It's Still Obama's Party. What Happens Next, He Owns It.
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Photo: Getty Images. From an article titled: "Barack Obama Reportedly Plans To Tell The Nation To Pause If Bernie Sanders Gets Close To Securing The Democratic Nomination — The former president privately told his advisers that he would speak up against Sanders."
by Thomas Neuburger
This is still Barack Obama's Democratic Party:
• He personally made sure Tom Perez beat Ellison to run the DNC.
• He organized the Super Tuesday drop outs to maximize the hit on Sanders after South Carolina.
• He talked "multiple times" with Sanders before Sanders dropped out.
Barack Obama, hero to millions, owns the Biden disaster. He's the invisible hand on the wheel at every significant turn.
About the latter point, Sanders' concession, CNN offers this:
(CNN) Former President Barack Obama played an active, albeit private, role in the Democratic presidential primary that effectively ended on Wednesday when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race.The article doesn't quite say the words "Obama played an active, albeit private, role" in "Sanders' decision to get out on Wednesday." But it sure lets you think that, given they got their information about these multiple talks from "a source familiar with the conversation" — meaning, familiar with the content of the conversations.
Obama and Sanders spoke multiple times in the last few weeks as the Vermont senator determined the future of his campaign, a source familiar with the conversation tells CNN. Sanders' decision to get out on Wednesday paves the way for Joe Biden, who served as Obama's vice president for eight years, to become the Democratic nominee.
Whatever happens, from now through November and beyond, you can thank Barack Obama. Always the hidden hand, he gets what he wants without having to appear to want it.
Thanks, Barack. This one's on you.
Labels: 2020 presidential election, 2020 presidential nomination, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Gaius Publius, Joe Biden, Thomas Neuburger
posted by Gaius Publius @ 9:00 AM
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Case & point.
You could also add to the list Obama's move in 2016 to effectively clear the field for Clinton by convincing Biden not to run. The over 1,000 federal and state seats that were lost during his presidency. The overall mismanagement of the DNC during his tenure as president.
Obama was a generational talent in terms of his ability as a campaigner. In terms of party building, his record is frankly bad. He didn't use power as president to strengthen the structural power of the party (e.g. abandoning groups like ACORN, failing to pass the EFCA, failing to pass immigration reform, passing a health care law that shoveled hundreds of billions to an industry that turned around and used a portion of the money to undermine the same law and elect Republicans and conservative Dems). If Trump wins re-election, Obama should get a staring role in the credits. Hard to think of another figure other than Biden and Clinton within the party who bear more responsibility for creating the conditions that made Trump's rise possible. I still think there's a decent chance that the Dem nominee will win in 2020, but similar to 2016, it shouldn't be close.
Obamanation isn't old enough to have been around when slick willie et al formed the DLC and corrupted the former party of FDR.
slick willie turned the party to shit. obamanation became possible because of slick willie (et al). Obamanation earns a lot of blame. But never forget where it all started and who has been there for the whole ride -- slick willie.
And colossally stupid voters, who fall for the same horse shit every year.
Trump is president because slick willie and his heirs turned the democrap party into shit; and not quite enough voters are still stupid enough to keep voting for the party of slick willie/obamanation.
the party of slick willie/obamanation will nominate their worse ever charade of a democrat soon. will enough voters be stupid enough to vote for him? will enough Nazis refuse to vote for trump making biden a "winner"?
it really doesn't matter. either way, America becomes noticeably worse. and at this late date, that's REALLY saying something.
Turns out winning the Democratic nomination isn't easy when your message is, "Democrats are bad." Glad to see that lesson has been learned.
"This is still Barack Obama's Democratic Party"
"The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican," he told Noticias Univision 23 in a White House interview.
Proof there really is ONLY one party - the Corporatist Party.
Let's not get our knickers in a knot, a lot can happen twixt here and August.
@12:19 The actual message was "Democrats acting like republicans are not Democratic and bad for all of us." and that lesson has not been learned.
@12:34
There ARE two parties - one corporate-neoliberal party (Democrats) and the close-to-nihilism/insanity Republicans. No room for moderates in the latter party.
They both serve the same economic masters, 6:01. I remain correct.
agreed davidchop. Bernie running as a democrap was/is self-repudiation.
you can believe what Bernie says he believes. You can belong to the democraps. But it is logically inconsistent to try to do both.
He proved it himself when he endorsed $hillbillary.
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