11-03-2017, 08:03 PM
(11-03-2017, 07:53 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: They are following the Clinton road. Soon his foundation will be up on charges
Well, the Clintons have been teflon, so probably not.
But I remember reading that Obama took the unusual [unprecedented?] step of not rolling his 2012 campaign, particularly his outreach database and analytics [project Narwhal], into the DNC. I'm not sure to what degree he aided or supported the Hillary campaign efforts in that regard, but it would appear to have been very little given Hillary's obviously failures in several areas of voter outreach.
The tinfoil-hat crowd believes this is because Obama wants to be a sort of king-maker, continuing to pull strings behind the scene and pick the winners and losers in the Democratic party. You could take this a step further to say, with the Dems in disarray and Hillary persona-non-grata, Obama has the opportunity to re-shape and re-build the Democratic party that HE wants.
On the other hand, none of this makes much sense despite whatever issues there were between the Obamas and Clintons. Why would Obama risk his legacy by not doing everything he could to help Hillary win? But it doesn't look like he helped her much, does it?
edit: it seems Obama DID turn over his email list of donors to the DNC, but not until 2015. Also, he has no legal affiliation any more with OFA (but that's probably trivial).
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