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āI take some responsibility for that,ā he admits before shifting instantly to how he wasnāt really responsible, having inherited an economy brutalized by the financial crisis, etc etc. Iād be curious to hear him explain, in detail, where he thinks his share of the blame lies. Stephanopoulos doesnāt press him on it, which may be a symptom of his Democratic sympathies or, more charitably, may be due to him suspecting that Obama would have only given a self-serving answer anyway. Youāre never going to hear O say that it was a dumb idea to pass a massive health-care reform bill that was unpopular from day one on a strict party-line vote. The most youāll get from him is something along the lines of āI overestimated how ready the country was for the sort of forward-looking change Iām interested in.ā He was simply too far ahead of his time, and thus must America take a detour into āthe wrong side of historyā before realizing that Obama was right all along.
The funniest part of this answer is how it develops, of course, into him extolling his own abilities. āPartly because my docket was really full here, I couldnāt be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as commander in chief and president of the United States,ā he told Stephanopoulos. āWe did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.ā If only heād been able to juggle both roles, president and āchief organizerā (whatever that means), the Democratic Party wouldnāt have lost a thousand farking seats at the federal and state level since 2009? I donāt know how to read that answer except as him saying (a) the current āchief organizersā of the party are utter incompetents and (b) thereās no problem with the Democratic Party that a little more Barack Obama couldnāt have cured.
Obama: I canāt help feeling that Iām partly responsible for my party being destroyed - Hot Air
The funniest part of this answer is how it develops, of course, into him extolling his own abilities. āPartly because my docket was really full here, I couldnāt be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as commander in chief and president of the United States,ā he told Stephanopoulos. āWe did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.ā If only heād been able to juggle both roles, president and āchief organizerā (whatever that means), the Democratic Party wouldnāt have lost a thousand farking seats at the federal and state level since 2009? I donāt know how to read that answer except as him saying (a) the current āchief organizersā of the party are utter incompetents and (b) thereās no problem with the Democratic Party that a little more Barack Obama couldnāt have cured.
Obama: I canāt help feeling that Iām partly responsible for my party being destroyed - Hot Air
