Posted on 12/26/2016 8:09:32 AM PST by traumer
Arguing that Americans still subscribe to his vision of progressive change, President Barack Obama asserted in an interview recently he could have succeeded in this year's election if he was eligible to run.
"I am confident in this vision because I'm confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it," Obama told his former senior adviser David Axelrod in an interview for the "The Axe Files" podcast, produced by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
"I know that in conversations that I've had with people around the country, even some people who disagreed with me, they would say the vision, the direction that you point towards is the right one," Obama said in the interview, which aired Monday. "In the wake of the election and Trump winning, a lot of people have suggested that somehow, it really was a fantasy," Obama said of the hope-and-change vision he heralded in 2008. "What I would argue is, is that the culture actually did shift, that the majority does buy into the notion of a one America that is tolerant and diverse and open and full of energy and dynamism."
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That’s why the Constitution prohibits it. But I have no doubt that Obama would run for a third, fourth, fifth, and sixth term if he could.
Narcissism on parade.
He is no George Washington.
He really wanted to be President for Life.
The ALL KNOWING, the ALL SEEING, the MIGHTY ONE SPEAKS.
But God has determined that we have suffered enough. Hopefully, the nation has learned its lesson.
He could have chosen to be a great president who loved America and only did what was best for her and her citizens. But instead he turned into the most hated president in history and became our Terrorist in Chief.
Damn! America missed a chance to have our own Fidel Castro.
Only in his own mind ..
No wonder he surrounded himself with "yes" men, and those who doctored information adjusted to fit his agenda.
O'Bungler's montra should have been :" Keep them ignorant"
No wonder he signed the "Ministry of Information" authorization, hidden in other legislation.
Thank God FDR got greedy and ran for a fourth term or he might not have been term limited out.
'Course, if it wasn't for term limits on the Presidency, Ronald Reagan might still be President.
I have no doubt he would have won. America’s indigenous urban peoples can crank up quite the election fraud machine when they put their minds to it.
And Reagan in '88 and Clinton in '00. On this, he's probably right.
Hillary's loss came in part to her inability to hold the Obama coalition together. Listening to Obama speak during this twilight of his administration, he comes across as a man less upset with Trump for rolling up his sleeves and winning as he is profoundly disgusted with the Clintons, the DNC, Podesta, DWS, and the rest of them for their corruption, arrogance, tone-deafness, and hubris in running a disastrously lazy campaign that will ensure everything he worked for this past eight years will have been for naught.
OBAMA is JEALOUS of TRUMP.
Sheeeeyit. The only “people” His Hineyness was subject to (besides the Fake News Media) were all hand-picked sycophants.
Barack the First needs to leave.
For all of BHO’s naivete, blundering, and ineptitude, you can say one thing for him:
He’s never exhibited even the smallest amount of class.
I doubt if he would have made it that far.
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