Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:53 pm
During a comprehensive conversation with law students at the University of Chicago, President Obama showed the nation what a real president is made of while illustrating why Donald Trump is an idiot.
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Obama discussed how the nation got to such a hardened partisan state, “I think what changed is when Congress and the Senate itself began to change. I think in some ways the judicial process is a casualty of some broader problems. First of all our politics have become much more polarized. There’s been something called the great sorting because of gerrymandering, because of how our media works where folks either watch Fox News, or they read the New York Times, but rarely do both, positions get hardened and reinforced. Partisans carry more weight within each party. The notion of a liberal Republican or a conservative Democrat those things broke down, so politics itself got more polarized.”
The President said that Democrats are not blameless, but there has not been a circumstance in which a Republican president’s appointee did not get a hearing or vote, and in general have been confirmed even where there have been strong objections.”
Obama also laid out why Mitch McConnell’s obstruction is dangerous to our democracy, “What you have here is I think a circumstance in which those in the Senate have decided that placating our base is more important than upholding their constitutional and institutional roles in our democracy in a way that is dangerous. And there are other examples of it, but this judicial nominating process has become an extreme example of it.”
President Obama didn’t limit himself to discussing his Supreme Court nominee. Obama discussed American government with a detail and scope that sounded as the Commander In Chief should.
Compare Obama’s depth and intellect with Donald Trump’s plan to appoint a new Supreme Court justice if he wins, “I’m going to get a list of anywhere from five to 10 judges, and those are going to be the judges that I’m going to put in. It will be one of those judges, and I will guarantee it personally, like we do in the world of business, which we don’t like to do too often. But I will guarantee it that those are going to be the first judges that I put up for nomination if I win. And that should solve the problem, and I think that’s a good idea, right?â€
Trump is going to hire a Supreme Court Justice. He is not going to tell the country anything about what kind of justice he will appoint. Trump is just going to get a list together and appoint somebody.
At the University of Chicago, President Obama showed the country the thoughtful intelligent that voters should demand out of their president. Obama is the standard that voters should measure their presidential candidates by. In comparison to Barack Obama, Donald Trump is a fool.
Donald Trump’s sloganeering can’t hide his basic ignorance. The Republican frontrunner is running a campaign for the misinformed by the misinformed. By showing what this country should expect from their president, Obama revealed everything that Donald Trump is not.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
Awards and Professional Memberships
Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association
