An inexperienced one term Senator from Illinois with absolutely no experience wins the Democrat nomination and then becomes President for two terms... The Democrats were terrified of Hillary Clinton becoming President so much so, that they supported Obama over Clinton. Even they knew she was far too evil and villainous to become President, and besides... She had already served two terms, because when Bill was POTUS... She was essentially running the country during his two terms. Bill was just there for the p*ssy.
The Republican’s didn’t help out much either by offering a slightly unbalanced John McCain as their candidate the first time around, and then a cultist Mormon the second time around. Seriously... Two of the weakest Presidential candidates in history.
In the end it was all about Hillary and her evilness... That’s why Obama became President.
But Hillary was just as evil if not more in 2016, but they seemed genuinely furious that Trump was elected. That was probably just an act, of course, so long as Rita Repulsa was vanquished again, but so was their adulation of Obama, and their confidence in Joe Biden’s competence, and Kamala. Everything is an act with these people, but they’ve settled on demonizing Trump.
“.. The Democrats were terrified of Hillary Clinton “
I always hear that line for Conservative voices, but I have never it as a line voiced by the Democrats.
This appears to be closer to the reality:
Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama because Obama’s campaign executed a superior delegate-focused strategy, out-fundraised her via grassroots digital efforts, and capitalized on widespread anti-war sentiment regarding her Iraq War vote.
Obama played the perennial populist “anti-war” theme. Hillary had negatives in that regard because of her flip flopping votes on the issue.
If anything the Dims were not “terrified” of Hillary, they just didn’t trust her.
But I actually think the bigger unspoken propaganda from the Left was “we SHOULD elect a ‘Black’ President”. I think tons of “Liberals” with no big pros or cons toward Obama or Hillary voted for Obama for that one stupid reason and nothing else.
No, the Venezuelan-owned Smartmatic software stole the Chicago 2008 primary for Obama. That’s what the engineers who did it say.
Bob Dole was a good man, but he was a worse candidate than those two, in my opinion. Not a Mitt fan, by any means, but I do believe the 2012 election was stolen. Thank you.
No. Obama was the shiny new thing, and they were transfixed by him. They also thought either A) he would bring about racial healing or B) he would bring about a new racial order -- two contradictory views, but that didn't matter.