Democrats still trying to undo the damage Obama’s presidency inflicted on the party

[Sanguine]

By Andrew Malcolm Special to McClatchy
August 13, 2019 06:00 AM

Obama’s farewell: laws won’t be enough. Hearts must change.
President Barack Obama made his parting remarks from his hometown of Chicago, Ill. on Tuesday evening to a crowd that chanted "4 more years!" He highlighted his administration's achievements and challenged the "increasingly diverse" nation. By

Almost a decade later, Democrats are still struggling at the state level with the nationwide political devastation of Barack Obama’s presidency, notably his first midterm elections in 2010.

Obama is still popular among Democrats, although some of the 2020 candidates are taking shots at his insufficiently progressive record as a way to damage former Vice President Joe Biden. If they dared look honestly at Obama’s political legacy outside Washington, D.C., however, there would be a whole lot more criticism.

It looks likely to be a few more cycles, if then, before Democrats, the world’s second-oldest political party, fully recover from those immense losses under Obama’s party leadership....

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An interesting post-post-mortem.

[libertybele]

An interesting post-post-mortem.

Yes, it is interesting. Democrats taking shots at his insufficient progressive record?  That is troubling as I thought he did a pretty good job at taking this country far to the left.

[Smokin Joe]

Yes, it is interesting. Democrats taking shots at his insufficient progressive record?  That is troubling as I thought he did a pretty good job at taking this country far to the left.

Not to mention setting race relations back 50 years.

[jafo2010]

Obama accomplished a lot.  Let's see, that includes:

- being the first black POTUS
- as SmokinJoe indicated, set race relations back at least 50 years, more perhaps
- record welfare levels
- 1977 workforce participation...yahoo
- more national debt than all 43 presidents combined before him
- established red lines that meant something ha!
- allowed Russia to march in eastern Ukraine, seize Crimea, and did nothing of consequence
- bowed before mussie leaders in foreign countries
- apologized to the world for how bad a nation the USA has been
- declared we are no longer a Christian nation
- created a healthcare program that harmed 9 out of 10 Americans, beginning in 2019(he stalled full
  implementation as long as possible once he realized how much a POS his Obamacare exactly was)
- left 4 Americans to die brutally in Benghazi.  Could have been 50 Americans dead.  US Navy cruiser
  off the coast of Libya with a SEALS contingent, told to stand down.  Uggh!

Bottomline, I hope the first item is the only thing remaining from Obama, other than streets named after
the fool, as well as bridges and schools.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Not to mention setting race relations back 50 years.

That by far is his biggest legacy.

Instead of bringing us together, he fractured us, far more effectively than DT could ever do.