Did Obama Say Anything New Tonight

What do you think about the new Presidents’ ranking (Obama no. 8, Trump last place)?

ObamaObama is nowhere near 8th, I’d easily put him as a middle-of-the-pack president. High teens, low twenties at best.Being a neo-liberal corporatist who capitulated before an obstinate opposition party and was constantly cowed and tricked into mistakes in pursuit of the illusion of bipartisanship is not much of a resume, but hey, at least he passed a conservative healthcare plan - a bandage on a gaping wound - and stabilized the economy.That last bit is about all he gets any real credit for, in my opinion. The fact that he wasn’t a national embarrassment, diplomatically (like the Republican presidents that preceded and succeeded him) aren’t points of merit, they’re the bare minimum we should expect of our president. Boy, has that bar been lowered.The fact that his party lost over 1,000 seats nation-wide, lost the House, lost the Senate, lost the Presidency and had a Supreme Court pick stolen from them during his tenure speaks for how miserable he was at politics.TrumpAs for Trump, it’s too early to tell, but as far as first years go, he’s got to be challenging for most corrupt administration ever. At least since the days when the Tammany Hall political machine was at its height. Going at the rate he’s going, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Trump place - deservedly so - in the bottom three. Hard for me to put somebody below Buchanan, but Trump… he might have a shot.He’s got a talent for stupidity and incompetence I’ve never seen before. We all knew what Trump was before he was elected. A con-man, a mediocre (at best) businessman, a pathological liar, conspiracy theorist, sexist, racist, sexual predator, narcissistic, corrupt, ignorant, anti-intellectual, lazy… you get the point. His election is an indictment on conservative politics in America. Never again will they get away with pulling any of their faux morality games.With any hope, there will be righteous progressive backlash against him in 2018 and 2020, enough so that the thoroughly rotten, ethically and morally bankrupt Republican party may finally teeter and fall into the swamp it’s been deepening for years. The only group arrogant, incompetent and corrupt enough to screw this up? The Democratic Party.

Did Obama actually say "the US leads from behind"?

No he did not. The quote originated from Ryan Lizza‘s New Yorker piece, which quoted a presidential "adviser" using the phrase to characterize Obama’s thinking leading up to the U.S. involvement in the Libya war. After this piece, Republicans as well as media and others applied it to President Obama’s overall foreign policy strategy.

Did Obama do nothing about the Russian meddling because it didn't happen?

No. Everyone in DC knows many countries, including the US, tries to meddle in elections. Its always been that way although theres a line that is crossed when it comes to hacking vote machines or contributing $. Thats international law violations. Obama himself even meddled in Isreal, Egypt, Honduras, Macedonia, Libya, and Kenya with $ yet #msm didnt seem to even mention it — the ole double standard in hypocricy. Wikileaks and McAfee both claimed, based on their vast knowledge, that whoever from Russia that attempted to hack was an amateur & not a state party bc the malware they used was nearly 2 yrs old. Every country gets tons of these type of amateur attempts. Our intel know this but they also know its an opportunity to blame Russia for something bigger instead of Hillary. Also, Soros and the globalist, in order to achieve their control over the world & establish a new world order where the 1% wealthy elites rule the world cannot be achieved unless China, US, and Russia are destroyed. They are the 3 biggest anti-globalist. The best way to get over these 3 road blocks is to turn them against each other & let them engage in a nuclear war. THATS the destructive selfish goal of globalist. So HRC sells Russia our uranium, Obama gets Americans turned against Russia and uses his #DeepState CIA to spy and create fake Russian metadata to appear as hacks. But Wikileaks put a stop to that agenda by releasing Vault 7 showing all of CIAs cyber tools. Trump is not admitting now that Russia influenced our election, as #msm is implying by reading what they want into his tweets. Trump knows that Obama et al set the stage for this Russian excuse for losing & hes merely pointing out that if Obama truely felt Russia was a threat then why didn't he do anything. Looks to me like DT is setting a twitter trap for Obama. Obama can't really comment bc the hacker group Anonomous already outed Warren Flood for pretending to be Guiciffer2.0. So all this Russia narrative has fallen apart but dems & msm still have to put on an act as if they believe it until it fades away.

Why did Obama say that commoners are too small-minded to decide their own affairs?

Are you paraphrasing something you think Obama said, or can you provide a URL or any documentation to prove that Obama actually said it. What Obama did say during his first campaign for the presidency was this: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” The entire comment sounds both perceptive and empathetic to me, but not after Republicans performed a radical contextomy on it.People next to turn off network and cable news, and the talk radio, and read newspapers and independent, non-partisan media such as the BBCUS & Canada - BBC News, or English language versions of Der Spiegel International - SPIEGEL ONLIN. If you’re fluent in a foreign language, try reading a foreign language newspaper like 朝日新聞デジタル：朝日新聞社のニュースサイト.For years conservatives have been confabulating about “The Liberal Media” when they themselves have Fox News, and dozens of right-wing talk-radio programs. While it may be that the major network news is not now what it was when people like the late Walter Cronkite were alive, it is certainly not because of any ideological agenda. They have no ideology and their agenda consists of ratings and profits.