Ocasio-Cortez defends banning press from event: We wanted 'residents to feel safe'

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70. That UG cite is a policy argument. I understand Progressive accumulated frustrations.

I am not a Clinton supporter. This is a practical politics issue now!

Obama was a community organizer. He shares left goals, worked for them, even when he could have easily been a Supreme Court law clerk, etc. He knows the electoral process and the practical politics of getting things done. The November 2018 Election is, has to be, the Great War we have to win. Everythng else is way secondary. Obama is coming strong on this obvious Election priority. Obama pointedly did not endorse AOC despite his 81 other election endorsements, because November is not the every last possible vote priority of some on the left.

Obama has seen and participated on various sides, in many of these disputes. He knows his history. MLK and his 'moderation', was very aware of the cost and damage the left Stokely Carmicheals, Malcolm X supporters, et al, plus what some on the white left [the 'red hots'] did,[and what the rw wanted them to do], to the great Civil Rights Campaigns/Great Society, of the 60's did. In retrospect it was miraculous what LBJ was able to do. We would not have that, or anything like it, today if we had not won that 60's Great War. The larger reality is that this is a center right electorate, like it or not. [I don't].

There is a reason the rw media 'loves' and disproportionately, promotes BS/AOC tremendously - as the SocialistAbolish Ice face, of 'Democrat poster children'. [I see, somewhat unwillingly, fox spews about 2 hours a week, various times, on my exercise machine at the gym]. There is strong reasons for that rw support, it benefits the right wing greatly. Especially, with all the negative trump stuff, Manafort, other numerous scandals, so much on the news - BS/AOC shine brightly on fox offense, amid all the fox defense.