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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/17/obamas-era-as-the-democrats-   
   messiah-is-officially-over-n4941836   
      
   Last week, Barack Obama gave some advice to his party, and it’s   
   astonishing how quickly his words turned into a self-inflicted political   
   wound. He was once hailed as the Democrat Party’s unifying figure, but   
   Obama’s recent scolding of his own party’s base didn’t just flop — it   
   sparked a backlash even his defenders can’t ignore.   
      
   As PJ Media previously reported, during a ritzy gathering of party elites   
   in New Jersey, Obama dismissed the rampant frustration among liberals,   
   telling them to show “a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less   
   whining and being in fetal positions.”   
      
   "And it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” he said.   
      
   Predictably, the base didn’t take it lying down, and frankly, I can’t   
   blame them. This is the same party that cooked up the Russia collusion   
   hoax, impeached President Trump twice for no legitimate reason, weaponized   
   the justice system to try to throw him behind bars, sent the FBI to raid   
   his home, tried to remove him from the ballot, and unleashed such venomous   
   rhetoric that it helped inspire not one but two near-assassinations. It’s   
   hard to imagine how much more aggressive they could be.   
      
   Even pillars of the leftist media couldn’t stomach it. Whoopi Goldberg   
   publicly unloaded on Obama for his patronizing lecture.   
      
   “Let me remind everybody who was out on the front lines marching, when we   
   had the giant marches that went on. It was the people. The people went   
   out. They were not navel-gazing. It was older people who were saying, ‘Why   
   are you touching my Social Security,’” Goldberg claimed, even though   
   Social Security isn’t being touched. “It was not people whining; it was   
   about people saying, ‘Why are you taking these rights away from my child   
   when my child was born here?’”   
      
   Whoopi wasn’t the only one on the left to speak out against what Obama   
   said.   
      
   “Barack Obama said we need to toughen up. Sean, I think what we need to do   
   is sober up,” former Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine told Sean   
   Hannity on Fox News. “After the last election, the two things everyone   
   said Democrats needed to do was, one, get over Trump derangement syndrome,   
   and two, moderate on social issues and things like immigration. But what   
   have we done? Any time any member tries to do it, the base screams.”   
      
      
   The real problem isn’t a lack of emotional fortitude; it’s a party out of   
   touch with ordinary voters, addicted to its own sanctimony and incapable   
   of moderating its agenda.   
      
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   When Barack Obama starts getting heat from his own side, you know the   
   shine is wearing off. For years, Democrats treated him like a political   
   messiah: untouchable, above reproach, the party’s ultimate unifier. But   
   now, even the base is pushing back, and the criticism isn’t coming from   
   the fringes; it’s from within the ranks of legacy media and longtime   
   strategists. That’s not just backlash; it’s a warning sign. Obama tried to   
   lecture his party into “toughening up,” but all he really did was reveal   
   how fragile his influence has become.   
      
   When the cult of Obama starts to crack, it says more about the state of   
   the Democratic Party than any Republican ever could.   
      
      
   --   
   November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look   
   forward to America being great again.   
      
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama   
   / Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
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