Divider-in-Chief Obama: ‘This Country Was Founded on Protest’

In a virtual town hall on Wednesday, former President Barack Obama weighed in on the nationwide protests and rioting sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody last week, declaring that “this country was founded on protest.”

“Just remember this country was founded on protest,” Obama proclaimed. “It’s called the American Revolution, and every step of progress of this country, every expansion of freedom, every expression of our deepest ideals has been won through efforts that has [sic] made the status quo uncomfortable.

“They are the result of a long history of slavery, Jim Crow, institutionalized racism that have too often have been the plague of the original sin of our society,” he added.

Slavery is not America’s “original sin”; it was universal until England and America ended it. Nor is there any institutionalized racism in America, where blacks occupy positions of power at every level of society. Comparing the rioting and looting ravaging the country to the American Revolution is shameful and false.

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Obama’s Overall Record

In January 2008 the National Journal published its rankings of all U.S. senators — based on how they had voted on a host of foreign and domestic policy bills — and rated Barack Obama “the most liberal Senator of 2007.” “Obama’s [foreign policy] liberal score of 92 and conservative score of 7 indicate that he was more liberal in that issue area than 92 percent of the senators and more conservative than 7 percent,” the researchers explained. In the area of domestic policy voting, the study found that “Obama voted the liberal position on 65 of the 66 key votes on which he voted … [and] garnered perfect liberal scores in both the economic and social categories.”

The leftist organization Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) similarly rated Obama’s Senate voting record at 97.5 percent. By contrast, the American Conservative Union (the ADA’s ideological antithesis) gave Obama a rating of 8 percent.

After declaring his presidential candidacy in early 2007, Obama clearly became far more focused on campaigning for his White House run than on performing the legislative duties for which he had been elected to the U.S. Senate. From January 2007 through September 2008, he missed 303 votes (a total of 46 percent of all votes that came before the Senate.

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