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Home Front: Politix

Obama Privately Coaching 2020 Contenders

2018-06-12

[National Review] President Obama has met privately with nine Democratic presidential hopefuls in recent months to discuss the state of the party and what strategies they should pursue to best counter president Trump in 2020, Politico reported Monday.

The meetings were arranged secretly, without the knowledge of close advisers, according to Politico. Thus far Obama has counseled former vice president Joe Biden, Democratic senators Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren, former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, and others, though he remains reluctant to publicly endorse any one candidate.

Sanders reportedly requested his meeting with Obama, which was held in March, because he wanted to discuss their respective visions for the future of the party and how it might best balance idealism and pragmatism.

Obama initiated his first meeting with Warren because he wanted to discuss her criticism of the $400,000 speaking fee he received from a Wall Street investment firm after leaving office. The Massachusetts lawmaker, who has made a career of lambasting large financial institutions, had called the payment "troubling" and said it exemplified the influence-peddling "that slithers through Washington."

Posted by:Besoeker

#13 Willie Brown Jr. (born 1934) took her under his "wing" or some other appendage even (or especially) though she was 30 years his junior. Truly remarkable

Posted by: Frank G 2018-06-12 17:35

#12 My guess is they turn on Warren and look to Harris as the election gets closer. Warren is full of negatives and Harris is mostly unknown.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-06-12 16:01

#11 "Be light skinned African American, well spoken, with minimal opinions on record. Oh, and try to be the first one so that Americans can virtue signal they aren't prejudice." Do that and you are sure to be elected.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-06-12 16:00

#10 There's no way they didn't invite Kamala Harris to this libfest.

Harris is beholden to Fauxcahontus, hoping for a VP slot.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-06-12 12:13

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-06-12 11:44

#8 gorb, most of that about Obama turning things to $#it is a perception error.

The real truth is that Obama only likes to touch $#IT to begin with, he doesn't change anything.

Posted by: AlanC 2018-06-12 11:02

#7 Sounds like the old guard that nobody likes.

Keep fighting the last war, Obumble. America will thank you.

Posted by: DarthVader 2018-06-12 10:04

#6 There's no way they didn't invite Kamala Harris to this libfest. Does she have a mental disease that they're afraid of?

Posted by: jpal 2018-06-12 10:02

#5 Great! Just about everything this guy touches turns to $hit anyway.

Posted by: gorb 2018-06-12 09:51

#4 "Hello. My name is Barack Hussein Obama, and I'm an idiot."

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-06-12 09:28

#3 Obama met with both Corey Booker and T-Bone?

Posted by: Frank G 2018-06-12 08:53

#2 Deval Patrick - a lightweight's lightweight.

Posted by: Raj 2018-06-12 08:28

#1 Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren, Deval Patrick, Mitch Landrieu, Eric Garcettiand others were present in a secret meeting to develop a strategy to address Trump in 2020. There's a stellar group. Where's Terry McAuliffe in the list or O's admin. intelligence/security personnel?

The last strategy didn't work too well, i.e. the one where the FBI and DOJ were weaponized against Trump to take him down and or impeach him for nothing before he was inaugurated.

Hey, maybe they should have invited that positive, upbeat kind of guy. Robert Di Niro to the secret meeting to vent his spleen. Or McCain.

Posted by: JohnQC 2018-06-12 08:15

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