CNN has a copy of Obama's memoir. All 768 pages.
And that's just Part 1.
But remember, Trump is a narcissist.
"…in McConnell's mind, negotiations with the vice president didn't inflame the Republican base in quite the same way that any appearance of cooperation with (Black, Muslim socialist) Obama was bound to do."
Well, he's right about the socialist part.
Why take responsibility for your own failures when have the entire corporate media establishment behind you?
I understand this is cherry picking, but this one is coming from an ally. Obama seems to believe any animosity towards him is racism.
"It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted...For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, [DJT] promised an elixir for their racial anxiety"
Could this deep-seated panic and anxiety be due to the fact that he weaponized the IRS against political opponents, unconstitutionally spied on Americans, and rammed a purely partisan health care bill down the throats of the American people?
That's crazy talk.
And you're still a racist.
"Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party -- xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks -- were finding their way to center stage."
This list of DNC talking points was introduced by CNN as "thoughtful examination."
"Xenophobia" is just another term for "RACIST" so a big yawn there.
"Anti-intellectualism" is what people who have pedestrian intellects call anything they don't understand.
"Paranoid conspiracy theories," are only paranoid if they aren't grounded in reality. Or, as the old saying goes, "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you:"
"The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department and seizing two days of Rosen's personal emails, the Washington Post reported on Monday."
"Antipathy toward Black and brown folks..." ZZZZzzzzzz.
"Throughout, Obama casts his presidency as comprised of hard choices, sometimes made more difficult by internal disputes, mismanagement by the previous administration and obstructionism by Republicans…"
Wait for it...
"…which he suggests was rooted in an attempt to appeal to anxieties about the first Black president."
Drink!
I swear, were I playing Obama Bingo I don't think I'd get past the first chapter without passing out.
You might be tempted to believe that Obama thinks nothing is his fault. It's not quite that. He does own up to the disastrous 2010 midterms, so it's not that he never fails.
It's that he's never wrong.
"As far as I was concerned, the election didn't prove our agenda had been wrong."
Let that sink in. The nation's complete repudiation of his agenda and leadership did not prove that agenda was wrong.
"It just proved that... I'd failed to rally the nation, as FDR had once done, behind what I knew to be right. Which to me was just as damning."
The problem was simply that he was ineffective at communicating his agenda.
But you're still wrong.
What does that say about his opinion of you? You read the news, you examine the facts as you understand them, you consider how they relate to your own belief system all within the context of your personal life circumstances about which he knows nothing, and he has absolutely no respect for any of that.
This certainty that he was right and you were wrong was why he came across as so partisan with an abrasive "my way or the highway" approach to negotiations, defining "legitimate" alternative proposals as "anything he already agrees with."
This has become Democratic Party policy. The unity they seek is not compromise and it's not recognizing and building upon common beliefs.
It's the Borg collective.
Incidentally, this is Obama's third memoir. He's 59 years old.
Did I mention how big a narcissist Trump is?
