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Obama Makes It Pretty Clear He Doesn’t Want Keith Ellison To Run The DNC
HuffPuff ^ | 12/16/2016 | Zach Carter

Posted on 12/17/2016 11:56:11 AM PST by catnipman

If there had been any doubts, President Barack Obama expunged them on Friday afternoon: The outgoing president wants his labor secretary, Thomas Perez, to succeed him as the top figure in the Democratic Party.

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“If you look at his body of work on behalf of working people, what he’s pushed for in terms of making sure that workers get a fair deal, decent wages, better benefits, that their safety is protected on the job, he has been extraordinary,” Obama said.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dnc; dncchair; ellison; obama; tomperez
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1. This is actually a fascinating article if you read between the lines and realize that HuffPuff is writing this from the perspective of the old guard, Clintonista, DC insider party apparatchiks.

2. I don't buy for a second HuffPuff's thesis that Obama is the one who destroyed the Dem party; we all know it was Hillary and we also all know that if the Clintons continue to control the Dem party, they're doomed (yea!).

3. After being crushed in this last election, it has been amazing to me that the Dems are doubling down on what caused them to be destroyed during the last THREE elections, namely, reappointing Nancy Peolosi, cosying up to the radical anti-Semitic Muslim Keith Ellison, moving even further to the left, and completely denying the REAL reasons Hillary lost.

4. All of his has left me wondering if/how the Dems were going to recover from their disastrous death spiral, particularly if President Trump manages to deliver on jobs and the economy, in which case not too many people will give a crap about what the Dems say or do.

5. Now I think I understand what could save them, namely Obama, their most popular leader in a quarter century, could oust the Clintonistas and their cohorts, retake the reins of the party, and reform it. Obama already gets it about the jobs issue based on his above quote. And Obama is still young and no doubt still ambitious and far from ready to go out to pasture.

6. Essentially, what I read between the lines in this article is that Obama wants to lead the revolt against the old guard Clintonista Dem party apparatchiks and will start the revolt by trying to install his own DNC chair. It's the Dem version of President Trump ousting the ossified, GOPe RINOs.

7. Should Obama succeed, then he's got a genuine chance to revitalize the Dem party (boo!), but if the old guard DC Dem insiders succeed in side-lining Obama, then the Dems are doomed to wander the deserts of defeat for many more years (yea!).

1 posted on 12/17/2016 11:56:11 AM PST by catnipman
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To: catnipman

One black Muslim is enough.


2 posted on 12/17/2016 11:57:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: catnipman

seems the Dems are pulling farther left to marshal the delusions they have remaining.

(see stages of grief)

The Dems are like a print magazine that is dying.


3 posted on 12/17/2016 11:57:50 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Follow the $$$. Hillary and Podesta have their fingers in more pots than Obama, lots more to lose.


4 posted on 12/17/2016 11:59:35 AM PST by DaxtonBrown
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To: catnipman

Obama is a racist islamophobe.

I, as a white man, fully support Keith Ellison for DNC chair.


5 posted on 12/17/2016 11:59:57 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ELLISON WOULD OWE HIS LOYALTY TO CONGRESS...PEREZ WOULD OWE IT TO OBAMA...WITH CLINTONS OUT OF THE WAY,OBAMA IS TOP DOG FOR THE NEXT 4 YEARS....


6 posted on 12/17/2016 12:00:14 PM PST by Hambone 1934
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To: catnipman

I’m going to guess that BO runs for Illinois U.S. Senate, again, and wins, easily, in very blue Illinois.


7 posted on 12/17/2016 12:02:01 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Simply put, 0buttbongo wants to be the ‘rats’ Maximum Muz..


8 posted on 12/17/2016 12:02:04 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: catnipman

Well then, that proves it . . .Obambi is both a racist and an Islamaphobe

That’s the only reason he’d keep Qualified Keithie from getting the gig


9 posted on 12/17/2016 12:02:08 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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Obama doesn’t want Keith Ellison to head the DNC?

Sound’s xenophobic to me.

Or, it’s the white side of Obama that doesn’t like the black Ellison. Obama is being racist.

In any case, Obama should not be in a decision-making capacity for democrats, since he’s done enough to destroy them.

Oh, wait.... perhaps Obama is the right person to make decisions for democrats.


10 posted on 12/17/2016 12:02:09 PM PST by adorno (w)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
One black Muslim is enough.

True, for logical, normal American patriots.

All the more reason to hope he's chosen.

11 posted on 12/17/2016 12:03:35 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

one stupid idiot raghead is enough


12 posted on 12/17/2016 12:03:47 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: catnipman

Obama wants to be head man in charge.


13 posted on 12/17/2016 12:06:13 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First anti-muslim thing Omuslim has done in 8 years.


14 posted on 12/17/2016 12:10:16 PM PST by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: sheik yerbouty

Running the DNC is all zero has left, since Haley at UN can and will block him completely if he took that, and he couldn’t take his racism/sexism game to her. Zero is just about checkmated. GO ELLISON!


15 posted on 12/17/2016 12:10:54 PM PST by txhurl (Chode: a word about taglines)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

I don’t think so. That’s too much work. Much easier to pull strings behind the scenes, from the golf course.


16 posted on 12/17/2016 12:11:22 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: catnipman

Obama’s words mean nothing: one could argue they never did unless he was fomenting violence and division using community organizing tricks while dealing with the world; a much larger, less homogeneous community than he was used to!

Key takeaway is whether MSM vets DNC candidate properly, i.e., pros and cons treated with equal vigor.

I’d bet that George Soros recognizes Keith Ellison is DNC’s (NOW HIS) best chance for undermining America’s global role even more by putting the MB right into back rooms running political campaigns.


17 posted on 12/17/2016 12:26:23 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: catnipman

I’m pulling for the racist Ellison to get the DNC gig.


18 posted on 12/17/2016 12:29:23 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Palio di Siena
“Obama wants to be head man in charge.”

I saw what you did.

19 posted on 12/17/2016 12:32:41 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Organic Panic

“Obama is a racist islamophobe”

Must be Obama’s half white side.


20 posted on 12/17/2016 12:36:29 PM PST by Eddie01
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