but I can imagine. Everything he did get accomplished was tempered, stunted, or outright blocked by corporate money. He had to represent all our interests as well. He had compassion for those who hated him. More christian-like behavior than those who proclaimed it publicly, but were/are the criminals behind the scenes.
He frames each issue in an overarching theme, both measured and fact-based. In this way, Obama lowers the temperature, even if it's a criticism. Example: the helpful comment Obama made about the recent Supreme Court decisions--that they were "less concerned about privacy and personal freedoms".
Obama is a real people person, of all ages…it’s really a shame that he couldn’t run once again ! So, intelligent, educated, reasonable, likable man ! He always was happy, when he was in the White House, and had so much energy …..Yet, he is still, such a happy guy today, as well…….Miss him…
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
It remains a part of former President Obama's responsibility because he is still a citizen, a highly regarded and influential citizen, of the Democratic Republic of the United States of America.
My blood pressure goes down just seeing and listening to President Obama. Thank you so much for interviewing him. Love him as a great leader and wonderful man.
I'm 71 and got my first lesson in politics from my Dad when I was in 6th grade. He said if you vote for a Republican you are voting for rich people's interests if you vote for a Democrat you are voting for the rest of us. I guess nothing has changed since 1964.
All of those little guys; academia, the press, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, the Arts, increasingly corporate America, big Pharma, and the Military Industrial Complex; it’s laughable to think this is still the Democratic Party of Harry Truman.
1964 was such a pivotal year in our nation’s history. A turn for the worst with Dixie Democrats converts, Goldwater, Southern Strategy - the canvas for painting the attempted coup d’etat we all saw on January 6th. VOTE BLUE IN 22!! ☮️🇺🇸☯️
@@Gr8whitemonster if u think the GOP isn't deeper in bed w/the MIC & Big Pharma than the Dems are you're fooling yourself. Who do u think gave Big Pharma everything they wanted, especially protection from being sued & prosecution, at the beginning of the pandemic?? Trump did!! The GOP has been the party of tax cuts for the rich/elite my whole life & I'm over 40
@@Gr8whitemonster, yet the vast majority of the massive amount of corporate and billionaire dark money goes to Republicans. You know, the ones who slash the taxes of corporations and billionaires over and over and over.
I miss President Obama SO MUCH! The calm intelligence & profound discerning elegance with which he handles political issues is comforting and inspiring. ❄️🌎❄️
PROBLEM with Obama's narrative is, he knows the Democrats are mostly crooked, and its every man for himself. Sure democracy is good, freedom is good, but only if the people in it especially the leadership are good and are people with integrity! Otherwise what you get is a big bunch of self serving individuals justifying whatever they hope to get from their leadership appointments. And this is also why Republicans despite not as focused on liberty and freedom tend to do better as leaders. Because leadership in the Republican's view is a communal drive and less self centered. You don't have individual LGBTFQs coming out to defend their non-binary positions against a common enemy that denounced non-binary people, and you don't have individual migrant relatives and muslims coming out against a common enemy that denounces their illegal status and propensity to kill others in the name of a purported religion. Freedom and Liberty only works when you have an authority that constantly looks down and snuffs out anyone who exerts their own individual rights that is at the expense of others. And Obama does not possess the required integrity and/or moral uprightness and/or power and/or authority to lead them. Vote Republican because its better to have a circus trainer in the circus tent than just opening all the cages of the tigers and lions, including the alpha lion in the name of Freedom and Liberty, the former you have a person with duty and oversight, the latter you have absolute chaos.
Legally the term is former president and referred to as Mr. Obama. But as an Hawaiian resident who used to bodysurf with him at Sandy Beach I guess I’ll always think of him as Mr. President.
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
He made a comment about progressives. I worry that progressives are focused on the perfect candidate instead of looking toward improved and better candidates. Progress is always incremental. Obama,still and always inspiring. Biden is a good man and doing good things for our country. He's just not as eloquent a speaker.
listening to this man talk again - not as a president but just a citizen - it is no wonder we are so traumatized - to go for 8 years of this guy driving the ship - only to be handed over to that psychopath - we have all lived thru it and it is still hard to comprehend
Now we have a dementia patient you fools voted for. Did any of you people notic he has dementia. Biden is not running the country, Obama is! All the democrats do is chase Trump, while the economy goes to hell!
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law." nt
President Barack Obama #44, made history and with class, will continue to be one of our most intelligent persons to serve the people of our country. May God continue to bless and keep he/his family safe.
When I’m feeling defeated, when I feel like authoritarian government is taking over, I remember this man’s short but poignant statement “YES WE CAN!” 😊
@@yvonneplant9434 WTF is wrong with tRumptards? Obama served out both terms with respect and dignity. Then, tRump came along and blew away every ounce of integrity our nation has ever earned.
@@yvonneplant9434 Trolling trolling trolling... "I love Obama, but..." I'm going to keep griping about this talking point." Please. He was one of THE ONLY "grassroots movement" guys at the time. If you don't remember, go back and watch Republicans trying to cut him off at EVERY pass.
@ Trina Tuttle. There’s another saying by a wonderful Democrat that I would add to yes we can. That is the late Elijah Cummings, who kept saying we are better than this. A variation on that is, we can do better than this. Every time another Republican tells another Republican lie I say that to myself.
Valid point about conversation. I don't want any race forced into poverty by greed. The enemy is not race it's poverty. We must come together right now🎶" over GREED!
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Thanks you guys for this episode. The nation totally needs to see and hear President Obama for 2022. I'm tired of watching old re runs when he was in power 8 years ago.
Everyone can make a difference. Bobby Kennedy said this when he was head of justice dept. . democracy depends on perpistation. Knowledge that is shared, gives us decucations and possible solutions.
My father was a lifelong Republican who grew up in Texas and came from a traditionally conservative family. He read Obama's book when he was in his late 60's before that first presidential election and voted Democrat for the first time ever. And he voted for Obama again before he passed away. He felt that Obama was more in touch with what really mattered to Americans. I wish more people would approach politics the way he did. I learned a lot from my dad about having an open mind.
The fact that your father read Obama's book at all suggests that he was more open minded and intellectual then certain aspects of his background might suggest.
@@chansetwo For most voters in America I think political affiliation was secondary to ideology which wasn't a forced set of variables that lined up on either side of a defined line between red or blue. While each party certainly had it's fanatics, it didn't permeate our daily lives the way it seems to now. Politics now is used mostly as a social media tool for "engagement" that's measured in clicks per minute. It's a market that's designed to get users angry, then provide comfort among, what they want you to believe, are like minded individuals. The next thing you know, you think Democrats are mutilating kids in children's hospitals. So there used to be a level of respect I think on the part of politicians, to know that we don't want this in our faces every minute of every day. They knew it wasn't good for us, it wasn't good for them and it wasn't good for America. But desperation does strange things to people who don't have the fortitude or servitude to hold public office. Primaries used to weed them out.
I wish that also, with all my heart. An EDUCATED citizenry is the single thing that holds a democracy together, and not feeding disinformation to the electorate helps. 😑😔😒
What a testimonial to the fact life changes quickly. President Obama is of course the polar opposite to tfg. It is unbelievably sad for our country that so many do not recognize the difference in these two men as it relates to their individual lives. Obama inspires life and hope, tfg inspires hate and cruelty.
I really miss President Barack Obama! He was one of the best President's we've ever had. He passed legislation in 2014 to help smaller oil companies to be able to compete with the larger oil corporations which helped bring a surplus in our energy independence that yielded the great economy that Trump inherited and took credit for. I wish only the best for President Obama, his beautiful wife, Michelle and their two beautiful daughters. Thanks for all you have done to make our country so much better and for all you are currently doing. A man of true integrity.
You've lost your mind if you think Obama left a great economy. The economy crashed right as his presidency began and never recovered... unless you count the rigged stock market which always seem to go up no matter how badly things are going everywhere else. He spent his entire presidency doing his best to pass the TPP a document that removes national sovereignty and creates an international corporate hegemony.
How can anyone listen to the thoughtful commentary from a Harvard-educated scholar like this who was the President and then watch Trump and take him seriously? Trump sounds like a kindergartener in comparison. I actually learn something every time I hear Obama speak. He calms me down and makes me think everything is not lost. You will always be my President!
So true! Never thought about it but I to have learned from him and still do! That’s what I want in a president! Someone I can inspire to, learn from, and be proud of!
Me for one! Let me ask you this... are you not smart enough to see him talk circles, promote socialism, which cannot come without violence? Can you not see his lies? How about Tulsis Gabbard bailing from the Dems because during his presidency he didn't speak to her, or the middle class, and hell I only made it 13:00! How about former W.H. Press Secrtary calling out Dems, like Pelosi on Meet the Press? How about Candace Owens new documentary debunking BLM and them collecting $80 million in just one taxable year... where the hell did that money go? It didn't go to help the masses or the commniity! Obama contradicted himself in less than 13 minutes! Clinton was the Poster Child who started this mess and Obama felt the need to out do Billy boy and now we have Biden who has done nothing but destroyed this country with high inflation, record number of illegal immigration, bailing on our own people in Afgahstan not to mention leaving billions behind in military hardware, destroyed our energy sector, giving nearly $100 billion to Ukraine which unless Biden de-escalates things, it will result in Putin using nucs! I eft the party in 1992 under Clinton like Tulsi did and I sure in the hell hope Obama reviews these comments as like Tulsi and so many others, he bailed on us! Obama created the biggest racial divde since the days of salvery! And I truly thought it could get worse than Clinton. Then along came Obama with his false promises and lies. Then just when I thought Obama will go down in history as the worst president in history, along comes Biden to out do Obama! I would bet the majority of those commenting here are young people who are still ignorant and confused. That is what they {the Obamas of gov't do] target the young people and brainwash you into believing this and his {Obama's] B.S! He is probably colse to being a billionaire by now if he is not already off of the backs and pockets of the middle class!
To the staff of Pod SAVE AMERICA 🇺🇸 excellent interview 👏 with a PATRIOT who was the best President in the last 6 decades 😀 intelligence and empathy and fairness and respect for all citizens 👏 I know this don't mean much coming from an average man like me but anyways FABULOUS AWESOME WELL DONE 👐 you and yours 👐🇺🇸🙏😎 Give us the people of America 🇺🇸 MORE OF THESE KIND OF INTERVIEWS 👐 president BARACK OBAMA 🙏
I agree! But the best thing about these men is that they never made/make people feel inconsequential or unimportant. Their whole platform is based on inclusivity and patriotism. Amazing humans.
@@nycatlady2314 your someone people should listen to and learn from it sounds to me like you are a teacher or a professor somewhere or will be one! God bless 🙌 you a d God Bless 🙌 the USA 🇺🇸 🙏 ❣️
@@Mistyfire after that idiot draft dodging idiot little boy tRUMP mickey mouse would be better ,A real patriot would have fought against fascism instead of becoming a commie fascist Lock tRUMP up ...
Translation: “I don’t care if anything you say is true, or detrimental to me or my family, or how corrupt you really are….just please, for the love of god, sound educated when you’re saying it! And most importantly, DO NOT say anything that might align, in any way with something a Trump voter would agree with!”
Thousands of middle class lives destroyed, girls raped on way to US border, child dies of diabetes due to Obamacare. You socialists living on taxpayer money fared well. Once T back, please renounce your US citizenship and move to Brussels, Belgium. America will never be a socialist country with no hope for the majority as you desire!
Thousands of middle class lives destroyed, girls raped on way to US border, child dies of diabetes due to Obamacare. You socialists living on taxpayer money fared well. Once T back, please renounce your US citizenship and move to Brussels, Belgium. America will never be a socialist country with no hope for the majority as you desire!
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Mr. Audacity of Hope still Rocks ! All Starts at Home. Vote Local, Vote with your Wallet and Get One Person you know that doesn't Vote to participate. Thank You for a Great Knowledgeable Round Table !
👏👏👏👏👏 Getting to the core of the crap: People have to stop giving lip-service, and step up and vote! A huge part of the problem, is people being complacent in what will impact their own lives, and passing the blame-buck to others, for things not getting done or improving for them! Great pod, guys, and thank you very much for your time and views President Obama...🙏🏻
Totally agree it's amazing how many people just don't care... They seem to have the 'oh nothing will happen to me' and then their throwing an emotional petulant shit storm when their medical bills are sky-high, or the cost of gas and food... Great show and ask Barrock if he has a twin so he can run in 2024 or Maybe a sister...
I agree. We need to step up and let our voices and choices be heard by voting. I am a baby boomer but my greatest worry is about how the direction our country is going will be detrimental to the generations behind mine by suppressing rights and opportunities.
Maybe they should give people something to vote for, not something to vote against. You can only hear “this is the most important election of our lifetime” so many times before it starts not to mean anything. Stop trying to guilt voters. Politics in Washington is a rigged game with 2 parties working on their own behalf, not the peoples behalf.
Well, Obama is correct in stating that democracy is the most important thing, because without a democracy, voting would indeed be pointless. If the person currently in office can decide to overturn and/or dismiss the votes when they're not in his/her favor, then that would indeed make voting a very pointless act.
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law." nt
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Thank you for running this interview on youtube. I'm not working & cannot afford another streaming service, even with 4 months free (I would forget to cancel, for sure). You all are the best!
Judy, it was also released today as a Pod Save America episode on whatever your (free) podcast streaming service of choice is (if you use one). It was just on SiriusFM as an early release! :)
PROBLEM with Obama's narrative is, he knows the Democrats are mostly crooked, and its every man for himself. Sure democracy is good, freedom is good, but only if the people in it especially the leadership are good and are people with integrity! Otherwise what you get is a big bunch of self serving individuals justifying whatever they hope to get from their leadership appointments. And this is also why Republicans despite not as focused on liberty and freedom tend to do better as leaders. Because leadership in the Republican's view is a communal drive and less self centered. You don't have individual LGBTFQs coming out to defend their non-binary positions against a common enemy that denounced non-binary people, and you don't have individual migrant relatives and muslims coming out against a common enemy that denounces their illegal status and propensity to kill others in the name of a purported religion. Freedom and Liberty only works when you have an authority that constantly looks down and snuffs out anyone who exerts their own individual rights that is at the expense of others. And Obama does not possess the required integrity and/or moral uprightness and/or power and/or authority to lead them. Vote Republican because its better to have a circus trainer in the circus tent than just opening all the cages of the tigers and lions, including the alpha lion in the name of Freedom and Liberty, the former you have a person with duty and oversight, the latter you have absolute chaos.
Nothing about how educated he is. Or that he won twice both times by the popular votes and the electoral collage. Nor that none of his Associates are in prison or on their way there. Didn't call anyone names nor insults anyone. This is what class decency loyalty and intelligent looks and sound like. Class love and humility
Or the fact that nearly 50% of the people who voted for him in 2008 didn’t vote for him again in 2012, and as recently as 2017 an independent poll with a large sample size, showed that 74% of voters who voted for him in 2008 (me being one of them) said that they regretted it and felt manipulated and cheated by the campaign promises that he not only did not keep, but went radically in the opposite direction from (end the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan and bring the troops home, instead he escalated them and in his first term alone, indiscriminately murdered more innocent civilians, women and children with just drone bombings, than Bush did in 8 years total; he was going to restore the rule of law, end mass surveillance of all US citizens, and repeal the sections of the “Patriot act” that allowed it to take place….instead he increased the budget of the NSA, massively expanded the cooperation with foreign governments to assist them in surveilling their citizens, in exchange for them taking up some slack and keeping heat off his administration, by doing the surveillance of Americans here 🤔 Ahem… Bill Ayers, the convicted Weather Underground domestic terrorist who orchestrated the bombing of the Capital and the Pentagon in the 1970s, who was also close friends with Obama, got him started as a “community organizer” ran his early local campaigns, and advised him during the 2008 campaign 🤔 You know nothing about “class, decency, integrity, morals” and CLEARLY you know even less about what is going on within your own government or the borders of your own country!!! This guy is the most corrupt president to ever hold the office!! Biden is corrupt, but he also has dementia and is being controlled by the same people who held positions through all 8 years of the “IllBombYa” regime!!!
@@rhondahartung5253 lmao - Obama is a communist traitor piece of shit war criminal just as bad as bush and everyone knew this before Trump ever considered running for Prez. You’re such a low IQ pleb that you’re swept away by someone with competency in public speaking. You’re precisely the kind of person vulnerable to demagoguery. Obamacare fucking ruined health insurance.
@@vknight7497 You're obviously too stupid to understand both facts AND healthcare, and you Obama Derangement syndrome is obvious. Seek mental help ASAP. Obamacare covers it, wacko.
@@mostlypeacefulmisterputin I hope your are enjoying the mentally deranged TRE45ON handy work. Everything Tre45on touches dies. Our democracy is on life support because treason wants to be a dictator. And some of those same people returned to sensibility and voted for President Biden. We fired Tre45on we never fired President Obama. I barely run through your TRASH. In voting for Democracy. Inflation deflation and recessions comes and goes. Dictatorship DON'T!!! I think you need to slow down your common sense is trying to catch up with you.
@@cassondralynch6342 I was able to get health insurance for the first time in many years with low cost premiums I could afford. You don’t know how precious health insurance is when you go decades without it.
I sure hope Dems are hyped up for these mid-terms. Seems Roevember might get the attention of Republicans and the court. Maybe I’m too hopeful but it’s who I am.
Can't thank you enough for this! What a welcome break from the lunacy and jibberish of so many politicians lately. He actually says something when he speaks! Simply amazing
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
@@cl8804 2007, he's campaigning to the BASE of D Party. Now he's Prez. A Black Prez was Not the one to force our ✝️ population into accepting this forced on them? I agree w SCOTUS. It's in the hands of each States voters. Right now, right wing Media is saying, "YOU, want & will vote for 9th month abortion, FOR ANY REASON. OR W/O A REASON. AND, MOM CAN HAVE A LIVING INFANT KILLED. and millions of voters believe it. So.. vote good, for your State legislators. RED Kansas did. Most Americans don't want limitless abortion. Yet way too many D's demand it. Most of USA, is against too strict limits. As in RED Kansas
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law." nt
@@cl8804 They want Total Gun Control because it kill (just like Hitler) yet they want to legalize abortion which kills babies even being born alive crying and moving. What kind of democracy is that. He also says LGBT rights to the point that now they (not all) have children stripping and dancing on polls and putting money on drag queens. What is that!!!
@@cl8804 do you think you're saying something meaningful here? because you're not. it has never yet been the case that 100% of democrats support abortion rights. democrats from places where other people support abortion rights support abortion rights. democrats from right wing hell holes often do not, because democrats from right wing hell holes who do support abortion rights generally lose to republicans. president obama correctly understood that while there was a tenuous, and for most of the year theoretical, democratic majority, there was never a pro-choice majority, and therefore the legislation could not pass.
Thank you for this guys. This man is unbelievable. When you listen to famous and important people speak, you listen to them feeling like you're just in the background. Everytime I listen to this man, I get this feeling in my chest and I sometimes get teary eyed with things he said. He always taps the human side. Love this guy.
He literally gives me inner peace, just hearing his voice. I get all choked up when I hear him talk about this country and the American people that he truly cares so much for. We need ALL of our presidents to care as much as him, Biden and Carter do about people and not just the military and money.
He’s unbelievable because he’s lying. He brought in all this Democrat collusion THAT corrupted our revered agencies like the FBI, DOJ, NIH. Democrats are hell-bent on changing the American government away from individual freedom and states rights, to federal government control. Democrats cannot win on their own platform whatever the hell that is, so They want to stack the Supreme Court, they want to ruin the electoral college system, they are currently destroying our fossil fuel industry, they want to add a couple of more states.
damn I didn't realize how much I missed the times of Obama when we actually felt like we were moving forward as a country with regarding race economy healthcare etc seems like a dream so long ago and this world of chaos we're in now
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Thank you guys for getting him on for he still and will always speak to the majority of us , A man who thinks twice before words leave his mouth..he has respect to the words he says. his knowledgeable clearly when you listen to his responses and contributions, his empathic, his understanding, his a great teacher ...I enjoyed listening to him very much....By the way thanks guys for not wearing t shirts on this one, very much noted & appreciated 😉
PROBLEM with Obama's narrative is, he knows the Democrats are mostly crooked, and its every man for himself. Sure democracy is good, freedom is good, but only if the people in it especially the leadership are good and are people with integrity! Otherwise what you get is a big bunch of self serving individuals justifying whatever they hope to get from their leadership appointments. And this is also why Republicans despite not as focused on liberty and freedom tend to do better as leaders. Because leadership in the Republican's view is a communal drive and less self centered. You don't have individual LGBTFQs coming out to defend their non-binary positions against a common enemy that denounced non-binary people, and you don't have individual migrant relatives and muslims coming out against a common enemy that denounces their illegal status and propensity to kill others in the name of a purported religion. Freedom and Liberty only works when you have an authority that constantly looks down and snuffs out anyone who exerts their own individual rights that is at the expense of others. And Obama does not possess the required integrity and/or moral uprightness and/or power and/or authority to lead them. Vote Republican because its better to have a circus trainer in the circus tent than just opening all the cages of the tigers and lions, including the alpha lion in the name of Freedom and Liberty, the former you have a person with duty and oversight, the latter you have absolute chaos.
Obama's word salad on the Supreme Court was incoherent. Does he really think it is more important that we protect the legitimacy of the Supreme Court over Women's rights, environmental justice, gerrymandering, gay rights, voting rights, etc. Just total babble.
This man is quietly sensibly urging to vote, because, as i've heard elsewhere recently (thanks Beau), whatever you do on a small or larger scale matters. 'Too cool to vote' because you're progressive is voluntarily stepping out onto the sidelines. If you want the American experiment to continue, you jump right in
I’ve never heard a REAL progressive ever say they were “too cool to vote”. I have heard that they have voted time and time again only to be disappointed with the politics of Washington, the corruption, the broken promises, the lack of accountability, the lack of actually doing anything meaningful for the American people and the fact that no matter who is voted into office, nothing changes. It’s only so many times that you can be told “you have to vote this time because this is the most important election of your lifetime” before they start just sitting the elections out. Give them something to vote for instead of something to vote against and you’ll get a lot more people out to vote.
I could just listen to Obama talk for ever and ever and ever. It's not so much the topics they're talking about (although those are interesting too), but the WAY in which Obama conducts himself and reacts. He has such grace, eloquence, class and empathy. You'll see it again and again when someone poses him with a question that COULD be taken to the dark side, he swerves the temptation for negativity and re-alters the track onto a more productive and positive side. His charisma and emotional intelligence just oozes. Trump is literally the exact opposite in every respect.
So wise he received the nobel peace price before doing anything and after that kill almost a million civilians. But his voice is so cool and of course he is black. Actually he is mixed
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Was so nice to hear a former POTUS speak in full sentences and convey complete thoughts! The fact that we went from this man to that orange clown still amazes me today!
@@The_Tiffster And the dam riots were caused by Democrats. They encouraged it and paid their way out of jail so they could continue looting, burning ,injuring and killing people.
That's because unlike modern democracies created in the 20th century the USA's constitution written by White, rich, land and slave owners and the in order to get the 14th state and others to join the Union, had to compromise with the slave owning southern Democrats of that time and created the INSANE Electoral College. The reason it is insane is because smaller states (in population) already have more of an equal representation as every state regardless of population gets TWO US Senators. With the 60 vote filibuster those states with ow populations having two US Senators is a good enough offset of being fairly represented in the Federal Government. But because our very antiquated Constitution in decades and decades back in time, woman could not vote, nor could blacks until 1965! in the beginning WE THE PEOPLE did not elect our US Senators; the Congress did! Also, in the beginning only male land owners could vote. If the powers that be and the voters in all 50 states continue voting against their own interests with rising cost of living with stagnant wages while the wealthy hold almost the entire wealth of our country of 300+ million people, then the USA is DOOMED to fail. And history shows that nation state lasted forever. The Roman Empire fell after 800 years. Egypt ruled the world before the Romans and that lasted about 2,000 years. The USA will bot even come close to Rome's 800 year reign as the world leader if "we the people" don't vote in their (financial) interests and forget about bigotry and hatred. Looking at the earth from space, it is one big globe, but we humans decide to draw dividing lines around continents. Surely if an advanced extraterrestrial race found the Earth and looked down on the way we humans "run" our planet, assuming they don't consider us humans as FOOD, they'd turn their spaceship around and with other extraterrestrial civilizations place a "blockade" around the Earth and our solar system.
As I’m listening to this wonderful discussion with an amazing President, I’m also filling out my mail in ballot for the November 8th election. I’ve instilled the importance of voting to my children just like my mother did to me. I was home on leave in 1976 before heading to my next duty station in Okinawa while serving in the Army. Mom took me to voters services to register to vote where I voted absentee ballot for Jimmy Carter who then became my Commander-in-Chief.
Made my day to see our greatest “great society” President since LBJ speaking wise words in his gentle way! He’s that one uncle you look up to & run to when you know you’re in big trouble with your parents, so he can spit some truths and get you ready to face the music. ❤
He can also bomb the shit outta children in Syria and refuse to actually participate in any productive and progressive democratic policies. This man did fr almost nothing in 8 years blamed republicans for stopping his moves and then just quit on the American people once he left office.
In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law.
@@lhoward9593 i'd say that he did a pitiful job at that, too. serious question: do you know what he actually did to that end? i only ask because it is so far removed from a good response to the crisis
@@cl8804 Well, i sent a long answer, which seems to have vanished. I will slowly send some articles in response. My recollection of that time was that we were teetering on the edge of another Great Depression. The Great Recession was preferable, although still bad for the world.
Brilliant man….Obama ….his hands were tied so much in office , but he is still influential in government. Hopefully the American people get the point ….economy good for everyone ….give Biden credit due✅
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law." ouch
@@harley2die4 if you understand politics you’d know that the Ukraine/Russia war and Covid Pandemic has been a major contributor to our debt. These are things that are out of our control and require massive spending. Under trump the national debt increased by 36% in 4 years largely due to pandemic. Joe Biden so far has had an increase of of 12.62%… Don’t bag a President just by debt but look into what caused the increases such as natural disasters, wars etc. Bag him after he leaves office and consider the causes. fyi debt has been increasing since 1930. 1929 was the last time a president has decreased it.
Man this guy gets it. President Obama delivered when he was in, and he delivers now. Its just a shame he can't run again. I mean he could if he wanted, but after all the crap the Republicans put him through, I can understand he would not want to be the man again. But his voice, his presence, its so calm and reassuring. When we had all those mass shootings, he was very helpful with calming the victims families! This was a great podcast!
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law." aww
Thank you guys for interviewing Barack! He soothes my spirit and brings back the hope l felt when he was our leader. I will listen to this interview again and l wish that l could give you multiple thumbs up.
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Watched this interview today after its posting 4mos ago. President Obama's comments are timeless and speaks to the priorities of our society and the idea of a more perfect union. Thank you, Pod Save America.
While I didn't agree with some things President Obama did, I trust this man, no President has gotten everything right , but I respect and appreciate President Obama for the President he was. Thank you Sir.
he completely failed: "In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority." That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president." For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
@@cl8804 "I believe the overwhelming view of the Republican Conference in the Senate is that this nomination should not be filled, this vacancy should not be filled by this lame duck president," McConnell said. If trump had a court nominee in his final year of office what would you do? “I’D fill it”- Mitch, no neck,Moscow, McConnell It’s a shame all the racism from that era was overshadowed by the stupidity of people not realizing why those things were happening to a partisan Black president.
Listening Canadian here. I'm frightened with the current U.S. political state. I miss President Obama, his truth, knowledge, love of his country is and always has been apparent. Thank you for this interview. Wishing you all the best in the upcoming midterms.
The best president of my lifetime. Spanky was a complete embarrassment to our country. He continues to prove what a con man can do to the highly uneducated.
In Latin America we’ve had enough of dictatorships, military juntas, etc. Learn from people that have lived through all of this and we’re not going back.
I believe Beto O'Rourke embodies much of what President Obama is saying about how to relate, and be respectful, across the board, even where there is political or policy disagreement.
