{"id":1310,"date":"2025-01-19T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2025-01-19T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T21:02:00","slug":"obama-caught-in-telling-moment-during-hypocritical-forum-speech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"Obama Caught In \u2018Telling\u2019 Moment During \u2018Hypocritical\u2019 Forum Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama faced backlash during his speech at the Obama Foundation\u2019s 2024 Democracy Forum for claims about Republicans that critics said mirrored his own party\u2019s actions. Obama accused Republicans of \u201cstacking the deck,\u201d suppressing votes, politicizing the military, and weaponizing the justice system\u2014remarks some viewed as hypocritical, given similar actions attributed to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s brief pause mid-speech, where he appeared to self-censor, drew attention on social media, with critics like Kevin Sorbo and conservative commentator Collin Rugg highlighting the moment as revealing.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, reports suggest Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pressured President Joe Biden to abandon his reelection bid after a poor debate performance against now-President-elect Donald Trump. Actor George Clooney, feeling misled after supporting Biden\u2019s exit, reportedly criticized Obama for leaving him to manage fallout among Hollywood elites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama faced backlash during his speech at the Obama Foundation\u2019s 2024 Democracy Forum for claims about Republicans that critics said mirrored his own party\u2019s actions. Obama accused Republicans of \u201cstacking the deck,\u201d suppressing votes, politicizing the military, and weaponizing the justice system\u2014remarks some viewed as hypocritical, given similar actions attributed to Democrats. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}