Posted on 12/07/2024 12:12:03 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Former President Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2024 Obama Democracy Forum on Thursday night in Chicago. This year’s theme was “pluralism.”
He studiously avoided saying the name of the president-elect, but the presence of Donald Trump hung over the whole event like a particularly grotesque balloon at a Macy’s Thanksgiving parade.
Obama’s characteristic rhetorical virtues were on full display. He was a constitutional law professor before he was a politician, and he still sounds like one. At the same time, he was a once-in-a-generation talent as a political communicator. He knows how to convey a complex set of ideas in a digestible and appealing way.
But there was a massive gaping hole at the center of his speech. He still doesn’t understand why his eight years in power culminated in the rise of Trump. Despite his considerable talents, his brand of centrist liberalism is fundamentally inadequate to the historical moment in which he now finds himself. And his speech in Chicago offered nothing but more of the same.
In Obama's telling of the story of America’s experiment in political pluralism, the system worked pretty smoothly in the 20th century, but all wasn’t well beneath the surface.
...We urgently need a far better response to the current crisis than anything the dominant faction of the Democratic Party is offering. And the first step is to stop listening to Barack Obama
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
“centrist liberalism” seriously???
Obama, Centrist liberal.
Who knew?
His ‘era’ was over the minute he started talking down to the young black men like he was their daddy and saying they were misogynists and had to vote for the black woman. He has virtually NOTHING in common with those young men.
Before Obama, you could be a "Blue Dog" Democrat in the Midwest or the South.
Obama was a Kenyan Muslim punk bastard.
“They’re still covering for his vacuousness I see.“
Astute observation! Obama is too lazy to be the head of this “progressive “ movement. He can give a good speech if the teleprompter works.
His “fundamental transformation “ to expand the welfare state and redistribute the wealth ran out of “other people’s money”. He misapplied the term “doom loop”to MAGA
The next person to call Barky a centrist will be the first to do so.
O’Bama is over 😁
It could be THE highlight of the election, apart from Trump’s win!!!
Intercontinental railroad.
Constitutional Law Professor? He was a senior lecturer. Once again, the media gets it wrong - though in their defense he called himself a constitutional law professor. Given the fact that Hillary failed the DC bar exam despite attending Yale law school, I would caution against given any special consideration to a law school graduate from an Ivy.
Uh-huh. And if true, being a “constitutional law professor” doesn’t mean much. Another “expert” who knows nothing.
Here's proof we're reading the words of someone (MSNBC/Ben Burgis) who's going to waste our time with his ideas.
“He was a constitutional law professor before he was a politician…”
No he was not.
L
Here are all the excruciating details of the lecturer/professor stuff....
https://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/obama-a-constitutional-law-professor/
If you didn’t hate lawyers before reading this—you will afterwards.
Lol.
I kinda thought maybe he was the one encouraging the bartender from NYC to possibly run in ‘28
Good. Send his ass back to Africa. He’s done enough damage to America. We don’t need him here anymore. He did a wonderful job of dividing the America people into tribes and getting them to hate each other. The bass turd.
Bulls**t!! He was a minor lecturer who most likely filled
in for a real professor or a TA who needed a day off.
Obama never has held a professorship.
“centrist liberalism”???
This means the author is so far left in the political spectrum that he can only be considered a Marxit or Communist!
Yes, but not anymore.I hope 2024 spells the end of the commie rat party.
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