looks like something out of Judge Dread or some other science fiction movie
Posted on 09/03/2017 4:20:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats are expressing concern that advisers and aides to former President Obama have already begun signaling which candidate they might support for the White House in 2020.
Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama’s closest confidantes, and David Simas, the CEO of Obama’s foundation, have sent smoke signals urging former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) to enter the race.
Simas, who once served as a top aide to Patrick, is an ardent supporter of the former governor, sources tell The Hill, while Jarrett has privately told friends that she would do what it takes to support him.
And Politico reported last month that Jarrett believes a President Patrick is “what my heart desires.”
At the same time, friends of Jarrett’s say that while she would love for Patrick to run, she is also open to other candidates.
Others in Obamaworld have quietly been buzzing about the excitement behind a potential Patrick run.
Axios's Mike Allen mentioned Patrick as a favorite in Obamaworld in his popular newsletter on Friday.
Other former aides close to Obama say they would support a run by former Vice President Joe Biden, if he decides to launch a bid in 2020.
Obama has not weighed in publicly on the next presidential race, and those around him have said he isn’t looking to tip the scales and believes it is too early to back any one candidate.
But the reports of Jarrett’s and Simas’s interest in Patrick have left people wondering what the former president is thinking.
One top Obama fundraiser, however, said it’s clear the inner circle has a clear favorite in Patrick and that it’s no coincidence they’ve put that storyline out there.
“It’s blatantly overt,” the fundraiser said told The Hill.
The fundraiser speculated that one reason Obama’s circle is putting out smoke about Patrick is to take away oxygen from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
“A lot of people in our world see Deval as the one who will carry the Obama legacy. Kamala has labeled herself as the female Obama, but Deval was Obama before Obama was Obama,” the fundraiser said.
Obama’s office did not comment for this story. Jarrett declined to comment. Simas did not respond to a request for comment.
Democratic insiders are expressing worry about some of the talk, and they say it’s much too early to be pushing one particular candidate.
“There is little appetite in the party to settle on a candidate early,” said Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons.
Many Democrats and Republicans believe the 2020 race will be wide open and that a couple dozen Democrats could even run for the party’s presidential nomination.
It’s difficult to see either Patrick or Harris becoming a frontrunner in the race, particularly with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) signaling his continued interest. Sanders will attend two events on Monday in New Hampshire.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is another potential favorite and frontrunner should she choose to enter the race.
“I want to see a wide-open a process where there are no front-runners,” Democratic strategist Jim Manley said. “The idea that anyone is out there pushing for one person or another is a mistake.”
While the 2020 election is still more than three years away, potential candidates must already prepare for the possibility of a race.
The fight for key staff members and donors will not be delayed.
One former aide to Clinton said there’s danger in Obama heavyweights being seen as aligning with a candidate, because it could deepen factions within the party.
The fight between the Sanders and Clinton wings from the 2016 primary has left scars, with supporters of both candidates blaming the other, at least to a degree, over President Trump’s victory.
Still, some strategists say even if the Obama allies have their favorites, it won’t matter much in the end.
“Party insiders don't have a great track record of picking successful Democratic nominees,” said Simmons. “They didn't pick Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.”
“The best idea is to wait and see who Dem voters feel some affection for and rally around that person to help them win,” Simmons said.
Manley agreed.
“I’m not so sure it’ll matter at the end of the day,” he said. “We’re looking at a long slog. 2020 is a long ways away.”
Actually he’s not even 1/2 black. His father’s birth certificate, lists him as 7/8 Semitic, so Obama is 1/16 black.
Legally, a person must be 16% or greater of any given ethnic group to claim that ethnicity, and Obama DOES NOT meet the required 16% African to be, legally, an African-American.
By law, he’s an Arab-American.....
“Write this down: There will not be another black president in our lifetimes.”
Agree - the same thing happened in many cities. They elected an incompetent black mayor to get over their guilt. They got screwed over, royally. They never (at least to date) elected another black. The cities include New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago (I think), and probably many other smaller cities.
If ‘Deval Patrick’ excepts to waltz into the White House just because of skin color, he’ll be in for one heck of a surprise.
Goerring looked better in it and I never thought I would write that.
Where to begin on that one.....
Can someone explain to me why we the taxpayers are financing an 8,200 square foot office space for this bum in Washington DC? He is out of office, why is he in DC? And if he is there solely to create havoc against Trump, why isn’t he being exposed? 8,200 square feet. Think how big that is. A 30 foot long office that is approx 30 foot wide is about 1000 square feet. This guy has got EIGHT THOUSAND square feet, in other words the ENTIRE floor of a building! This mofo is running a command center against Trump, and WE are paying for it!
looks like something out of Judge Dread or some other science fiction movie
“Obonzo” won two terms easily and could probably have won a third. The same voters who voted for him would also vote for Patrick.”
Your posts are too flippant. The conditions and circumstances that Hussein rode to the presidency no longer exist and will never be repeated. The election of Trump has changed the political landscape forever. The MSM has been neutralized, the Marxocrats and the RINOs have been discredited, the radical scumbags like BLM and Antifa have made blacks toxic to the vast majority of white people, Trump’s economic success will garner hispanic votes, and rampant voter fraud has been exposed making Marxocrat vote thievery harder to get away with. We may, indeed, have seen the last black president of this country. After all, blacks are only about 12% of the population. There is no basis for blacks to be elected outside of the cities they inhabit.
Just so you know the salient points about Valerie’s Democrat dreamboat......Devil, er, I mean, Deval.
Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Looks like Ilsa, the She-Wolf.
The Dems can chatter all they want, my expectation is that President Trump will be reelected by a landslide in 2020.
Go, Trump! MAGA!
Mmmmmmm...you got a point there (smirk).
yes
how do we get hillary to run ?
It’ll only be a landslide in 2020 if we have honest elections.
“Smoke signal?” Isn’t that racist, you commie hacks?” Also, shouldn’t you bw reserving such chatter for an article about Pocohantas Warren?
They could run Mooch but that would kill the whole first woman President thing.
Actually I wasn’t being “flippant”. I can be far more flippant that this. But everything you say about various leftist groups seems wishful thinking to me. Regardless I’ve said my peace and in the end my opinion and yours are simply that, opinions.
Yes.
Deval Patrick - whose lines were recycled for Obama by David Axelrod.
Is he gay?
> Separated at birth?
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