Opinion: Obama tries to gaslight America about Abdul El-Sayed

 “They will use lies, and maybe your name or your faith to somehow suggest you are dangerous and less American than they are,” he said." 

Opinion by Batya Ungar-Sargon    "With just over a week to go until the midterm elections, former President Obama joined the campaign trail to remind us of just how smug and condescending he can be. It was Obama at his best: He made fun of the tastes of middle-class Americans, getting into hot water over a joke about how tacky the Cheesecake Factory is. He also bemoaned how divisive our politics has gotten — while of course slamming his political opposition as utterly indecent.

"What's more, he reverted to his trademark gaslighting. It's almost as if we were all back in 2012.

"The comments came over the weekend at campaign stops in Ohio and later in Michigan, where the Democratic nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, is struggling with Black voters. El-Sayed’s efforts to court this traditionally stalwart Democratic bloc have fallen flat; a recent poll had former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate, picking up an unprecedented 33 percent of the Black vote.

"Hence Obama’s appearance — a Hail Mary attempt to revive El-Sayed’s support with Black voters.

"At the rally, Obama compared questions about El-Sayed’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhood to the Birther movement — the kooky conspiracy theory that Obama had not been born in the U.S.". . .

. . . "El-Sayed constantly accused his main opponent in that primary, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), of having dual loyalties to Israel. He justified a terror attack that nearly killed 140 Jewish preschoolers by saying that “hurt people hurt people” to explain the would-be mass murderer’s motivations. El-Sayed talks about Israel as an adversary on the scale of Iran. And that is radical." . . .   More.

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