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2020 Democrats' unspoken rebuke of Obama
2020 Democrats' unspoken rebuke of Obama
Former President Barack Obama's legacy looms over the 2020 Democratic primary. He was always overwhelmingly popular among Democrats. However, a persistent core of critics argue both his political ideology and his policy record were badly mistaken.
This raises a question: How will the party and its 2020 contenders deal with Obama? Will they defend his legacy, forthrightly debate its shortcomings, or just ignore the issue entirely?
First, a quick précis of what is under discussion. The Obama stimulus package was less than half as big as it needed to be.... Obama's foreclosure policy was a monumental catastrophe which crushed the wealth of middle-class homeowners -homeowners — particularly African-American ones — to save the banks from their own fraudulent schemes. His corporate crime policy amounted to a near-halt of prosecutions of top white-collar crime, again largely to protect the banks.... Obama's health-care reform, while a step forward in some ways, was poorly designed and failed to stop skyrocketing cost growth. His climate policy was timid and inexcusably slow....
Politically, most Democrats have quietly abandoned Obama's asinine notion that America is crying out for a return to bipartisanship - in favor of the clearly correct view that defeating Republicans is what matters. Even the Democratic rank and file have ditched their traditional attachment to compromise, apparently radicalized by the ongoing disaster of the Trump presidency.
So while nobody is likely to want to hash out Obama's indefensible handouts to bankers or drill-baby-drill energy policy over the next two years, the political debate will still proceed as if everyone agrees they were a bad idea. Because they were.
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Undoubtedly, they will claim Obama’s policies were ‘beginning to work’ when he left office, and trump is now riding on his coat-tails taking all the credit”- They have already
claimed that- even Obama himself has claimed that nonsense.
The author claims, "Drill Baby Drill" was an Obama mantra. In reality who can forget the McCain/Palin 2008 mantra: "Drill Baby Drill"? Perhaps Mr. Cooper is slightly confused?
Simply and correctly as we have seen, cheap energy is part of the full equation for a faster economy and better lives for Americans. This is a something the followers f their messiah Obama (the death to America crowd) could not do.
In targeting America, the Progressive Marxist Socialist Democrats led by BO effected a global slowdown, the sort of thing that world wars are made of.
Many of the so called future Democrat candidates for the 2020 presidential primaries have already claimed, there is no longer a pretention that there is a constitution (as Obama sometimes did), but declare all-out war on opponents of their Progressive Marxist Socialist Democrat Party/DSA.
2020 Democrats' unspoken rebuke of Obama
Former President Barack Obama's legacy looms over the 2020 Democratic primary. He was always overwhelmingly popular among Democrats. However, a persistent core of critics argue both his political ideology and his policy record were badly mistaken.
This raises a question: How will the party and its 2020 contenders deal with Obama? Will they defend his legacy, forthrightly debate its shortcomings, or just ignore the issue entirely?
First, a quick précis of what is under discussion. The Obama stimulus package was less than half as big as it needed to be.... Obama's foreclosure policy was a monumental catastrophe which crushed the wealth of middle-class homeowners -homeowners — particularly African-American ones — to save the banks from their own fraudulent schemes. His corporate crime policy amounted to a near-halt of prosecutions of top white-collar crime, again largely to protect the banks.... Obama's health-care reform, while a step forward in some ways, was poorly designed and failed to stop skyrocketing cost growth. His climate policy was timid and inexcusably slow....
Politically, most Democrats have quietly abandoned Obama's asinine notion that America is crying out for a return to bipartisanship - in favor of the clearly correct view that defeating Republicans is what matters. Even the Democratic rank and file have ditched their traditional attachment to compromise, apparently radicalized by the ongoing disaster of the Trump presidency.
So while nobody is likely to want to hash out Obama's indefensible handouts to bankers or drill-baby-drill energy policy over the next two years, the political debate will still proceed as if everyone agrees they were a bad idea. Because they were.
~~~~~~
Undoubtedly, they will claim Obama’s policies were ‘beginning to work’ when he left office, and trump is now riding on his coat-tails taking all the credit”- They have already
claimed that- even Obama himself has claimed that nonsense.
The author claims, "Drill Baby Drill" was an Obama mantra. In reality who can forget the McCain/Palin 2008 mantra: "Drill Baby Drill"? Perhaps Mr. Cooper is slightly confused?
Simply and correctly as we have seen, cheap energy is part of the full equation for a faster economy and better lives for Americans. This is a something the followers f their messiah Obama (the death to America crowd) could not do.
In targeting America, the Progressive Marxist Socialist Democrats led by BO effected a global slowdown, the sort of thing that world wars are made of.
Many of the so called future Democrat candidates for the 2020 presidential primaries have already claimed, there is no longer a pretention that there is a constitution (as Obama sometimes did), but declare all-out war on opponents of their Progressive Marxist Socialist Democrat Party/DSA.
