CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former President Barack Obama spent a sizable amount of time in a speech he gave in Illinois on Friday [9-7-18] criticizing Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump, while stressing the importance of voting in the fast-approaching midterm elections. His step back into the political arena offered a preview of his message for the fall’s midterms. Trump quickly responded on Friday, telling a crowd in Fargo, North Dakota, that he ‘fell asleep’ watching Obama’s speech. The Republican National Committee, for its part, responded to Obama’s speech by saying, ‘President Obama stepped back into the spotlight to make the case that our country is on the wrong track’…The former Democratic President hit Trump and Republicans hard on a variety of issues including health care, voting rights, campaign finance laws, and the economy, arguing that some policies GOP leaders are pursuing today aren’t conservative. The former President questioned the GOP’s approach to foreign policy, including its position on Russia, challenging climate change science, and embracing of conspiracy theories including those ‘surrounding Benghazi or my birth certificate’…Obama argued that today’s generation is the most diverse, ‘conditions that are ripe for exploitation by politicians who have no compunction and no shame about tapping into America’s dark history of racial and ethnic and religious division.'”
–Veronica Stracqualursi, “10 attacks Obama unleashed on Trump, GOP in midterm speech,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 7, 2018 8:00 pm