Sorry, Joe Biden: Barack Obama’s endorsements have a huge record of failure

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Sorry, Joe Biden: Barack Obama’s endorsements have a huge record of failure
NY Post, Apr 15, 2020, John Podhoretz

You know what? Maybe Biden was right, even though he was lying. Maybe he shouldn’t have wanted Obama’s endorsement. For while it is true that Obama is a genius at winning elections, he is only a genius at it when he’s the one running.

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Truth to tell, Obama had ­already shown his feet of clay in 2009 in a series of endorsements that didn’t turn the tide for the candidates he stumped for. New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine lost his reelection bid to Chris Christie, while Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds was blown out in Virginia.

And a few months later, in 2010, Obama went all in for Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania — a deeply unpleasant Republican who had desperately gone Democrat because he had lost the confidence of his original party — only to see Specter lose . . . in the Democratic primary! (The guy who beat Specter then lost in November.)

True, Obama secured four massive pieces of legislation in his first 15 months in office and increased Washington spending by some $2.5 trillion — but in the process, he midwifed a conservative revolt in the form of the Tea Party.

By the time the nation voted in the midterm elections in 2010, Obama had all but thrown in the towel. In his last rally before the November vote, with Biden at his side, Obama said, “We’ve made progress. But I know that sometimes, as we’re grinding out this change, and there’s all the negative ads and the pundits on TV, and there’s still a lot of unemployment out here, people feel discouraged.”

Three days later, Republicans seized control of the House of Representatives by taking 63 seats away from Obama’s Democrats while winning back six Senate slots as well. Obama himself called the defeat a “shellacking” and ruefully acknowledged that “sometimes we lose track of the ways that we connected with folks that got us here in the first place.”


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