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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I kind of wonder if he were allowed to run for a third term and faced Trump, what would have happened.
Obama could probably excite some of the identity blocs that Hillary wasn’t able to energize, and Obama actually likes being on the campaign trail. He would also be more effective at playing the race card than Hillary was at playing the woman card, and he would also play the woman card more effectively, but those excited millenials from 2008 and 2012 are still waiting in their parents’ basements for their fair share of hopeNchange, and their parents are probably getting sick of tolerating the idealistic propoganda they parrot at Thanksgiving.
Obama probably thinks his current relatively high approval ratings would be unchanged through a reelection campaign, they wouldn’t. It would probably be a lot of fun to watch him stammer through justifying his record directly and his apologists concluding that any disagreement is further proof of how racist America is.
At a minimum, there would be even more red faced journalists screaming on the evening news.
moron muslim marxist basically rebuilt the republican party. The RINOS were too stupid and doomed to do it themselves!
He wouldn’t have won the first time if we had an honest media.
If he had a true legacy to leave behind Obama wouldn’t be making statements like this. He is just now realizing the missed opportunity he had — 8 years down the drain.
OTOH, he was ruling in opposition to the majority will in this country, so it’s an expression of frustration that he could get elected peddling his Line-of-BS, yet only a minority would support any of his proposals.
Dumb $hit. Hillary was you in this past election.
You lost big time and the Democrat Party lost BIG TIME.
Don’t let the the White House door hit you in the a$$ on the way to the inauguration of an American for America President.
Odungo opens his mouth and more ____ runs out of it than a yard full of geese. He’s really sold on himself, isn’t he? Only Odungo and the brain damaged libtard zombies think he should stick around. Normal people want him as gone as gone can get, as quickly as possible. I never want to hear his name again, unless it’s an obituary or a wanted poster in a post office. He belongs burning in hell forever.
The thing about Ødungo is that he shrewdly used surrogates to do his dirtywork. In this way he seldom got any of the negative blowback. It was always hillary’s fault, or jarret’s fault. Or the thugs he hired to be AG, IRS director, etc.
Another thing is that he is deliberately conflating personal approval (which he scores pretty high) with performance (which he rates low).
He isn’t any more prepared for obscurity outside the bubble than he was prepared for the presidency. His indignation will eventually drive him to become UN Secretary General, where he shall introduce a motion that the title be changed to “President”. In his mind, “President of the United Nations” is now the only recourse for man-boy-child.
Dream on Bammy - in fact you might right another book about dreams....
When we lived on a farm, the ducks and geese were just full
of it (with a “sh” in front of the “it”). One day, I had
slightly opened the sliding door. A duck waddled up and
through the door and into the living room - stopped midway -
dropped a “load” on the carpet - waddled back out very
importantly like a king.
Dreamer.. Delusional? Insane? or Both?
In much the same way that Soros can fund 'dirty tricks' campaign through intermediaries ,
and done through surrogates to avoid blowback.
It is the same modus operandi behavior that Saul Alynski employed .
Obama is talking about Socialism. Socialism for America was/is his and Michelle's dream.
Obama was elected by the brain dead, the ill-informed, and those who think Capitalism is unfair. This election was about a Socialist government rather than the Democratic government we have.
To come so close to see their dream dashed by Americans who love the Republic and Freedom from bigger government....this is why the gnashing of teeth, pulling of hair, and anti-conservative government NO MATTER who won that slot.
Fortunately we have an outsider who understands how to run a business, says he will govern for the people and by the U.S.Constitution.......Obama's anti-constitution, anti-christian, anti-Jew and pro-Islam finally rang true. He would never have been elected IF the Constitution allowed it. What a delusional and narcissist person he is.
Yeah, I think no third or fourth Reagan term was a price worth paying to prevent a third or fourth Obama (or Klinton) term. Too bad somebody didn’t think of it before FDR (may spit be upon him).
LOL! I had a couple of chickens that used to do that. You can’t get mad - chickens are very “personable”.
Better the way it was. It was sad the how his life ended. Wonderful man.
Exactly! Well said!
I look forward to the day karma catches up to him and hope the entire world is able to see this snake oil salesman for what he is.
I couldn’t get mad at the poor duck. I had the door open and
it didn’t really know what else to do. (It thought it HAD to
do SOMETHING!)
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