Obama's Rolling Stone Interview: President Calls Out 'Irresponsible' Apathetic Dem Voters

It's been a rule of thumb that former presidents don't formally endorse candidates in the primaries, but both Carter and Clinton have leaked their 'preferences' or that they 'like' a certain candidate in a race.  

Their doing that set a precedent (broke the ice, IMHO) for what Obama did.

It's been more than just a rule of thumb that sitting presidents do not get involved in the primary contests between members of their own party, but a taboo, the likes of which shouldn't and have never needed explanation before.  

 Whenever the choice has been between real Democrats and DINOs, Obama has consistently worked to get the DINO into office, and gone beyond the past protocol to do so.  

Some of Obama's 'most ardent supporters' have defended him, saying that the times and the stakes dictated he do that to make deals.  The fact is that the deals Obama has made are lousy deals.   Either he's a bad deal-maker, or the deals he's made (pro-corporate, anti-populist) are exactly what he set out to do.  

And that's the real key to understanding DLC Democrats and how they operate.  They need us to believe that they're not corrupt, not working for Corporations, but are just merely inept.  They also need to remain likable and have us believe that they're not so inept that we won't keep voting for them.  Even then, should we decide that as likable as an individual DLCer is, he or she is just not capable of achieving our shared objectives and vote them out, the DLC has more in the pipeline to take their place and continue the "ineptitude".

That's how we got Obama; he flew under the radar.  We thought we were getting rid of the DLC's frontrunner, Hillary.  

Democratic voters, for the most part, still haven't finished their love affair with Bill Clinton.  Like the real debate and assessment of Reagan that's never happened, we've never assessed Clinton's true legacy.  Eliminating the social welfare safety nets, Glass-Steagle, the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, rendition, privatization, the sanctions & daily bombing of Iraq (and so much more) laid the foundation for what Bush and Cheney did and the decimation of the country.  As Alan Greenspan said, "Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while."
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