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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumExclusive: Obama on Iowa, Clinton, Sanders and 2016
In an Oval Office interview for POLITICO's Off Message podcast, the president offers his most expansive comments yet on the race to succeed him in the White House.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/obama-iowa-2016-sanders-off-message-218166#ixzz3yGbqEUWY
Barack Obama, that prematurely gray elder statesman, is laboring mightily to remain neutral during Hillary Clintons battle with Bernie Sanders in Iowa, the state that cemented his political legend and secured his path to the presidency.
But in a candid 40-minute interview for POLITICOs Off Message podcast as the first flakes of the blizzard fell outside the Oval Office, he couldnt hide his obvious affection for Clinton or his implicit feeling that she, not Sanders, best understands the unpalatably pragmatic demands of a presidency he likens to the worlds most challenging walk-and-chew-gum exercise.
The one thing everybody understands is that this job right here, you dont have the luxury of just focusing on one thing, a relaxed and reflective Obama told me in his most expansive discussion of the 2016 race to date.
Iowa isnt just a state on the map for Obama. Its the birthplace of his hope-and-change phenomenon, the most satisfying political period in my career, he says what politics should be and a bittersweet reminder of how far from the garden hes gotten after seven bruising years in the White House.
Barack Obama, that prematurely gray elder statesman, is laboring mightily to remain neutral during Hillary Clintons battle with Bernie Sanders in Iowa, the state that cemented his political legend and secured his path to the presidency.
But in a candid 40-minute interview for POLITICOs Off Message podcast as the first flakes of the blizzard fell outside the Oval Office, he couldnt hide his obvious affection for Clinton or his implicit feeling that she, not Sanders, best understands the unpalatably pragmatic demands of a presidency he likens to the worlds most challenging walk-and-chew-gum exercise.
The one thing everybody understands is that this job right here, you dont have the luxury of just focusing on one thing, a relaxed and reflective Obama told me in his most expansive discussion of the 2016 race to date.
Iowa isnt just a state on the map for Obama. Its the birthplace of his hope-and-change phenomenon, the most satisfying political period in my career, he says what politics should be and a bittersweet reminder of how far from the garden hes gotten after seven bruising years in the White House.
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Exclusive: Obama on Iowa, Clinton, Sanders and 2016 (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2016
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pandr32
(11,588 posts)1. President Obama's perspective should matter
He has earned it--from the Senate to his two-term presidency.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. Greatest president in my lifetime!/nt
lostnfound
(16,180 posts)3. A fine job of it, too.
In spite of being a Bernie supporter, I have no problem with his stated comments and his perspective does matter to me. But I very much appreciate that he has not taken the step of an outright endorsement or firm foot on the scale. It would be a slap to the progressives that participated in getting him to the White House.
asjr
(10,479 posts)4. If only the Republican congress had not ignored
the fact that he is our president. If Hillary or Bernie wins this election we may see a repeat of congress.