October 18, 2022
It's shellacking time for Democrats, and suddenly, Obama is playing Mr. Moderate
By Monica Showalter
With Democrats facing a "shellacking" in November, President Obama is out and about, campaigning for Democrats, in various ways.
He made some headlines with this:
Former President Barack Obama thinks Democrats can be a bit of a “buzzkill,” too easily offended over accidental slights and the complicated scenarios of modern life, he said in a podcast interview late last week.
“How does politics even – how is it even relevant to the things that I care most deeply about? My family, my kids, work that gives me satisfaction, having fun, not being a buzzkill, right?” Obama said in an interview with “Pod Save America.” “And sometimes Democrats are, right? You know, sometimes, people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells. And they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us at any given moment can say things the wrong way, make mistakes.”
Obama is publicly addressing a concern voiced by Democratic strategists privately for quite some time now – that the liberal base of the party is so focused on “wokeness” and the possibility of offending certain interest groups that they lose the broader thread of speaking to what voters actually care about.
Which is a little rich, coming from him. The wokester culture era was ushered in on his watch, and it's spiraled downhill since then. Obama has spoken out against wokesterism once before -- see here or here -- on Oct. 29, 2019, a few months before special elections for several House seats seen as key to holding the lower house for Democrats, in Maryland, California, Wisconsin, New York, and Georgia.
So he's now on record as being Mr. Moderate, Mr, Anti-woke, with Democrats facing what he calls "a shellacking" less than a month from midterms.
James Carville, of course, said was this was really about, in this CNN piece by Chris Cillizza:
James Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist, has been more blunt – certainly than Obama – in denouncing the wokeness focus.
“We’re letting a noisy wing of our party define the rest of us,” Carville said last summer. “And my point is we can’t do that. I think these people are all kind of nice people. I think they’re very naive, and they’re all into language and identity. And that’s all right. They’re not storming the Capitol. But they’re not winning elections.”
Somehow, Obama always comes out at times like these to tell Democrats to quit being creeps, because the voters are rejecting them.
But Obama has been remarkably non-specific in addressing the problem, let alone stating what he means, with whos, whats, wheres and whys.
more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/10/its_shellacking_time_for_democrats_and_suddenly_obama_is_playing_mr_moderate.html
