Posted on 06/14/2018 4:03:41 PM PDT by Enlightened1
When former President Obama left the White House, he pledged to take a back seat to make room for other Democrats in the party to shine.
Nearly 17 months later, thats proving to be an impossible task.
Obama drew headlines this week after a Politico report revealed that he is consulting a long line of would-be 2020 candidates and offering advice to party leadership. And he drew another round of headlines when it was announced that his political committee, Organizing for Action, is revving up to help Democrats in the midterm elections.
Democrats have turned to the party patriarch as fatigue with the Clintons has set in, a factor exacerbated in recent days by former President Clintons tone-deaf comments on Monica Lewinsky and the Me Too movement.
The desire among Democrats for Obama to take a more leading role in the midterm fight and party building in general is just getting stronger, particularly with the lack of alternatives.
Theres f---ing no one else, one frustrated Democratic strategist said. Bill Clinton is toxic, [former President] Carter is too old, and theres no one else around for miles.
Some say Obama should get off the sidelines and should have done so earlier.
Hes been way too quiet, said one longtime Obama bundler who rarely criticizes the former president. There are a lot of people who think hes played too little a role or almost no role in endorsing or fundraising and hes done jack shit in getting people to donate to the party.
The vacuum at the top of the party has been created by the fall of the Clintons; Obamas disappearance, for the most part, from the public stage; and the fact that other Democrats with national voices are getting ready for 2020.
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Schmuckie is PERFECT!
Just ask him.
The last one looks like Shiite on a stick...
Please come back Barack and remind the American people how anemic economic growth can be. Please remind them how low minority income could be. Please remind them that trillions of dollars repatriated to the US from US companies keeping money off shore, might make us less nice people. Please remind us about all the groundwork you laid for an upcoming NK deal. Libya worked out great for you and Hillary, Where are his billions in Swiss bank accounts by the way? Or all the gold he had squirreled physically away on site.
BRING HIM ON!!
Us smelly low I.Q. Walmart shoppers will give him a run for the money!
Get out there people. Time to go to the trenches and fight. Join your local Republic Party and Get Involved!! Go door to door. Been doing it for years. 90% will listen cuz they don’t have clue.
It is quite disgusting, but not really a surprise, after all the three you mentioned are “brothers from another mother” and all card carrying members of the swamp.
Trash, all three of them.
ARREST & PROSECUTE OBAMA
Yes, do unleash the puppy of election wars so President Trump can humiliate him once more and bring up the man’s scandals and failures afresh.
Gosh, yeah!
MAGA!
The feckless little 0bama better keep his Kenyan yap shut.
He needs to be in prison.
Please, send him out. Please. The actual association most people have of the Obama years is a nagging sense of doom. Compare eight years of endless guilt trip, apologies, and incompetence to the last seventeen months (!) of Donald Trump. We dare you.
No joke, haha!!
The DNC is playing the racist Black card. Obama has only one redeeming credential, he’s black.
Reliance on blackness is all they have left
He’s never been there. He’s been running all over the landscape and on the MSMLSD pages.
Zer0 is busy scanning someone else.
moum back we have a jail cell for you
LOL. Well, these liberal dudes want to shed the pajama boy image. I guess they think they sound rough and tough and salt of the earth to swear up a storm.
I think it's more immediate than that.
He doesn't want to catch President Trump's attention, because Trump will knock the wind out of him with just a tweet or two, and Obama isn't smart enough to be able to punch back.
It's amazing that a spazz like him managed to survive a tour in Vietnam (I heard he was in the service then).
You got THAT right!
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