“I know it’s hypothetical right now, but if you’re allowed for some reason to run for a third term, is there a thought that Democrats could try to run Barack Obama against you?” Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump in the Oval Office on Monday…
I doubt it. Obama really went into the dark side after his first term, so he’d only be marginally better than your average Dem candidate.
I’ve been a conservative voter with ethics my whole life and Obama was the best candidate I ever voted for.
So you’ve been a sucker that voted against your own interests your whole life lol.
Unless you are a millionaire, voting against workers rights, raising the minimum wage, expanding public schools and universal healthcare makes you a class traitor.
Obama broke like half or more of his promises, like ending the war on terror, closing Guatanamo Bay and universal healthcare. Maybe you liked that, but “conservatives with ethics”—if we accept their existence, which I don’t—don’t exist in nearly enough numbers to matter, and the people who do matter in this equation absolutely hated it.
Behold the purist, festooned upon his throne of ivory! alone.
Obama exceeds the realm of purism or not; the man is barely any better than Hillary these days. If you think someone like that—who, again, is now known to be a liar by his would be most ardent supporters—can beat Trump, then you haven’t been paying attention. The past three general elections have proven decisively that motivated and politically active voters who support the party platform are crucial to securing victory, and as a matter of strategy Obama doesn’t have any of those.
Voters don’t really pay close enough attention for that to matter. The vast majority couldn’t tell you a single ‘dark side’ thing he did.
Obama is super charismatic, which is a large part of why he won in the first place.
Maybe, but the progressive activist base does and without that he’s hopeless.