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Returning to his hometown, former President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned of the weaponization of disinformation across the world, while also urging ...

“I don’t know that the person I knew is the same as the person who is now leading this charge,” Obama said of Putin. “He was always ruthless. Obama announced on Twitter on March 13 that he had tested positive for COVID-19, while also urging Americans to get vaccinated. He is scheduled to give a keynote address on disinformation on April 21 at Stanford University. But he appears to be slowly reemerging in public life as Democrats need his help during a crucial midterm election year. “They seem to know what it is. “And there are ways in which a democracy can rightly expect them to show us … to show us in the same way than any other product.”

By Dana Milbank WASHINGTON -- Retirement has been good to Barack Obama. The 44th president returned to the White House Tuesday for the first time since he ...

Obama hasn’t been entirely silent; he stumped in Virginia for Terry McAuliffe and spoke to House Democrats, for example. “These partisan attempts at voter nullification are unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times, and they represent a profound threat to the basic democratic principle that all votes should be counted fairly and objectively,” Obama himself wrote earlier this year in USA Today, concluding that “America’s long-standing grand experiment in democracy is being sorely tested.” The White House arranged for Biden to sign an executive order, but even there Biden played second fiddle to “the president,” as he still calls Obama. “One thing I haven’t gotten down: Barack Obama could sign his name using nine different pens,” Biden marveled. “That was a joke,” Obama felt the need to add. Republicans are now taking aim at democracy itself, rejecting the results of an election, condoning a violent insurrection in the Capitol (“legitimate political discourse”) and rolling back voting rights. Obama has been living his best life, even making a podcast and writing a book with Bruce Springsteen. “I’m a private citizen now,” he reminded the gathering, packed with staffers and legislators who served during his presidency.

Russia President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a warning that world democracy has gotten “flabby and confused and feckless” at a time of growing ...

But he denied it was misinformation, saying that under Obamacare, “systemically we are not forcing you out of existing employer-based health care.” “And when we don’t get it right or look like we don’t care about it, others fill that gap.” “We have gotten complacent and I think I cannot guarantee that as a consequence of what’s happened, we are shaking off that complacency.” A day earlier, Obama made his first visit to the White House since Republican Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2017. “If that’s true in our society, imagine how any of us would process information if we are not getting, seeing, anything else?” Obama asked rhetorically. “What we’re seeing is the consequences of that kind of toxic mix in the hands of an autocratic government that doesn’t have a lot of checks and balances,” he said.

CHICAGO — Former President Barack Obama was back home in Chicago on Wednesday with an urgent warning about disinformation. The conversation took place at ...

Former President Barack Obama tweeted support for President Joe Biden shortly after an embarrassing video emerged from a health care event the two hosted ...

Biden and Haaland return to their seats and greet other guests. She does, and the two then walk back to Obama, who appears to say he will walk over to them later. The event was undoubtedly scheduled with the former president to be a much-needed win for Biden

What does that make Obama? Well, he mentioned himself 33 times during his speech, according to Steve Guest, communications adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

He swivels around to face Biden, and the hand finally lets go. His head turns and there, a few feet away, he sees Obama holding court, before eager acolytes. He swings and dips and leans forward but the bony, white hand clings on. One thing is now clear: The VP is not a team player. He lets go of the blond woman’s hand with a smile and leans away to shake off the hand now firmly attached to his shoulder. He raises his right hand high in the air and then dips it down into the crowd to shake another hand. He and the blond woman start bantering. Obama’s escape is foiled by a short, blond woman who lunges in to shake his hand. You can tell Obama feels it, because he involuntarily jerks his head away, a micro-expression of what looks like disgust flitting across his face. Obama, by way of greeting Harris, tosses his head like a horse and she responds by hunching her shoulders like an excited kid. The president just looked feeble and unpopular against his limelight-hogging former boss. He spots Obama and a frown furrows his brow.