Posted on 05/18/2020 6:25:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Forget about Joseph R. Biden. The race for The White House in 2020 looks more and more like a contest between President Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama.
The former president has returned to politics with a vengeance, inserting himself in ways previously unthinkable for those who have occupied the Oval Office and calling his successor a lawless incompetent.
Along the way, Mr. Obama has upstaged his former sidekick and shifted the narrative of the 2020 presidential race from “Biden takes on Trump” to “Obama era versus the Trump years.”
The 44th and 45th presidents — both historic in their own ways — have been on a collision course for years, dating to Mr. Trump’s pursuit of the “birther” theories questioning Mr. Obama’s qualifications for the White House in 2008. That then led to Mr. Obama’s skewering of Mr. Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.
Mr. Obama later watched as Mr. Trump became president and began unraveling the legacy of his eight years in office — freezing U.S. participation in the Paris climate accord, canceling the massive free-trade Trans-Pacific Partnership, puncturing Obamacare and attempting to revoke the DACA deportation amnesty for illegal immigrant “Dreamers.”
“President Obama has to be stung at the leveling of his administration’s deeds,” said Mike McKenna, a former top aide in the Trump White House. “Pretty much everything they did, the Trump administration has undone, and usually added in some salt for the wounds. So part of this is personal.”
Plus, Mr. Obama has more skin in the game this time than he did in 2016, with Mr. Biden on the ballot.
“He cares whether Biden wins, that wasn’t the case with Hillary,” Mr. McKenna said.
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I’ll never, never ever forgive those who voted for Obama.
“Plus, Mr. Obama has more skin in the game this time than he did in 2016”
That’s one way of saying it.
Did anyone notice today the woman outside the open window. She was trying to keep away from the camera but was not able to a couple times. Maybe she was there to feed the Canadian geese?
I would say you are correct but Obama could be designated as an unindicted co-conspirator which would add further tarnish to Obama's "legacy".
Barr won't touch them *Before the Election*.
I noticed that too. Maybe they are VP candidates according to Joe.
Obie’s ‘help’ usually has the opposite effect.
Obama’s legacy will be remembered as the one who tried to take down a duly elected president. His legacy will be tarnished no matter what
Zero was a complete jack-wagon as president and he continues to be one now. What an a-hole.
I will be campaigning for President Trump in Pennsylvania. What will all of you be doing?
JoMa
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