Legacy

It's been reported in the news for the last month that Obama has no intention of retiring from public life. He's going to be a major spokesman and "spiritual leader" of sorts for the Democrats going forward. The reason is that the Democrats don't have a good "bench." Most of the Democrats remaining in positions of power are creatures of big-city machine politics, not exactly likable populists who can counter Trump.

Obama's legacy in 3 words: President Donald Trump

Yes it's Obama's fault Trump was elected.

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s/Obama's/America's/

The world is appalled. With the exception of Putin.

> The reason is that the Democrats don't have a good "bench."

Obama led the Democrats to political disaster; I wonder if any party since WWII has been in as bad a political position. Why would they want his continued leadership after he leaves office?

They have; most notably the Republicans when LBJ crushed them in a landslide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...). Or even -- again, the Republicans -- as recently as 2008 when Obama won (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...), and the Democrats has a supermajority across all three houses and beat McCain by a larger margin than Trump beat Clinton.

I won't wade into the debate about Obama's future, and will point out that I think the USA's effective two-party system is pretty busted, but yeah -- the USA has a pretty polar political past.

> the Democrats has a supermajority across all three houses

In 2008 they did not have a 'supermajority', usually interpreted to mean a veto-proof or filibuster-proof majority, in any house of Congress.

Also, today Republicans control both houses and the Governer's seat in approx. 33% of states.

Finally, the Dems can't win in some states due to gerrymandering and voting laws that prevent even a majority of Democratic votes from winning the election.

Sorry -- I'm not an American, I misunderstood what "supermajority" meant (I took it to mean a majority in each of the houses). My bad :).

I'm not saying the Democrats weren't roundly drubbed in the last election, just refuting the belief that this might be the worst position a political party has been in since WW2. I hadn't thought of the state legislature, however! That's a good point.

No, the DNC led the Democrats to political disaster by discouraging anyone other than HRC from running, and running an atrociously hubris-filled campaign

> No, the DNC led the Democrats ...

The President is the head of the party; the DNC traditionally is run by his people AFAIK.

That is incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee

Because the elections are a show that are only designed to keep the plebs angry at each other. 2016 was a great season of American Next Great President .. except Americas forgot it's just a TV show and not real. This intensifies that effect and makes the left forget about all the war, drones, spying and everything that will not change under this or any other administration.