2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Let Down By Obama, Some Black Voters Ask: Is It Even Worth Backing Clinton? [View all]Beacool
(30,244 posts)So many people were full of hope that Obama would truly be a transformative president. That by sheer force of his charisma and personality he could change Washington. The media fueled those unrealistic expectations. Obama was compared to Lincoln and FDR, often to both at the same time. I remember someone at Time magazine writing a column stating that Obama's intellect was so far ahead of that of most people that he was almost doing us a favor by choosing to run for president. What a load of hogwash!!!
The truth is that Obama was a very bright and ambitious politician with a wafer thin resume. He was like a Rorschach test, voters ascribed to him traits that more often reflected their own expectations than reality. Of course they were bound to be disappointed when he turned out to be an average centrist Democrat.
As for voting in 2016, do these people think that they would be better off with a Republican president? They should vote, but this time with eyes wide open.