From 2009 to 2016, with Barack Obama, America had a President.
With the election of Biden-Harris in 2020, we will have a President and Vice-President again.
I sincerely hope that the person currently occupying the White House ultimately proves to be a man of his convictions, both state and federal.
Here are some of the excerpts, from America’s president during his 60 minutes interview with Scott Pelley, that reflected on his term in office, the media landscape and the great partisan divide in the United States among its politicians and its people.
You can watch the complete interview at this link:
On why Donald Trump should gracefully concede.
On George Floyd.
On a post-truth America.
On Republican enabling.
His memoir, “A Promised Land,” will be released on November 17.
While we know that the best-selling author of “The Audacity of Hope,”“Dreams From My Father,” and “Of The I Sing,” knows how to write, some of the released excerpts from “A Promised Land,” show that the President is adept at reading some folks too.
On Lindsey Graham:
In his memoir, Obama described Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina as the guy in the spy thriller or heist movie 'who double-crosses everyone to save his own skin'
On Mitch McConnell:
He also described McConnell as power hungry, writing what the Kentucky senator 'lacked in charisma or interest in policy he more than made up for in discipline, shrewdness and shamelessness — all of which he employed in the single-minded and dispassionate pursuit of power.'
On Sarah Palin:
“Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party—xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks—were finding their way to center stage. She had no idea what the hell she was talking about."
She said the book's title, A Promised Land, is "offensive" to her and asked Newsmax viewers, "Who does he think he is, Moses? God? He sure tries to make this all sound so scary and spooky."
"He's so still 2008," Palin said of Obama. "It's funny because with the price of rent today, it's kind of pleasurable to know I've been living rent-free in his head for 12 years. The movement that he still cannot accept nor understand evidently that began in our campaign that he now blames me for—so many Republicans being so active and elected lately—that movement was all about giving the voiceless a voice, empowering people who are fed up, want accountability in their government, want a smaller, smarter government."
On why Donald Trump was elected:
“It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted. Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.”
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