saying "Bernie just has white male support," I want to yell, "Excuse me, I'm right here!" as I'm sure all young people do too. Having 20% of, say, older female or black support is not a tiny minority. And he has all young demographics. Of course I wish he had more, and I hope California will show he can win a diverse state. But meanwhile, #BernMadeMeWhiteMale.

Rahm's comment about liberals being "fucking retarded," or Obama's numerous moves at "bipartisanship" -- all the time he spent trying to get Olympia Snowe to sign on to the ACA, for instance, or his siding with Republicans against Democrats in the push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or his complete lack of effort in supporting Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections. The fact that the Republicans have rejected him doesn't mean that he's rejected them, so, for instance, from 2013:

https://www.popularresistance.org/obama-tells-ceos-not-much-difference-w...

“In my conversations with Republicans, I actually think the divide is not that wide. So what we just have to do is find a pathway where Republicans, in the House in particular, feel comfortable enough about process that they can go ahead and meet us,”

This sort of political effort appears as what Obama's always wanted to do, rather than the strenuous stuff he did in the first two years to get Democrats to accept his basically Republican policy aims. It's always appeared strange to me that Daily Kos liberals (of the pre-March-2016 variety, not the current crowd) assume motives and desires of Obama that he didn't really have, along the lines of he's really just another liberal like us.

He did get a lot done in the first 2 years with the Democratic congress. He could have done a lot more but he was under the illusion that, as President, he needed to let all sides be represented. Obamacare has made a large, positive difference in my life and, given the power of the medical insurance lobby, maybe it was the only way to get that first step towards the vastly superior single payer system. I think after 7 1/2 years he's become too entrenched in the establishment, but he's still more trustworthy than the Clintons and he is a more far-sighted President (i.e. elimination of nuclear weapons) than Bill was. I'd definitely take a third Obama term over a third Clinton term.

If Obama had wanted an effective Presidency, he would have abandoned his ridiculous "kumbaya politics" and played things right, straight from the start: he would have completely purged his Cabinet of right-wingers, Turd Way types, and Republicans on Day 1. Also, he would have insisted on full filibuster reform in the Senate and made it stick, so only 51 votes rather than 60 would be required to accomplish anything. Then, before anything else, he would have headed straight into performing his principal campaign promises -- closing Guantanamo, getting completely out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and a genuine recovery of the Bush-whacked economy. These were the things he had promised during the 2008 campaign, and they were the first items flushed down the crapper once he took office. Further, once the badly mis-named "Affordable" Care Act arrived on his desk with no public option, no single payer, and no real rein-in of Big Pharma and Big Insurance, he should have vetoed it.

Every time Mr. Obama diverged from the above, he lost actual political capital and corresponding power. By the 2010 and 2012 Congressional elections, he had lost so much that the GOP easily took control of both houses of Congress.

And, as they say, the rest is history.

Different eras have different causes.