Obama Angry That Democrat Candidates Are Attacking His Presidency and Obamacare

This might drive this narcissist to do that which he previously refused to do: Endorse Joe Biden, one of the few Democrats who still considers Obama a successful and progressive president.

The others seem to think he's Tan, Bland, Sexually-Flexible* Donald Trump.

From health care to immigration to trade, key accomplishments of the Obama administration came under fire and faced a sometimes-unflattering re-examination by candidates eager to keep their campaigns alive by trying to prove their progressive credentials.

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Liberal candidates advocating for a government-run health care system have deemed Obama's signature law, the Affordable Care Act, as inadequate. Some of Biden's Democratic rivals attempted to hold him accountable or the high level of deportations during Obama's tenure. Even the massive trade pact his administration negotiated with Pacific Rim nations was criticized as lacking environmental and labor protections - by Biden himself.

Trump, who watched the debates and is following the Democratic primary closely, gleefully took note.

"The Democrats spent more time attacking Barack Obama than they did attacking me, practically," Trump told a rally crowd Thursday night in Cincinnati.

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"I must tell you, I was a little surprised how much the incoming was about Barack," Biden said Thursday as he emerged from the Detroit One Coney Island diner, a post-debate stop to mingle with Michigan voters.

"This is three years later," Biden said. "The world has changed."

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[Obama] also has privately expressed exasperation at some policy proposals and promises that he believes are unrealistic. And he and people around him question the wisdom in assailing the record of a popular ex-president rather than the unpopular-by-comparison current one.

The old, mentally foggy Joe Biden is, get this, confused by all this criticism of his Best Friend Forever Barack, and says that neither he nor Barack have anything to apologize for.

"I was a little surprised at how much incoming there was about Barack, about the president ... I'm proud of having served with him. I'm proud of the job he did. I don't think there's anything he has to apologize for and it surprised me, the degree of criticism," Biden said.

* Or "Flexual." I'm campaigning to get an "F" included in the LBGT+ alphabet soup, in Obama's honor.

posted by Ace of Spades at 03:58 PM

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