{"id":2011081,"date":"2023-08-24T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-3-0-vivek-ramaswamy-channels-worst-living-president\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:55:33","slug":"obama-3-0-vivek-ramaswamy-channels-worst-living-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-3-0-vivek-ramaswamy-channels-worst-living-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy embodies Obama&#8217;s worst traits."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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-3-0-vivek-ramaswamy-channels-worst-living-president%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=2011081&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--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Obama 3.0: Vivek Ramaswamy Channels Worst Living President\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/watch-vivek-ramaswamy-takes-fire-over-calls-for-american-retreat\" data-post-url id=\"print-1787040\">\n<div>\n<p><h2>He&#8217;s a &#8216;skinny guy with a funny last name.&#8217; An &#8216;outsider&#8217; \u2063promising to bring \u200bchange\u2064 to Washington. Sound familiar?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\">\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Vivek Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old entrepreneur, introduced himself to \u200cthe American \u200dpublic Wednesday night\u2063 at the\u200c first Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/b-team-brawl-non-trump-candidates-duke-it-out-in-first-gop-primary-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primary debate<\/a> \u200d in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened next<\/strong>: Rival GOP candidates took turns hammering the\u2064 new kid for his\u200b lack of political experience. Some observers remarked that Ramaswamy reminded them \u200bof a certain Democratic whippersnapper \u2064who burst onto the scene in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barack Obama 3.0<\/strong>: Ramaswamy stole a line from former president Barack Obama&#8217;s \u200dkeynote address at the Democratic\u2064 National Convention\u200c in \u20622004, describing himself as a &#8220;skinny guy\u2064 with a funny last name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During an exchange with former vice president Mike Pence about Russian president \u200cVladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine, \u2062Ramaswamy echoed Obama&#8217;s (ignorant, in retrospect) put-down of GOP candidate \u200dMitt Romney in\u200b 2012. \u2064&#8221;I have a newsflash,&#8221; Ramaswamy told Pence. &#8220;The USSR does not exist anymore. \u2063It fell back in 1990.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The comment reminded observers of the\u200b time Obama \u200dmocked Romney&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elliott-abrams-launches-group-to-chart-gop-foreign-policy\/\" title=\"Elliott Abrams Launches Group to Chart GOP Foreign Policy\">foreign policy views<\/a> by saying, &#8220;The 1980s are \u2062now calling to ask for their \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-embarrassing-tulsi-gabbard-slams-kamala-harris-for-her-remarks-during-international-trip\/\" title=\"\u2018This Is Embarrassing\u2019: Tulsi Gabbard Slams Kamala Harris For Her Remarks During International Trip\">foreign policy back<\/a> because \u2062the Cold \u2062War&#8217;s been \u200cover for 20 years.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ramaswamy cast himself as \u200ba fresh-faced &#8220;outsider&#8221; running against\u200d &#8220;professional politicians&#8221;\u200d stuck in their ways. &#8220;If you have\u2064 a broken car,\u200d you don\u2019t\u200d turn over the keys to the \u200dpeople who broke it again, you\u2062 hand\u200d it over\u200d to \u200da new generation to actually\u2062 fix the problem,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That\u2019s why\u200d I\u2019m in this race and we\u2019re just getting warmed up.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obama used nearly identical \u200drhetoric\u2064 during his acceptance speech at \u2062the Democratic National Convention\u2064 in 2008, when he urged\u200c Americas to reject &#8220;the\u200d politics of the past&#8221; and chart\u200b a different course. &#8220;The greatest risk we\u200d can take is to try the same old politics\u2063 with \u2064the same old players and expect \u200da different result,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Change happens because the American \u200dpeople demand it\u2014because they rise\u2062 up and insist on new\u200d ideas and\u2063 new leadership, a \u200cnew politics for\u2063 a \u200cnew \u200btime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crucial context<\/strong>: Pete Buttigieg,\u200b the U.S.\u2062 transportation secretary who ran a\u2063 failed campaign for president in 2020, was &#8220;Obama 2.0,&#8221; an overeducated, overachieving \u2062nerd who was technically (but not really) a minority because he married\u200d a\u2062 man. Ramaswamy represents a considerable upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom line<\/strong>: Obama is \u2063America&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-3-0-vivek-ramaswamy-channels-worst-living-president\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy embodies Obama's worst traits.\">worst living president<\/a> and one \u2064of the \u2063most obnoxious politicians\u2064 of all time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>being inexperienced and lacking political credentials. 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