Barack's setting the table for Michelle's 2020 POTUS announcement

[Counselor706]

Former President Barack Obama warned a group of leftist donors that Democrats must be cognizant of public sentiment going into the 2020 election, taking a veiled shot at far-left candidates like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) by noting that Democrats “have to be rooted in reality.”

"Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision we also have to be rooted in reality,” Obama said, according to the New York Times. “The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.”

Obama refrained from naming a specific candidate, but he, according to the Times, “cautioned that the universe of voters that could support a Democratic candidate — Democrats, independents, and moderate Republicans — are not driven by the same views reflected on ‘certain left-leaning Twitter feeds’ or ‘the activist wing of our party.’”

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[needit700]

God I Hope Not!!!

She would destroy this nation!!

 

[HisArpy]

She would destroy this nation!!

I don't know about that, but she would not heal the divide.

 

[KeithD]

Umm, not, what you quoted doesn't support your assertion at all. I don't think Michelle should be running for president. She doesn't have the credentials to do so, but I certainly am pleased that that possibility scares you and other Trumpettes shitless.

 

[richmondman]

She isn't running in 2020. She is enormously popular (aside from the monolithic extreme right), and would be very powerful in the essential suburban areas that will decide 2020 as well as 2024.

Hillary was just an awful candidate, and lost that election more than Trump beat her. There was no excuse for such a lack of effort in Ohio, Penn, Wisc, Michigan. That was on her and her team, and allowed Trump to fill the void.

 

[Adre]

I don't know about that, but she would not heal the divide.

Since when was that an issue? You don’t seem concerned that your President won’t either.

 

[KeithD]

She isn't running in 2020. She is enormously popular (aside from the monolithic extreme right), and would be very powerful in the essential suburban areas that will decide 2020 as well as 2024.

Hillary was just an awful candidate, and lost that election more than Trump beat her. There was no excuse for such a lack of effort in Ohio, Penn, Wisc, Michigan. That was on her and her team, and allowed Trump to fill the void.

Trump didn't beat Hillary (she won the popular election by a healthy majority). The outmoded political situation and the manipulation of the Russians won the election for Trump. Trump did very little to win the election--it wasn't even a goal of his.

 

[Rightguide]

Since when was that an issue? You don’t seem concerned that your President won’t either.

She has no prayer of success.

 

[Adre]

Since when was that an issue? You don’t seem concerned that your President won’t either.

She has no prayer of success.

Non-responsive.

 

[Rightguide]

Non-responsive.

it was just a simple declaration speaking to the hopelessness of another Obama presidency.

 

[bestone4ever]

it was just a simple declaration speaking to the hopelessness of another Obama presidency.

Trump Jr. ftw!

 

[Ramone45]

Barack was not qualified. Donald is not qualified, I'd prefer not to have another unqualified President, which Michelle would certainly be. I'd like the President in 2024 to have at least been elected dog-catcher first.

 

[HisArpy]

Since when was that an issue? You don’t seem concerned that your President won’t either.

I am concerned that the level of TDS is so rampant that I'm not sure someone equivalent to Ghandi could bring the US back together again.

And he is your President too if you're a US citizen. Despite any and all attempts to say otherwise.

 

[KeithD]

Barack was not qualified. Donald is not qualified, I'd prefer not to have another unqualified President, which Michelle would certainly be. I'd like the President in 2024 to have at least been elected dog-catcher first.

Obama was a U.S. senator when elected. Just to point out the problem with your post.

 

[Ramone45]

Obama was a U.S. senator when elected. Just to point out the problem with your post.

Barack was the best of the three, but very minimal. Better than nothing. It's just, personally, I'd like a little more.

 

[jaF0]

MO may be the only one able to vanquish the Orange Demon.

Not saying she'd be the best, but the others aren't any better.

 

[HisArpy]

MO may be the only one able to vanquish the Orange Demon.

Not saying she'd be the best, but the others aren't any better.

The ONLY person who's popped up on the screen who might have been able to give Trump a run for the money was Howard Schultz.

Schultz disappeared after the DNC told him in no uncertain terms that he would never be allowed to run as a Democrat.

That ought to tell you something about the current crop of Democrat fuckups and whether Trump will be reelected.

 

[jaF0]

HooooWhheeee!!!! Howie?

I don't think so Tim(my).


Bloomy might, but I can't stand him either.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

As someone on the outside looking in, it looks to me like the Dem candidates are a shit show with no hope of getting elected. It's just a repeat of last time but instead of one unlikable candidate, there's a whole group of them.
It's why I usually have better shit to do on election day. Old white guys or crazy pipe dream hippies. Great options.
I sorta like the buttplug guy but man, he's got no chance.
Miz Obama might be sorta fun cuz of the insane meltdown people would have over her but really it'd just be Trump 2.0 the whole time. A president half the country doesn't hate would be nice. Gotta be one somewhere.

 

[HisArpy]

HooooWhheeee!!!! Howie?

I don't think so Tim(my).


Bloomy might, but I can't stand him either.

The race isn't on the fringes. The contest is to try and secure votes from the middle moderate voters.

Schultz appealed to them in huge numbers but the fringies on the Left didn't like the shift toward the center so they howled to Perez. Who then told Schultz to go away in order to placate the rabid vocal mob.

Tulsi found herself in much the same position recently.

Bloomberg has absolutely no chance. He never did.

 

[jaF0]

A president half the country doesn't hate would be nice. Gotta be one somewhere.

Probably'd have to abolish the party system for that.

I keep thinking of the B5 episode where Ivanova dons a Drazi sash and instantly becomes their leader though she has no other ties to the species.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AcBTOU7RvbU/hqdefault.jpg

 

[jaF0]

"Ivanova calls the Drazi to the council chambers to determine what is going on, and the leaders explain that they have split themselves into two sides by pulling green and purple sashes out of a barrel, thus denoting which side of the conflict they are on. When Ivanova questions this by moving a sash from one Drazi to another, a fight breaks out, and Ivanova's leg is broken. She tries to take another approach, but then learns that the same conflict has broken out on the Drazi homeworld where they have started killing each other; too late she finds out the same has started to happen on the station. Ivanova approaches the leader of the green faction, trying to find a recourse. The green leader instead says they've already convinced the purple faction to a loading bay with plans to open it to space and eject them all. They capture Ivanova and use her com-link to send a message to station security to help in their plan. Garibaldi encounters his staff rushing to follow these orders, but becomes suspicious when the orders only came via message and not via voice. He tracks down Ivanova's last location, frees her from the Drazi holding her, and together they race to beat the green faction to the loading bay. Ivanova again questions the entire process the Drazi have used, and to emphasis this, she pulls the green sash off the lead Drazi. The other Drazi stand in awe, and she is told that since she holds the green leader sash, she is their leader. After a moment, she leads the Drazi away to put an end to the conflict indefinitely by dying their sashes purple and then putting all the Drazi to work to repair the damage they did to the station."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geometry_of_Shadows

 

[Adre]

Patrick is likely a day late and a dollar short, but with enough big money he could reassemble the Obama coalition. He’s a good speaker and Wall Street likes him, and Obama would work overtime for the guy.

 

[KeithD]

Barack was the best of the three, but very minimal. Better than nothing. It's just, personally, I'd like a little more.

But, back to your original assertion. Being elected to U.S. senator is a step above being elected dog catcher, which was your minimum criterium for have qualifications to being president, right? So, you were wrong originally that Obama didn't meet your minimum criterium, right? Right? You still haven't clarified that.

It so happens, I repeatedly over the years have posted here that I didn't think Obama, as talented as he is, had gathered enough experience to run for president when he did--and that it showed in some of what he did as president. So, I'm just pointing out how screwed up your original posting was. Right?

And, to the OP, where the head doesn't match the article cited, no, as much as I admire Michelle Obama, I don't think she has the preparation to be president of the United States.

 

[Rightguide]

Pete's probably all done. He got lying again:


Pete Buttigieg Touted Three Major Supporters of His Douglass Plan for Black America. They Were Alarmed When They Saw It.
Ryan Grim

https://theintercept.com/2019/11/15/pete-buttigieg-campaign-black-voters/