Discussion: Democrats Fret That Obama Will Choose Nonpartisan GOTV Over Campaign Trail

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#41

Anyone who has ever followed Barack Obama’s career knows the man is center-left. If you’ve ever read anything he’s written you would know this. He’s not a flaming lefty even if he did smoke pot in his youth. He’s always worked for what he wanted and has. He didn’t get a pass through an Ivy League school like someone else we know. His wife Michelle is her own woman and doesn’t need assistance to be that.

These two people endured more BS nonsense simply because of the color of their skins. If there are any Dems concerned about what either will or will not do…go jump in a photograph with them and call yourself lucky! Besides, it speaks volumes if you can’t generate enough excitement on your own.

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#42

Michelle Obama is thinking…

Remember in 2010 and 2014 when actual Democrats ran away from her
husband campaigning for them. And Democrats in KY would not even admit
to voting for PBO, in which ACA provided healthcare to more people in
KY than any other state.

So fret? FOH She owes Democrats NOTHING. Some of us haven’t forgotten how those Billy bad arses back in the day paid $ to heckle her then play the victim when she didn’t put up with the bs

Michelle Obama and the Delusion of Hecklers

Ellen Sturtz's outburst showed a sense of entitlement that echoes some of the most resentful critics of the President himself

Grimes still mum on Obama vote

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US mid-terms: Southern Democrats run from Obama to survive

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#43

Have Bernie Sanders turn out the black votes if you think black voters give af about bankers :laughing:

AnyoneButBernie 2020

#44

I’m good if all she wants to do is a general GOTV campaign effort. As a matter of fact,I’m good with whatever she decides to do. With his 2008 campaign being a 22 month affair,she’s less than 2 years out of a 10 year meatgrinder. She did her part and did it well. I respect whatever decision she makes regarding future elections.

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#45

Sarcastic delusion.

#46

I stopped reading Politico sometime between the 2008 and 2012. Don’t remember the exact year,I just remember that all of the sudden it went to shit as a reliable publication.

#47

Best FLOTUS evah.

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#48

What, you couldn’t handle eight years of an old man waving his finger in your face? Some Democrat you are!

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#49

They’ve had some pretty good stuff recently. Their reporters are very capable when they concentrate on actual political news and occasional deep dives.

But the inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom in many of their columns, the gullibility for Republican spin (in the name of “balance”), and their desire to prove relevance by being provocative can be very annoying.

#50

Non-partisan voter awareness programs, registration drives, GOTV efforts are all great across the board and just happen to disproportionately benefit D’s, so doing them non-partisanly is still a partisan good, which is fine by me.

And of course so many R’s hate the Obama’s so viscerally they will never see anything they do as anything but highly partisan, and if Michelle Obama tells them to register and vote, some of them will unregister and not vote just to spite her. Fine by me too!

#51

Try nonsense.

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