Posted on 12/29/2019 7:03:14 AM PST by Kaslin
Barack Obama squandered the opportunity of a lifetime to become a transformational president. That was his signature ambition, obvious enough in his infamous remarks about how he would fundamentally transform the country. He ended up focused on identity politics, rather than any transformation for the better of the economy. But the economy is what concerns ordinary Americans, not identity politics. Had Obama addressed that while he was president, he could have solidified a winning coalition for the Democrats that could have lasted for a very long time. At this point, history will now find him responsible for his party losing the working classes and paving the way for Trump's emergence and election as a populist hero.
It started from Obama's 2008 campaign as a moderate, capturing the imagination of millions of Americans as a highly attractive and smart candidate who seemed to be bringing people together after President Bush's two terms of polarizing governance, especially with the highly unpopular Iraq war and the amorphous war in Afghanistan that continues to this day. The combination of Obama's soothing rhetoric and his status as the first black presidential candidate, had appeal.
For the most part, it turned out to be a ruse. When he became president, he almost immediately shed the pretense of the moderation presented to the American people during his 2008 campaign against John McCain. Instead of being a moderate, he immediately moved to the far left after his election with Obamacare and the $800 billion bailout for Wall Street, both of which proved to be highly unpopular with a large percentage of the people who helped put him in office. Those voters were the middle and working classes who had been historically a significant part of the Democratic Party base.
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Like the now inappropriately named “Labour” Party in Britain, the Democrats have forgotten their Working Class roots, and have become the Party of the Rich White Elitist.
Are you kidding? He's a multi-millionaire...and he's got no legacy to show for it.
And Hollywood.
Which is controlled by rich, white (and gay) elitists.
I want to squander a bunch of opportunities so I can get my estate on Martha’s Vineyard!
Reagan was able to bring in the blue collars, but the Bushes squandered it.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-oe-stein19-story.html
...And Hollywood.
...Which is controlled by rich, white (and gay) elitists.
And largely Jewish...
Eyes on the Prize.
I know a few blue collar guys who fell for smooth talking Obongo. They feel like idiots for falling for it. They really thought by putting a black in the White House all this race BS would fade. For thinking that they were idiots. You cannot placate any part of the left. They see any accommodation as weakness and will use the opening to shove a rusty nail spike into your back.
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. You cannot placate any part of the left. They see any accommodation as weakness and will use the opening to shove a rusty nail spike into your back.
I definitely recall (having become nauseous) overhearing the [white] janitors at a Brooklyn school I used to teach in praising Odungo and panning the then-current Repub candidate. This was during Odungo’s first term. I marveled at their ignorance and lack of critical thinking skills. I don’t think you could come up with a more blue-collar job than being a janitor. I wonder if they eventually developed buyers’ remorse with their commie traitor.
“...It started from Obama’s 2008 campaign as a moderate, ...”
Correction... where he POSED as a moderate...
He was a subversive POS from the start.
Trump has shown the Republicans how to form a winning coalition going forward.
However I remind people after 8 years of Ronald Reagan, we elected Bush 41 who squandered everything Reagan started.
I fear after Trump the Republicans will do the exact same thing, they will go back to supporting amnesty and as they call it, “reaching across the aisle”.....
“..You cannot placate any part of the left....”
Compromising with psychopaths only makes bolder and more vicious psychopaths.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
I don’t see Obama caring about legacy. Not at all. Not for the enhancement of the USA. Maybe for whatever it is he’s loyal to. That’s been taken care of. He did want Hilary in the WH just to continue
Whatever destruction he was doing- the military, the culture, Iran, whatever he was up to in Benghazi and so forth
“...I’ll believe it when I see it....”
I think the elections showed it quite a bit. But yeah, there’s much more work to be done, for sure.
“He was a subversive POS from the start.“
Yes. Taqiyya Barry. Poser POTUS. Soros’ sock puppet.
Had a white-hating drunk muzzie father and a leftist mom named Stanley. Later an orphan raised by rich, white, leftist grandparents in Hawaii.
Damaged goods since childhood.
You believe what?
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