Campaign Quote by Glenn Greenwald

Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Much of the establishment was actually encouraging Obama to run in 2008.

— Harry Enten

“Barack Obama disappeared from the political scene even more rapidly than he had appeared a dozen years before. He was replaced by a populist,…

— Piero San Giorgio

This is classic Donald Trump. This is the movement, not the party. He has been agitating against the leadership, the Washington establishment, the status…

— Bob Ehrlich

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in…

— Matt Taibbi

Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it.

— Rush Limbaugh

I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.

— Noam Chomsky

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way…

— James Spader

I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged…

— Pete Wentz

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

— Philip Roth

“Obama won, but he had few illusions that he had vanquished big money. “I’m an incumbent president who already had this huge network of…

— Jane Mayer

Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008…

— Rick Wilson