Please Mr Obama
Go to Texas
Schedule a rally with Beto OāRourke opposite the Douchebags Ball that Trump is planning for Ted Cruz
Weāll see who has a bigglier crowd.
Trump: Not worried. I will bring in Putin.
Please go to Bakersfield, Obama. While McCarthy may be nearly impossible to unseat, Valadao remains in place only because of extreme underperformance in voting by the Latino community, which makes up 71% of the CA-21 constituency. Voter turnout is a third to half of what you see in a typical East Coast congressional race.
Iād like to see him in Texas filling a bigger stadium for OāRourke on the same day as Trump pukes out bile for Cruz.
Love the guy. But I feel he will be an energy suck. He never had coat tails.
I hope Obama is a positive,but I like the energy from the far left, I think that is where the party needs to lean on, and Obamaās isnāt that kind of troubadour . If the middle decides to support Trumpism because of it, at least we know who we are then.
Time for Pelosi to go as welll. The Democrats need to go where the kids are taking them, that is the real lesson the Democrats should have learned in 1968.
That is so hilariously far from the truth. In both of his elections, he had coat sleds that pulled a lot of Democrats over the line in some places where we almost had no business winning. The problem Democrats had in '10 and '14 is that they ran away from him, but the ones who ran with him won.
So you are saying that consistently losing seats in Congress and the sweeping power of the state houses by Republicans was actually a victory?
I stand corrected.
Obama should come down to Cincinnati and make an appearance with Aftab Pureval who is running to replace Steve Chabot. The attack ads are already really ugly. I understand that Pureval is polling pretty well but Iām sure he could use the boost.
I wish we could replace Wenstrup too, but I just donāt see that happening.
Even better: Beto filling the venue on his own.
He didnāt consistently lose seats in Congress, so the premise of your argument is based on a falsehood. He picked up the Senate and a veto proof majority in 2008, then was sidelined in 2010 where they lost a bunch of seats. Then in 2012 they picked up more seats in in places like IN and ND. But took losses once again when Obama was sidelined.
At this point, I seriously want to hibernate and only wake if the midterms go as hoped. Not sure I can take another election disappointment.
One of the problems in the two midterms was that Obama didnāt engage as he did when he himself was running. He lost my rural county by 1 vote in 2008 and won by a small margin in 2012. He had an office here that was staffed with a professional and two locals. Except for his exceptional efforts in those two elections, the party languished, and in many states, including mine, the party apparatus was handed over or taken over by the Clintons. Deeply resented in my swing state, especially by 2016 when it was overwhelmingly supportive of Bernie. Hillary won our state but campaigned less here than Bernie did for her. By election time her substantial lead was dwindling and time was not on her side. She lost my rural county by over 500 votes. The stateās Republican Party did not like Trump and did little to assist him, but he appears to have brought occasional voters out of the woodwork.
I truly hate to agree with you, but I think your point about the kids has some real truth. Was on a 2 hour drive yesterday with my liberal 22 yr old nephew who graduated from college in May. He isnāt an activist (doesnāt have the energy) but as a hoping to be journalist, has a powerful focus on the political arena. His attitude toward the Democrats in power is very very critical, and while he likes obama, he feels that obama was a gentleman for far too long and used compromise as his only way of getting anything done, Heās an unseasoned idealistic intellectual, and Iām an old former Republican survivor of the mortgage finance industryā¦our perspectives are very different, he doesnāt revere Obama and isnāt nearly as appreciative of his leadership skills as i have been. I think he really connects with Elizabeth Warren because, aside from her experience and intelligence, she has what the willingness to fight what is wrong and not worry so much about decorum and taking the high road, which in his mind is the Democratsā biggest weakness.
Making shit up again I see. How do you call it a āfalsehoodā when Obama lost an historic 63 House seats, the highest loss of a party in a House midterm election since 1938. And 6 Senate seats.
Donāt let facts stand in the way:
In 2010 Obama lost 63 House seats and lost 6 Senate seats
In 2012 Obama picked up 8 House seats and 2 Senate seats.
In 2014 Obama lost 13 House seats and lost 8 Senate seats
@busdrivermike
Your 22 year old nephew has the same views as my two Millennial sons. They voted Obama but have no love for him or the Democratic Party, which they view with suspicion, having waited a long time for decent jobs while saddled with student debt. They donāt necessarily blame Obama but have learned to live without, and with less. They also like the passion and message of Sen Warren and are contemptuous of all centrists Democrats.
Progressive voters arenāt buying it. Obamaās neoliberal policies are partly to blame for Republicans regaining the majority in both houses of Congress and for putting Trump in the Whitey House.
Putin? Drink!
This is a job for Alexandria the neoliberal giant killaā, not neoliberal, Republican Light OBomba.
Jerry Springer was in Cincinnati recently at a Dem event. His said serious things too, but his ice breaker-laugh line was, āIām pissed at trump for stealing my show and taking it the WHā.