2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Just What Happened to President Obama? [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The obstruction that they gave to William Clinton, a white Southerner, was much less than the obstruction that they have practiced for 7 years with a Northern, black President. But that aside, President Obama had distinguished himself more by his rhetoric than by his actual positions. He could easily have run for office as a Republican in the 1960s.
And there is the unavoidable, but often ignored, fact that even though the majority of his donors were small contribution people, the majority of Obama's money came from the 1% in the FIRE sector of the economy. The push for the TPP that the President is making is the quo in the quid pro quo. The FIRE sector expected things from the President. He has not disappointed, and neither have the Democrats in Congress. Whether dealing with health care, trade, or union/workers rights, the Democrats have delivered, and not for the bottom 99%.