Wow! The left suddenly found a lot of flaws in Obama’s presidency…
When Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez asked the audience gathered for the last night of the second Democratic presidential primary debate in Detroit whether they missed former President Barack Obama, many suspected it wouldn’t be the last time Obama’s name was evoked that evening.
Obama’s two-term No. 2, Joe Biden, took the stage moments later and was repeatedly forced to defend his political record, eight years of which he amassed under the country’s first African American president.
After being heckled by protesters over the Obama administration’s deportation of about 3 million people, Biden was grilled by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over what he did to prevent the expulsions.
“I asked the vice president, point blank, if he used his power to stop those deportations,” the mayor said. “If you want to be president of the United States, you need to be able to answer the tough questions. I guarantee you, if you’re debating Donald Trump, he’s not going to let you off the hook. So did you say those deportations were a good idea or did you go to the president and say this is a mistake, we shouldn’t do it? Which one.”
Biden replied that he was following Obama’s lead.
“I was vice president. I’m not the president. I keep my recommendations in private. Unlike you, I expect you would go ahead and say whatever was said privately. That’s not what I do,” the former vice president said. “What I do say to you is, he moved to fundamentally change the system. That’s what he did. That’s what he did. But much more has to be done, much more has to be done. “
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker didn’t miss a beat.
“You can’t have it both ways,” Booker told Biden. “You invoke President Obama more than anyone in this campaign. You can’t do it when it’s convenient and then dodge it when it’s not.”
Earlier, Biden defended his former boss’ signature legislative achievement: the Affordable Care Act.
“Obamacare is working. The way to build this and get to it immediately is to build on Obamacare. Take back all of the things that Trump took away, provide a public option,” he said of providing universal healthcare to “a vast, vast, vast majority of Americans.”
Feeling the pressure, the longtime senator for Delaware quoted the previous president, who has said choosing Biden as his running mate was “one of the best decisions he ever made.”
“Everybody’s talking about how terrible I am on all these issues. Barack Obama knew exactly who I was,” he said.
The abandonment of Obama is another example of how the 2020 Democratic presidential field has lurched to the Left.
“Who lost the #DemDebate2? @BarackObama,” former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele tweeted. “He got unnecessarily trashed by his own “team” on #Immigration, #Obamacare, #Deportations. These candidates do know they are running against @realDonaldTrump, right?”
Who lost the #DemDebate2? @BarackObama. He got unnecessarily trashed by his own “team” on #Immigration, #Obamacare, #Deportations.
These candidates do know they are running against @realDonaldTrump, right?— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) August 1, 2019
Republican-leaning Purple Strategy manager director Rory Cooper added that it sounded “like half these candidates wouldn’t even invite President Obama to the convention.”
Sounds like half these candidates wouldn’t even invite President Obama to the convention.
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) August 1, 2019
Eric Holder, an Obama administration attorney general, issued a solemn warning: “To my fellow Democrats. Be wary of attacking the Obama record. Build on it. Expand it. But there is little to be gained – for you or the party – by attacking a very successful and still popular Democratic President.”
To my fellow Democrats. Be wary of attacking the Obama record. Build on it. Expand it. But there is little to be gained – for you or the party – by attacking a very successful and still popular Democratic President.
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) August 1, 2019
The tactic is not without risk for the White House hopefuls. When Obama left office in January 2017, he had an approval rating of 57%, according to Gallup polling that month.
Src: Washington Examiner
Unfortunately Obama has no record since most of what he did was by Executive Order which President Trump correctly reversed. As far as Obama Care goes once the penalty tax was removed by President Trump it pretty much gutted the system and the latest expectation is that a Federal Court may rule it Unconstitutional in the near future. Obama has no legacy except a failed effort to destroy this Nation. He is the principal party responsible for this current divisiveness and traitorous behavior as President that we are now seeing in the Deep State and evidence that is being uncovered by Judicial Watchj. I always considered him the biggest terrorist threat to this Nation and after listening to the Democrats and observing their bizarre behaviors am even further convinced that we are a Nation under siege.
Thank you ,you are so right Obama did nothing for our country but started all this race BS.
Holder not body gives a damn about you or Obama anymore. You were corrupt and they are now finding out how much you hurt the US and how you did nothing for the black race.. listen to Jesse Jackson. When has the black unemployment been so good? When was the people who had to be on food stamps at such a low. When did the black community feel as if they are accomplishing anything and able t care for their families? Never until President Trump took office. He truly cares about everyone not just whites. Everyone. And his record speaks volumes. So if any one wants the government to run your healthcare and if anyone wants to be able to get treatments and or surgeries when needed without waiting for an opening months down the road, then vote for President Trump because socialism you will have no say, you will give up everything. The government will run your healthcare and you will not. You may even die waiting for treatment.
I am very pleased with Donald Trump as President. He is a senior Executive who really understands Leadership and has a track record to prove it. He is an outstanding problem solver along with being a decent listener. Obama and his time in the White House gets discussed a lot by many folks … when you consider that Obama had never really had any business or work experience, it is simply amazing that he actually survived. The awful truth is that very little ever happened during the Obama Presidency … the best and smartest people simply kept their mouth shut! The cry of racism and prejudice would surface often and even the smartest people simply kept their mouth shut! No real good way around all of the goofy nonsense, so most folks simply did not reflect their feelings and related issues. You could easily call the 8 year period of the O Presidency the lost 8 Years … very sad, but very true.
PEOPLE PEOPLE the whole group of democrats running for the privilege of running for president rolling them to gather and you still do not have a BRAIN. A democrat in the WHITEHOUSE would take OUR COUNTRY to bottom of the barrel. They are not fit to run this beautiful COUNTRY. The only word they can say is FREE. PLEASE PLEASE look no further VOTE RED to stay ahead of the race. TRUMP 2020
well you know what happened to the people who disagreed with oboma , they were smeared out of their jobs or died mysteriously , oboma ran the country like the emporer of china , answered to no one
Obama tried to do exactly what all other Democrats will do, should they get the chance, destroy this country as we know it. They have actually shown their true colors now and moved so far to the left that they fell off the screen.
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