Former President Barack Obama on Friday mocked Herschel Walker, the GOP nominee for a US Senate seat in Georgia, with a “thought experiment” that highlighted the Republican candidate’s lack of experience for the political role.
At a campaign rally for Walker’s Democratic rival Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Obama acknowledged that Walker was “a great football player” and “amazing, one of the best running backs of all time”.
But that didn’t make him the best person to represent the state, the ex-POTUS argued.
Obama imagined that people would see Walker at the airport or hospital and give him permission to fly the plane or perform surgery because of his success on the football field.
“You wouldn’t say that,” Obama said.
Obama said that “the opposite is also true” in that people may have liked him as president, but they didn’t want his “slow, old, skinny behind” on the football field.
“You should scrape me off the field,” he burst out, before turning his “Yes we can” slogan into, “No, I can’t. No I can not.”
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Elsewhere in Obama’s stupidity for Warnock, he called Walker “a celebrity who wants to be a politician” and attacked his “character problems”, a clear reference to accusations that Walker paid for two women to terminate their pregnancies in the past. Walker denies the claims. He has a strict anti-abortion agenda. Walker and Warnock are in a tight race, by poll.
Walker would be so loyal to Trump that it would mean “he won’t really think about you or your needs,” Obama added.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
