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Home Front: Politix
Democrats Turn on Obama
2016-12-23
[The American Interest] The rising stars of the Democratic Party have been airing criticisms of President Obama lately, covering them with only the thinnest of veils. The Wall Street Journal reports:

Though they rarely mention the president by name or address his policies, Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison have sent a clear message that Mr. Obama has left the party in a weakened state.

Messers. Perez and Ellison—along with state chairmen Jaime Harrison of South Carolina and Ray Buckley of New Hampshire, who are also candidates for chairman of the DNC, are seeking a mandate to reverse Obama-era tactics that cut funding and attention to local parties and left Democrats with far less power in Congress, governorships and state legislatures than when his presidency began.
Posted by:Pappy

#15  I think that was the 350 dollar a year Obamacare coverage with the 10K deductible.
Posted by: Procopius2k    2016-12-23 19:08  

#14  that's were our saving ineptitude and laziness came in to play charger.

If he'd been smart and not lazy we'd have been starving to death like the Kulaks by now.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-12-23 16:11  

#13  He's not from Chicago, he's not from anywhere.
Posted by: Shipman    2016-12-23 15:54  

#12  Well, he failed to collectivize agriculture and smash the kulaks as a class.

Gave it the ol' college try, though.
Posted by: charger   2016-12-23 13:43  

#11   May the demoncrats keep being stupid for years.

Or, at least, more stupid than the Republicans are wont to be.
Posted by: gorb   2016-12-23 10:38  

#10  Great US Presidents, and even good ones, are usually rooted in local politics.

Except when they come from Chicago.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2016-12-23 09:57  

#9  Great U.S. Presidents, and even good ones, are usually rooted in local politics. They are citizens of real places, and they carry the concerns and the insights of those places into office. Obama was a member of the New York Times tribe, people for whom an absence of local loyalties is a sign of enlightenment.

I'm inclined to think it has another basis. Then again, I'm not a professional in that area.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-12-23 09:14  

#8  Democrats Turn on Obama

RACISTS!

Alinsky them right back.
Posted by: Procopius2k    2016-12-23 08:09  

#7  The evil party and the stupid party have merged to become the evil stupid party.

Now if the Rinos join in we may have a hope of improving the world.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-12-23 08:05  

#6  Perez and Ellison both believe Obumble's problem is he didn't go full tilt Stalinist.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-12-23 07:51  

#5  May the demoncrats keep being stupid for years.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-12-23 06:59  

#4  A circular firing squad.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2016-12-23 05:39  

#3  When the Republicans put 2 dozen candidates into the running the dims put 2 out there. One was corrupt and the other was an old commie.

That is because the corrupt one had enough power to keep it all to herself from the git go. And nobody in the Dim party challenged it. Everybody on the left is to blame, everybody.
Posted by: Glains Bonaparte2390   2016-12-23 00:52  

#2  Left-wing Alinskyite efforts to 'fundamentally transform' the country are unpopular in a center-right nation? Stop the presses!
Posted by: Raj   2016-12-23 00:40  

#1   Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison have sent a clear message that Mr. Obama has left the party in a weakened state.

OK, but the part you're not getting is that all the things you applauded him for are what caused it.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-12-23 00:39  

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