“The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component of the federal government. With that as a bulwark, we’re now able to block some of the worst impulses that are coming out of this White House.”
The former president laid out a two-pronged strategy for Democrats: to reclaim a House majority next year, and to work on honing the party’s messaging in the coming years.
“Long term, let’s tell a story, a better story about who we are as Americans and what we share,” Obama said, according to excerpts shared with CBS News. “We have to tell the story that makes people who feel outside that process, we’ve got to bring them back in.”
Seems like a faster resolution would be to hold people accountable for their crimes and treason. That’d eliminate most of the big problems.
I mean, the guy who perfected drone strikes on American citizens was never going to suggest that.
Or you know policies…
They’ve been “working on messaging” since Hilary lost in 2016.
Maybe, I don’t know, have a platform and message that helps everyday people instead of telling people everything’s fine, stop complaining.
Focus on your corruption problem. Insider trading and money from Israel
He looks very oddly orange in that thumbnail.
Is orange the new meta?
The man in the high castle that coordinated all the candidates to drop out behind Biden in order to crush Bernie says this huh
When did that happen? Have a link?
I didn’t try to say anyone should forget or ignore anything, I literally wasn’t aware of this
They’re talking about 2020. Bernie was winning primaries until all moderate dems dropped out to back Biden. Elizabeth Warren stayed in to split progressive vote.
Obama LovEs Gen0siDee!1!1
work on honing the party’s messaging in the coming years.
I think focusing on the message isn’t going to help all that much. I think most voters have become desensitized to political messaging. Obama’s own “hope and change,” message helped with that desensitizing, after people felt that in the end they had neither.
I think most Americans are now looking more for a real, material plan for improving things. And I don’t think the problem is that no one has a plan, plenty of politicians do, but I think Americans just aren’t sure which plan will work. It’s the perfect environment for political grifters who are able to convince people they have a plan to help them, even though they have no such thing. One thing I think most Americans were pretty confident about was that the plan that establishment Democrats put forward of “nothing will fundamentally change,” was not appealing. When the people are absolutely desperate for positive change, that’s the last thing they want to hear.
It’s hard to explain a real plan when most people are only semi literate, with no attention span, and no real knowledge of how government works.
What percentage of people believe the president writes laws, do you think?
That didn’t stop us from the New Deal
100%. I think Biden’s “status quo” messaging only worked because of the chaos that was Trump’s first term and COVID. That is not a platform to run on when Trump pushed the country into full-blown fascism. The pendulum needs to swing in the other direction. The only thing I fear is that those in charge of the DNC have proven they are not interested in supporting social democrats or democratic socialists for the presidency. We sorely need a third party that is taken seriously.
“Blue no matter who” doesn’t work and it’s time they realize this shit and either start putting forward actual good candidates instead of piles of human excrement like Newsome and Harris or dismantle the party and allow an actual leftist party to take its place.
piles of human excrement
It’s astounding that none of your candidates have ever won, or will ever win. WINK
Choo chooo!
Again with the messaging. The problem isn’t “messaging” it’s that you and your ilk insist on leaving the working class out to dry you capitalist ghoul.
It doesn’t matter what they say because I know they’re not gonna do it and make excuses.
But it’s not like I have anyone else I can vote for.
Political power is not something that can be given in a ballot box, it must be taken. Too many people believe that their only political outlet is voting. Join a community organization and start fixing the problems you see instead of listening to politicians who tell you to wait for 4 more years until the “good guys” get back in power.
BRB, headed to Sunbelt to rent some cones and a road painting kit.
I’ll finally get that bike lane!
Honestly, guerrilla infrastructure construction might just be what we need.
Biden did more for the working class than Trump ever did or will. There are just too many “freethinking” conspiratard clowns who are easily scammed by republican lies. Unlucky
I never said anything about Trump. Biden did something, which is rare for his type, but it’s certainly not enough, and as long as it’s not enough people will keep flocking to the right because the right actually does things (bad things, to be clear, but that’s irrelevant).
Tbf Obama also did more for the working class than Trump ever did or will. ACA alone covers that. The issue is brainlets getting brainwashed by rightwing propaganda.
ACA was a gift to insurance companies. It was cowritten by the heritage foundation ffs.
Tell me how many people are getting hurt by republicans cutting it, then cry about “gift to insurance companies” again. The kind of take that only people too privileged to not need it would have.
Yeah you’re right, those people are way better off being required by law to purchase a product from a private company that doubles its rates every year. Who needs a public option?
He had the opportunity to give everyone universal health care and instead he chose to give us the half-baked “solution” that is utterly dependent on republican good will while also driving up health insurance profits, leaving us more reliant on middlemen insurance companies than ever before.
So yeah, people are hurting without it, but don’t pretend like it was some nice gift. It was a token that was tossed our way so we wouldn’t ask for more.
Obama had the opportunity to “give us universal health care”? When?
It was Congress that killed the public option btw.
Both things are true. It was obviously a gift to the insurance industry, but it doesn’t mean that it didn’t help millions of people.
It still managed to help a hell of a lot of working class people. It’s a net positive in my book.
As a working class person, my rates doubled every year for the first 4 years I was on ACA. When they got to $800 a month I cancelled my insurance and decided to take the tax penalty instead.
aka throw more trans and marginalised people under the bus.
also here’s a bari weiss free link: https://archive.ph/hyR1L
Because they’re totally doing great and thriving under the current regime right? I’m not disagreeing that the Democrats need to go through substantial change, but the simple fact is that they are still the better choice compared to the dumpster fire that’s going on right now.
At least there’s still time to get good candidates on the ballot, and Mamdani has shown that a truly popular progressive has a chance to get past the establishment and win, hopefully more will follow that lead.
Wtf does that have to do with anything that was said here.
because he’s basically saying stop criticizing dems who vote for republican culture wars.
I don’t think that’s what he’s saying at all… Jesus what a biased take that is.
then you better tell the 25 or so dems that helped republicans pass step 1 of the NDAA in the senate which includes the anti trans riders (which wouldn’t have passed without the dems help)
https://bsky.app/profile/fascistdemtracker.bsky.social/post/3m7qftqvhuc2t
That, again, has almost nothing to do with what was said in this article.
Do yourself a favor and ignore or block that person, trust me, talking to them is always a spiral and you just lose braincells.
Ah shit, thanks for the warning
it has literally everything to do with the article which is about dems refusing to stand for anything.
My good person, have thou seenest the news this year? Democrats winning is not your great threat. And in a two party state, it’s insane to support their defeat.
We said this last year (and, coincidentally, you said this last year). And the resulting political changes have been the worst most trans and marginalized people have ever seen. Why are you doing this again.
it also doesn’t help when democrats are helping to pass a federal ban into law.
It’s good that Obama is stepping back into the spotlight. He still resonates with people as the last president we had before the world went insane.
He also reminds anyone wanting to run Trump in ‘28 that he would have another two-termer to contend with.
Barring that, he is still a unifying figurehead in the short term, while everyone watches Trump’s rapid decline.
iirc when whats his face was proposing the amendment it was worded to exclude two in a row potuses. Basically custom written for Trump.
It’s good that Obama is stepping back into the spotlight.
It is, in fact, very bad. As is obvious from his long list of broken promises, Obama is part of the problem, and any advice he gives—indeed, the advice he’s now giving—won’t address what really needs to be done.
We got Biden because Obama interfered in the primaries when it looked like Sanders was going to win.
Rumor amongst the political class is that he was motivated by wanting to preserve his legacy, rather than let someone upstage him.
Fuck Obama. We’re exactly where we are, in part, because of him.
Was Sanders running in 2020?
He was? In the primaries?
Bloomberg made a run just to try to prevent him from winning. Then all establishment candidates stepped back at once to endorse Biden, and there was a smear thing coming from Warren…
Is my memory wrong over here?
Yes?
Did you think he didn’t?
Trump v. Obama is the election race I want to stick around to see
That race means American democracy is fully over. I already kinda think it is, but if that race happens there’s no “maybe we’ll come through this,” we’re just done for.
We’ve given up on the idea that laws mean things and will be enforced.
Well that was easy.
Thats right DNC/Establishment: hold your nose and stand by support the Mandamnis taking over, time to actually produce something of value and benefit to the People or get off the damn pot
I agree with your sentiment, but that’s not what I got from the article.
They tried it their way, now they need to start learning from their mistakes. I know what Obama’s saying but that logic applies entirely to Mandamni’s case and theres zero reason why it always needs to be red Democrats
Whats a red Democrat
Corporate Democrats
DINO’s like Jefferies, and Schumer.
Or Manchin or fetterman or the anti abortion representative Nancy threw her weight behind when a progressive dared primary the Dino
Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats to “meet the moment” at a Los Angeles fundraiser with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
There are a couple of things that I have issue with here. Fundraisers in general, with regard to politics. The old guard saying what should be done. Hakeem Jeffries who didn’t have the morality or values to endorce Mamdani. Unless people not invested in the status quo vote in the primaries, nothing will change and the machine will keep chewing us up.
In other words…“vote blue, no matter who”…unless they’re a progressive. Then, vote for the newly “independent” corporate Democrat that just lost the primary.
A major reason shit is so fucked right now is when Obama won he just ignored the DNC for 8 years running his own campaigns and not helping out state parties with fundraising.
Which lead to a 2016 DNC funded and controlled by Hillary and trump becoming president.
The time for him to have done something was 17 fucking years ago
Obama also helped discourage other democrats from running in 2016. He also pushed Biden in 2020. He’s part of the reason we are in this mess. Establishment Dems think they know better.
Nah, I’m not going to unironically “Thanks Obama” for shit being so fucked up right now. Trump did not get elected either time because of anything Obama did or didn’t do.
I’d argue the racist backlash from having a Black Man in Charge might’ve worked for Trump.
True but that’s not something I’m gonna get mad at Obama for that, there’s plenty of shit to not like about the guy but riling the racists for the crime of being president while black ain’t it
All he had to do was appoint a non biased DNC chair and we’d have easily had Bernie 2016-2024…
Which would have prevented trump. Even Biden beat trump, Bernie would have sent him home with his tail between his legs.
Do you really need someone to explain how 8 years of Bernie would have solved all of this shit?
Quick edit:
To bring it full circle, Obama didn’t support the state parties either, which is why Republicans held onto the House in the first place, which is what he’s complaining about now.
He literally created this problem.
The DNC chair is appointed by a committee of over 400 people with no obligation to follow the President’s recommendation (though they usually do). The DNC is a private organization with no obligation to the people. The responsibility of electing our leaders comes down to us. And as a populace, we looked at Clinton and Trump and chose Biff Tannen with the golden toilet. It’s not like America didn’t know who Trump was when they elected him… both times. This is a problem with our culture and our people, not something we can comfortably pin on old leaders or outside forces. You think the country that re-elected a felon would have given Bernie 8 years?
The DNC chair is appointed by a committee
And when a Dem wins the presidential election they nominate a chair and the DNC vote is performative…
Obama could have named anyone, going off memory but the first time he didn’t nominate at all, and the second time was for the neoliberal who gave 2016 to Hillary, likely at Biden’s recommendation.
And you’re making my point, trump couldn’t have beaten anyone in a fair election, the only two times he’s won and when Dems had rigged primaries to force historically unpopular candidates.
Biden even managed to beat him, like 40 years after his first disasterous primary. That’s my point, Bernie would have stomped trump.
Trump polled more historically unpopular than Clinton and Harris, and one of the main points of discussion to follow was how incongruent the polling was with the votes. You can’t Monday morning quarterback this productively. And in any case, it sidesteps my point. Were Clinton and Harris great candidates? No. In a well America, should they still have beaten Trump handily? Absolutely. We’re not well, as a nation, and you can’t lay that at Obama’s feet.
You can’t Monday morning quarterback this productively. And in any case, it sidesteps my point. Were Clinton and Harris great candidates? No
Buddy…
You’re acting like we didn’t know Bernie was a stronger candidate during the primary…
Things don’t magically become real these one you admit them, they’re true before you realize it too
You should continue that quote.
Obama let every issue plaguing the country fester further with just some Band-Aids to kick the can down the road for some other poor sap to deal with.
Which is to say if he had done what he was elected to do (remember that Hope and Change platform?) and made modest economic reforms that are still desperately needed today, he could have single handledly pushed us in a direction that might have afforded us more opportunities for a fascism off ramp to happen.
Is it Obama’s fault that Trump is a fascist? No. But is it his fault that imperial action remains a central part of our foreign policy? Yeah partially. Is it his fault that the necessary measures to uplift those left behind by society were turned into half measure stop gaps to prevent cedeing power from capital owners? Yeah partially.
Remember Obama had a trifecta for the first half of his first term. The only reason he didnt do what he said he would was lack of want and political will. He’s an evil piece of shit.
Those are normal, nuanced issues to have with a leader. I agree with most of what you’ve said. “They didn’t do enough to make things better,” is a valid position that does not equate to “evil piece of shit.” Trump, on the other hand… America knew what Trump was (insert appropriate Biff Tannen still) when they elected him. That’s pathological.
The point is not that these are nuanced issues to have against a leader its that Obama campaigned on NOT being this guy, won, and then went back on everything he did paving the way for Trump by doing nothing to help divert us from the economic turmoil we are seeing today.
The comment I replied to was not about knowing who the person was before electing them it was about Obama’s culpability in the political climate that birthed both Trump presidencies. And if it wasn’t Trump there would have just been someone else. He is not an aberration to our system he is a product of it.
He is not an aberration to our system he is a product of it.
Unless you’re saying Obama created that system, I don’t see the point of the distinction. If your assertion is that Obama should have fixed what is fundamentally wrong with US culture, then I just plain disagree that this is a reasonable expectation. Considering the size of our population that identifies with the disease, I don’t see “pathological” and “product of the system” as mutually exclusive. The manic person, for instance, does identify with the mania. Could Obama have done more? Definitely. I’m not disagreeing with that.
I’m not even sure what you’re trying to say here. What do you think he campaigned on? Why do you think he won such an overwhelming mandate of support from the population? It is because he literally ran on addressing some of the fundamental issues plaguing American society. Obama failing to do all of led to further exacerbation of all of those issues. Did he create the heinous capital worshipping culture we have in the US? No, but what did he do to combat it?
Oh, I remember, and I also remember telling everyone to lower their expectations. Obama’s campaign promises were off the charts optimistic, bordering on delusional, even for the time. And that’s not where the bar is for us now. Simply not doing this (gestures at everything) is now what constitutes a “great leader” for us. I don’t want it to sound like I’m okay with the bar being this low, but here we are.
Maybe some of those insider trading dems could have ponied up some cash instead of relentlessly begging working people for money to lose against Donald fucking Trump, twice.
Goddamn everything really is Obama’s fault isn’t it.
Hear me out… the holocaust? Obama’s poor decision making created a backwards temporal shift and yeah that’s him too.
I mean, he was president between Bush and Trump at the head of a Senate near-supermajority (at one point a supermajority). A lot of shit happening today could’ve been avoided if Obama had been less of an establishment ghoul; that is how missed opportunities work.
Obama was fundamentally a centrist who enabled just about every one of our worst impulses as a country.
Endless war? Murdering thousands of innocent civilians in the middle east? Massive deportation? Deregulation for big corporations? Massive bailouts on the taxpayer dime?
Oh sorry the supreme court set the precedent with gay marriage and that half baked compromise cooked up by the heritage foundation as an alternative to single payer healthcare with the Affordable Care Act happened so I guess him being a piece of shit and a massive opportunistic liar doesn’t matter.
Except “centrist” has meant solidly right, for decades.
Back on planet earth, where you may live, he did in fact abdicate his influence as the head of the Democratic Party and then disappeared to relax on the beach as is American tradition of presidents staying out of politics.
There is a working theory among the world’s forefront experts that Obama was not only imperfect but actually did some really bad stuff too. But that’s just a theory…like gravity
This the same Obama who routinely comes out and chastises black men for not voting how he thinks they should? Or maybe the same Obama who has been doing his best to cape for Israel?
Whichever Obama made those phone calls to ensure Bernie lost the primary
