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BootinUp

(49,020 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 10:40 AM Jun 2016

Obama Is Eager to Hit the Stump for Hillary Clinton and Shred Donald Trump


President Obama last week in Elkhart, Ind., where he laid out an argument against the Republican economic agenda and, without naming him, an indictment of the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times


By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and MICHAEL D. SHEARJUNE 6, 2016

WASHINGTON — President Obama, after months of sitting on the sidelines of the rancorous contest to succeed him, is now ready to aggressively campaign for Hillary Clinton, starting with a formal endorsement of her candidacy as early as this week.

The White House is in active conversations with Mrs. Clinton’s campaign about how and where the president would be useful to her, according to senior aides to Mr. Obama.

Advisers say that the president, who sees a Democratic successor as critical to his legacy, is impatient to begin campaigning. They say he is taking nothing for granted.

“I want us to run scared the whole time,” Mr. Obama told a group of donors on Friday night in Miami.

It has been decades since a second-term president enjoyed the popularity to make him a potent force on the campaign trail and also an invitation from the candidate running to succeed him to be a major presence there.

Full Article at NYT

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Obama Is Eager to Hit the Stump for Hillary Clinton and Shred Donald Trump (Original Post) BootinUp Jun 2016 OP
I'm eager for that too! NurseJackie Jun 2016 #1
It's going to be awesome! Her Sister Jun 2016 #2
Me too! complain jane Jun 2016 #3
Yes! puffy socks Jun 2016 #4
The sooner the better mcar Jun 2016 #5
I can hardly wait!!! I imagine that Hillary will have many formal endorsements and a number Arkansas Granny Jun 2016 #6
Ye Haaaw! this is What we've Been Waiting For!!!! Cha Jun 2016 #7
And the other great thing is... yallerdawg Jun 2016 #8
She's going to have one sitting and at least one former president campaigning for her. Koinos Jun 2016 #9
Such good company.. star power in the Democratic Political World.. Cha Jun 2016 #11
Yes its going to be awesome. BootinUp Jun 2016 #12
The bear is loose! sheshe2 Jun 2016 #10
Rule Number 1: Don't point your finger at a bear. Koinos Jun 2016 #13
Good delighful point, Koinos! Cha Jun 2016 #14
 

puffy socks

(1,473 posts)
4. Yes!
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 10:47 AM
Jun 2016

I know Hillary will be a great president , but I am going to miss Obama and his family. Such a classy family.

Too bad he won't consider a SCOTUS appointment. Maybe after we flip the Senate he'll change his mind.

I do realize the population of Conservatives would be cut in half by all the heads exploding..but I personally think it would be worth it.

Arkansas Granny

(31,824 posts)
6. I can hardly wait!!! I imagine that Hillary will have many formal endorsements and a number
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 10:47 AM
Jun 2016

of influential people campaigning for her.

Cha

(305,400 posts)
7. Ye Haaaw! this is What we've Been Waiting For!!!!
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 10:49 AM
Jun 2016


This is our President Obama and woe to BS..

It has been decades since a second-term president enjoyed the popularity to make him a potent force on the campaign trail and also an invitation from the candidate running to succeed him to be a major presence there.

Thanks Boot!

Koinos

(2,798 posts)
9. She's going to have one sitting and at least one former president campaigning for her.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:00 AM
Jun 2016

Not sure what Jimmy Carter will do; but, at his age, he deserves a break. He's one of my favorites, by the way.

BootinUp

(49,020 posts)
12. Yes its going to be awesome.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:04 AM
Jun 2016

and agreed on Carter. He may surprise us though. Carter is a great man, and was a great President.

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