I did
not expect this sort of common sense from Piers Morgan:
Obama’s spent the past few weeks charging around like a guy who’s watching the clock tick down and is desperate to snatch some semblance of victory from the jaws of a crushing, humiliating defeat.
Since the election, as the New York Times reported, he’s banned oil drilling off the Atlantic coast, named over 100 people to a range of senior government jobs, created new environmental monuments, commuted the sentences of 232 inmates and pardoned 78 others, protected funding for Planned Parenthood clinics, ordered the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay and blocked new Israeli settlements.
As some critics sneer, it’s more governing than he’s done in eight years. In his most dramatic action, Obama claimed Russia swung the election Trump’s way by hacking Hillary Clinton’s emails and leaking them to Wikileaks to destroy her campaign. He retaliated by throwing out a load of Russian diplomats.
The fact Obama produced no hard evidence to substantiate this very serious claim didn’t seem to matter to the former constitutional law expert... But it suits Obama’s game to say that it was all down to Putin because it distracts from the real reason.
Donald Trump didn’t win the presidency because of Russia, emails, FBI Director James Comey or the weather in Michigan.
He won because, according to reputable polls before the November 8 vote, 70% of Americans felt their country was going in the wrong direction...
He even tosses some praise to Bush II:
Obama’s been very disappointing.
Not least in the manner of his departure.
President George W. Bush, for all his many faults, was extraordinarily magnanimous towards Obama himself during their transition period.
In fact, he is widely regarded as having been the most generous and solicitous outgoing presidents in history.
And he’s continued to be so ever since, never popping up above the ex-president parapet to berate, rebuke or attack his successor.
Instead, Dubya sensibly retreated into the sidings, understanding that the job is difficult enough without the previous incumbent making it even harder.
Obama, by contrast, seems intent on making the transition to a Trump administration as poisonous and unhelpful as he possibly can...
Obama’s messianic halo has crumbled, revealing just another politician who thought he could change the world and ended up changing not very much at all.
His America is not discernibly better than the one George W. Bush handed to him. It remains just as bitterly divided, racially toxic and economically unequal as it was before.
We know it, he knows it, and this election result proved it.
It was a repudiation of Obama as much as Hillary.
Now, as the final buzzer sounds, Mr Nice Guy is showing his true colours and morphing into the mean, nasty basketball player who hates the fact his team’s getting Trumped and is doing anything he can to stop it happening.
It’s too late, Mr President.
The game’s over.
Your team lost.
So get over it and start behaving with some of the damn dignity that your aides keep bragging about.
Dare to dis Obama and praise Bush? I guess that makes Piers a racist.
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