Obama To “Re-emerge” This Fall In “Delicate Dance” With Democrats
Leading from behind
Obama is said to be planning a return to the public stage this fall in a move that has some Democrat strategists concerned. Unwanted as the “face” of the Democratic Party and unwilling to be the “foil” for Republicans, Obama is expected to campaign for candidates in deep blue territory and to fund-raise.
Town Hall reported last month:
The savior is returning. Barack Obama may get back into the trenches to help his party, which was widely expected, especially with the midterm season upon us. The former president is reportedly having regular check-ins with Democratic Party leaders, with speculation that he’s aiming to rebuild the party he helped destroy over the course of his presidency.
The era of the permanent Democratic majority that was talked about pervasively post-2008 crashed and burned after the 2010 midterms. Democrats passed a $1 trillion stimulus that didn’t do much and Obamacare saddled the middle class with skyrocketing premiums, less competition, and less choice. Most importantly, it was sold to the American voter as a lie. Remember if you like your plan/doctor, you can keep it under Obamacare? Well, you couldn’t keep your plan, nor could you keep your doctor.
Since Obama’s presidency, the Democratic Party has been decimated across the country. The GOP now controls two-thirds of the governorships, the White House, Congress, and 69/99 state legislatures. They’re the dominant political force in the country.
That Republicans are the “dominant political force in the country” doesn’t sit with well Obama, so he’s plotting his return and his strategy for rebuilding the Democrat party.
As usual, he’ll be leading from behind.
Former President Barack Obama will re-emerge on the national scene this fall, though Democrats expect him to do so with caution.
One aide describes the beginning of a “delicate dance” that aims to put Obama in the Democratic fray but prevents him from remaining the face of the party.
Aides will huddle with Obama in the coming weeks to plot out what shape the former president’s fall schedule will take. Advisers close to him say that while he will play an active role in helping his party rebuild, much of his work will be behind the scenes.
He is likely to take on fundraising, for example, something he has done for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee since leaving office.
. . . . “He’ll tread lightly because he is not going to be the face of the party when it actually counts in 2020 and 2024,” Jillson said. “So the extent to which he would emerge and speak to a wide range of issues would preclude the emergence of someone else. They must find a standard-bearer for future elections, and I think he can at least in the short term suck up all the available oxygen.”
Obama’s been meeting with the DNC chairman and lawmakers over the past few months, but he is wary of becoming a foil for President Trump and Republicans.
The Hill continues:
The Hill reported in July that he met with DNC Chairman Tom Perez as well as lawmakers at his office to give his guidance on a number of issues.
But advisers to the former president acknowledge he also doesn’t want to be “a foil” – as one top ally put it – for President Trump and the Republican leadership.
In recent months, Trump blamed Obama for doing “nothing” about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election. He also taunted him for never coming to a Boy Scout jamboree and went after his policies on everything from healthcare to Cuba and North Korea.
Obama has chosen to remain silent. And even during the recent healthcare fight over his signature legislation, for example, he sought to keep a low profile.
“He has to be careful,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. “At a moment when President Trump’s approval is falling so fast – including with his base – there is a risk for Obama taking center stage and triggering the energy that many Republicans currently lack.”
“He would be the target against which Trump would direct his fury,” said Cal Jillson, a professor of political science at Southern Methodist University. “From Trump’s perspective nothing better could happen.”
Jillson said that a light Obama footprint on the national stage could allow breathing room for future Democratic leaders to emerge.
It’s quite interesting that both Obama and Democrats recognize that the party needs to be rebuilt; it’s not clear that Obama or Democrats understand how and why their party was decimated in the first place.
It’s long been noted that Obama’s “coalition” of voters wasn’t transferable to other Democrat candidates. And in another tacit admission that Obama’s endorsements will get one only so far, one Democrat strategist explains that while Obama can draw a crowd, he won’t be any help getting actual votes.
The Hill continues:
Democratic strategist David Wade added that “it’s a great moment for President Obama to emerge.”
“Unlike many of his recent predecessors, he left office without scandal and with high approval ratings,” Wade said. “And with the incumbent president in the White House bogged down by investigation and deep unpopularity, the contrast is helpful.
“Pundits are always going to overthink and overanalyze the pros and cons of having a former president on the campaign trail, but the truth is, there’s little downside. He has unique convening powers to draw a crowd, energize Democrats, make a closing argument, and then it is up to candidates to close the deal.”
Essentially, then, it sounds like Obama will be the DNC fund-raiser-in-chief and the celebrity pull for crowds when Jay Zee and Beyoncé are otherwise engaged.
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Yep. Obama decimated the Democrats. He’s coming back to finish ’em off.
If you like your Democrat Party, You Can Keep Your Democrat Party…
ROTFL
“Unlike many of his recent predecessors, he left office without scandal…”
Delusional, but that describes leftists in general.
For our ignoramus trolls:
25 ‘impeachable’ Obama scandals:
http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/25-impeachable-obama-scandals-far-more-serious-than-comey-firing/
Obama-administration scandals:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443911/obamas-many-scandals-abuse-government-power-worse-sex-scandals
Scandals Aplenty – The media just pretended they didn’t exist:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/scandals-aplenty/article/2006170
Effem.
What a great idea, Chairman O can be the leader of the Sharia Democrats. Natural fit!
The Savior has returned!!!
I was worried for a while that the GOP was in trouble.
The media organ-grinders have not found a replacement monkey. (Hillary clinton failed her audition. And they’ve ruled out crazy pelosi.)
Welcome back, barry. Don’t forget your little hat.
And Hillary Clinton is considering becoming preacher… You can’t make this up:
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/08/11/report-hillary-clinton-is-considering-becoming-a-preacher/23074776/
Of course, she’ll start stealing the congregation’s money on day-one – if she’s not indicted yet by the DOJ.
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in drag.
Hillary is a piranha.
We are living in Post Obama America, Trump is his legacy. With Barry back on the scene, he will be a constant reminder.
“leading from behind”?
falling far behind…
To TheFineReport: Jim and Tammy-Faye morphs to Bill and Hillary?
– An insult to Jim and Tammy-Faye!
Left office without a scandal
Don’t make me choke on my steak…
He should have been prosecuted for numerous scandles, and if the Gods look down on us with any merit, he will be prosecuted for Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS, among others…
Obamacares… about millions paying penalties for a mandate to purchase medical insurance and millions more left in the gap between expanded Medicaid and affordable medical care.
Then there is CAIR: catastrophic anthropogenic immigration reform, forced by elective wars and outsourced responsibility.
Obama To “Re-emerge” This Fall In “Delicate Dance” With Democrats
A ‘delicate dance’?
Why do I get an image of Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, doing their little dance in Alice in Wonderland?
Unless Trump’s DOJ starts hauling in top level Obama administration members for questioning, then Barack might decide to stay retired for a little while longer…
There’s your disgusting racism again.
What a filthy puke.
Another winning comment. (How do you do it?)
That’s racism? Michelle Obama is a classless oaf, a race-hustler, and a slanderer of our country. Her marriage is a fraud, her ‘husband’ is a fraud, and she (if she’s a ‘she’ is a fraud.) She can’t dress unless she’s told what to wear, and she habitually picks her crotch in public. She eats like a pig in public, and she as greedy as hillary clinton.(Barack often picks his nose during press conferences. )So what’s missing?
Tammy Bruce agreed, a long time ago: (she’s a racist too:)
“..You know what we’ve got? We’ve got trash in the White House. Trash is a thing that is colorblind, it can cross all eco-socionomic…categories. You can work on Wall Street, or you can work at the Wal-Mart.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/tammy-bruce-calls-the-oba_n_178109.html
Michelle Obama belongs in Wal-Mart. Barack belongs in jail.
Oh yeah – and they’re both slobs:
CBS reporter: Obama’s campaign plane stinks
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/08/cbs-reporter-obamas-campaign-plane-stinks/
“The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/reporters-notebook-seeing-how-the-other-half-lives/
If reports are correct BHO lead from behind for a long time before being President. The Dems will continue to experience now as others did in the past. For a Party that had Truman and (for all his weaknesses) Kennedy… the Pantheon of Democrat Presidents is a sorry lot in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Fuzzy, there is a typo in your article. As part of the title you wrote:
“Leading from behind”
It should have read:
“Leading as a behind”
Or, ‘leading up his behind.’
That was Reggie Love’s job!
Leading while taking it up the behind.
This made me giggle, Whiskey.
“From Trump’s perspective nothing better could happen.”
It’s not clear that it will make any difference at all to Trump. He can needle Barry and his record (on Korea or other hot topics of the day) whether O’s active or hiding away somewhere on vacation. All the President has to do is tweet an attack and the Press will take care of the rest. Barry’s actual presence at fundraisers (or whatever) is not really necessary; he’ll make a fine target no matter what he’s doing, or not doing.
Barry’s presence might make a difference to the Dems, though. In the coming struggle for the future of the Party, he might nudge things toward the “internationalist”/anti-white/anti-Christian path, rather than the neo-socialist/government-as-sugar-daddy path.
Remember, this a-hole couldnt get clinton elected. In fact, he couldnt get anyone elected. He’s poison. And as big of a.contrivance as any of us said he was.He’s done. No diaper the media outs on this guy will.ever stem the flow of doo doo comung out of him.
here’s hoping the “delicate dance” of Death 2 Democratic Party
Obama will go to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and call the bitter clingers who sleep with their sister in a double wide.
Mitch McConnell most victimized, as he’ll get a 60 seat majority and no more excuses. My dream:
Trump: Sen McConnell, Sen Schumer, America needs you to serve as Directors of CIA and NSA respectively. Resign your seats and serve your country”
Day 2:
“Oh and you’re both fired”.
“Barack Obama Strikes Back — The Return of the Clowns”
Obama For-ks America
Dear God, make him GO AWAY.
Hasn’t he done enough damage?