The Democrats have an Obama problem
The city of Milpitas unintentionally made a symbolic and appropriate gesture to former President Obama the other day.
The Milpitas City Council voted Tuesday night to honor the 44th U.S. President and rename a major roadway Barack Obama Boulevard.
...But when the road heads west, it passes over Interstate 880 and leads to the Newby Island Landfill, a recycling and composting plant that's consider the source of the city's notorious odors. Bay Area motorists often get wafts of the stink zipping by the Dixon Landing exit on the freeway, and Milpitas residents have complained about the stink for decades."Hundreds of thousands of drivers that take Interstate 880 south will pass Dixon Landing and hundreds of thousands of people are aware that this is a place with an awful odor," says Tran. "It is going to be one of the biggest embarrassments in the nation to rename this freeway exit Barack Obama Boulevard. Republicans will have a field day."
Milpitas' gesture to our former president was entirely fitting for what he deserves.
The problem is that Democrats have gone nuts about Obama in the same way Republicans went nuts about Reagan. Both of them were below average presidents, who's primary accomplishments were net negatives for the country, but are practically worshiped by their partisan fans.
In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, a whopping 78 percent of Democratic primary voters said they were satisfied that Obama’s presidency did as much as was possible at the time in addressing the issues facing the country.That’s compared with 20 percent who said they were NOT satisfied, because more should have been done.
Even among self-described liberal Democrats in the poll, the numbers are essentially the same — 79 percent satisfied, 20 percent dissatisfied.
What’s more, Obama’s fav/unfav rating among all Democratic primary voters in the poll is 90 percent positive, 4 percent negative.
That's insane when you recall that the Democrats got annihilated under Obama. He left the party absolutely gutted at every level. No Republican could have done more damage to the Democrats than what Obama did.
Dem voters are looking back fondly on a presidency that didn't exist.
Want proof? Check this out.
Trump's approval rating on Wednesday was 44.3 percent, according to a Real Clear Politics average of more than a half-dozen major polls. That is higher than Obama's average approval rating of 43.9 percent on September 18, 2011, by the same measure.The 45th president's average approval rating surpassed that of his predecessor on Monday and stayed on top for the next two days. Trump's average approval rating on Monday was 44.1 percent compared to Obama's 43.9 percent on September 16, 2011, and 44 percent on Tuesday compared to Obama's 43.8 percent on September 17, 2011.
Yes, Trump is more popular than Obama was at this point in his presidency.
That's reality.
And we all know just how unpopular Trump is.
So it's safe to say that Democrats need an intervention.
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Democrats will not look at Obama's actual record.
Only a few have confronted what happened under Obama. One of the things loyalists say that there were not scandals. Depends on what one means by scandals. It certainly was a scandal that Obama's DOJ did not indict any banksters, and gave them less than a slap of the wrist.
JP Morgan Chase should have been broken into a
thousand pieces and Jaimie Domon should be sitting in prison. Let's look at what Obama let him get away with shall we?
This shows how much the game is rigged for the banks and everyone else who isn't us little people.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
He is an icon.
He is a god.
He was a legal eagle.
He was a compassionate Black Man.
And I will go throw up now.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
@on the cusp I was hoping he might be
Obama had swag
And any self-respecting black folk will admit, that swag is everything. Hell...he didn't do sht for the black community...but he sure looked good doing...whatever the heck he was doing...and his kids were just so darn cute...and he loved his black wife to death...ain't that enough?
Well done is better than well said-Ben Franklin
He was Bush II for a new generation... /nt
Yep...
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
@snoopydawg That guy looks like he
As the Harry Potter saga reminded us, three-quarters is magic
Three quarters and a train platform will get you places normal folks can’t go.
“Muggle” (non-magic) train platforms, on the other hand, can get a kid pushed to his death in front of a train for no reason at all.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-boy-dies-after-being-pushed-in-front-of-tr...
Don’t mind me, it’s a quarter past three in the morning here — I should go back to bed. I am going back to bed. Off I go! Shoo!
That reminds me.
A friend told me about driving somewhere in Georgia once, when he happened across a street named America Road. He thought, “Hmm. I wonder where it goes”, and turned down it.
It was a dead end.
As for that 79/20 poll result, well, I’ve never been normal. Kucinich was at the top of my list in 2008, followed by Gravel. Obama was down near the Republicans. That judgement was borne out when his inspiring speeches, because of the conflict between them and his actions, began making me nauseous.
Obama Landfill Roast..has a nice ring to it I think
How so many people are blind to the damage Obama did to this country and to the world just boggles my mind to no end!
Did Barack Obama bring us Donald Trump?
Hey..remember when Obama said that the GOP had driven the country's car into a ditch and they shouldn't be allowed to drive it anymore and he would see to that? But in less than two years he and the democrats gave them back the keys.
Trump is Obama's legacy!
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Please,
Obama was never a Professor of Constitutional Law. He was hired as an adjunct professor who taught a course in constitutional law. Those familiar with the hierarchy of institutions of higher learning should know that adjunct professors rank only slightly below custodians.
Seriously?
This is what you got from the article? I don't see where this was the point it's making.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I used to regularly commute on 880
through Milpitas. Fortunately, I cannot smell. But I did go under an underpass one day, and notice the statement, recently scrawled in black spray paint, assuring me that "MILPITAS DOESNT SUCK!"
So it's got that going for it.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Obama left the keys on the table so Trump could
drive the car. The family separation thing that blossomed on the border started under Obama.
https://www.businessinsider.com/zero-tolerance-border-crisis-immigration...
He signed the Anti-Propaganda Act at Xmas, not only putting our rights to privacy on the chopping block, but allowing Trump to appoint people to the secretive State Dept committee and take this program anywhere he wishes...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/26/under-cover-christmas-obama...
"In the final hours before the Christmas holiday weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday quietly signed the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law—and buried within the $619 billion military budget (pdf) is a controversial provision that establishes a national anti-propaganda center that critics warn could be dangerous for press freedoms."
Obama essentially legitimized the "fake news" rhetoric and hostility towards press freedoms that Trump surfs on.
I'm sure I could come up with more, but I don't wish to spend the rest of my day with this feeling of nausea.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
Lanny Breuer and Loretta Lynch at the DOJ, not prosecuting banks
https://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/01/11959/frontline-gets-its-man-lanny-...
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/04/bill-black-lanny-breuers-defense...
https://shadowproof.com/2012/09/16/lanny-breuer-takes-care-of-corporations/