Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1154196)	8/3/2019 11:26:33 AM
From: Sdgla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572108

donsurber.blogspot.com Shedding Obama & a big FU to crackpot 4-5 minutes Democrats are tossing the 44th president aside like an old newspaper. Deservedly. He shed people like they were tissues. He also has a disdain for his fellow countrymen that befits a Prince Charles or evidently Prince Harry, who is rapidly becoming just as insufferable. Obama failed the country because instead of healing the nation, he opened old wounds. His election was a milestone for race relations that he turned into a millstone because he branded any and all critics as racists. Conservatives can take comfort in knowing Democrats are more upset because he failed to fundamentally transform America into a socialist state. Obamacare was a failure because it had no focus. LBJ was smart enough to focus Medicare on helping the elderly and Medicaid on helping the poor. But just what was the stated purpose of Obamacare? Free birth control? We could have done that without flipping the health insurance industry upside down. Of course, the real purpose was to be another step toward socialist medicine. Obamacare's failure set that movement back a generation. While Obamacare and Obama were a letdown for Democrats, President Donald John Trump has done everything Republicans asked for. He's appointed scores of federal judges as he fundamentally transforms the third branch of government into a bastion of conservatism. Unnecessary regulations are falling like autumn leaves. The tax rollback is real and causing the economy to party like it is 19-69. Democrats are jealous, and they are angry at Obama for not doing as much for them as Donald Trump has done for Republicans. Democrats also realize Obama's excesses birthed the Trump presidency, much like Carter's ineptitude led to Reagan. The knives came out in the second night of this week's Democrat debates. And they stuck. Jeff Zucker, whose CNN hosted the event, was alarmed. He had Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak try to rescue the night with a piece on Friday, " Blistering criticism of Obama highlights dramatic shift inside Democratic Party." CNN reported, "Obama has privately expressed some disapproval of what he views as unrealistic proposals from some Democratic candidates, according to a source familiar with those conversations." That source evidently is Zucker. The report continued, "From health care to immigration to trade, key accomplishments of the Obama administration came under fire and faced a sometimes-unflattering re-examination by candidates eager to keep their campaigns alive by trying to prove their progressive credentials. "Their direct target wasn't Obama himself, but rather his former Vice President Joe Biden, who leads a large pack of Democrats looking to distinguish themselves in the party's crowded presidential primary fight. Biden has tied himself closely to Obama, casually referring to his former boss as Barack in a bid to illustrate their closeness and benefit from his popularity. "The flipside of that strategy, it turns out, is tarnishing the very record Biden hopes to ride into the White House." The reality that Obama failed has not hit Rahm Emanuel. He told CNN, "I would not treat the Obama years as something to be airbrushed out of history. Every one of these things needs to be built upon." Oh? How do you build on Obamacare? How do you build on Solyndra? How do you build on that Beer Summit? How do you build on ISIS? The answer is you don't. You raze the shack and start all over again. And the party has. AOC is the heart of the party, not Obama. He will pick the nominee. She will write the platform. I doubt this will work out well, but we shall see.