WATCH LIVE: Former President Obama is speaking out about threats to U.S. democracy – just before he goes on the campaign trail for several Democrats this fall https://cbsn.ws/2NW6JsJ pic.twitter.com/C8SugIoDRh
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"Now, some of you may think I am exaggerating when I say this election is more important than any I can remember in my lifetime," Obama says. "But just a glance at recent headlines should tell you that this moment really is different." https://cbsn.ws/2NW6JsJ pic.twitter.com/GAHQGMst9t
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"Each time we painstakingly pull ourselves closer to our founding ideas … somebody, somewhere has pushed back," Obama says. "It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause." https://cbsn.ws/2NW6JsJ pic.twitter.com/kPn7HTudqB
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“When there is a vacuum in our democracy, when we don't vote, when we take our basic rights and freedoms for granted … then other voices fill the void. The politics of fear and resentment and entrenchment takes hold,” Obama says https://cbsn.ws/2NW6JsJ pic.twitter.com/GOP0Lz0Wzq
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"Neither party has been exclusively responsible for us going backwards instead of forwards," Obama says. "But over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican party." https://cbsn.ws/2NW6JsJ pic.twitter.com/RTEy6TSW9a
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"They are not doing us a service by actively promoting 90% of the crazy stuff that is coming out of this White House and then saying, 'Don't worry. We are preventing the other 10%,'" former President Obama says, apparently referring to NYT op-ed https://cbsn.ws/2NW6JsJ pic.twitter.com/8nMXunXATF
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"I'm here to tell you, that even if you don't agree with me or Democrats on policy … I'm here to tell you that you should still be concerned with our current course and should still want to see a restoration of honesty and decency and lawfulness in our government," Obama sayspic.twitter.com/rSO9Rg9PZ4
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"We are Americans. We are supposed to stand up to bullies, not follow them," Obama says. "We are supposed to stand up to discrimination and we sure are as heck is supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to Nazi sympathizers." https://cbsn.ws/2NW6JsJ pic.twitter.com/xrvKZzytML
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“30 minutes of your time. Is democracy worth that?” Obama asks students in Illinois. If “you vote, something powerful happens. Change happens. Hope happens.” https://cbsn.ws/2NW6JsJ pic.twitter.com/Bik45rWld2
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Yep & vote RED!
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@realDonaldTrump speeches like this from now on.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Our economy depends on it also we have a good economy now and thanks to the bravest President Trump America ever have in history that our economy is booming
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Yeah yeah we've heard it all before. Another liberal saying the election is life or death. Said the same crap in 2016 and Trump still won. Only Obamaphiles still buy his salesman routine.
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I don't here that. I here Obama trying to take credit for Trumps economy, and twisting and lying like he did for 8 years.
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In a Republic according to the finest Greek philosophical tradition and all those who followed it like the Founding Fathers, people get their rights from nature and a higher power. They are self-evident, so to speak. Natural law. In Obamaworld we get our rights from the State.
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