Obama's remarks painted the clearest picture yet of his view of the primary, and of the direction of his party in the Trump Era
Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to attendees at the second Obama Foundation summit at the Mariott Marquis hotel in Chicago on November 19, 2018. Photo: Terrence Antonio James/Tribune News Service via Getty I For eleven-and-a-half months now, Barack Obama has gone out of his way to avoid commenting on 2020’s presidential primary.
Yet Obama’s remarks were not only aimed at the donors and chatterers. He had a sterner-than-usual warning for the campaigns, too. While over the last year-plus he has been sparing in weighing in on individual primary flashpoints, here he cast himself as understanding but concerned emissary to what he perceives as political reality. “This is still a country that is less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement,” he said.
“I don’t take it as a criticism when people say, ‘Hey, that’s great Obama did what he did, and now we want to do more.’ I hope so. That’s the whole point,” he said. “I think it is very important to all the candidates who are running, at every level, to pay some attention to where voters actually are, and how they think about their lives.
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