{"id":29498,"date":"2025-10-21T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=29498"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:30:09","slug":"obama-accuses-liberals-of-holier-than-thou-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/10\/obama-accuses-liberals-of-holier-than-thou-attitude","title":{"rendered":"Obama Accuses Liberals of \u201cholier than thou\u201d Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29501\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/10\/Barack-Obama_credit-Barack-Obama-YouTube.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29501\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/10\/Barack-Obama_credit-Barack-Obama-YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barack Obama \/ YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former president Barak Obama recently appeared on comedian Marc Maron\u2019s final episode of his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hb2rKGfIOrM\">WTF<\/a>\u201d podcast, where he offered some candid thoughts about the state of the Democrat party. One thing he noted was the party needed to stop being blind to its own problems. \u201cYou can\u2019t constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you\u2019ve got some blind spots, too, and that life\u2019s messy,\u201d he said. In his own stand up, Maron had said that liberals had \u201cannoyed the average American into fascism\u201d by electing Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Obama asserted that Democrats could stick to core principles but needed to be more open on the non-essentials. \u201cThe vulnerability, I think, comes in saying \u2026 &#8216;I&#8217;ve got some core convictions; I&#8217;ve got beliefs that I&#8217;m not going to compromise but I&#8217;m also not going to assert that I am so righteous and so pure \u2026 and so insightful that there&#8217;s not the possibility that maybe I&#8217;m wrong on this,\u2019\u201d he said. He compared liberals to the \u201cMoral Majority movement\u201d of the right, stating both sides had adopted a \u201cholier-than-thou superiority.\u201d \u201cYou can\u2019t just be a scold all the time,\u201d he warned. The Moral Majority was a movement in 1979 by Republicans and Christians. It was originally headed by Jerry Fallwell, Sr. and Paul Weyrich, who co-founded The Heritage Foundation and focused on bringing Christian principles into the public square.<\/p>\n<p>The former president offered the example of trans issues, which Americans have been turning more and more against. He encouraged Democrats to avoid name-calling when talking about such a hot topic. \u201cIf I talked about trans issues, I wasn\u2019t talking down to people and saying, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re a bigot.\u2019 I\u2019d say, \u2018You know, it\u2019s tough enough being a teenager. Let\u2019s treat all kids decently. Why would we want to see kids bullied?\u201d he said. While discussing the need to speak more with people who had opposing viewpoints, Obama didn\u2019t hold back taking shots at President Trump. He stated that Trump\u2019s recent moves to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which is supposed to limit federal soldiers from stepping into state enforcement. \u201cThat is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy,\u201d he said, calling it \u201cinherently corrupting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the interview were quick to imply that both Trump and Maron, who suggested that popular podcaster Theo Von would invite Adolf Hitler on his show, were hypocrites. \u201cObama deported more than Trump. He\u2019s now worth $70M,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yannispappas\/status\/1978195855506014612\">wrote one user on X<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s also responsible for more deaths around the world than Trump. Funny to watch Maron do this after he made fun of Theo. And Obama saying this after all he\u2019s been doing is grabbing cheddah and hanging with Billies on yachts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Barak Obama recently appeared on comedian Marc Maron\u2019s final episode of his \u201cWTF\u201d podcast, where he offered some candid thoughts about the state of the Democrat party. One thing he noted was the party needed to stop being blind to its own problems. \u201cYou can\u2019t constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you\u2019ve got&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":29501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama Accuses Liberals of \u201cholier than thou\u201d Attitude<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barack Obama tells Marc Maron Democrats must face their blind spots, avoid moral superiority, and speak with humility on hot-button issues.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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