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Barack Obama is stuck in the past. He represents the old Democratic party

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  • Barack Obama is stuck in the past. He represents the old Democratic party

    Barack Obama is stuck in the past. He represents the old Democratic party

    And they won't listen to him just like they wouldn't listen to Big Dog Bill Clinton. (I hope)

    The former president says he’s worried about ‘purity’ tests in the Democratic party. What he’s really worried about is his surrogates losing control of the party.

    Barack Obama is worried about the Democratic party. This weekend, he told a crowd at an Obama Foundation event in Berlin that the party is becoming a “circular firing squad” targeting those “straying from purity” on certain issues.

    Leading figures around the party have indeed moved to the left since he left office two years ago. Thanks in no small part to the Bernie Sanders campaign and the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Medicare for All, free public higher education, a $15 minimum wage, and action on climate change have become mainstream positions.

    The self-described “political mainstream” hasn’t caught up to this new reality, however. Obama’s former vice-president, Joe Biden, hasn’t announced his presidential candidacy yet, and is getting attacked not just for his behavior toward women but for a decades-long record that includes support for military interventions, mass incarceration, immigrant deportations, and more. The subtext of Obama’s remarks is this undermining of Biden....

    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    He is mad they are targeting his buddy Biden with their Me-Too nonsense.

    "circular firing squad" is a good analogy for the democrats eating themselves.

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      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      He is mad they are targeting his buddy Biden with their Me-Too nonsense.

      "circular firing squad" is a good analogy for the democrats eating themselves.
      Yup -- they come up with goofy thought police crap to trap conservatives, and they end up catching a lot of their own. Serves 'em well!
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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