Able Quote by John Ridley

[Obama's] roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war…

— Mark Penn

President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status.…

— Mia Love

“Nevertheless, that Obama was a movement leftist with ambitions to be a transformative president was information available, without great effort, to anyone who wanted…

— Andrew McCarthy

Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the…

— John O. Brennan

Obama can show that America's promise of equality not only means that anyone can reach the highest office in the land - it also…

— Ari Melber

Obama has been successfully dividing Americans like no other president in history.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image.

— Joy Reid

President Obama certainly has an impressive gift for eloquence, and he has a global vision, as did my father. He doesn't rattle easy, and…

— Martin Luther King III

Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And what Barack…

— Valerie Jarrett

I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Obama’s policies and public statements, therefore, raise serious questions about the true nature of his core beliefs and values. Who is he and what…

— Reed Ralph

True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are eager to…

— Robert Dallek