Barack Obama talks Trumpism, Advice for Democrats, Ukraine + Russia, and the Supreme Court
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- Barack Obama sits down for his first major interview of the midterm season to talk about the state of democracy here and abroad, the escalating situation in Iran and the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how Democrats can appeal to the broadest coalition of voters.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Barack Obama on the 2022 Midterms
19:29 Ad Break
24:55 Obama on John Fetterman and Ron DeSantis
28:04 Obama on Iranian Protests, the Ukraine War, and Russia
41:44 Ad Break
46:20 Obama on Supreme Court Reform
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I miss the feeling of security I get when listening to fmr president Obama. We need an intelligent, caring human to run our country in the future. There’s so much more to be done to repair the damage caused by tfg. President Biden has done a good job, but there’s so much more to do. We have to vote in a Democratic leader in the midterms, and in 2024, or we will lose our country to fascism.
I miss him too. I remember when let's go 45 won i just relaxed with sadness until 45 took over and never had a good night's sleep when he was in office. Now, with President Biden i sleep well again.
@@SuperTruthful nice sarcasm
I love Obama but he didn't do enough to encourage grass roots growth in the Democratic Party. His mother's family is from Kansas. Did he do anything to help any Kansan Democrats???
@@yvonneplant9434 He was hindered at every turn by Republicans. They fought him tooth and nail while disrespecting him and his family. Good ‘ol boy kkklub. Don’t you remember? He was so gracious we never heard just how bad it was, but I can imagine. Everything he did get accomplished was tempered, stunted, or outright blocked by corporate money. He had to represent all our interests as well. He had compassion for those who hated him. More christian-like behavior than those who proclaimed it publicly, but were/are the criminals behind the scenes.
@@Americasinertia it wasn't sarcasm
I'm 71 and got my first lesson in politics from my Dad when I was in 6th grade. He said if you vote for a Republican you are voting for rich people's interests if you vote for a Democrat you are voting for the rest of us. I guess nothing has changed since 1964.
Your Dad is right!
All of those little guys; academia, the press, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, the Arts, increasingly corporate America, big Pharma, and the Military Industrial Complex; it’s laughable to think this is still the Democratic Party of Harry Truman.
1964 was such a pivotal year in our nation’s history. A turn for the worst with Dixie Democrats converts, Goldwater, Southern Strategy - the canvas for painting the attempted coup d’etat we all saw on January 6th.
VOTE BLUE IN 22!!
☮️🇺🇸☯️
@@Gr8whitemonster if u think the GOP isn't deeper in bed w/the MIC & Big Pharma than the Dems are you're fooling yourself. Who do u think gave Big Pharma everything they wanted, especially protection from being sued & prosecution, at the beginning of the pandemic?? Trump did!! The GOP has been the party of tax cuts for the rich/elite my whole life & I'm over 40
@@Gr8whitemonster, yet the vast majority of the massive amount of corporate and billionaire dark money goes to Republicans. You know, the ones who slash the taxes of corporations and billionaires over and over and over.
I miss President Obama SO MUCH! The calm intelligence & profound discerning elegance with which he handles political issues is comforting and inspiring. ❄️🌎❄️
So you miss the corruption perfect.😂😂😂😂
@@mugger6685 I don't get a chance to miss you .if The GQP is being silenced how come they never STFμ?
@@mugger6685 1-year-old politically illiterate troll account with no subscribers and their content
@@mugger6685 compared to the maga crazies! you need to get your eyes and ears checked. oh, shoot, you are from maga, my bad!
@@johnstallings4049 LMFAOOOOOOO
How I miss this man 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 he - when he was in office - gave the world hope - and a sense of security 🙏🏼 KR Sally / Denmark
I like his his husband more.
@@leonbrnstein3106 oh look shameless bigotry
Typical oldie lol. Signing off with her name and even has the very close up profile picture 😆
President Biden IS doing the job well. They were a great team!
@@leonbrnstein3106good job demonstrating your ignorant bigotry and poor character.
Pres. Obama's voice is a balm on a hurting soul. It is not his responsibility, however, I am grateful.
absolutely soothing voice in all this turmoil ...I AM VOTING BLUE ASAP !
It remains a part of former President Obama's responsibility because he is still a citizen, a highly regarded and influential citizen, of the Democratic Republic of the United States of America.
Me too! I officially changed my voter status to democrat!
His voice is PERFECT to use for audio books. There really is something so soothing about it.
Lmfao
My blood pressure goes down just seeing and listening to President Obama. Thank you so much for interviewing him. Love him as a great leader and wonderful man.
😂 Me 2
Same lol
Same with his former V.P. and current POTUS. Neither makes😂 unthoughtful comments and are full of patriotism. Do NOT talk nonsense! 🇺🇲
It is so refreshing to hear a former president who can put one sentence together that makes any sense at the end.
or the fat orange turd we had before? totally an improvement.
It's just that your current president can't repeat the sentences after Obama. Bit of a tool in every sense of the word.
Translation: “I don’t care if anything you say is true, or detrimental to me or my family, or how corrupt you really are….just please, for the love of god, sound educated when you’re saying it! And most importantly, DO NOT say anything that might align, in any way with something a Trump voter would agree with!”
@@laszloleka751 he‘s not my president, i‘m from europe. Btw, even with dementia that guy is talking more sense than the crooked Dump.
@@mostlypeacefulmisterputin are you somehow buthurt?
President Barack Obama #44, made history and with class, will continue to be one of our most intelligent persons to serve the people of our country. May God continue to bless and keep he/his family safe.
Obama, forever an incredible, intelligent, experienced, amazing, professional, loving, caring human being. What a role model.
@The Fires of Mount Doom He's Indonesian.There is nothing black about him.
Most astroturfed wall street puppet in history
@ The Fires of Mount Doom lol
CIA / Wallstreet lapdog
He don't like unborn babies.
I love hearing Obama say... And that's ok!!!... Feels like a warm hug
And I launched more drone strikes on innocent children civilians. “And that’s ok”
Yes, tweety, it really hits my soul too when he says that💕
If you feel like you need this from a politician seek help. You’re not well.
@@Techlax43 thanks for the suggestion 🤣
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
I love this man, all the way from Scotland 🏴 ❤
Thanks you guys for this episode. The nation totally needs to see and hear President Obama for 2022. I'm tired of watching old re runs when he was in power 8 years ago.
At least we. Have reruns of his speeches and. His leadership values. Interesting family and intelligent people.
Everyone can make a difference. Bobby Kennedy said this when he was head of justice dept. . democracy depends on perpistation. Knowledge that is shared, gives us decucations and possible solutions.
My father was a lifelong Republican who grew up in Texas and came from a traditionally conservative family. He read Obama's book when he was in his late 60's before that first presidential election and voted Democrat for the first time ever. And he voted for Obama again before he passed away. He felt that Obama was more in touch with what really mattered to Americans. I wish more people would approach politics the way he did. I learned a lot from my dad about having an open mind.
The fact that your father read Obama's book at all suggests that he was more open minded and intellectual then certain aspects of his background might suggest.
@@chansetwo For most voters in America I think political affiliation was secondary to ideology which wasn't a forced set of variables that lined up on either side of a defined line between red or blue. While each party certainly had it's fanatics, it didn't permeate our daily lives the way it seems to now. Politics now is used mostly as a social media tool for "engagement" that's measured in clicks per minute. It's a market that's designed to get users angry, then provide comfort among, what they want you to believe, are like minded individuals. The next thing you know, you think Democrats are mutilating kids in children's hospitals. So there used to be a level of respect I think on the part of politicians, to know that we don't want this in our faces every minute of every day. They knew it wasn't good for us, it wasn't good for them and it wasn't good for America. But desperation does strange things to people who don't have the fortitude or servitude to hold public office. Primaries used to weed them out.
Obama was an anti-White bigot, Ms. Cohen.
@@funjunk2835 How's that?
I wish that also, with all my heart. An EDUCATED citizenry is the single thing that holds a democracy together, and not feeding disinformation to the electorate helps. 😑😔😒
Great President with great morals and great mind!
War criminal
@@Americasinertia is that you Dubbya?
Amy cone Head ferret
@@Americasinertia Haha sure. And you are just imbecile
PROBLEM with Obama's narrative is, he knows the Democrats are mostly crooked, and its every man for himself. Sure democracy is good, freedom is good, but only if the people in it especially the leadership are good and are people with integrity! Otherwise what you get is a big bunch of self serving individuals justifying whatever they hope to get from their leadership appointments. And this is also why Republicans despite not as focused on liberty and freedom tend to do better as leaders. Because leadership in the Republican's view is a communal drive and less self centered. You don't have individual LGBTFQs coming out to defend their non-binary positions against a common enemy that denounced non-binary people, and you don't have individual migrant relatives and muslims coming out against a common enemy that denounces their illegal status and propensity to kill others in the name of a purported religion. Freedom and Liberty only works when you have an authority that constantly looks down and snuffs out anyone who exerts their own individual rights that is at the expense of others. And Obama does not possess the required integrity and/or moral uprightness and/or power and/or authority to lead them. Vote Republican because its better to have a circus trainer in the circus tent than just opening all the cages of the tigers and lions, including the alpha lion in the name of Freedom and Liberty, the former you have a person with duty and oversight, the latter you have absolute chaos.
Obama is a real people person, of all ages…it’s really a shame that he couldn’t run once again ! So, intelligent, educated, reasonable, likable man ! He always was happy, when he was in the White House, and had so much energy …..Yet, he is still, such a happy guy today, as well…….Miss him…
I really miss President Barack Obama! He was one of the best President's we've ever had. He passed legislation in 2014 to help smaller oil companies to be able to compete with the larger oil corporations which helped bring a surplus in our energy independence that yielded the great economy that Trump inherited and took credit for. I wish only the best for President Obama, his beautiful wife, Michelle and their two beautiful daughters. Thanks for all you have done to make our country so much better and for all you are currently doing. A man of true integrity.
You've lost your mind if you think Obama left a great economy. The economy crashed right as his presidency began and never recovered... unless you count the rigged stock market which always seem to go up no matter how badly things are going everywhere else.
He spent his entire presidency doing his best to pass the TPP a document that removes national sovereignty and creates an international corporate hegemony.
Look how bad it is
Good one he was a joke you really don’t know what goes on do you. Trump took credit good one.😂😂😂😂
Wtf are you even talking about?
@@BN-HAPPY Thanks Trump
Was so nice to hear a former POTUS speak in full sentences and convey complete thoughts! The fact that we went from this man to that orange clown still amazes me today!
The most chaotic 4 years in American history.....the contrast couldn't have been sharper.
To bad Biden can't because his brain is gone!
@@The_Tiffster And the dam riots were caused by Democrats. They encouraged it and paid their way out of jail so they could continue looting, burning ,injuring and killing people.
Then you need to think about what he actually DID then, not how slick he was in front of a camera...
That's because unlike modern democracies created in the 20th century the USA's constitution written by White, rich, land and slave owners and the in order to get the 14th state and others to join the Union, had to compromise with the slave owning southern Democrats of that time and created the INSANE Electoral College. The reason it is insane is because smaller states (in population) already have more of an equal representation as every state regardless of population gets TWO US Senators. With the 60 vote filibuster those states with ow populations having two US Senators is a good enough offset of being fairly represented in the Federal Government. But because our very antiquated Constitution in decades and decades back in time, woman could not vote, nor could blacks until 1965! in the beginning WE THE PEOPLE did not elect our US Senators; the Congress did! Also, in the beginning only male land owners could vote. If the powers that be and the voters in all 50 states continue voting against their own interests with rising cost of living with stagnant wages while the wealthy hold almost the entire wealth of our country of 300+ million people, then the USA is DOOMED to fail. And history shows that nation state lasted forever. The Roman Empire fell after 800 years. Egypt ruled the world before the Romans and that lasted about 2,000 years. The USA will bot even come close to Rome's 800 year reign as the world leader if "we the people" don't vote in their (financial) interests and forget about bigotry and hatred. Looking at the earth from space, it is one big globe, but we humans decide to draw dividing lines around continents. Surely if an advanced extraterrestrial race found the Earth and looked down on the way we humans "run" our planet, assuming they don't consider us humans as FOOD, they'd turn their spaceship around and with other extraterrestrial civilizations place a "blockade" around the Earth and our solar system.
When I’m feeling defeated, when I feel like authoritarian government is taking over, I remember this man’s short but poignant statement “YES WE CAN!” 😊
Amen!! Me too. I have that poster framed and hung in my office!
But it didn't do much to inspire a grass roots approach with the Democratic Party.
@@yvonneplant9434 WTF is wrong with tRumptards?
Obama served out both terms with respect and dignity. Then, tRump came along and blew away every ounce of integrity our nation has ever earned.
@@yvonneplant9434 Trolling trolling trolling... "I love Obama, but..." I'm going to keep griping about this talking point." Please. He was one of THE ONLY "grassroots movement" guys at the time. If you don't remember, go back and watch Republicans trying to cut him off at EVERY pass.
@ Trina Tuttle. There’s another saying by a wonderful Democrat that I would add to yes we can. That is the late Elijah Cummings, who kept saying we are better than this. A variation on that is, we can do better than this. Every time another Republican tells another Republican lie I say that to myself.
So nice to hear intelligent and strategic analysis. Thank you Obama.
His language inspires and enlightens.
Along with his intellect.
In office or out, President Obama is a consistent, thoughtful, decent, learned and intellectually honest gentleman.
he is acting
He sure is
Agree
@@RR-et6zp how are you so sure?
Absolutely
So refreshing to hear a former President speak without plugging himself, spewing hate and lies like Trump always does.
Facts
Watched this interview today after its posting 4mos ago. President Obama's comments are timeless and speaks to the priorities of our society and the idea of a more perfect union. Thank you, Pod Save America.
You said it perfectly!! If only people would listen to him!! I miss him!! Such thoughtful and intelligent ideas.
Obama is so refreshing to listen to. You can tell he has a very deep, scholarly, and learned understanding of sociology and politics while maintaining an ability to put those words and ideas in to common parlance that feels down to earth and relatable to as an average Joe while conversely avoiding the preachy sounding "ivory tower" jargon which only enflames anti-collegiate sentiment and resentment of the educated "elite" which has resulted in a uniquely American reverberation of anti-intellectualism.
He's very careful with his wordings. A gentleman through and through. Hearing him is like a warm blanket that you wrap around yourself warm and cozy and safe.
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Something biden can never do.
@@milesfargo5714 biden is like 100 years old so not easy
Obama was the best
Lol You people haven’t realized yet OBAMA is running the show under His puppet OBiden wake up he’s the devil
Together with Michelle, this was the best 8 years in the White House for Americans at least in my lifetime!
@@harley2die4 Step away from the orange Kool-aid Karen!
Except for gas over four dollars a gallon and grocers doubled.
Thousands of middle class lives destroyed, girls raped on way to US border, child dies of diabetes due to Obamacare. You socialists living on taxpayer money fared well. Once T back, please renounce your US citizenship and move to Brussels, Belgium. America will never be a socialist country with no hope for the majority as you desire!
Thousands of middle class lives destroyed, girls raped on way to US border, child dies of diabetes due to Obamacare. You socialists living on taxpayer money fared well. Once T back, please renounce your US citizenship and move to Brussels, Belgium. America will never be a socialist country with no hope for the majority as you desire!
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Nothing about how educated he is.
Or that he won twice both times by the popular votes and the electoral collage.
Nor that none of his Associates are in prison or on their way there.
Didn't call anyone names nor insults anyone.
This is what class decency loyalty and intelligent looks and sound like.
Class love and humility
Or the fact that nearly 50% of the people who voted for him in 2008 didn’t vote for him again in 2012, and as recently as 2017 an independent poll with a large sample size, showed that 74% of voters who voted for him in 2008 (me being one of them) said that they regretted it and felt manipulated and cheated by the campaign promises that he not only did not keep, but went radically in the opposite direction from (end the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan and bring the troops home, instead he escalated them and in his first term alone, indiscriminately murdered more innocent civilians, women and children with just drone bombings, than Bush did in 8 years total; he was going to restore the rule of law, end mass surveillance of all US citizens, and repeal the sections of the “Patriot act” that allowed it to take place….instead he increased the budget of the NSA, massively expanded the cooperation with foreign governments to assist them in surveilling their citizens, in exchange for them taking up some slack and keeping heat off his administration, by doing the surveillance of Americans here 🤔
Ahem… Bill Ayers, the convicted Weather Underground domestic terrorist who orchestrated the bombing of the Capital and the Pentagon in the 1970s, who was also close friends with Obama, got him started as a “community organizer” ran his early local campaigns, and advised him during the 2008 campaign 🤔
You know nothing about “class, decency, integrity, morals” and CLEARLY you know even less about what is going on within your own government or the borders of your own country!!!
This guy is the most corrupt president to ever hold the office!! Biden is corrupt, but he also has dementia and is being controlled by the same people who held positions through all 8 years of the “IllBombYa” regime!!!
@@mostlypeacefulmisterputin Boo hoo. Sounds like MAGAT talk.
@@rhondahartung5253 lmao - Obama is a communist traitor piece of shit war criminal just as bad as bush and everyone knew this before Trump ever considered running for Prez. You’re such a low IQ pleb that you’re swept away by someone with competency in public speaking. You’re precisely the kind of person vulnerable to demagoguery. Obamacare fucking ruined health insurance.
@@vknight7497 You're obviously too stupid to understand both facts AND healthcare, and you Obama Derangement syndrome is obvious. Seek mental help ASAP. Obamacare covers it, wacko.
@@mostlypeacefulmisterputin
I hope your are enjoying the mentally deranged TRE45ON handy work.
Everything Tre45on touches dies.
Our democracy is on life support because treason wants to be a dictator.
And some of those same people returned to sensibility and voted for President Biden.
We fired Tre45on we never fired President Obama.
I barely run through your TRASH.
In voting for Democracy.
Inflation deflation and recessions comes and goes.
Dictatorship DON'T!!!
I think you need to slow down your common sense is trying to catch up with you.
AMAZING INTERVIEW - I got a little weepy to hear such rational and carefully spoken opinions.
I totally agree - the world needs more “Obamas “ in office …
Listening Canadian here. I'm frightened with the current U.S. political state. I miss President Obama, his truth, knowledge, love of his country is and always has been apparent. Thank you for this interview. Wishing you all the best in the upcoming midterms.
Fellow Canadian here....I concur.
The best president of my lifetime. Spanky was a complete embarrassment to our country. He continues to prove what a con man can do to the highly uneducated.
listening to this man talk again - not as a president but just a citizen - it is no wonder we are so traumatized - to go for 8 years of this guy driving the ship - only to be handed over to that psychopath - we have all lived thru it and it is still hard to comprehend
Obama done absolutely nothing for America.
I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE STILL FALLOW tRUMP God let's get history back in schools .
Now we have a dementia patient you fools voted for. Did any of you people notic he has dementia. Biden is not running the country, Obama is! All the democrats do is chase Trump, while the economy goes to hell!
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
nt
This was superb! I'll never stop missing President Obama, an intellect, a gentleman and a dry wit. Thank you for interviewing this great American.❤
Hearing this amazing man speak was like a spa day for my soul. Thank you so much for this lovely gift. God, I miss him.
Can't thank you enough for this! What a welcome break from the lunacy and jibberish of so many politicians lately. He actually says something when he speaks!
Simply amazing
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Who do you think is behind the scenes
@@cl8804 Nobody had any idea as to what would happen at that time.
@@cl8804 2007, he's campaigning to the BASE of D Party. Now he's Prez. A Black Prez was Not the one to force our ✝️ population into accepting this forced on them? I agree w SCOTUS. It's in the hands of each States voters. Right now, right wing Media is saying, "YOU, want & will vote for 9th month abortion, FOR ANY REASON. OR W/O A REASON. AND, MOM CAN HAVE A LIVING INFANT KILLED. and millions of voters believe it. So.. vote good, for your State legislators. RED Kansas did. Most Americans don't want limitless abortion. Yet way too many D's demand it. Most of USA, is against too strict limits. As in RED Kansas
@@cl8804 didn't Roe put it in States control anyway?
👏👏👏👏👏
Getting to the core of the crap: People have to stop giving lip-service, and step up and vote! A huge part of the problem, is people being complacent in what will impact their own lives, and passing the blame-buck to others, for things not getting done or improving for them!
Great pod, guys, and thank you very much for your time and views President Obama...🙏🏻
Totally agree it's amazing how many people just don't care... They seem to have the 'oh nothing will happen to me' and then their throwing an emotional petulant shit storm when their medical bills are sky-high, or the cost of gas and food...
Great show and ask Barrock if he has a twin so he can run in 2024 or Maybe a sister...
YES ....This is a needed msg
I agree. We need to step up and let our voices and choices be heard by voting. I am a baby boomer but my greatest worry is about how the direction our country is going will be detrimental to the generations behind mine by suppressing rights and opportunities.
Maybe they should give people something to vote for, not something to vote against. You can only hear “this is the most important election of our lifetime” so many times before it starts not to mean anything. Stop trying to guilt voters. Politics in Washington is a rigged game with 2 parties working on their own behalf, not the peoples behalf.
Well, Obama is correct in stating that democracy is the most important thing, because without a democracy, voting would indeed be pointless. If the person currently in office can decide to overturn and/or dismiss the votes when they're not in his/her favor, then that would indeed make voting a very pointless act.
I could just listen to Obama talk for ever and ever and ever. It's not so much the topics they're talking about (although those are interesting too), but the WAY in which Obama conducts himself and reacts. He has such grace, eloquence, class and empathy. You'll see it again and again when someone poses him with a question that COULD be taken to the dark side, he swerves the temptation for negativity and re-alters the track onto a more productive and positive side. His charisma and emotional intelligence just oozes. Trump is literally the exact opposite in every respect.
Every time I listen to President Obama speak for any length of time I am struck by how thoughtful, eloquent and perfectly exemplifies everything an American President stands for and should be. He recognizes his place in history and is humbled by it. Greatest President of all time
he's an animal
Thank you for this discussion. Whenever I listen to President Obama I am reassured that we can weather these difficult times.
I glad someone is blocking the Trolls on the podcast.
@@cbourgeois538 There are definitely some in a few of the threads on here.
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
nt
You are as bad as the Trumpers.
Four young men intently listing to a knowledgeable elder, is so assuring.
"Young men"! Ha, they're in their 40s.
@@josephlunderville3195 my age they are young
Those old farts!! Nothing young about them at all..and whom they're listening to is scary!!!
this guy is a terrorist, he gave billions to Iran to kill our troops in syria, said it was ok for grown men to go in to little girl bathrooms
@@rodeoclownobama5796 you can't steel other peoples money. How many little girls rooms have you visited?
Iowa citizen here. We haven't all lost our minds. I've talked 6 people into voting in the midterms. Blue 💙💙💙💙
Nebraska citizen here…we all need to stick to our plan, crazy out…sensible in! Blue wave
Obama saying that we became complacent about protections assuming the courts would protect us hit me like a wall. So painfully true. I feel so foolish to admit I never imagined RvW would ever be overturned and yet here we are.
And he was courteous when he made the statement. It wasnt a blow or accusatory to anyone, it was the truth. Painful, but honest and truthful.
Yep. He's still the shit. Just as he's always been....smart, kind, relatable...all of it. I miss him.
he was always shit nothing but
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
An actually intelligent ex president who still inspires me and a lot of other people. Thankyou for this.
Legally the term is former president and referred to as Mr. Obama.
But as an Hawaiian resident who used to bodysurf with him at Sandy Beach I guess I’ll always think of him as Mr. President.
Exactly
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
@@cl8804 Forget all that, dude is responsible for more drone bombings than any other president
I'd venture to say that Barack Obama will be considered one of the most beloved Presidents of the 21st Century.
Man this guy gets it. President Obama delivered when he was in, and he delivers now. Its just a shame he can't run again. I mean he could if he wanted, but after all the crap the Republicans put him through, I can understand he would not want to be the man again. But his voice, his presence, its so calm and reassuring. When we had all those mass shootings, he was very helpful with calming the victims families! This was a great podcast!
He didn't deliever though
@@jb894 blocked at every turn. not one shred of 'bipartisanship'.
@@michaeladkins6 nonsense
What a treat to wake up to Obama being interviewed by intelligent people.
He’s the reason Ukraine is at war. Screw that guy
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
A bdcthey are you people!!!!❤
Love t o President Obama!!!!!!
@@cl8804 He never imagined three seats would change hands in four years. He should have taken care of abortion and same sex marriage.
Thank you for this guys. This man is unbelievable. When you listen to famous and important people speak, you listen to them feeling like you're just in the background. Everytime I listen to this man, I get this feeling in my chest and I sometimes get teary eyed with things he said. He always taps the human side. Love this guy.
He literally gives me inner peace, just hearing his voice. I get all choked up when I hear him talk about this country and the American people that he truly cares so much for. We need ALL of our presidents to care as much as him, Biden and Carter do about people and not just the military and money.
He’s unbelievable because he’s lying. He brought in all this Democrat collusion THAT corrupted our revered agencies like the FBI, DOJ, NIH. Democrats are hell-bent on changing the American government away from individual freedom and states rights, to federal government control. Democrats cannot win on their own platform whatever the hell that is, so They want to stack the Supreme Court, they want to ruin the electoral college system, they are currently destroying our fossil fuel industry, they want to add a couple of more states.
@@randibgood you’re delusional
@@user-ir1lu1ei4n maga?
Have you actually looked at Obamas record?
I could listen to this man for hours.
Hi y’all 👋 Just watched this I know it was posted a few months ago, but can I say how the Interviewers were so respectful to Mr Obama during the whole show! Well done Gentlemen & Thank you Mr Obama for your thoughtful thoughts & May your legend live on forever & ever! #44TheManTheLegend4ever 👍😉💕💕💕🇺🇸
Thank you for running this interview on youtube. I'm not working & cannot afford another streaming service, even with 4 months free (I would forget to cancel, for sure). You all are the best!
Judy, it was also released today as a Pod Save America episode on whatever your (free) podcast streaming service of choice is (if you use one). It was just on SiriusFM as an early release! :)
I hear you Judy, 69 living on ss and small pension. I do pay for no ad utube, no tv...in my area cable is almost 1000 a year!
Yes!
PROBLEM with Obama's narrative is, he knows the Democrats are mostly crooked, and its every man for himself. Sure democracy is good, freedom is good, but only if the people in it especially the leadership are good and are people with integrity! Otherwise what you get is a big bunch of self serving individuals justifying whatever they hope to get from their leadership appointments. And this is also why Republicans despite not as focused on liberty and freedom tend to do better as leaders. Because leadership in the Republican's view is a communal drive and less self centered. You don't have individual LGBTFQs coming out to defend their non-binary positions against a common enemy that denounced non-binary people, and you don't have individual migrant relatives and muslims coming out against a common enemy that denounces their illegal status and propensity to kill others in the name of a purported religion. Freedom and Liberty only works when you have an authority that constantly looks down and snuffs out anyone who exerts their own individual rights that is at the expense of others. And Obama does not possess the required integrity and/or moral uprightness and/or power and/or authority to lead them. Vote Republican because its better to have a circus trainer in the circus tent than just opening all the cages of the tigers and lions, including the alpha lion in the name of Freedom and Liberty, the former you have a person with duty and oversight, the latter you have absolute chaos.
yeah uh....podcasts are usually free...as this one is also...on Spotify...and apple podcasts... and like 100 others.
How can anyone listen to the thoughtful commentary from a Harvard-educated scholar like this who was the President and then watch Trump and take him seriously? Trump sounds like a kindergartener in comparison. I actually learn something every time I hear Obama speak. He calms me down and makes me think everything is not lost. You will always be my President!
So true! Never thought about it but I to have learned from him and still do! That’s what I want in a president! Someone I can inspire to, learn from, and be proud of!
@@andreahughes1 Love Obama's calm.
Me for one! Let me ask you this... are you not smart enough to see him talk circles, promote socialism, which cannot come without violence? Can you not see his lies? How about Tulsis Gabbard bailing from the Dems because during his presidency he didn't speak to her, or the middle class, and hell I only made it 13:00! How about former W.H. Press Secrtary calling out Dems, like Pelosi on Meet the Press? How about Candace Owens new documentary debunking BLM and them collecting $80 million in just one taxable year... where the hell did that money go? It didn't go to help the masses or the commniity!
Obama contradicted himself in less than 13 minutes! Clinton was the Poster Child who started this mess and Obama felt the need to out do Billy boy and now we have Biden who has done nothing but destroyed this country with high inflation, record number of illegal immigration, bailing on our own people in Afgahstan not to mention leaving billions behind in military hardware, destroyed our energy sector, giving nearly $100 billion to Ukraine which unless Biden de-escalates things, it will result in Putin using nucs!
I eft the party in 1992 under Clinton like Tulsi did and I sure in the hell hope Obama reviews these comments as like Tulsi and so many others, he bailed on us! Obama created the biggest racial divde since the days of salvery! And I truly thought it could get worse than Clinton. Then along came Obama with his false promises and lies. Then just when I thought Obama will go down in history as the worst president in history, along comes Biden to out do Obama!
I would bet the majority of those commenting here are young people who are still ignorant and confused. That is what they {the Obamas of gov't do] target the young people and brainwash you into believing this and his {Obama's] B.S! He is probably colse to being a billionaire by now if he is not already off of the backs and pockets of the middle class!
Try watching Biden 😂😂🙈🙈
Biden is so slow and talks like he could be 100 years old. idk about you but that is creepy, a man with dementia as president. not good
Hey Barack, how about lunch? He's my favorite President during my life time.
The Man, The Myth, The Legend #BarackObama 🥺
He’s a cool dude 😎
Tfg is so JEALOUS of this guy, not hard to see why😁
For one thing, Obama can speak into a microphone without sinking to the level of a bratty 10 year old!
He made a comment about progressives. I worry that progressives are focused on the perfect candidate instead of looking toward improved and better candidates. Progress is always incremental. Obama,still and always inspiring. Biden is a good man and doing good things for our country. He's just not as eloquent a speaker.
I just wish the Dems could give us someone younger. Biden is too old to be President. So was Trump, to a degree.
Excellent. There's a lot here to digest.
Wish he could run again. He is so logical and poised.
Sure. But in a country of almost 335 million people, how is it so hard to find one more qualified, intelligent, unifying leader, who is willing to do the job?
@@juliagrahm5553 apparently really hard given how dumb the average bipartisan American is on basic issues.
Awesome interview!! I love that Obama brought up Fetterman! He has my vote. Let’s flip this PA senate seat blue 💪💪💙
He is such a wonderful human being. Lifts me up, and gives me HOPE.
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Yes you do have lots of followers on Twitter. I’m one them. 🖐❤️
I'm up here in Toronto and I adore Barack Obama, I just love him!
This is how I want to start my Saturday mornings every week. ❤
Thank you! Pod Save America is my new favorite place to visit! 💙💙
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
ouch
@@cl8804 no one likes or reads ur comment lol cope harder. DeleteTheGOP❄️🌎❄️
Give this man a 3rd term please
Thank you guys for interviewing Barack!
He soothes my spirit and brings back the hope l felt when he was our leader.
I will listen to this interview again and l wish that l could give you multiple thumbs up.
obummer 🤮
💯👍👍💙
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
Such a smart man 🙂
Gawd I'd forgotten what an articulate President sounds like...
B Obama the voice of reason ❤was listening to his wife earlier, they are both lovely loving people! God Bless! Fr. Canada!
As I’m listening to this wonderful discussion with an amazing President, I’m also filling out my mail in ballot for the November 8th election. I’ve instilled the importance of voting to my children just like my mother did to me. I was home on leave in 1976 before heading to my next duty station in Okinawa while serving in the Army. Mom took me to voters services to register to vote where I voted absentee ballot for Jimmy Carter who then became my Commander-in-Chief.
So wonderful to hear an ex president with such high values and integrity. We are lucky to have had him i n office for 8 years. So glad his ex Vice President now has the job.
The class former president Barack Obama shows is a trademark, thank you, Sir!
Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.
GOD bless and GOD save America.
Excuse me but that’s a typo: POD bless and POD save America. 😍
God bless us all, no matter what country we come from. George Carlin was right.
@@michelekett8450 You're right. Thank you.
Why are women thought of as a minority? We are >50% of the global population. Come on women get out and vote!!! We got this.
Thank you Barack ✨️ ❤️✨️
What a real human being, thinking about your fellow man and not about just yourself. You should want for your brother, that you want for yourself.
What a testimonial to the fact life changes quickly. President Obama is of course the polar opposite to tfg. It is unbelievably sad for our country that so many do not recognize the difference in these two men as it relates to their individual lives. Obama inspires life and hope, tfg inspires hate and cruelty.
Preach, preacher!! Say it again for those at the back!!!
It was inevitable because they are racists and always have been. Obama doesn't inspire them. He scares them.
Unfortunately, those people see shade and could care less about intelligence and character.
Well stated.
his drone strikes and inability to codify roe v wade with a 60 seat democrat majority in the senate made me really hopeful!
Thanks for your sharing.
Positive motivation 💝 the best way to succeed developement ❣💪
"One man with courage, is a majority."
~ Thomas Jefferson
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
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@@cl8804 They want Total Gun Control because it kill (just like Hitler) yet they want to legalize abortion which kills babies even being born alive crying and moving. What kind of democracy is that. He also says LGBT rights to the point that now they (not all) have children stripping and dancing on polls and putting money on drag queens. What is that!!!
@@cl8804
do you think you're saying something meaningful here? because you're not.
it has never yet been the case that 100% of democrats support abortion rights. democrats from places where other people support abortion rights support abortion rights. democrats from right wing hell holes often do not, because democrats from right wing hell holes who do support abortion rights generally lose to republicans. president obama correctly understood that while there was a tenuous, and for most of the year theoretical, democratic majority, there was never a pro-choice majority, and therefore the legislation could not pass.
Still the best President, in my life time.
1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. President Obama
1. Lincoln
2. FDR
3. Washington
4. T Roosevelt
5. LBJ
6. Obama
(Biden still unranked but he might end up at 6th)
I prefer to not list presidents who enslaved Black Americans in my list but ok.
True Leadership even out of office.
Barack Obama is my favorite president to date. Intelligent, humble a good family man with the stuff it took to be our countrie's first black president! I miss him and wish him nothing but the best! 💖🌊💪
Is it just me, or does just the sound of Barack Obama's voice bring inner peace? Hopefully not just me. We need more inner peace around here.
ETA: And what a wise man to have these brilliant men on his staff!
I agree. These young men give me hope.
No, he is a snake.
Thank you for interviewing President Obama! He is so level headed and encouraging! 💙Vote Blue no matter who!
Great interview. Masters class in politics.
To the staff of Pod SAVE AMERICA 🇺🇸 excellent interview 👏 with a PATRIOT who was the best President in the last 6 decades 😀 intelligence and empathy and fairness and respect for all citizens 👏 I know this don't mean much coming from an average man like me but anyways FABULOUS AWESOME WELL DONE 👐 you and yours 👐🇺🇸🙏😎 Give us the people of America 🇺🇸 MORE OF THESE KIND OF INTERVIEWS 👐 president BARACK OBAMA 🙏
I agree! But the best thing about these men is that they never made/make people feel inconsequential or unimportant. Their whole platform is based on inclusivity and patriotism. Amazing humans.
@@nycatlady2314 your someone people should listen to and learn from it sounds to me like you are a teacher or a professor somewhere or will be one! God bless 🙌 you a d God Bless 🙌 the USA 🇺🇸 🙏 ❣️
Sorry in what way was he the best president in the last few decades?
@@Mistyfire: Waaay too many ways to list here. Were you in a coma between 2008 and 2016? Honest question.
@@Mistyfire after that idiot draft dodging idiot little boy tRUMP mickey mouse would be better ,A real patriot would have fought against fascism instead of becoming a commie fascist Lock tRUMP up ...
Thank you guys for getting him on for he still and will always speak to the majority of us , A man who thinks twice before words leave his mouth..he has respect to the words he says. his knowledgeable clearly when you listen to his responses and contributions, his empathic, his understanding, his a great teacher ...I enjoyed listening to him very much....By the way thanks guys for not wearing t shirts on this one, very much noted & appreciated 😉
Julie you captured the whole gestalt with your beautiful words.
This man has my respect - I miss him as president and thankful every time he speaks to us since his terms were over.
Exactly
PROBLEM with Obama's narrative is, he knows the Democrats are mostly crooked, and its every man for himself. Sure democracy is good, freedom is good, but only if the people in it especially the leadership are good and are people with integrity! Otherwise what you get is a big bunch of self serving individuals justifying whatever they hope to get from their leadership appointments. And this is also why Republicans despite not as focused on liberty and freedom tend to do better as leaders. Because leadership in the Republican's view is a communal drive and less self centered. You don't have individual LGBTFQs coming out to defend their non-binary positions against a common enemy that denounced non-binary people, and you don't have individual migrant relatives and muslims coming out against a common enemy that denounces their illegal status and propensity to kill others in the name of a purported religion. Freedom and Liberty only works when you have an authority that constantly looks down and snuffs out anyone who exerts their own individual rights that is at the expense of others. And Obama does not possess the required integrity and/or moral uprightness and/or power and/or authority to lead them. Vote Republican because its better to have a circus trainer in the circus tent than just opening all the cages of the tigers and lions, including the alpha lion in the name of Freedom and Liberty, the former you have a person with duty and oversight, the latter you have absolute chaos.
Aka silver tongues Devil.
😊Pres Obama like Pres Carter more beneficial before and after the Presidential years. CAN'T GET BETTER THAN THAT!! Thank God for y'all's spirit 🙏
That is a President!❤️❤️❤️❤️
This maybe the most important interview of this moment. Thank you for making this conversation happen. Every Democrat needs to hear it.
Your leader obama run the national debt up more than all the Presidents combined ,, your leader gave the no. 1 Terrorist country Iran pallet's of cash delivered by air plane in the middle of the night ,, because Valerie Jarrett was head of staff ,, and she wanted to give Americas hard earned money to her friends in Iran , your leader divided the country pitted Americans against each other too divide and conquer ,, the oldest trick in the book ,, your leader hero Politicized the crime every time a black got in trouble , oh look white people are bad , i could go on & on this has to be the most divisive EVER President to run the country ,he was a young Black man with a chip on his shoulder TOTALY in over his head .. I can' say what i really feel , words are not allowed ...
7 wars in the east
@@htatesil4192 Don't forget about the major wars caused by Bush Jr. Iraq and Afghanistan.
@@24Wynn Iraq and Afghanistan were bipartisan (both Dems and Repubs) with very few voicing dissent. Even Bernie Sanders voted for the Afghanistan war. Obama is a war criminal that had no qualms drone striking civilians including US citizens. Obama's Secret Service code name was Renegade for a reason.
He is a sweet talker but that didn’t stop him from conducting illegal wars in the Middle East.
Lovett came locked and loaded! Content + timing + delivery was fantastic, even on the ads.
I truly miss President Obama’s calm, thoughtful competence. Thank you for this episode.
no, it's calm cool calculation.. you still don't get it, do you?
@@simonlee8889 No, its the mark of someone who's educated and intelligent. Something we didn't have during Trump's reign of terror.
@@rhondahartung5253 no, it's delusional nonsense...Trump's reign of terror? hahahahaha.. all the terror came from those plotting against him... Look, I detest the guy too and didn't trust him, but honestly the whole thing is a gruesome pantomime. And this China assessment? Laughably wrong.. Do some proper research, don't just listen to this tosh....
@@simonlee8889 You're seriously delusional. #MAGATALERT
Oh how we miss you 🙏💜✌🇺🇸
I have so much respect for President Obama. He is an intelligent, compassionate individual who really wants a strong democracy for everyone.
Fantastic interview!! You all did an incredible job leading the conversation on domestic and international politics with President Obama that was so natural and yet so incredibly informative. Brilliant!!
He frames each issue in an overarching theme, both measured and fact-based. In this way, Obama lowers the temperature, even if it's a criticism. Example: the helpful comment Obama made about the recent Supreme Court decisions--that they were "less concerned about privacy and personal freedoms".
Trump and DeSantis is a better person then he will ever be
to the powerful folks... standing for...the people... thanku
This is what I needed!!! - Hopefully resets my brain which as been on high anxiety. Better is Good.
Such bright thinkers
Oh god how I miss this wise and thoughtful man. We need lots more like him.
So wise he received the nobel peace price before doing anything and after that kill almost a million civilians. But his voice is so cool and of course he is black. Actually he is mixed
"In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law "is not the highest legislative priority."
That legislation was the Freedom of Choice Act, which would have effectively enshrined Roe v. Wade into law. In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
For a brief period during the 111th Congress, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate when independents who caucus with the Democrats are taken into account but the Freedom of Choice Act never became law."
"He's the first clean, articulate African American..."
-Joe Biden
Miss a man that bombed kids? sounds good.🤡
@@cl8804 he sucks too. Best president since carter.
Biden has exceeded my earlier expectations. He deserves credit and support.
I hope you are joking. 😂
He deserves a consultation with Jack Kevorkian
Agree. He's cleaning up Trump's disastrous mess. The MAGATS just can't handle facts.
Tell me you're serious he's done a horrible job high gas prices inflation you think he's done a good job resolution
Looks like you've triggered alot of MAGATS who don't understand how the economy works, Mitch....😂😂😂