Former President Barack Obama described Herschel Walker as “a celebrity that wants to be a politician” during a speech Friday night in Georgia, lauding the Republican Senate nominee as “one of the best running backs of all time,” but someone who is not equipped to be a United States senator.
Obama went point-for-point against Walker, calling him “someone who carries around a phony badge and says he is in law enforcement like a kid playing cops and robbers,” attacking his “issues of character” and his “habit of not telling the truth,” and describing him as someone who is going to be so loyal to former President Donald Trump “it means he is not going to be really thinking about you or your needs.”
The speech, the former Democratic president’s first full foray onto the campaign trail in 2022, framed the midterms as a choice election “between politicians who seem willing to do anything to get power and leaders who share our values, who see you and care about you.”
“Just about every Republican politician seems obsessed with two things – owning the libs and getting Donald Trump’s approval,” Obama said. “That’s their agenda, it is not long, it is not complicated and, at least to me, it is not very inspiring. They aren’t interested in actually solving problems. They are interested in making you angry and finding someone to blame. Because that way you may not notice that they have got not answers of their own.”
Obama was greeted with booming applause inside the Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia. At several points, he delivered one of his old campaign classics: “Don’t boo, vote!”
He acknowledged the economic headwinds facing Democrats in November, saying: “Listen, inflation is a real problem right now. It’s not just in America, it’s world-wide. It’s one of the legacies of the pandemic.”
But he suggested Republicans have not offered policies or plans of their own, saying: “Republicans talk a lot about it, but what is their answer? What are their economic policies?”
Yet Obama’s most pointed commentary was aimed at Walker, calling his race against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, which is key to control of the evenly split Senate, a “study in contrast.”
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