Obama Rants About Trump Administration and Tucks in ‘Nazi’ Comment

As this writer listened on TV to former President Barack Obama’s soaring rhetoric flowing from the stage Friday at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — during his first speech stumping for candidates ahead of the 2018 midterm elections — I was struck by his familiar voice, the familiar ebb and flow of his unique speaking style.

The former commander-in-chief wasted no time in taking aim at President Donald Trump, of course. He even intimated that Trump somehow sympathizes with Nazis, declaring, “We are Americans. We’re supposed to stand up to bullies, not follow them. We’re supposed to stand up to discrimination and we’re sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to Nazi sympathizers. How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad.”

Obama’s many supporters will no doubt be unfazed by that blatant accusation, that Trump “follows” bullies — choosing the poetry of the ex-president’s words over their essence, their true meaning.

My own reaction, however, was far different. While I will always celebrate the election of the nation’s first African-American president, as a mother of three and one who cares deeply about children I remember the actions — made in the name of “change” — the Obama administration took that affected so many children.

Those repercussions will last for years.

All the folksy rhetoric in the world cannot change the dangerous policies that affected America’s youth during his eight years in office.

I recalled that, in the name of “restorative justice” inside the nation’s classrooms, kids of color no longer received the discipline they were due, leaving other children of all colors, and their teachers, extremely vulnerable, physically and mentally. Why? Ostensibly, so that the “school-to-prison pipeline” for these children would be ended, and thus, their futures would be brighter.

Appropriate discipline is one of the best gifts you can give a child — just ask any successful adult who grew up with rules and boundaries.

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Under restorative justice, teachers soon told stories of being physically threatened inside the classroom and in the hallways by kids who no longer faced punishment for their egregious behavior.

I remembered, too, that radical sex education was pushed on children, even the youngest, in the classroom by the Obama administration.

Advanced “comprehensive sex ed” lessons on sexual activity were — and are — taught, along with an attitude of, “If it feels good, do it.”

A loss of control is OK, this progressive theory touts, “as long as it isn’t hurting anybody.”

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In the same way that the Bill Clinton era taught a generation of young people that oral sex “isn’t sex,” I believe the Obama era will be remembered as the one that opened the door to radicalizing children’s sex ed and working with Planned Parenthood to steal childhood through the promotion, even with the youngest children, of a constant sexual awareness.

Obama is pro-abortion, “the most pro-abortion advocate to ever hold the nation’s top executive office,” according to the Susan B. Anthony List.

He expanded abortions through Obamacare by appointing pro-abortion judges and officials, moving to take conscience rights away from medical professionals, and forcing taxpayers to fund groups that provide abortions in other countries.

There is nothing — literally, physically nothing — more harmful to a child than abortion.

So, in my view, all the fancy words and evocative phrases can’t erase what was a shameful part of our children’s history — the loss, for many, of innocence.

The sad truth is: Once innocence is gone, you can never get it back.

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