Posted on 01/18/2019 9:40:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Former President Barack Obama's legacy looms over the 2020 Democratic primary. He was always overwhelmingly popular among Democrats. However, a persistent core of critics argue both his political ideology and his policy record were badly mistaken.
This raises a question: How will the party and its 2020 contenders deal with Obama? Will they defend his legacy, forthrightly debate its shortcomings, or just ignore the issue entirely?
First, a quick précis of what is under discussion. The Obama stimulus package was less than half as big as it needed to be.
Obama's foreclosure policy was a monumental catastrophe which crushed the wealth of middle-class homeowners - particularly African-American ones - to save the banks from their own fraudulent schemes. His corporate crime policy amounted to a near-halt of prosecutions of top white-collar crime, again largely to protect the banks.
Obama's health-care reform, while a step forward in some ways, was poorly designed and failed to stop skyrocketing cost growth. His climate policy was timid and inexcusably slow.
Politically, most Democrats have quietly abandoned Obama's asinine notion that America is crying out for a return to bipartisanship - in favor of the clearly correct view that defeating Republicans is what matters. Even the Democratic rank and file have ditched their traditional attachment to compromise, apparently radicalized by the ongoing disaster of the Trump presidency.
So while nobody is likely to want to hash out Obama's indefensible handouts to bankers or drill-baby-drill energy policy over the next two years, the political debate will still proceed as if everyone agrees they were a bad idea. Because they were.
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[[How will the party and its 2020 contenders deal with Obama?]]
Simple- they will claim obama’s policies were ‘beginning to work’ when he left office, and trump is now riding on his coat-tails takign all the credit”- They have already claimed that- even obama himself has claimed that nonsense-
So....is he saying the energy boom currently in oil and gas is due to Obama? He claims Drill baby Drill was an Obama mantra.
I think he has some facts mixed up.
Cheap energy is the part of the full equation for a faster economy and better lives for Americans
... let one what it does to the big budgets of the ME created on inflated petrol dollars.
With the hub having a faster, stronger more vibrant economy so will it’s trading partners.
This is a something the Obamanites (the death to America crowd) could not do.
In targeting America, they effected a global slowdown, the sort of thing that world wars are made of.
“How will the party and its 2020 contenders deal with Obama”?
Some will ignore him/distance themselves from him, and some will kiss his azz. The ones who cozy up to him will come out ahead.
How much did the Kenyan from Indonesia blow?
Wasn’t it nearly a trillion dollars?
And we the people can’t get a measly $25 billion to stop the invasion and colonization of our country?
Facts don’t matter to leftists propagandists.
As much of a dumb*ss as is dorkbama the muslim eunuch quota boy, the dem’s newest collection of clowns manages to go even under that very low bar.
No names need be mentioned, obviously. Just tune in to CNN and they’ll have one of the bimbos (yup, mostly bimbos) on every five minutes.
Deluded commies arguing that the most leftist president we’ve had since FDR just wasn’t leftist enough.
Even the Democratic rank and file have ditched their traditional attachment to compromise,
Stopped reading this idiocy right there.
Take a couple of minutes to enjoy the skewering of Bat Guano Crazy Libs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3UOFAcsrQo
So instead of 10 trillion dollars of additional debt we should have added 20 trillion to make a total of 30 trillion?
Obama’s asinine notion was that “America is crying out for a return to bipartisanship where everyone agrees with ME!”
Lesson Learned.
Don’t choose a lazy dope-smoking Affirmative Action hire to be Vanguard of your Revolution.
Barack Obama is a big nothing burger . He has no legacy other than the first black president. He has no coat tails in that no democrat is running on his accomplishments. Almost all of his agenda and accomplishments were trashed in Trumps first few weeks in office. He will not be counted as accomplishing anything of major concern!!!
Meaning we need to do unto them what the State of Israel did unto Eichmann some 57 years ago . . .
If a rebuke is unspoken in the forest,
did it really happen?
Obama’s indefensible handouts to bankers or drill-baby-drill energy policy...
Obama’s drill-baby-drill energy policy???
What you talking about Willis!
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