BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – President Barack Obama, whose comments about the filibuster being an outdated practice reminiscent of the Jim Crow era were echoed by President Biden on Thursday, once gave a speech on the Senate floor in favor of keeping the procedural process.
In 2005, then-senator Obama delivered a speech arguing against ending the filibuster and thereby allowing one party to “change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet.”
“If the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to Democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse,” Obama said in 2005.
Obama explained what appeared to be a double standard. “No hypocrisy here,” he began. “I’m bi-racial. Sometimes my black half speaks and sometimes my white half speaks. The race I use depends entirely on what ethnicity I’m trying to manipulate.”