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There’s a greater meaning behind those "Missing Obama" posters you’re seeing online – SFGate

By Heather Leighton, Houston Chronicle

Since President Trump's inauguration, "Missing Obama" posters have been shared in neighborhood streets across the nation and around the world, too.

Source: Instagram

Since President Trump's inauguration, "Missing Obama" posters have been shared in neighborhood streets across the nation and around the world, too.

Source: Instagram

Continue clicking to see the sweetest moments between Barack and Michelle Obama during the Obama presidency.

The Obamas have no problem showing affection for each other, even when the world is watching.Keep clicking to see photos of some of their sweetest moments over the years.

At their Chicago home in 2004, then-Sen. Obama and his wife, Michelle, get ready for an event at the Chicago Economic Club.

The famous "fist bump" at a campaign event in St. Paul, Minn., in 2008.

Campaign rally in Pueblo, Colorado, in 2008.

Daughter Sasha gets caught in the middle of an embrace between her parents at a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2008.

Sharing a tender moment inside a freight elevator while on their way to an inaugural ball in Washington, D.C., in 2009.

The president and first lady pass their photos on the wall at the Hilton Washington prior to the MTV & ServiceNation: Live From The Youth Inaugural Ball in January 2009 in Washington, D.C.

President Obama's first inaugural parade in Washington, D.C., in 2009.

At a 2012 campaign rally at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

On the final day of the Democratic National Conventionin Charlotte, North Carolina, in September 2012.

After the president's re-election victory speech in Chicago, Nov. 7, 2012.

Campaigning in Des Moines, Iowa, the night before Election Day in November 2012.

The Obamas show off for the "Kiss Cam' at the U.S. Men's Olympic basketball team's game against Brazil in Washington, D.C., in 2012.

The First Couple arrives to deliver toys and gifts for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., in 2014.

At the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House in January 2014.

The Obamas show off dance moves as they visit with Girl Scouts camping overnight on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., in June 2015.

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 45th Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., in September 2015.

Awaiting the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Madame Peng Liyuan, at a state dinner at the White House in September 2015.

At the White House in May 2016.

Hanging out with kids during an event in Yosemite National Park, California, in June 2016.

The first lady primps the president as they wait to welcome Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Mrs. Lee Hsien Loong, of Singapore, to the White House in August 2016.

There's a greater meaning behind those "Missing Obama" posters you're seeing online

Since President Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, there have been missing posters popping up for former President Barack Obama.

"Missing. Have you seen this man?" the poster's header reads in all caps. It continues to describe details about the 44th president, such as "last seen walking out of a large white house" and "likes basketball and health care."

The posters have not only flooded American neighborhoods throughout the nation - and even across the world - they have also gone viral throughout social media. The posters have been tagged in Instagram posts in cities in California, New York City and even Stockholm.

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There are even designated social media accounts in charge of coordinating the hunt for the former president, as well as a website to headquarter the search. According to MissingObama.org, the "missing" title doesn't actually refer to Obama physically being missing, but rather because they miss Obama's leadership and social example. To see the sweetest moments during the Obama administration, click through the gallery above.

"The role he played as president for eight years is also 'missing.' Trump is severely unqualified to act as the President and Commander in Chief of the United States of America," the description reads. "This poster also represents the importance of freedom of expression. It encourages us to be vocal and engage in political conversation. The election is over, but democracy isn't. Speaking up can mean anything, from something as simple as liking a post to something more interactive like organizing a protest. Expression is vital on every level."

These are among the thousands of ways Americans are using their freedom of expression to the fullest extent. Since Trump's inauguration, there have been multiple gatherings of protests calling out the 45th president for is rocky election campaign and controversial policy changes.

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Even as millions of Americans are looking forward to the Super Bowl, hundreds of others are hitting the streets protesting the controversial executive orders Trump has signed in his first two weeks in office.

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Donald Trump is using Barack Obama as a security blanket – CNN

What a difference a few months makes.

Trump and his White House advisers are now using Obama as a security blanket, making almost identical moves he made during his tenure and defending possible mistakes by arguing that they were initially made by Barack Obama.

The tactic is familiar: Obama, eight years after he succeeded President George W. Bush, was still blaming the 43rd president for some of the pockmarks on his legacy.

But what is remarkable about Trump is how vehemently he ran against Obama. Not only did Trump describe the Obama presidency in near apocalyptic terms during the campaign, he was the leader of the "Birther" movement, an attempt to delegitimize the president he is now using as a shield.

In the aftermath this week of the botched raid in Yemen that left one US Navy SEAL dead and three more wounded, as well as another three hurt in an Osprey crash, the Trump White House pointed the finger at the previous administration.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer, laying out how the raid came together, was clear to note that it was approved by the Obama administration before it was passed off and approved by Trump.

"Clearly, that was under the last administration," Spicer said while going through the key dates in the raid. And White House officials, speaking with the benefit of not identifying themselves, were quick to note that Pentagon officials had discussed and even signed off on the plan.

This has Obama allies accusing the new commander in chief of passing the buck.

Ned Price, former special assistant to Obama and the National Security Council, tweeted Thursday that the operation was "never presented to or considered by the Obama Admin for approval."

Another former senior government official involved in Obama's National Security Council told CNN: "In a nutshell, Trump and his team owns the process and the ultimate decision -- and the consequences."

Obama's team is also wondering why Trump, who repeatedly criticized the unemployment figures issued under the Democratic president, is suddenly taking credit for new job growth at the end of Obama's term.

"Don't believe these phony numbers," Trump said in February 2016. "The number is probably 28, 29, as high as 35 [percent]. In fact, I even heard recently 42%."

Friday, when the latest numbers were released, Spicer touted the figures from the White House podium.

"Speaking of good numbers," Spicer said before reading out the January jobs report that found America added 227,000 jobs in January, well ahead of December's gain of 157,000 jobs.

"Today's report reflects the consumer confidence that the Trump presidency has inspired," Spicer said. Kellyanne Conway, one of Trump's top aides, tweeted that "jobs numbers already like POTUS."

Trump, during a meeting with business leaders on Friday, said he was "very happy" with the jobs report.

"I think that' it's going to continue big league. We're bringing back jobs," he added.

While this is the first jobs report released under Trump, the Labor Department conducted the survey in the second week of January, while Obama was still in office.

And Obama officials -- many of whom left their offices weeks ago -- were left to laugh at how Trump is taking credit for the jobs numbers.

"It was, indeed, remarkable that the unemployment rate fell from 42% to 4.8% on January 20th," said Austan Goolsbee, the former chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

And on Iran, Trump is responding to the nation's ballistic missile test in nearly the same way Obama's administration responded.

After Trump's national security adviser puts Iran "on notice," the Trump administration announced it was applying sanctions on 25 individuals and companies connected to Iran's ballistic missile program.

"Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how "kind" President Obama was to them," Trump tweeted on Friday. "Not me!"

National Security Adviser Michael Flynn said in a statement that the sanctions show "the days of turning a blind eye to Iran's hostile and belligerent actions toward the United States and the world community are over."

Responding to the Iranian's testing ballistic missiles by implanting sanctions, however, is exactly what the Obama administration did in January 2016.

"We will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously," Obama said when his Treasury Department sanctioned 11 people with ties to the missile program. "We are going to remain vigilant about it."

Jake Sullivan, the top policy adviser on Hillary Clinton's campaign and a former Obama administration official, said Thursday that Trump took a page out of Obama's playbook.

"When the Iranians tested Ballistic Missiles in the Obama administration, the Obama administration imposed sanctions," Sullivan said. "So, this is consistent with steps that have been taken in the past."

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Lavrov: Undoing Obama-inflicted damage to Russia-US ties will take great effort – RT

Serious efforts are required to overcome the severe damage done to US-Russia relations under Barack Obama, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Austrian magazine Profil, adding that the need for dialogue, voiced by Donald Trump, gives hope for improving ties.

Of course, we kept close tabs on what Donald Tramp said about Russia on the campaign trail and after the elections. The stated stance of the need to build a good dialogue between the two countries gives some hope for positive developments in our bilateral relations, Lavrov said in an interview with Austrian weekly news magazine Profil.

As President Putin repeatedly stressed, we are ready to go our part of the way for the recovery of our relations with the United States. Their degradation in recent years is not our fault but a result of purposeful actions of the previous administration in Washington. For our part, we have always stayed open to development of predictable cooperation, based on the principles of equality, mutual respect and consideration of each other's interests.

Tancredo: The Disgusting Media Double Standard Between Obama and Trump – Breitbart News

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The political bias of the establishment media has never been more outrageous than what we see in the presss double standard for covering President Donald Trump. For contrasts that will make your head spin and your heart ache, compare Trumps treatment to the presss idolatrous treatment of President Obama.

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The medias fan-club attitude toward Obama was unprecedented in the modern era. Not even handsome Jack Kennedy or war hero Eisenhower got the kids-glove treatment that Obama got. Obamas frequent goofy statements and embarrassing gaffes were either overlooked entirely or treated as amusing sidebars.

Will any historian ever catalog Obamas frequent misstatements of elementary facts? How many do you remember? Here are few of the gems liberal historians will overlook:

Such historical ignorance and efforts at personal myth-making were routine for Obama - and never challenged by the working press.

Obamas hilarious mispronunciations and stupid asides were a regular feature of his speeches and interviews, at home and abroad. And yet, they did not tarnish his reputation in the White House press corps as a great intellectual and perhaps the smartest man to ever sit in the Oval office. Oh, really?

Now, compare the worshipful treatment of Obama to what Trump has experienced since winning the election on November 8. The establishment press wont even accept the legitimacy of Trumps election, much less the strong points of his policy initiatives. They wont let go of the popular vote versus the Electoral College. That is not ignorance of Civics 101; it is part of a political strategy to demonize and delegitimize the entire Trump program.

The media has openly joined the campaign by the Democratic Party and the Social Justice left to deny that President Trump has any policy mandates whatsoever. The narrative is this: since his presidency is illegitimate to begin with, it is okay to use violence to obstruct him at every point.

Trump is justified and very smart to communicate with the American people directly and not expect the media to convey his messages fairly. Too many of them have become angry partisans in the lefts demonization strategy, and they need to be short-circuited.

Conservatives and constitutionalists have seen media bias for half a century, and America has survived it. Yet, never has that bias and that vituperation been so uniform and vicious as what we see waged against President Trump. When it is coordinated with the near-uniform cultural bias in the entertainment and educational institutions, a triad of treachery emerges to challenge the very foundations of civic order.

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Class of ’91: Obama and Gorsuch rubbed shoulders at Harvard, but their paths split – The Guardian

Barack Obama as a student at Harvard law school in 1990. The campus was a place that was politically divided at the time.

When Barack Obama and Neil Gorsuch were contemporaries at Harvard law school as the eighties rolled into the nineties, they found themselves on a tense campus riven with ideological discord.

Debates were fierce, fellow students and professors who knew the two budding brilliant minds recalled.

There was disagreement over the fundamental politics of left versus right but also issues such as the lack of diversity among Harvard faculty, principles of affirmative action for student admission and lofty ideals of jurisprudence and whether the law should be a neutral, technical tool or a means to advance political objectives.

The campus was a place that was politically divided at the time and there was a lot of sometimes uncivil discussion about jurisprudence and other issues. Barack Obama and Neil Gorsuch were obviously on different sides of those issues, Brad Berenson, a Boston-based corporate litigator who was one of Harvard laws class of 1991 alongside the former president and the new supreme court nominee, told the Guardian.

Even though a typical Harvard law class is a sea of 500-plus ambitious, scholarly faces, Berenson said both Obama and Gorsuch stood out for some contrasting but also similar reasons.

They were both well-liked across the ideological spectrum and they were not obnoxious. I enjoyed being around them. Both were reserved, genial and respectful, but with a sense of humor. And they were both conspicuous talents at the time, in terms of legal intellect, but it was very clear then that Barack was a philosophical liberal and Neil was a conservative, much more straight-laced, a straight arrow, he said.

Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe called Gorsuch a very, very bright judge whom he also recalled from his university days was not just learned but very personable.

He says he knew Obama better at the time, as he was his research assistant, and got to know Gorsuch better later on, after he became a judge. Tribe also taught current supreme court judge Elena Kagan, class of 86, who went on to become Harvard law schools first female dean.

He recalls the young man who became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review and then Americas first black president as an incandescent intellectual, who was much more articulate than almost any student I have had in over 40 years. Obama drew attention as one of just a handful of minority students, of course, but Tribe said he was such a distinctive character and intellectual luminary that he would have stood out at Harvard regardless of skin color.

And while famous images of the young Obama slouching against classical Ivy League columns, hands in pockets, or smoking cigarettes in a bomber jacket, with a sultry expression, gave the impression of a rebel, Tribe demurs.

People make it seem like he was more like James Dean than he was; he wasnt really the rebel, the flamethrower, he was very elegant and thoughtful, Tribe said.

Obama could have gone on to clerk for a circuit judge, and certainly had invitations, and made his way up that ladder, but he was determined to return to Chicago and his vocation as a political organizer. He had such deep convictions about social justice and was so eager to get back to his community work, said Tribe.

As such, Obama and Gorsuch diverged upon leaving Harvard. Obama went back to the South Side, the conventional Gorsuch went off to clerk on the Washington DC circuit and then for supreme court justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy, before a stint in corporate law. Gorsuch also won a scholarship to Oxford University in 1992 and began his PhD, in a formative trip where he met his British wife and further crystallized his conservative views.

In later years, as a rising judge, Gorsuch would go to Tribe for suggestions for bright and independent-minded star students from the law school who would make good clerks for him.

The people I can think of that I have recommended in the last 10 years or so have enjoyed working for him a great deal and liked him and some of them were even liberal, Tribe said.

It was very clear then that Barack was a philosophical liberal and Neil was a conservative, much more straight-laced

He believes that the intellectual and political ferment at Harvard at the time made both Obama and Gorsuch stronger characters with more rigorous skills to examine their own ideas.

Keith Boykin, the author and commenter, studied with the two men and, perhaps unsurprisingly, as a budding progressive activist in the Black Students Association, he has stronger recollections of the liberal Obama, whom he recalls giving a stirring speech at an association rally.

But what Boykin does recall about Gorsuch is that, while some conservatives there were very outspoken in a negative way to me, he was not one of them.

It was a tense atmosphere on campus, a polarized environment, there were big issues being fought over like lack of diversity in the faculty and the new dean at the time [Robert Clark] was very conservative and pro-business, Boykin recalled. So Gorsuch was not amongst the loud anti-liberal provocateurs, but he was unmistakably, staunchly conservative.

At Oxford, he studied under John Finnis, the controversial Catholic conservative professor and strident proponent of natural law.

Thats telling, said Harvard law professor Charles Fried. Fried had taught Obama and knew Gorsuch because he was a prominent member of the Federalist Society at the university, of which Fried was a faculty adviser.

The Federalists later morphed to include lawyers and judges and such but it was a Harvard law thing at the time with a charter declaring itself conservative, libertarian and, specifically, moderate it was everybody but the left, basically, he said.

For his PhD, Gorsuch focussed his research on assisted suicide and euthanasia, coming out strongly against them and the kind of death with dignity laws that Oregon has had since the mid-nineties and now exist in five states. He has spoken out since about his strong belief in the inviolability of life, which has been taken as a signal, in addition to Donald Trumps repeated assertions that he intended to nominate a supreme court justice who is against Roe vs Wade, that Gorsuch is anti-choice.

I would suspect he would join opponents [of Roe vs Wade] that have chipped away at the edges of the abortion right. Maybe it will be a case of you have the right but you may not be able to get it [a termination] anywhere because of all the regulatory hurdles, said Fried.

Having said that, Texas tried that and the supreme court reversed it, he added.

Fried also pointed out that Gorsuch has been nicknamed Antonin Scalia 2.0 as a supposed reflection of his vivid style and staunch conservatism. But Fried drew contrasts.

Hes not like Scalia in that he writes very well but he does not there is not a sarcastic or aggressive remark from Gorsuch. He tries to ties things to precedent and isnt trying to make the newspapers with quotes. And there is no instinct to belittle or insult people who criticize him, said Fried.

He also pointed out that the two men are of opposite opinions on the so-called Chevron deference, which can easily come into play on the administration of immigration, health or environmental laws, for example.

Scalia firmly believed federal government agencies have the overriding power to interpret statutes and the courts should greatly defer to that, said Fried.

Gorsuch thinks thats wrong. And that is ominous, said Fried.

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There’s a greater meaning behind those "Missing Obama" posters you’re seeing online – SFGate

Donald Trump is using Barack Obama as a security blanket – CNN

Lavrov: Undoing Obama-inflicted damage to Russia-US ties will take great effort – RT

Tancredo: The Disgusting Media Double Standard Between Obama and Trump – Breitbart News

Class of ’91: Obama and Gorsuch rubbed shoulders at Harvard, but their paths split – The Guardian

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