“I definitely think that there's some politicians who could use some meditation. There is no doubt about that,” former President Obama quipped while speaking in Germany. He also joked that Michelle Obama “would leave me” if he ever ran for office again.
Washington Former President Barack Obama said on Saturday he worries about the far-left, progressive wing of the Democratic party being unwilling to compromise and creating a"circular firing squad" against allies over policy and issue differences.
"One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, 'Uh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be,' and then we start sometimes creating what's called a 'circular firing squad,' where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues," Obama said a town hall in Berlin, Germany, hosted by the Obama...
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