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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: 240B on June 09, 2017, 10:12:18 am
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The Daily Caller
by The Daily Caller News Foundation
June 7th, 2017
Former President Barack Obama warned against the temptation of “authoritarianism” in a Montreal speech Tuesday.
Despite the former president’s 275 executive orders and 644 presidential memoranda, Obama argued that the American public shouldn’t look for control and certainty in the world before reminding his listeners that history proves there is a better path.
“In periods like this, people looking for control and certainty — it’s inevitable,” Obama told the Canadian audience in a thinly-veiled warning about President Donald Trump. “But it is important to remember that the world has gone through similar moments … Our history also shows there is a better way.”
Obama then lectured on the need to ignore the “call for isolation and nationalism,” or anyone who “suggests rolling back the rights of others.”
Obama’s Tuesday comments differ from a 2014 statement he made while still in office when he pledged to circumvent the 435 representatives and 100 senators who were elected to office to pass laws.
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http://amp.dailycaller.com/2017/06/07/obama-the-president-who-said-he-had-a-pen-and-phone-warns-of-appeal-of-authoritarianism/
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The most overtly dictatorial President ever in U.S. history warns about 'authoritarianism'? Liberalism must eat Liberal's brains. They, all of them, consistently 'forget' their own words and actions.
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