A little bit classless
Republican Kentucky senator says uppity black former president should Keep His Mouth Shut.
Last week, remarks by Obama were leaked to Yahoo News that were highly critical about Trump and his administration, seeming to break a convention in US politics that former occupants of the White House rarely criticize their successors.
Does that convention apply to private conversations though? I don’t think so. Obama’s remarks were leaked.
But really that’s beside the point; I wouldn’t think McConnell had more of a case if Obama had made his remarks in an editorial in the Washington Post. Conventions are all very well but Trump is not a normal “occupant of the White House.” It’s not just that he has bad policies, it’s not even just that he has bad policies plus he’s dimwitted and untalented (like Bush and Reagan). It’s a whole lot more than that.
Plus, if we’re talking about conventions, there’s also a convention that the Senate isn’t supposed to ignore a president’s nomination for the Supreme Court on the ludicrous grounds that there will be an election in almost a year. Really though that’s not so much a convention as a constitutional duty.
Asked about Obama “slamming” the administration for its response to the coronavirus outbreak, he said: “I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut.
“You know, we know he doesn’t like much this administration is doing. That’s understandable. But I think it’s a little bit classless frankly to critique an administration that comes after you.”
Ah, classless. Yes. Unlike the deeply classy Trump, who vomits out public insults hundreds of times a day, who brags about grabbing them by the pussy, who bragged about wanting to fuck his own daughter, who has the ugliest tackiest trashiest pseudo-Versailles living room on the planet – that Trump.
Tell that to Teddy R… Oh wait he was a Republican.
This is the same Obama that is being blamed for the bad response to the virus by the current president – I think he has a right to speak in his defense. Then there is the “lock her up” and the hints that an investigation was going to be initiated of his former opponent because he didn’t like her very much – Obama did not do anything like that, no one does that in a western democracy. That is dictator stuff. Then there is a Senator from Kentucky that announced before the impeachment had even been brought to the Senate that the president would be acquitted…even when it seems a number of Republican Senators probably agreed that the evidence probably warranted conviction. Then there was the time that the Republican Senate confirmed someone for the Supreme Court that had a credible accusation of sexual assault against him, and dismissed the whole idea that this should in any way restrict his appointment to the court – though it appeared likely that a number of the Senators found Blasey-Ford’s testimony credible (possibly more so than Kavanaugh’s).
And they lecture Obama about class?
Yeah, I was thinking TR as well (who ran against his own hand-picked successor). But also Herbert Hoover had strong criticisms of FDR, to the extent of calling parts of the New Deal “fascistic”.
Well, maybe if the Trump administration would stop coming after him, he’d feel better about keeping his mouth shut.
Like anyone cares about what McConnell thinks is classy or not. Donnie Dipshit toadytard.