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PHILADELPHIA (NEXSTAR/AP) Former President Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his response to racial unrest and his fundamental unfitness for the job in his first in-person campaign pitch Wednesday for Joe Biden, his former vice president.

With less than two weeks until Election Day, Obama delivered a sweeping condemnation of Trump while urging voters not to sit out the Nov. 3 election. He cast Trump as uninterested in leading America through the unprecedented challenges the country is facing.

He hasnt shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends, Obama said at a drive-in rally of about 300 cars. This is not a reality show. This is reality, and the rest of us have had to live with the consequences of him proving himself incapable of taking the job seriously.

Obama took specific aim at reporting Tuesday that President Trump has kept a secret Chinese bank account, saying Fox News would have labeled him Beijing Barry if he had been caught doing the same thing.

Obamas visit to Philadelphia underscores the significance of Pennsylvania, the swing state that Biden himself has visited the most this campaign season. Trump has prioritized the state as well, and his aides acknowledge that his path to victory would narrow considerably without the states 20 electoral votes. The president on Wednesday was in Erie, one of a handful of Pennsylvania counties that Obama won twice before it flipped to Trump.

Specifically targeting voters who might be disillusioned, Obama offered a defense of the nations decency and personal validation that Biden and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, can live up to it.

America is a good and decent place, but weve just seen so much nonsense and noise that sometimes its hard to remember, he said. Im asking you to remember what this country can be. Im asking you to believe in Joes ability and Kamalas ability to lead this country out of these dark times and help us build it back better.

During his speech and at an earlier roundtable with Black men, Biden talked up the Democrats plans to confront the coronavirus while dealing with the countrys social and economic tensions, including disparities deeply rooted in racism.

I am so confident in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris surrounding themselves with people who are serious, who know what theyre doing, who are representative of all people not just some people and us being able to then dig ourselves out of this hole, Obama said.

Four years ago, Obama delivered Hillary Clintons closing argument in Philadelphia at a rally for thousands the night before Election Day on Independence Mall. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic upending campaigning, far fewer voters saw the former president in person. But he used the spotlight he had to remind voters of 2016, when Trump upset Clinton narrowly in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to forge an Electoral College majority despite losing the popular vote nationally.

We cant be complacent, Obama warned. I dont care about the polls. There were a whole bunch of polls last time. Didnt work out because a whole bunch of folks stayed at home and got lazy and complacent. Not this time. Not this election.

The roundtable was a personalized version of the same message, with the nations first Black president urging Black men especially not to give into apathy. The host city, Philadelphia, is among the Democratic bastions in key battleground states where Black turnout four years ago fell off from Obamas 2012 reelection in large enough numbers to tip the election in Trumps favor.

Obama, 59, said he understood young voters skepticism and disinterest, recalling his own attitude decades ago. Ill confess, when I was 20 years old, I wasnt all that woke, he said at the roundtable, adding that young Black men are not involved because theyre young and theyre distracted.

But he said not voting gives away power.

The answer for young people when I talk to them is not that voting makes everything perfect, Obama said. Its that it makes things better because politicians respond to and reflect the citizens who cast votes.

One of the biggest tricks thats perpetrated on the American people is this idea that the government is separate from you, Obama said. The governments us. Of, by and for the people. It wasnt always for all of us, but the way its designed, it works based on whos at the table.

Despite the smaller scale, Democrats say that as one of the men who knows Biden best, both as his former partner in the White House and personally, Obama remains one of the partys greatest assets in the final stretch of the campaign.

Obama has already been helpful to the Biden campaign, adapting to the shift to virtual events by focusing much of his work on getting younger Americans to vote. Hes appeared on Twitch, the video game streaming platform, pushed a voter registration message on Snapchat and recorded a video for the Shade Room, a Black-owned Instagram page and media company with 21 million followers.

Obama has appeared on two podcasts run by some of his former aides and has lent his name to texts and emails encouraging supporters to register to vote and donate money to the campaign. Obama has also been a big money draw for the campaign he appeared at two virtual fundraisers with Harris this month and a handful prior to that. A grassroots virtual fundraiser Obama headlined with Biden in June brought in $7.6 million.

Obama has also been active for down-ballot Democrats, raising money for House Democrats and appearing in ads for some of the partys top candidates, like Sara Gideon, running for the Senate in Maine, and for vulnerable incumbents, like Michigan Sen. Gary Peters. And he filmed a series of digital videos for the Democratic National Committee emphasizing the need for voters to make plans for casting their ballot.

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He hasnt shown any interest in doing the work Obama denounces Trump on campaign trail - 8News

PHILADELPHIA (NEXSTAR/AP) Former President Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his response to racial unrest and his fundamental unfitness for the job in his first in-person campaign pitch Wednesday for Joe Biden, his former vice president.

With less than two weeks until Election Day, Obama delivered a sweeping condemnation of Trump while urging voters not to sit out the Nov. 3 election. He cast Trump as uninterested in leading America through the unprecedented challenges the country is facing.

He hasnt shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends, Obama said at a drive-in rally of about 300 cars. This is not a reality show. This is reality, and the rest of us have had to live with the consequences of him proving himself incapable of taking the job seriously.

Obama took specific aim at reporting Tuesday that President Trump has kept a secret Chinese bank account, saying Fox News would have labeled him Beijing Barry if he had been caught doing the same thing.

Obamas visit to Philadelphia underscores the significance of Pennsylvania, the swing state that Biden himself has visited the most this campaign season. Trump has prioritized the state as well, and his aides acknowledge that his path to victory would narrow considerably without the states 20 electoral votes. The president on Wednesday was in Erie, one of a handful of Pennsylvania counties that Obama won twice before it flipped to Trump.

Specifically targeting voters who might be disillusioned, Obama offered a defense of the nations decency and personal validation that Biden and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, can live up to it.

America is a good and decent place, but weve just seen so much nonsense and noise that sometimes its hard to remember, he said. Im asking you to remember what this country can be. Im asking you to believe in Joes ability and Kamalas ability to lead this country out of these dark times and help us build it back better.

During his speech and at an earlier roundtable with Black men, Biden talked up the Democrats plans to confront the coronavirus while dealing with the countrys social and economic tensions, including disparities deeply rooted in racism.

I am so confident in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris surrounding themselves with people who are serious, who know what theyre doing, who are representative of all people not just some people and us being able to then dig ourselves out of this hole, Obama said.

Four years ago, Obama delivered Hillary Clintons closing argument in Philadelphia at a rally for thousands the night before Election Day on Independence Mall. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic upending campaigning, far fewer voters saw the former president in person. But he used the spotlight he had to remind voters of 2016, when Trump upset Clinton narrowly in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to forge an Electoral College majority despite losing the popular vote nationally.

We cant be complacent, Obama warned. I dont care about the polls. There were a whole bunch of polls last time. Didnt work out because a whole bunch of folks stayed at home and got lazy and complacent. Not this time. Not this election.

The roundtable was a personalized version of the same message, with the nations first Black president urging Black men especially not to give into apathy. The host city, Philadelphia, is among the Democratic bastions in key battleground states where Black turnout four years ago fell off from Obamas 2012 reelection in large enough numbers to tip the election in Trumps favor.

Obama, 59, said he understood young voters skepticism and disinterest, recalling his own attitude decades ago. Ill confess, when I was 20 years old, I wasnt all that woke, he said at the roundtable, adding that young Black men are not involved because theyre young and theyre distracted.

But he said not voting gives away power.

The answer for young people when I talk to them is not that voting makes everything perfect, Obama said. Its that it makes things better because politicians respond to and reflect the citizens who cast votes.

One of the biggest tricks thats perpetrated on the American people is this idea that the government is separate from you, Obama said. The governments us. Of, by and for the people. It wasnt always for all of us, but the way its designed, it works based on whos at the table.

Despite the smaller scale, Democrats say that as one of the men who knows Biden best, both as his former partner in the White House and personally, Obama remains one of the partys greatest assets in the final stretch of the campaign.

Obama has already been helpful to the Biden campaign, adapting to the shift to virtual events by focusing much of his work on getting younger Americans to vote. Hes appeared on Twitch, the video game streaming platform, pushed a voter registration message on Snapchat and recorded a video for the Shade Room, a Black-owned Instagram page and media company with 21 million followers.

Obama has appeared on two podcasts run by some of his former aides and has lent his name to texts and emails encouraging supporters to register to vote and donate money to the campaign. Obama has also been a big money draw for the campaign he appeared at two virtual fundraisers with Harris this month and a handful prior to that. A grassroots virtual fundraiser Obama headlined with Biden in June brought in $7.6 million.

Obama has also been active for down-ballot Democrats, raising money for House Democrats and appearing in ads for some of the partys top candidates, like Sara Gideon, running for the Senate in Maine, and for vulnerable incumbents, like Michigan Sen. Gary Peters. And he filmed a series of digital videos for the Democratic National Committee emphasizing the need for voters to make plans for casting their ballot.

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He hasnt shown any interest in doing the work: Obama denounces Trump on campaign trail - WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland

22 October 2020

Wia dis foto come from, EPA/Reuters

US Presido Donald Trump and im predecessor Barack Obama do gbas gbos as dem attack each oda for dia different party rally.

During Oga Obama campaign for democratic candidate Joe Biden for Pennsylvania, im say Oga Trump be like "crazy uncle" and im dey ginger racists.

Im say if oga Biden win, "we no want to get president way dey go out of im way to to insult anybody wey no support am, or threaten to put dem for prison."

Concerning di coronavirus pandemic, im say, "Donald Trump no go suddenly protect all of us. Im no even fit take basic steps to protect imsef."

For North Carolina, Presido Trump mock Obama say im bin dey wrong about di result of di 2016 election.

"E no get anybody wey bin campaign hard for crooked Hilary Clinton dan Obama, abi? im tell im supporters.

Trump also mock am say im bin no want make Biden wey bin serve as im vice president from 2009 to 2017 become president.

Obama bin pressure oga Biden to gba break for im plans to become president and allow Hilary Clinton to run.

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US Election 2020: Three tins Obama and Trump take yab each oda - BBC News

This past July, Bernie Sanders said Joe Biden will be the most progressive president since FDR. Democrats agree that theirs is the party of progressivism, while few people challenge that brand and what it represents.

Yet progressivism is the problem in America today. If progressives achieve their ultimate goals, the United States can no longer exist as a self-governing, constitutional republic. Its long overdue that we call progressivism what it is: the greatest present threat to a free America.

Thats not to say every progressive is a bad person with bad intentions. Many progressives genuinely believe theyre helping others, unaware of how much suffering results from the politicians and programs they support. Their lack of self-knowledge, however, is no excuse for the rest of us to ignore the ideology that fuels divisive and destructive politics.

Progressivism is not new. It began as an intellectual movement 150 years old, stretching back to the 1870s. Early progressives tended to be academics, university professors, and administrators who created the first Ph.D. graduate programs in the late 19th century. Americas first progressive president, Teddy Roosevelt, creaked the door open to the vastly more damaging presidency of Woodrow Wilson, arguably the most archetypal and memorable early progressive who made the transition from academics to politics, winning the White House in 1912.

Many early German-trained American progressives went on to fuel the socialism embedded in Adolf Hitlers Third Reich as well as the communism of Lenins Soviet Union and Mao Zedongs China. In the United States, progressivism took a different path mainly because the Constitution thankfully made it difficult to conduct the kind of social engineering experiments they ran in Germany, Russia, China, and other nations.

Following the devastation of the Civil War, American progressives were convinced America had been ill-founded. They set out to establish a better, more scientific, more progressive foundation for American politics, policies, government, and culture. In place of the self-governing constitutional republic of the Founding Fathers, progressives started planning for a new kind of republic (as the title of Herbert Crolys progressive magazine suggested).

Their dream was a regime of total central planning, free from constitutional constraints, where unelected government bureaucrats and other experts divide subjects (not citizens) into tribes and decide which ones are allowed to do what, as well as how, when, where, and why.

For progressives, the solution to any problem is a government plan. Unlike the Founders Constitution, the purpose of progressive government is to subsidize, regulate, license, supervise, and otherwise plan every aspect of our lives. Nothing can be left to the private realm of unprogressive, self-interested citizens making their own choices, especially not those in business seeking profit.

Bernie is right about Joe Biden hes a model progressive. When asked what hell do in various situations, Bidens answer is typically some version of: Ill do whatever the experts say.

As progressives see it, even elected members of the government should be controlled by unelected experts. This, of course, raises a valid question: Why then, do we need elected members of government at all? Perhaps unelected bureaucrats are the progressive version of the philosopher-kings Plato wished for?

As progressive government becomes involved in everything, everything becomes politicized. In modern progressive America, as virtually every subject now involves some degree of government regulation, funding, or oversight, its become nearly impossible to have a discussion that doesnt become political.

Its also nearly impossible for citizens to form friendships with those who hold different political opinions. Questioning progressive government programs often gets one instantly accused of being hateful, stupid, or both.Yet the hallmark of progressive programs, now spanning more than a century, is repeated failure, often on grand scales.

During the Great Depression, for example, while promising to provide jobs and resources to those in need, progressive central planners regulated entire industries, dictating wages, prices, and production schedules. Progressives politicians confiscated enormous amounts of private capital, paid farmers not to farm, slaughtered millions of livestock, dumped millions of gallons of milk into rivers, and burned thousands of acres of crops, while hungry, struggling Americans went without food, saw their taxes increase, and remained unemployed.

A generation later, in 1964, progressives declared a War on Poverty. Since then, progressives have spent more than $22 trillion, far more than all U.S. military wars from the American Revolution to today, combined. More than half a century later, after creating hundreds of government programs and hiring millions of bureaucrats, progressive programs have failed to reduce significantly U.S. poverty rates.

In recent decades, progressive politicians have thrown mountains of other peoples money at education, while student achievement measures have stagnatedor even declinedwhile many public schools have become little more than institutions of progressive indoctrination that line the pockets of union bosses.

Today, we live in the most progressive era of American history, with a government that regulates and controls more areas of our lives than ever before. Never in American history has it been more difficult and expensive for ordinary citizens to start a business, own a home, or provide for a family.

As progressivism spreads across the United States, we see increased rates of child abuse, spousal abuse, partner abuse of all kinds, fatherlessness, substance abuse, neglect, depression, random mass murders, teenage suicides, and other pathologies fueled by idleness, dependency, and lack of responsibility. Coincidence? Unlikely.

And what do progressives offer as solutions? More of the same failed regulations, subsidies, central planning. More progressivism just the opposite of what we need.

To be progressive today is to feel morally superior because the progressive politicians, programs, and policies one supports are marketed as helping others. Yet slapping charitable-sounding labels on wasteful, counterproductive, unconstitutional, and often corrupt government programs doesnt help the people who need it most.

So, who does benefit from progressivism? Unelected government bureaucrats, elected politicians who dish out progressive favors in exchange for expanding power, and politically connected corporate cronies who use progressive regulations, subsidies, and special perks to crush their politically unconnected competitors.

After 150 years of American experiments in progressive central planning, the verdict is in: Its bad. No more. Its time progressivism becomes the term of condemnation it so richly deserves to be. To call oneself progressive is no reason to be smug. And he who would be the most progressive president since FDR is precisely the one who never should be president.

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Calling Joe Biden 'Progressive' Is The Same As Calling Him A Failure - The Federalist

A coalition of progressive attorneys is forming a new nonprofit law firm in Wisconsin on the eve of the next election and months ahead of the next round of redistricting.

The group, called Law Forward, will be run by attorneys who've fought Republicans in court on issues ranging from redistricting to Wisconsin's 2018 lame-duck legislative session. It will be advised by a council that includes former Democratic U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold and former Democratic Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton.

Broadly speaking, it could serve as a counterweight to the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a nonprofit law firm that's been a powerful ally of Republicans in the state's courtrooms for the past decade.

"I think that's an inevitable shorthand, but I think that we're more than just a reaction to WILL," said Jeff Mandell, the founder, president and lead counsel for Law Forward. "We are a reaction to a much broader conservative campaign that has been concerted over the last 10 or 15 years in Wisconsin to distort Wisconsin governance and to test out radical theories."

Mandell said Law Forward is designed to defend "ongoing attacks on the state's progressive tradition" and on the way government works in Wisconsin. He said the group will be funded by "organizations, individuals and foundations which share our goals," but declined to offer more specifics.

Mandell was the lead attorney in the first case that challenged laws Republicans passed during the waning days of Gov. Scott Walker's administration that limited the power of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul. He also served as special counsel to Evers ahead of Wisconsin's April election, and more recently, successfully fought efforts by Kanye West and the Green Party to get on Wisconsin's presidential ballot.

Law Forward's litigation director will be Doug Poland, who has represented Democrats in multiple redistricting lawsuits, including one that made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2017. He was also involved in a lawsuit that successfully extended deadlines for absentee ballots in the April election and another that sought to do the same in November.

Poland said he worked with national groups during the last redistricting challenge.

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"They can provide some very good depth of knowledge in specific areas, but they don't know Wisconsin particularly well," Poland said. "We already have our finger on the pulse of what's going on here."

In addition to Mandell, Law Forward's board of directors includes Christine Bremer Muggli, former president of the Wisconsin Association for Justice, the state's trial lawyers' association.

The group's advisory council, which is chaired by Feingold and Lawton, also includes Marquette University Law professor Ed Fallone, who has run twice for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Ian Bassin, co-chair and founder of the national group Protect Democracy, and Dean Strang, a longtime Wisconsin defense lawyer.

When it comes to legal fights over issues like voting, redistricting or government power, Democrats and Republicans have typically relied on a shortlist of lawyers with expertise in their fields and partisan leans.

While both parties still rely on those lawyers, WILL has given conservatives a different avenue to the court system, using private donations and grant funding to advance an ideology of "the promotion of free markets, limited government, individual liberty, and a robust civil society." That's let the group file briefs in a wide range of high-profile cases and sometimes file lawsuits on behalf of individual plaintiffs.

Without a similar model on the left, Mandell said Wisconsin progressive have been more reactive.

"There can be people who want to bring those cases as plaintiffs, but they have to figure out how to fund them," Mandell said. "They either have to recruit private law firms that are willing to do those cases on a pro bono basis, which can be very difficult, or they have to figure out where the money's coming from for those cases. And one of the things that Law Forward is going to be able to do is raise money around a set of values."

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