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By Mark Gruenberg
PHILADELPHIA — Re-elect Donald Trump, Barack Obama warns, and U.S. democracy dies. That, in a nutshell, was the stark message Obama delivered about his successor to the entire country in a speech from the U.S. Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.
“I have sat in the Oval Office with both of the men who are running for president,” Obama said, since Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was his VP and Obama met with Trump after the latter won the electoral vote majority in 2016. “I never expected that my successor would embrace my vision or continue my policies.”
“I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously, that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care.”
Then the former president, whose prior experience included being a constitutional law professor, lowered the boom.
“But he never did,” Obama said....
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