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It's been reported in the news for the last month that Obama has no intention of retiring from public life. He's going to be a major spokesman and "spiritual le
by notpc 10y ago
It's been reported in the news for the last month that Obama has no intention of retiring from public life. He's going to be a major spokesman and "spiritual leader" of sorts for the Democrats going forward. The reason is that the Democrats don't have a good "bench." Most of the Democrats remaining in positions of power are creatures of big-city machine politics, not exactly likable populists who can counter Trump.
- 464192002d7fe1c 10y agoI hope Obama stays around. He's done so well at building up the Democratic party in the past 8 years, here's hoping he stays around and does the same thing for the next 8!
- kyleblarson 10y agoObama's legacy in 3 words: President Donald Trump
- orf 10y agos/Obama's/America's/
- 464192002d7fe1c 10y agoIts gonna be YUGE and you're gonna love it.
- orf 10y agoThe world is appalled. With the exception of Putin.
- atomi 10y agoYes it's Obama's fault Trump was elected. facepalm
- hackuser 10y ago> The reason is that the Democrats don't have a good "bench." Obama led the Democrats to political disaster; I wonder if any party since WWII has been in as bad a political position. Why would they want his continued leadership after he leaves office?
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- frio 10y agoThey have; most notably the Republicans when LBJ crushed them in a landslide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1964 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...). Or even -- again, the Republicans -- as recently as 2008 when Obama won (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...), and the Democrats has a supermajority across all three houses and beat McCain by a larger margin than Trump beat Clinton. I won't wade into the debate about Obama's future, and will point out that I think the USA's effective two-party system is pretty busted, but yeah -- the USA has a pretty polar political past.
- hackuser 10y ago> the Democrats has a supermajority across all three houses In 2008 they did not have a 'supermajority', usually interpreted to mean a veto-proof or filibuster-proof majority, in any house of Congress. Also, today Republicans control both houses and the Governer's seat in approx. 33% of states. Finally, the Dems can't win in some states due to gerrymandering and voting laws that prevent even a majority of Democratic votes from winning the election.
- frio 10y agoSorry -- I'm not an American, I misunderstood what "supermajority" meant (I took it to mean a majority in each of the houses). My bad :). I'm not saying the Democrats weren't roundly drubbed in the last election, just refuting the belief that this might be the worst position a political party has been in since WW2. I hadn't thought of the state legislature, however! That's a good point.