Charles C.W. Cooke
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 29 Jul
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And then they suddenly have a portrait together for the opening of his library and he's in the back.
Can I just add to this?
Because this is the thing that annoys me the most about the Obamas is that the thing that I like the most about Barack Obama is he's black.
by which i mean that i really do think it was a remarkable and beautiful thing that in 2008 a country that had had jim crow and slavery elected a black man as president i think that was an affirmation of the declaration of independence and the american creed that's the thing i liked about him and then everything else he ever did i hated
So it's really quite irritating being told, oh, well, you just did it.
We used to get this in the Obama administration at National Review.
People would say, well, whatever Obama does, you'll oppose it.
And I wrote this piece once saying, just think about what you've just said.
Do you really think that if Barack Obama woke up tomorrow morning and said, you know what?
I've now realized that my politics were wrong.
I'm now a pro-free market, pro-life, pro-constitution person.
conservative.
I love the Second Amendment.
I'm for small government and federalism.
And I think we should do the Paul Ryan tax plan.
Do you think we'd have gone?
Oh, no, no, we have to be against all of those things.
It would have been the greatest day in the world.
We'd have got the champagne out at 11am.
So this idea that the reason that people disliked him was because of that I just think it's very annoying.
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