{"id":3600,"date":"2025-08-13T01:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:18:06","slug":"barack-obama-delivers-sharp-response-to-critics-of-trumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama delivers sharp response to critics of Trump\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Former President\u2019s Blunt Call to Action<\/strong><br>At a private Democratic fundraiser on July 11, a former president delivered an unusually direct message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cIt\u2019s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions\u2026 Democrats [need] to just toughen up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No Excuses for Inaction<\/strong><br>Challenging disengaged supporters, he said, \u201cDon\u2019t tell me you\u2019re a Democrat\u2026 so you\u2019re not doing anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, now is exactly the time that you get in there and do something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defending Core Principles<\/strong><br>On free speech, he urged, \u201cYou stand up for free speech when it\u2019s hard\u2026 when somebody says something that you don\u2019t like, but\u2026 has the right to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Urgency in a Divided Party<\/strong><br>Citing low approval ratings and warning of a drift toward autocracy, he likened the threat to democratic norms to challenges faced \u201cat least since World War II,\u201d calling for immediate, united action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Former President\u2019s Blunt Call to ActionAt a private Democratic fundraiser on July 11, a former president delivered an unusually direct message: \u201cIt\u2019s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions\u2026 Democrats [need] to just toughen up.\u201d No Excuses for InactionChallenging disengaged supporters, he said,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}