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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Could Obama win the DNC Primary today if he was going against Sanders or Warren? [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)47. You knowyou don't get to make things up and proclaim them fact, right?
In 2012 Bernie Sanders could have challenged the President but he didn't. Instead he ran around the country looking for someone from the left to challenge him. There were no takers because, like Sanders, they knew Obama was to strong.
I'm amazed how answering a caller to the Thom Hartman show's question about a primary has mutated into "RUNNING AROUND THE COUNTRY."
Finally, as mentioned earlier the candidate currently running as "Obama's third term" is soundly defeating a very strong progressive challenger. She will become the presumptive nominee tonight.
The candidate whose anti-black racism and fearmongering forced obama to quit his church?> The candidate who ran ads trying to link him to terrorism and claims that he was a "secret Muslims"? The candidate whose mailing list spawned birtherism? The candidate who astroturfed the PUMA movement to threaten her way into a cabinet position? The Secretary of State who actively worked to sabotage her former opponent's foreign policy? Who once out of the position attacked him and current SOS Kerry over their diplomatic efforts? Who has alternatingly used Obama as a scapegoat and a shield in her current campaign?
If you think clinton is going to be Obama's "third term" I can only guess that you've spent all afternoon in a garage huffing fix-a-flat out of old tires. She's going to be Hillary clinton's first term at best.
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Could Obama win the DNC Primary today if he was going against Sanders or Warren? [View all]
Unicorn
Apr 2016
OP
Hillary isn't defeating anyone. The opposite side noticed the voter suppression
Unicorn
Apr 2016
#14
I don't agree that Warren and Sanders can be neatly packaged into the same wing of the party.
StevieM
Apr 2016
#43
Thank you for the excellent reality check. And thank for speaking for all of us Dems who love and
skylucy
Apr 2016
#49
He would put them in clown suits if they were insane enough to run against him.
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2016
#12
He refused to send them to prison. Effectively it was a pardon by his administration to only
Unicorn
Apr 2016
#19
The justice department could have held the people who broke the law but chose not to.
Unicorn
Apr 2016
#28
No, it's not a smear at all and the Hillary rw smear argument has been used wrongly so many times
Unicorn
Apr 2016
#24
I did read. You're attempting to use Obama to smear HRC. I reject your RW scribblings and laugh.
FSogol
Apr 2016
#26
Obama would mop the floor with either of them. P.S. Your Strawman Obama = FAIL
emulatorloo
Apr 2016
#36
If Bernie or Elizabeth were President, their most fervent supporters would turn on them
pnwmom
Apr 2016
#39
Obama hatred alive and well. Too bad he is a better president than almost all previous other than
Jackie Wilson Said
Apr 2016
#40
Your question is would he win but your poll seems more oriented to would an
TheKentuckian
Apr 2016
#44
he might not be able to eke out a victory on DU, but he would in the primary, 87% of democrats
La Lioness Priyanka
Apr 2016
#45
So wait, Bernie couldn't even beat Hillary but he'd beat Obama, who's even more popular than Bernie?
Drunken Irishman
Apr 2016
#51
Of course he would. Hillary has the same supporters as Obama. I do wonder if
BreakfastClub
Apr 2016
#52
I don't know what's better. This moronic poll or the 27 people that voted "no"
Number23
Apr 2016
#56
If there hadn't been the same kind of Hillary hate out there pushed by talk radio
Jitter65
Apr 2016
#54