After weeks of pushing the "Russian hacking" narrative, mostly through White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, Obama is finally admitting that Hillary "lost badly" in her presidential bid by failing to make an argument to people in the Midwest that inspired them to "show up." In an "exit interview" with NPR, Obama said that Democrats face "structural problems" with their base clustered in urban areas on the coasts which requires presidential candidates to make their case to swing voters in the Midwest, something he says Hillary failed to do. Per The Hill:
"There are some things that we know are a challenge for Democrats — structural problems," he said.
Obama noted that Democratic voters are often clustered in urban areas and on the coasts.
"So as a consequence, you've got a situation where there're not only entire states but also big chunks of states where, if we're not showing up, if we're not in there making an argument, then we're going to lose," he said.
"And we can lose badly, and that's what happened in this election."
Perhaps the President is admitting that a little less golf in his second term might have been beneficial to his party?
Of course, when pressed on whether the electorate understood the democratic argument and simply chose to reject it, Obama assured NPR that that simply couldn't be the case. As Obama has told us many times, if anyone disagrees with his position on a certain policy then it is simply because they must not fully understand it.
Obama said he doesn't think the Democratic Party's problem is its core argument. The values presented by the Democratic Party have strong support, he said, citing the minimum wage.
"There are clearly, though, failures on our part to give people in rural areas or in exurban areas, a sense day-to-day that we're fighting for them or connected to them," he said.
A lot of people, he added, don't know about the Obama administration's push for collective bargaining or overtime rules and are not aware of all the benefits of the Affordable Care Act.
Finally, proving that he still has no idea what happened last month, Obama once again blamed Fox News and Hillary's failure to adequately pander to the right people...Obama's words are much more subtle than ours, of course.
"Some of it is the prism through which they're seeing the political debate take place."
"So part of the reason it's important to show up, and when I say show up, I don't just mean during election time, but to be in there engaging and listening and being with people," he said, "is because it then builds trust and it gives you a better sense of how should you talk about issues in a way that feel salient and feel meaningful to people."
To quote Judge Jeanine Pirro from this weekend, the American people "rejected you and everything you stand for," Mr. President. The American people rejected the idea of catering a message "in a way that feels salient and feels meaningful" to each individual group while doing absolutely nothing after election day. The American people chose action over meaningless political narratives.
it's way too late to be gracious mother fucker. it was russian hackers. stick with your no class lies and war mongering to the end.
As much as I respect Obama, he is totally wrong about this. Hillary won the popular vote, and multiple US intelligence sources have now confirmed that Russia hacked our elections. He is a victim of fake news on this one.
CHRISTMAS ALTERNATIVES FOR PROGRESSIVESyou, at least, are consistent.
But no longer funny.
a dysfunctional riddler wrapped in an enema
LMAO Obama. He still believes he won elections.
Obama used Lawyer speak to answer the question if people understood and rejected the Dem's platform. To understand means to stand under, to agree to be governed by. So yes the people didn't understand it, they comprehended it and disagreed with it. But they didn't understand it in a legal sense. If a Judge ask you if you "understand" something as far as the purpose of a law you violated and you think it violated your basic rights you always answer "No", say I don't understand how I could break a law that violates my right to privacy or my 2nd amendment rights...
and....what was the DNC platform?
1. mens should be able to use girls bathrooms.
2. the only reason a woman makes less than a man in any 'same named position' is because of blatant discrimination
3. more immigrants that are not 'white males' is what is best for the US
This is why HRC really got toasted!
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=44803
HILLARY CLINTON: The Most Dangerous Presidential Candidate in U.S. HistorySo tell us what YOUR platform was, Barry-
Oh yeah- "I'm black and I give out free shit";
Hey, it worked for you- can't understand why it didn't work for Hillary.......
The two examples he gives, that the fly-over deplorables would appreciate if they only knew about were "overtime rules" and "collective bargaining". Problem is you need "jobs" in order to have overtime and unions in the first place, and his policies regarding globalization and regulation have destroyed the private sectors ability to create jobs. So, unless your a goverment employee, not sure how the two assinie liberal causes help those in flyover country.
He also mentioned "minimum wage". Which I find laughable on the face of it but, in addition, he's basically saying that low-skilled workers REQUIRE government guns and force in order to compete. Which really isn't a positive message, at all.
dupe
Chaulky the Lawn Jockey
Next: Russia will hack the electors voting results and Putin will become President.
WTF??? Multiple intelligence agencies confirmed with ZERO evidence.
You respect a know nothing baby killing (by drones) Porch Monkey?
Shows that you are a goddam idiot
Take a hike, Dipshit.
You must be new here
I am new, kinda -) was banned last year under another moniker.
More accurate headline
He inspired US to show up. Why cannot they admit this, even if only to themselves?
Hitlary DID inspire people to show up and vote...except she inspired them to vote for The Donald!
The best approach with the new and unfunny MDB is to ignore him- no clicks. Move on.
trolls are are usefull as 80 year-old prostitutes.
Please don't talk about Hillary like that.
please don't insult whores like that
the insult pit levels:
80yrs old working girls
dogs,birds,etc
....
cow dung
trolls
hillary
You proglodyte "journalists" at National Propaganda Radio should probably start looking for new jobs.
DEFUND npr
And of those "multiple intel sources"... the Coast Guard? Me thinks fake news is not the issue here. It's sedition by progressive marxists. All will be uncovered soon enough, including Huessein being outed as not being legal to be POTUS.
I bet you believe Santa is real also
He was, but the Russians killed him...
lots of university-educated Americans I know (probably at least half of them) actually believe'angels' exist - it's kind of the same thing.
And despite here losing badly because of herslef, he still will help to overturn an election. What trash!
Now I'm convinced that you are not even a human.
CIA now say they have confimation that Putin did 911.
MDB, you are incorrect, Obama is right...there are plenty of other benefits for the ASA like tossing seniors on the streets, adding additional debt to the younger generations, water down quality of care, consolidate the industry to a few providers, health insurance premiums sky rocket, create more part time jobs and reduce overtime pay, increase small business costs reduce hiring ...... the emperor is still not wearing clothes and he doesn't care....simply amazing.
CIA now say they have confimation that Putin did 911.
CIA now say they have confimation that Putin did 911.
There's a free civics lesson today. Pay attention how our Republic works.
You believe that ? Good. I dont.
Doesn't matter if she won the popular vote as it was not a popularity contest, it was a POTUS election.
It craks me the fuck up everytimg I see your posts. I would love to see your website stats. LOL! Not traffic counts but the actual SM metrics of the visitors that spend time there.
Your site is a case study in.. what do you call it? 'Reverse trolling'? 'Ninja Satire'? 'Upside down & backwards reality show?'
Monetize that shit dude. Good source, easy to set up - GearBubble - affiliate link. (All you posers that don't understand 'affiliate link,' please go find something else to do besides act like you do in this thread. Some of us are actually busy making a living online. Off of you. Respect... )
They live in a delusion of their own making, but it is the media that maintains it by never allowing their "ideas" to ever be challenged by public debate. They are allowed to believe their own bullshit and in doing so also afforded the illusion that they are simply smarter than everyone else.
Didn't you hear.....The debate is OVER for EVERYTHING.
how can u even take seriously a binary system of dems vs repubs at this stage in the game? trump is not even a repub, was a lifelong dem, and won because he simply used one party as platform to offer an independent fuk u message.
BUZZSAW99 ... i AGREE 110%!!!!
Whenever any DEMOCRAT speaks, my blood pressure goes up. I try not to listen as a result. How do you know when a DEMOCRAT is lying? Answer: When their mouth is moving!!
Once a political leader has lost the public's trust, it is GAME, SET and MATCH!!!!
GOOD NIGHT IRENE!!!!!!
Bullfuknsht. Moar "peddling fiction"from the scrawny chickenlegged mealy mouthed Progressive illegal Indonesian kenyan alien muslim fudgepacker imbecile.
Mater of the obvious.
This stupid homo will throw ANYONE under the bus if it means he gets to hear his own voice. What a useless cuck.
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by DANIEL GREENFIELD, ISRAEL NEWS November 10, 2016
Obama and his supporters loved talking about history. His victory was historic. They were on the right side of history. History was an inevitable arc that bent their way.
The tidal force of demographics had made the old America irrelevant. Any progressive policy agenda was now possible because we were no longer America. We Were Obamerica. A hip, happening place full of smiling gay couples, Muslim women in hijabs and transgender actors. We were all going to live in a New York City coffee house, work at Green Jobs and live in the post-national future.
The past was gone. We were falling into the gorgeous wonderful future of dot com instant deliveries and outsourced everything. We would become more tolerant and guilty. The future was Amazon and Disney. It was hot and cold running social justice. The Bill of Rights was done. Ending the First and Second Amendments was just a clever campaign away. Narratives on news sites drove everything.
Presidents were elected by Saturday Night Live skits. John Oliver, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee were our journalists. Safe spaces were everywhere and you better watch your micro-aggressions, buddy. No more coal would be mined. No more anything would be made.
The end of men was here. The end of the dead white men of the literary canon. The end of white people. The end of binary gender and marriage. The end of reason. The end of art. The end of
2 + 2 equaling 4. This was Common Core time. It was time to pardon an endless line of drug dealers. To kill cops and praise criminals. To be forced to buy worthless health insurance for wealth redistribution to those who voted their way to wealth.
This was Obama's America. And there was no going back. We were rushing through endless goal posts of social transformation. The military fell. Then the police. Now it looks as quaint as anything from the 50s, the 70s or the 80s. A brief moment of foolishness that already appears odd and awkward. And then one day nostalgic. It wasn't the future. It's already the past. It's history.
Scalia died. Hillary Clinton was bound to win. And she would define the Supreme Court. Down-ticket races would give her a friendly Senate. And then perhaps even the House.
But there is no right side of history. There is only the side we choose. The Obama era was permanent. It was history.
Now it is history.
It‘s shocking ascendancy has been paired with an equally shocking descent. The Obama era is done. It's gone. It's over. It was wiped from the pages of history in one night that left Congress and the White House in Republican hands.
It would have been bad enough if Jeb Bush had succeeded Obama. That would have been inconvenient, but not a repudiation. Instead Obama's legacy was dashed to pieces. His frantic efforts to campaign for Hillary did no good. The public did not vocally reject him. What they did was even worse. They brushed past him. They sidelined him. They gave him passable approval ratings while dismissing his biggest accomplishments. They forgot him. They made it clear that he did not matter.
And that is in its own way far more brutal and wounding. They didn't just destroy the Obama era. Instead they dismissed it as if it never existed.
Obama didn't make history after all. He wasn't a teleprompter demi-god standing athwart of history. He was Carter and Ford. He was there to be forgotten. He didn't change the world. He wasn't the messiah. He was merely mortal. Just another politician who will sag and age. Who will, in the end, be photographed like Bill Clinton, lonely and lost in a world that has passed him by.
The Obama era ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. With a national consensus that maybe he didn't really matter so much after all. And those to whom he mattered the most were his enemies determined to undo everything he did.
Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin.