{"id":99833,"date":"2020-05-17T07:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=99833"},"modified":"2020-05-17T07:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T11:39:07","slug":"obamas-commencement-speech-an-indictment-of-the-trump-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99833","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s commencement speech an indictment of the Trump era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-99834 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/obama-nose-up-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/obama-nose-up-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/obama-nose-up-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/obama-nose-up-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/obama-nose-up.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><br \/>\nFormer President Barack Obama<\/p>\n<p>In his first major national address since the coronavirus pandemic began, Barry delivered a commencement speech to graduates at historically black colleges Saturday. And much of his advice to students was an indictment of the Trump administration\u2019s management of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, one of the &#8216;toons on Boomer&#8217;s Sunday is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt, and states &#8220;Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pretty apt.<\/p>\n<h3>Barack Obama to 2020 Graduates: Current Leaders \u2018Aren\u2019t Even Pretending to Be in Charge\u2019<\/h3>\n<p><strong>BY CHARLIE SPIERING<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former President Barack Obama said in a commencement speech on Saturday that current leaders during the coronavirus crisis were failing 2020 graduates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than anything this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they\u2019re doing,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of them aren\u2019t even pretending to be in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president did not directly criticize Donald Trump, but he repeatedly referred to leaders currently in power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBroad majorities agree on the ends,\u201d he said, urging graduates to seek unity. \u201cThat\u2019s why folks with power will keep trying to divide you over the means. That\u2019s how nothing changes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the stump for Biden, I see. Hardly surprising. Read the entire article, if you feel you need to, here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/05\/16\/barack-obama-to-2020-graduates-current-leaders-arent-even-pretending-to-be-in-charge\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama In his first major national address since the coronavirus pandemic began, Barry &hellip; <a title=\"Obama\u2019s commencement speech an indictment of the Trump era\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99833\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama\u2019s commencement speech an indictment of the Trump era<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99835,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99833\/revisions\/99835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}