Post by ruppsrunt on Aug 3, 2019 12:13:42 GMT -5
How wonderful to see the leaders of the dems now recognizing how awful der marxist was!! 
Wall St Jnl
Aug. 2, 2019
… the key moment came when the two sparred (Booker & Binden) on immigration policy. Mr. Biden seemed to distance himself from his role in the Obama administration on the deportation of illegal immigrants. For those of you who may not be able to remember that far back, this was in an era a long, long time ago, when the Democratic Party still believed that illegal immigration should be, well, illegal.
“Mr. Vice President, you can’t have it both ways,” jabbed Mr. Booker. “You invoke President Obama more than anybody in this campaign. You can’t do it when it’s convenient and then dodge it when it’s not.” …
We aren’t even three years removed from the Obama presidency. Mr. Obama has already surely booked his place in the Democratic Party pantheon …And yet to listen to most of the party’s 2020 candidates, it is like the 44th president was just another Democratic sellout—one more politician elevated to the Oval Office on a bubble of progressive hopes, only to cave to the vested interests of big business and entrenched conservative forces in Washington.
At the debates this week, as on the campaign trail so far, the Obama record on critical policy areas was widely denounced. Republicans may slam Obamacare as socialized medicine, but leading Democrats have now decided that, with its emphasis on private-sector solutions to coverage gaps, Mr. Obama’s signature domestic achievement was woefully inadequate and must be replaced with “Medicare for All.”
The Obama administration’s immigration policy—with its attempts to enforce the law, at least part of the time—is now widely condemned as inhumane. That there is still a U.S. coal and gas industry after Mr. Obama’s two terms is regarded by some leading candidates as a betrayal of environmental justice.
Even Mr. Biden—who, as Mr. Booker tried to point out, has made his proximity to Mr. Obama for eight years perhaps his principal selling point—is willing to sell out his old boss on some of these issues when it suits his campaign, most notably on immigration.
This is not to say that Mr. Obama has become a broader electoral liability. Mr. Biden still leads in the early primary polls, in large part because of his association with the former president, especially among African-Americans whose esteem for Mr. Obama is largely undimmed.
In a Quinnipiac poll last month of likely Democratic voters, Mr. Biden led all the candidates among African-American voters with 53%. Sen. Bernie Sanders was second with just 8%. This was despite the recent attempts of Mr. Biden’s opponents to reincarnate him as a segregationist-friendly, busing-opposing good ol’ boy. And remember, African-Americans will represent at least a fifth of all Democratic primary voters.
…Perhaps the most striking element of American politics today is that we have a Republican Party and president rapidly unraveling the Obama legacy and a Democratic Party that seems distinctly unenthusiastic about rescuing it. How strange that what was hailed a decade ago as a historic presidency might already be a historical footnote just a few years after its end.
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Wall St Jnl
Aug. 2, 2019
… the key moment came when the two sparred (Booker & Binden) on immigration policy. Mr. Biden seemed to distance himself from his role in the Obama administration on the deportation of illegal immigrants. For those of you who may not be able to remember that far back, this was in an era a long, long time ago, when the Democratic Party still believed that illegal immigration should be, well, illegal.
“Mr. Vice President, you can’t have it both ways,” jabbed Mr. Booker. “You invoke President Obama more than anybody in this campaign. You can’t do it when it’s convenient and then dodge it when it’s not.” …
We aren’t even three years removed from the Obama presidency. Mr. Obama has already surely booked his place in the Democratic Party pantheon …And yet to listen to most of the party’s 2020 candidates, it is like the 44th president was just another Democratic sellout—one more politician elevated to the Oval Office on a bubble of progressive hopes, only to cave to the vested interests of big business and entrenched conservative forces in Washington.
At the debates this week, as on the campaign trail so far, the Obama record on critical policy areas was widely denounced. Republicans may slam Obamacare as socialized medicine, but leading Democrats have now decided that, with its emphasis on private-sector solutions to coverage gaps, Mr. Obama’s signature domestic achievement was woefully inadequate and must be replaced with “Medicare for All.”
The Obama administration’s immigration policy—with its attempts to enforce the law, at least part of the time—is now widely condemned as inhumane. That there is still a U.S. coal and gas industry after Mr. Obama’s two terms is regarded by some leading candidates as a betrayal of environmental justice.
Even Mr. Biden—who, as Mr. Booker tried to point out, has made his proximity to Mr. Obama for eight years perhaps his principal selling point—is willing to sell out his old boss on some of these issues when it suits his campaign, most notably on immigration.
This is not to say that Mr. Obama has become a broader electoral liability. Mr. Biden still leads in the early primary polls, in large part because of his association with the former president, especially among African-Americans whose esteem for Mr. Obama is largely undimmed.
In a Quinnipiac poll last month of likely Democratic voters, Mr. Biden led all the candidates among African-American voters with 53%. Sen. Bernie Sanders was second with just 8%. This was despite the recent attempts of Mr. Biden’s opponents to reincarnate him as a segregationist-friendly, busing-opposing good ol’ boy. And remember, African-Americans will represent at least a fifth of all Democratic primary voters.
…Perhaps the most striking element of American politics today is that we have a Republican Party and president rapidly unraveling the Obama legacy and a Democratic Party that seems distinctly unenthusiastic about rescuing it. How strange that what was hailed a decade ago as a historic presidency might already be a historical footnote just a few years after its end.
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