"Elizabeth Warren says Obama doesn't understand 'lived experience of most Americans.'"

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59. She's making it harder for good Democrats to be elected when she disparages what Obama

accomplished.

He dragged the country off a cliff in 2008, and yes, he did have some "shiny" statistics to his credit over the course of his Presidency. He didn't have a blind spot when he highlighted them. He was campaigning for re-election, and then trying to help Dems in 2014 and 2016. He was trying to show that the country had made progress during his Presidency, and it had. Do you think he could have been re-elected if he said, yeah, everything stinks -- re-elect me anyway?

Too many people have no idea how much worse things could have gotten if he hadn't gotten the stimulus passed, and the bill for the auto industry, and clean energy, and Obamacare and everything else. We could still be in the equivalent of the Great Depression now if he hadn't turned things around in that first year.

But lower income people DO give him the credit, ironically. Obama had strong support among voters whose income are below the median. They didn't think he had a blind spot. They knew he was working hard for them -- against the most obstructive Congress in history.