Come On, Man<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Obama laid out the case for not believing Trump to an accepting audience:\u00a0\u00a0truer words were never spoken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cCome on, man,\u201d you can\u2019t fool us. \u201cCome on, man,\u201d don’t buy his brand of BS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second Debate, Part Two<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I missed the second night of debates last night (I went to see the 80\u2019s Rock group REO Speedwagon.)\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s still sitting on the DVR,\u00a0\u00a0waiting for three hours.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ll get to them soon enough.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I\u2019ve now heard a couple of hours of analysis. Vice President Biden is running for President, in large part standing on his eight years in the Obama Administration. He is the frontrunner; for others to move up in the standings, they have to somehow raise their visibility. A proven way to do so is to attack the leader; it worked for Kamala Harris in the first debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biden has done an effective job in defending the Obama legacy. He has wrapped himself in Obama, effectively locking in his leading status. Other candidates are finding that the only way to attack Biden is to do the unthinkable: attack the Presidency of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Obama has a +90% approval rating in the Democratic Party. He changed America as the first African-American President (an America that Trump is trying to change back.) He was a President with compassion, brilliance, and class; quite a contrast to our current leader. Can attacking his Presidency be a reasonable Democratic strategy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Come on, man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How the Sausage is Made<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A key issue for all Democrats is health care. Every Democratic candidate has a plan to improve health care in America, from Biden expanding the Affordable Care Act with a public option, to Sander\u2019s Medicare for all. Last night, the attacks came against the flaws and failures of the ACA, Obamacare, because that was how the candidates could get to Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Come on, man! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Klobuchar said it best the night before. It\u2019s all-good to have great plans, or to claim you need a \u201crevolution\u201d to get your ideas put into law. But, as she noted, it takes sixty votes to pass something in the Senate. In our currently divided government, there seems little chance that a \u201cMedicare for All\u201d kind of program could get through Congress and it certainly wasn\u2019t an option in 2010 when the ACA became law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Obama Administration took the problem, millions of Americans without health insurance, and made the best deal they could to win over their own Democratic Congress, and those few Republicans in the Senate.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHow the sausage got made\u201d was ugly, including Speaker Pelosi statement you’d find out what was in the law after you vote for it, but in the end the Affordable Care Act was a strong attempt to expand coverage to most Americans.\u00a0\u00a0How strong was it?\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s survived nine years of Republican attempts to destroy it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who Should be the Target<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not good enough, it needs to be fixed, and it was a Republican plan in the first place. But it was the best that President Obama could get, and attacking him to get to Biden is a mistake. Democrats who attack their own to raise their electoral chances aren\u2019t helping themselves become President. They are giving away the championship win today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Come on, man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It isn\u2019t that Barack Obama should go without criticism. His administration failed to resolve the problems of undocumented migrants in the United States, finally resorting to an Executive Order Band-Aid to protect the Dreamers. But it wasn\u2019t for lack of trying; it was from the absolute intransigence of Mitch McConnell and the Republican Senate. Their goal was not the \u201cgood\u201d of America, but to defeat a Democratic Presidency. From their position, they were successful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that\u2019s what Democrats need to be talking about on the debate stage.\u00a0\u00a0The motivating factor for the Democratic voters is Trump and McConnell and Tax Cuts.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not attacks on the most popular President alive, nor is it on starting a \u201crevolution.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019ve got a bigger challenge:\u00a0\u00a0how to stop the \u201cregression\u201d into a racist, misogynist, and cruel new era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Come on, man. Get with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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