Former President Barack Obama told Zohran Mamdani “your campaign has been impressive to watch,” and suggested that he was invested in Mr. Mamdani’s success beyond the election.
Former President Barack Obama called New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future.
The private, roughly 30-minute phone call, which has not previously been reported, was described by two people who participated or were briefed immediately on what had been said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private conversation.
Mr. Obama said that he was invested in Mr. Mamdani’s success beyond the election on Tuesday. They talked about the challenges of staffing a new administration and building an apparatus capable of delivering on Mr. Mamdani’s agenda of affordability in the city, the people said.
Today they are. Back then? Not so much. In the primary where Obama beat Hillary, Hillary’s campaign did some pretty horrendous race baiting - as did Biden. Obama in turn voted for the defense of marriage act. Bill Clinton shredded federal safety net programs, exported jobs, betrayed unions, and deregulated Wall Street. He was getting ready to go after Social Security with Newt Gingrich too, before they fell out over the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The Democratic establishment is exactly as progressive as the base is able to force them to be. Everything else is gaslighting.
That is a very selective list. You can argue that they’re neoliberals with this, and that’s true, but you can’t argue they’re the same as GWB, lmao, the dumbest president we had had at the point. Anyone who tells you they were the same as Dubya has memory issues or is lying.
You let me know where they defunded the schools or got us into trillion dollar wars, just unbelievable that people think they’re the same and forget ol’ fucking Dubya and his mission accomplished, “God told me” bullshit.
Well no, I can’t say any Democrat can compete with W on pure IQ deficit, but I’ll put Bill Clinton toe to toe with almost any Republican on spending cuts. “The era of big government is over” was Clinton, not a Republican.