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‘Gobbledygook’: Obama Admits Democrats Are Buzzkills Too Worried About Getting ‘Words Right’

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Nicole Silverio Media Reporter
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Former President Barack Obama told “Pod Save America” that Democrats can be “buzzkills” too concerned with words rather than the things impacting Americans’ day-to-day lives.

The former president made the message by holding himself to the same standard in an exclusive interview with Sirius XM’s Progress channel that first aired Friday, where he admitted that he sounded too “professorial” while speaking behind the podium.

“I think we do get into trouble. Look, I used to get into trouble whenever, as you guys know well, whenever I got a little too professorial and, you know, started…when I was behind the podium as opposed to when I was in a crowd, there were times where I’d get, you know, sound like I was giving a bunch of policy gobbledygook,” Obama said. “And that’s not how people think about these issues. They think about them in terms of the life I’m leading day to day. How does politics, how is it even relevant to the things that I care the most deeply about?”

“My family, my kids, work that gives me satisfaction, having fun. Hell, not being a buzzkill. And sometimes Democrats are. Sometimes, people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells and they want some acknowledgement that life is messy and that all of us, at any given moment, can say things the wrong way, make mistakes,” he continued.

He used the example of his 86-year-old mother-in-law struggling to use the correct language in connection to political issues, including her using the wrong words. “It means that sometimes she’s not going to get the words right,” Obama noted.

He said this viewpoint of people not being able to constantly use the proper language is being used a political tool by Fox News and other outlets toward Democrats. (REPORT: Obama To Speak To House Democrats Alongside Pelosi Amid Wave Of Retirements) 

“That attitude, I think, of just being a little more real and a little more grounded is something that I think goes a long way in counteracting what is a systematic…the systematic propaganda that I think is being pumped out by Fox News and all these other outlets all the time,” he added.

Democrats have come under fire in recent years for political correctness and language that does not resonate with the average American. Recently, Democrats and left-wing figures have referred to Hispanic voters as “Latinx,” a term of which only 3% of Hispanic or Latino voters identify with.