{"id":1949092,"date":"2023-06-16T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T16:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-slams-gop-minority-candidates-as-too-eager-to-all-get-along\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T16:16:49","slug":"obama-slams-gop-minority-candidates-as-too-eager-to-all-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-slams-gop-minority-candidates-as-too-eager-to-all-get-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama criticizes GOP &#8216;minority candidates&#8217; for being too willing to &#8216;conform&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-slams-gop-minority-candidates-as-too-eager-to-all-get-along%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1949092&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Former President Obama Criticizes GOP &#8220;Minority Candidates&#8221;<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If a Republican who may even be sincere in saying \u2018I want us all to live together\u2019 doesn\u2019t have a plan for how do we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-slams-gop-minority-candidates-as-too-eager-to-all-get-along\/\" title=\"Obama criticizes GOP '<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minority-employees-slam-house-dem-plan-to-boost-diversity-at-state-department\/\" title=\"Minority Employees Slam House Dem Plan To Boost Diversity at State Department\">minority candidates<\/a>&#8216; for being too willing to &#8216;conform'&#8221;>address crippling generational poverty<\/a> &#8230; we actually have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk,&#8221; Obama said on a podcast with David Axelrod, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-glad-rush-limbaugh-lived-long-enough-to-get-cancer-and-die-blue-check-leftists-celebrate-rush-limbaughs-death\/\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019m Glad Rush Limbaugh Lived Long Enough To Get Cancer And Die.\u2019 Blue-Check Leftists Celebrate Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Death\">senior political commentator<\/a> at CNN and former strategist for Obama&#8217;s campaigns. &#8220;If they\u2019re not doing that, then I think people are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-grassley-demands-answers-on-biden-family-ties-with-china\/\" title=\"Sen. Grassley demands answers on Biden family ties with China\">rightly skeptical<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama added that &#8220;there\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photo-evidence-dominion-voting-machines-have-made-in-china-labels\/\" title=\"PHOTO EVIDENCE: Dominion Voting Machines Have \u201cMade in China\u201d Labels\">long history<\/a> of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, \u2018Everything\u2019s great, and we can make it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Responses from Nikki Haley and Tim Scott<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Haley, former governor of South Carolina and the first Republican to jump in the 2024 race, responded to Obama&#8217;s comments, saying he encouraged people to see themselves as &#8220;victims.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/15\/obama-bashes-nikki-haley-and-tim-scott-on-race-relations-long-list-of-minority-candidates-in-gop-who-say-everything-is-great\/\">(source)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scott, a senator from South Carolina, similarly called out Obama for not using his power to help heal race relations. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/15\/obama-bashes-nikki-haley-and-tim-scott-on-race-relations-long-list-of-minority-candidates-in-gop-who-say-everything-is-great\/\">(source)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Barack Obama set minorities back by singling them out as victims instead of empowering them. In America, hard work and personal responsibility matter. My parents didn\u2019t raise me to think that I would forever be a victim. They raised me to know that I was responsible for my success,&#8221; Haley told the <em>New York Post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He missed a softball moving at slow speed with a big bat,&#8221; Scott told radio host Mark Levin this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can\u2019t miss this opportunity. America was hungry for bringing our country together, this coalition building where you can see Black kids and White kids and red ones and brown ones, as MLK spoke about, joining hands and singing with new meaning, \u2018My country \u2018tis of thee,'&#8221; Scott said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Barack Obama cautioned voters to be cautious of GOP &#8220;minority candidates&#8221; like Tim Scott and Nikki Haley, who advocate for unity without offering concrete solutions. 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