Obama worries about progressives' 'rigidity' leading to 'circular firing squad' among Democratic Par

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  1. flyboy56

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    The Democratic primaries should be very interesting.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/06/politics/obama-progressive-party-democrats/index.html?

    Washington (CNN)Former President Barack Obama said on Saturday he worries about the far-left, progressive wing of the Democratic party being unwilling to compromise and creating a "circular firing squad" against allies over policy and issue differences.

    "One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, 'Uh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be,' and then we start sometimes creating what's called a 'circular firing squad,' where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues," Obama said a town hall in Berlin, Germany, hosted by the Obama Foundation.

    The Democratic former president argued that this party infighting usually leads to "the overall effort and movement weaken(ing)."
     
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    In Berlin, Germany? What is he in exile? Doesn't he know of the custom of not talking about domestic politics on foreign soil?

    But if Obama is worried the Dems are split, you might be in trouble.
     
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    It’s a bidding war, to see who can go furthest left and promise the most number of new government entitlements.

    It’s madness.
     
  4. Chester_Murphy

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    Policy or law? Hell, he is golden. He can get away with anything.
     
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    So Obama shouldn't talk about the Democratic party's dirty laundry while in a foreign country? Were you also upset when Obama made speeches about America's foreign policy towards Arab countries while he was in the ME when he was president?
     
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    Obama is absolutely correct to be worried about where the Democratic party is heading. The intolerant progressives will weaken the Democratic party and hurt their chances of defeating Trump.
     
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    Absolutely. If you missed the comedy event of the century to date, CNN's post election coverage on Nov 9 2016, make sure you tune in on the morning of Nov 9 2020, because it looks like we're going to get a repeat.
     
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    Yeah, he's an idiot. He has no sense of customs and decorum of our nation. Terrible leader.
     
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    Except he is dead on when it comes to the new Democratic party. Liberals and Progressives are like oil and water. If you are a Democrat you should be concerned about the coming primary.
     
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    No prob. The voters will sort it out.
     
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    Yeah, he started the ball rolling to the left and it's going downhill out of control and he knows it. He destroyed the Democrat Party
     
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    This assumes of course that the establishment banking/corporate, elite funded DP is an ally when in fact they stopped representing working, average americans and the lower middle and middle middle class decades ago. How is such a party an ally?

    What obama really is saying is moving back to the party of FDR is unacceptable to him and the establishment DP. But then obama was a fine president if you want a president to serve the oligarchy, with a congress that Princeton used congressional record to evidence that congress in no way represents the majority of americans who are not elites and special interests.

    But no one in their right mind wants the radical left to take over the DP, but what people do want, and elected trump because of it, over hillary, is a gov't that once again represents the best self interests of the majority of american people. These people voted for sanders on the dem side and for trump on the GOP side. And this is what the establishment DP and even the GOP refuses to acknowledge. That current, IMO, is so strong, and deep, that to ignore it is an act of unintelligence, even an act of utter stupidity.
     
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    Obama is right about the civil war within the dnc, but he has only himself to blame for actively spreading divison. Not to mention actively working with the Clinton campaign to.cover up her crimes and undermine the primary against sanders
     
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    Policy... nope, law.

    He's breaking the law. He has every right to state his opinion.
     
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    Could always go to the new Democratic Party, the 'conservatives'.
     
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    The up and coming Democratic Socialists have nothing to do with Obama's presidency.
     
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    Or more likely will go to the new Democratic Socialists.
     
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    I predict the new Democratic Socialists will come out in droves this primary upsetting the liberal Democrats in most elections.
     
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    Except Obama was talking about the US government's foreign policies. He wasn't talking about his Democratic party. Huge difference.
     
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