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WI-Sen: Watch Obama Destroy RoJo The Clown For Wanting To Destroy Social Security & Medicare [1]
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Date: 2022-10-30
Again, fucking love having him back on the campaign trail:
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday filled North Division High School's gymnasium for the third time in eight years to combat headwinds facing Democrats this midterm cycle, warning voters of what he characterized as a democracy at risk by Republican candidates embracing efforts to overturn legitimate elections and planning to overhaul Wisconsin's election system.
Obama demanded voters in the state's largest city deliver a level of turnout that hasn't been seen since he was on the ticket in order to defeat Sen. Ron Johnson and Republican candidate for governor Tim Michels, casting both as wealthy and estranged from the realities of Milwaukee voters.
"He’s got more of a Clark Kent vibe than a Superman vibe but Tony is tough. He's singlehandedly keeping Republicans from driving the car off the road. He might be democracy's best hope in Wisconsin," Obama said of Evers, leveling criticism of Michels' plan to abolish the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission and put its election oversight under Republicans, and saying he is open to decertifying the 2020 election.
"If someone is openly obsessed with changing the last election he probably should not be in charge with overseeing this one coming up," Obama said. "We’ve seen throughout history what happens when we lose democracy."
His most forceful criticism was for Johnson's suggestion to make funding for Social Security subject to approval.
"Some of your parents are on Social Security. Some of your grandparents are on Social Security. You know why they have Social Security? Because they worked for it. They worked hard jobs for it. They have chapped hands for it. They have long hours and sore backs and bad knees to get that Social Security," Obama said.
"And if Ron Johnson does not understand that. If he understands giving tax breaks for private plans more than making sure seniors who worked all their lives are able to retire in dignity and respect, he’s not the person that’s thinking about you, and knows you and sees you and he should not be your senator from Wisconsin."
Obama argued his entrance to national politics may not have been possible against today's Republican Party, noting rural and conservative voters could disagree with him but with a respect that he characterized as at risk of disappearing within a party he accused of having two priorities of "own the libs and getting Donald Trump's approval."
"This current crop of Republican politicians are not interested in solving problems. They’re interested in making you angry. And finding someone to blame," he said. But at the same time, Obama said Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who's running against Johnson, faces similar attacks to those Republicans launched against him when he ran for president in 2008.
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