Is it because it was his plan all along? Do you have proof of that? Didn’t think so.<\/p>\n
Maybe, and this isn’t probably a popular suggestion, but just maybe, it was because of things like this.<\/a> Or vague, fear-mongering attacks like this.<\/a> Or any of the pro-Clinton\/anti-Obama comments that bordered on pure hysteria that came afterward that made most Obama supporters laugh…but some took it very seriously. Namely, I suspect, the people around Barack Obama himself. And that concern probably, on some level, went right to the top and became something that Obama himself was deeply concerned about.<\/p>\n The thing was, I was a bored ‘lil unloved political animal out of a job for 6 months in 2008. I used to check the scary right wing sites like NewsMax and the like. The sorts of anti-Obama slurs coming out of Clinton supporters on Huffington Post looked like the right wing Republican comments on right wing sites after they had been run through a spell checker. If I were doing that for a job and were working for Obama, you bet I’d write up an extensive report and hand it off to my boss. That’s something to be worried about if people can spew that much vitriol about you.<\/p>\n Look. When, in the historical timeline of things, did his policies suddenly veer towards the middle? Was it in 2007? Nope. It was just after the primaries ended in 2008. A time where you had a bunch of disillusioned, pissed off Clinton supporters who had thrown their emotions behind electing the first woman President…and fell short. They were pissed, they were breaking the furniture, and generally speaking, they were making threats that were scaring then Candidate Obama as he was shifting his sights towards the general election.<\/p>\n A big part of the Democrats success, in every election, is finding a way to motivate their base and get them to turn out to vote. Republicans vote out of fear. There’s always an element of fear around, and you’ll always get that going for you. Democrats vote out of optimism and a desire for progress, for change. That’s a whole lot harder to create than fear. The Obama campaign, at that juncture, began their stroll to the right, right after those primaries. Why? Because they already knew they had to bring large elements of the Clinton camp into their fold to satisfy a lot of still disillusioned Clinton supporters. <\/p>\n What, you think Barack Obama chose Rahm Emanuel just out of coincidence? Rahm is a Clinton guy. As is Larry Summers. As is…of course, his eventual choice for Secretary of State. The Obama campaign knew this was going to have to happen way back then, and they knew that they wouldn’t be able to make it happen if they didn’t adopt a lot of those 1990’s Clinton policies all of a sudden. <\/p>\n The point here is…to make the Clinton supporters get in line, Barack Obama surrounded himself with more of the same. Clinton people. Instead of having the support to clean house, start fresh, and bring in a new group of advisers, he had to lean on some of the people who caused this economic mess. The same people that are in President Obama’s ear are the same people who were in President Bill Clinton’s ear. Therein lies the problem.<\/p>\n This was the ultimate legacy that the divisiveness of the 2008 primary really left for all of us. It has essentially forced Obama into a center right corner out of fear of splitting the party. Now, when you look back…was all that nonsense late in the primaries with the attack ads and the viciousness really worth it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is it because it was his plan all along? Do you have proof of that? Didn’t think so. Maybe, and this isn’t probably a popular suggestion, but just maybe, it was because of things like this. Or vague, fear-mongering attacks like this. 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