Obama: Don't go too far left in 2020

[Higgins]

Of course, this is a perfectly reasonable (and correct) take. Just people trying to stir up trouble.

What Obama said is incidental for the alt-left. They just want an excuse to diminish him and his accomplishments because they think that this is the way to elevate their preferred candidate.

It was clear that Obama was a sh**tty President long before Bernie ran for President.

Comrade, Comrade, oh subhuman Comrade scum, what you fail to realize is you’re just as evil as the Neo-Nazis you despise. You and they are two sides of the same coin. Obama was probably the best President of the last 50 years. But because he wasn’t Mao, and because he didnt hate white people, he’s trash to you.

LMAO!

I actually laughed so hard I started coughing.

Trump TOTALLY isn't like Hitler AT ALL, but Sanders is clearly Mao incarnate. Got it. Lololololol.

Comrade, calm. We wouldn’t want you to have a stroke. I mean, I would since you’re a subhuman commie trying to take everything from me, but others probably wouldn’t.

[HisGrace]

Might wanna listen to the guy who won two presidential elections and left office with nearly 60 percent approval. I think he knows a little about how to win over the public.

[538Electoral]

For once I agree with Obama.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Might wanna listen to the guy who won two presidential elections and left office with nearly 60 percent approval. I think he knows a little about how to win over the public.

Bernie bro response: OK BOOMER!!!

[Pericles]

The thing that concerned me in particular is how Obama said voters want "to see things a little more fair, they want to see things a little more just". Why shouldn't Democrats make things a lot more just? And why wouldn't that appeal more to voters? And even if isn't an electoral bonus in the short-term, ultimately good policy is good politics, if you govern well and deliver good outcomes you're more likely to get re-elected.

[T'Chenka]

The thing that concerned me in particular is how Obama said voters want "to see things a little more fair, they want to see things a little more just". Why shouldn't Democrats make things a lot more just? And why wouldn't that appeal more to voters? And even if isn't an electoral bonus in the short-term, ultimately good policy is good politics, if you govern well and deliver good outcomes you're more likely to get re-elected.

Because "socialism" (Scandanavian social democracy) is a disgusting cancer in tbe eyes of corporate establishment Dems, and Bernie is the plague.

[SInNYC]

Might wanna listen to the guy who won two presidential elections and left office with nearly 60 percent approval. I think he knows a little about how to win over the public.

You mean the guy who fully supported the 2016 disaster, and whose tenure was marked by multiple legislative shellackings?

For the record, I think its about personality not ideology, but its cherrypicking to point to Obama's successes but not his failures. But Democrats being Democrats, they prefer to repeat everything they did wrong in 2016.

[junior chįmp]

Yeah, the best way to minimize that effect is campaigning hard on economics and not so much on Trump's scandals (though of course still attack Trump on ethics but Hilary went too far and ironically focused a historically low amount on policy).

Honestly, I dont think much can be done about it. The voting public just isn't ideologically sophisticated enough to understand economic theroy and the effects of scandals fade quickly since the public doesnt pay attention.