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LAS14

(13,749 posts)
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 05:27 PM Dec 2016

Thanks, Mr. Obama, I'm waiting to hop on the train!!

I've been waiting for something to latch onto for the future, and I hope this is it. I got a glimmer when I heard that Obama planned to focus on gerrymandering. But here he is promising to be active in the future trying to bring his approach to the whole Democratic party. I was a Hillary supporter, but I think Sanders did us a service be revealing a stick-in-the-mud attitude toward our changing economy.

I tried to get our Massachusetts town committee to put "atttending to our middle-of-the-state rust belt" as a priority. I couldn't even get it on the list "priorities" for the coming years - a list of oldies but goodies. It was my first town meeting and it was an eye opener.

And so the question is, how do we rebuild that party as a whole, so that there's not a county in any state -- I don't care how red -- where we don't have a presence and we're not making the argument, because I think we have a better argument. But that requires a lot of work. You know, it's been something that I've been able to do successfully in my own campaigns.

OBAMA: It is not something I've been able to transfer to candidates in mid-terms and sort of build a sustaining organization around. That's something I would have liked to have done more of, but it's kind of hard to do when you're also dealing with a whole bunch of issues here in the White House. And that doesn't mean, though, that it can't be done, and I think there are gonna be a lot of talented folks out there, a lot of progressives who share my values, who are gonna be leading the charge in the years to come.
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Thanks, Mr. Obama, I'm waiting to hop on the train!! (Original Post) LAS14 Dec 2016 OP
Meaning the next DNC head should be full time uponit7771 Dec 2016 #1
It is enlightening to become involved in the party at the local level FarCenter Dec 2016 #2
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