The former president’s remarks that some Black men are not “feeling the idea” of a female president were blunt and urgent, but also potentially alienating for a vital group of Democratic voters.
  • @Ensign_CrabEnglish
    7•17 hours ago

    Lecturing people into voting is what the Clinton campaign tried in 2016.

  • @dhorkEnglish
    23•22 hours ago

    Sigh. The man was elected President twice and people still feel compelled to tell him to watch his tone…

    • @just_another_person
      10•21 hours ago

      I watched the speech. He wasn’t “admonishing” anyone, as these idiotic headlines keep saying. He wasn’t belittling anyone, he wasnt being patronizing, he was just trying to relate a specific position and point out why it would not be in their best interest.

      • @anticolonialist
        1•6 hours ago

        You must have watched it through the eyes of a white man. I have yet to see any post from the black community that doesn’t see it as him talking down to black men as if he’s the plantation whipper.

      • @Riccosuave
        5•21 hours ago

        Yeah, I don’t get it. I thought what he had to say was, as usual, extremely prescient. I don’t see how any reasonable person would take offense to it.

          • @return2ozmaOP
            0•19 hours ago

            She’s live, I had it on in the background while I worked out and cooked dinner.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•19 hours ago

              I appreciate her fiery rhetoric. She’s talented. But a vote for Jill Stein is a wasted vote.

              The problem is the election structure. The Electoral College, and, First Past the Post.

  • @just_another_person
    20•22 hours ago

    If Obama simply drawing a contrast between the two major candidates, and why one candidate is a terrible choice for a specific group of people causes said group to take offense, we’re well and truly fucked.

    He’s a black man who has been at the highest office in American politics, so he sure knows what he’s talking about. Seems like his opinion on the matter should be taken into consideration.